“We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.”
~ Walt Disney
I read this quote in ‘Show Your Work’ and wondered how it applied to our mission here at Shop Local. I asked my team and they submitted their interpretations. One colleague even used an AI tool.
Team Submissions:
“We don't make Shop Local to make money, we make money to sustain Indie Stores.”
~ Jim
"We didn't make this software just to ...
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New Mariposa Sip Sip Glass Collection At Glassworks!
Introducing the beautiful Anna Von Lipa collection from Mariposa - Sip Sip, hand made in the Czech Republic. A combination of confetti-like splashes of color with fashionable forms. The stunning Drinking Glass and Stemless Glass are perfect accessories to any table setting.
Anna von Lipa was founded in the 1990s by a Danish couple dedicated to fine art in glass. Jytte and Christian Correl's choice for crafting that art was immediately the ...
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How big data, filters, and search engines can help us create a better experience for our members.
May 26, 2023
Apple announced last month that it's launching a new classical music app. What’s novel about the Apple Music Classical app is how it lets music fans more easily search thousands of variations of the same song. For example, let’s say you want to find a Johann Sebastian Bach song. Over the past 300 years, many musicians have done ‘covers’ of his works, and there are variations by conductor, music, year, etc., thereby producing thousands of variations. Existing software ...
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Martha Nierenberg, co-founder of Dansk, passed away at 96. She had fled the Nazis, worked at M.I.T., and fought to regain her family’s artwork. Nierenberg and her husband (who passed in 2009) brought the Dansk products (designed by Jens Quistgaard) to the U.S. market and created the Dansk brand.
Dansk in Danish means: Danish.
The School of Visual Arts (SVA) did a retrospective on Dansk which can be found here:
Would you think that an award-winning indie store owner is also a poet and Danish translater? Well, thatβs our friend Carol Schroeder. Weβre reading her book Specialty Shop Retailing and we were happy to learn more about her on her references page. Sheβs a deep soul.
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July 6, 2017
July 6, 2017
Maileg's Princess & The Pea Playset At Glassworks! Create a whimsical play space from the beloved Princess and the Pea story. Maileg's beautifully made - extraordinary details from the quilted mattresses to the crocheted pea. Heirloom quality. Comes with Crocheted Princess, Wooden bed in mint color, 7 quilted mattresses, 1 Duvet, 1 quilted pillow, 1 crocheted pea and a beautiful gift-box castle that transforms into a royal suite. Included in the set is a magical story about the Princess and the ...
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May 1, 2012
May 1, 2012
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Danish restaurant Noma was crowned the world's best restaurant for the third year in a row in an annual list, beating out top eateries in Spain, Brazil, Italy, the United States and elsewhere.
The S. Pellegrino and Acqua Panna World's 50 Best Restaurants, produced by Britain's Restaurant Magazine, were unveiled in London after voting by a panel of more than 800 chefs, restaurateurs, journalists and food experts who rated chef Rene Redzepi's Noma as the "standard-bearer for ...
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