HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year!
2009 will certainly go down as a very memorable one, to say the least. I think there will be a lot of reflection on what exactly transpired over this past year. There is no need to rehash it all, the Media does a great job at keeping us up to date with every detail possible.
I guess the one thing that I can decipher from all of this is this...if you are in a position of power, and your decisions impact several people, then make sure that you are acting with other people's best interest in mind. Make sure that your integrity is in check and that you are as concerned with other people's well-being as your own.
CEO's, Politicians, Hedge Fund Managers (Ponzi Scheme Operators), Teachers, Parents, etc...we all inherently know right from wrong. We all know when we are looking to 'just get ours', regardless of the end result of our actions on others.
I am sure I am preaching to the choir...as most of the people that are the root cause of some of these current global concerns will likely never read this, let alone have it sink in. Maybe if we start giving more attention to the people that are doing good things for people, doing the right or selfless thing when no one is even watching, then things will start to change in a positive direction. I hope that good behavior is rewarded and bad behavior isn't in 2009. That is my wish.
I sincerely hope that all of you out there have a very Happy, Healthy (and Conscious) New Year!
Greg








Brightest London is Best Reached by Underground, by Horace Taylor, 1924. Published by Underground Electric Railway Company Ltd, 1924. Printed by Dangerfield Printing Company Ltd.
circa 1950, London's Roundel, the symbol created for London's Underground corporate logo that came to be assoicated with much of the city of London was designed by Edward Johnston, a brilliant artist and calligrapher and is a study in typography.

Construction began in 2004 and the famous right angle cantilever at the top of the building was joined in December of 2007. Reaching their goal of finishing by the time of the scheduled Olympics in Beijing began to look not only possible but plausible.

The CCTV project also includes a second building that will house a five-star hotel (bldg left of CCTV) with 300 rooms, restaurants and spas, recording studios and a 1,500-seat theater. This structure, the Television Cultural Center or TVCC is, as described by the architects, the public component of the project and was to open ahead of the larger headquarters in 2007.




Level Vodka's owner, the V&S Group, the same spirits manufacturer of Absolut Vodka, took a page out of Absolut's branding book and hired one of fashion's most creative and temporal designers of today, Hussein Chalayan, to somehow reproduce the essence of Level Vodka's taste and deliver it to the world. The result: The Level Vodka Tunnel by Hussein Chalayan Vol. 8 on world tour beginning with Mexico City (May 08) heading to Athens Greece for a September exhibit, ending in Paris October 08 and is open to the public for viewing.










