Things We Love – February 20, 2012

Happy Monday! Here are some lovely things to help ease you into your week. Please enjoy.

Listening
What we want you to think we’re listening to.
What we’re actually listening to (on repeat).

Laughing
Social Media Week 2012 pokes gentle fun at Internet culture, memes-of-the-week, and the ever-ubiquitous QR codes (it stands for Quick Response, by the way – and no, you don’t need one on your business card) in their hilarious promo video, called Future Hipsters.

Flying
This is an interesting new concept for air travel. If you could choose your seatmate based on your social media preferences, who would you sit next to? More importantly, would you sit next to us? And would you buy us a tiny bottle of airplane champagne?

Profiling
New this week on the Nixey.ca blog, we ask 8 Questions and 2 Imperatives of Dave Shortt, founder/owner/genius at Shortt and Epic Productions. He is also the creator of the TAHOE video (if you haven’t seen it, watch it now – it is stunning).

Reading
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. Haunting novel about a mother trying to come to terms with her son, the perpetrator of a gruesome Columbine-style school shooting. Impossible to put down, and not for the faint of heart.

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