Walmart May Become Your Personal Assistant
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Photos To Ponder
When I first saw this photo on Facebook I completely went weepy. I just had to share this story with you.
Longtime friends Joni Mitchell and James Taylor, shared a hug backstage at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
Click here for the story in the Boston Globe
Thank you Michael Schneider for posting this photo on Facebook. It’s a good lesson for all of us.
Everything Apple announced at WWDC 2018. Click here for the VentureBeat story.
WWDC 2018: Everything important Apple just announced. Click here for the Re/code story.
Dining with Miami Beach friend, Tom DeSantis, at Ralph’s (as in Ralph Lauren) in Paris. We head home tomorrow.
Graham Hancock on How The Pyramids Were Built
Graham Hancock, a British author and reporter who specializes in pseudoscientific theories, claims no one knows for sure. The video below is just a few minutes long and you will be amazed by what you will hear.
My brother sent me this clip just when I was deciding on what to write for today’s DigiDame post. We are going to Egypt in October so this was of particular interest to me.
Powering up electric cars in Paris.
This is how I visit a museum.
I go straight to the cafeteria, then bookstore and then roof for the best views of a city. When all that is done, I might look at some paintings. Here I am at The Musée d’Orsay in Paris, France.
The New, Old Age
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xAW2fNXyjE
I am truly sorry that most of our mothers and fathers missed the digital age. I was sitting in the lobby of Chateau de Malmaison, (Rueil-Malmaison, France) the former residence of Josephine de Beauharnais and Napoleon Bonaparte, when a older couple entered with an elderly woman in a wheel chair. I’m assuming she was the mother of either the man, or the woman. It was difficult to tell.
The couple parked the woman, who looked like she was in her ’90s, near me to wait for them while they toured the mansion. They weren’t gone 10 seconds, when all of a sudden, she uncovered an iPad from under her sweater. She opened a program, and became engrossed in some sort of word game.
She didn’t lift her head from the iPad for 45 minutes. When the couple came back, she closed the program, folded the iPad and placed it back under her sweater. The couple then wheeled her out to the garden, and that was the last I saw of them.
I was absolutely thrilled to witness a person in their ’90s so involved with an iPad. Instead of falling asleep in her wheel chair, while waiting for her children, this woman was leading an independent life and stimulating her mind.
I wish I could have seen my own parents using an iPad and experiencing endless hours of playing games, watching movies, reading and writing. They would have enjoyed themselves immensely. It’s scary to think that they died before the iPad was born. The world has changed so much since then.
My Parisian Street Art
When I leave Paris this Wednesday to return to Miami Beach, my face and my accessories (Chanel bag, HandL phone case, diamond ring) will be plastered on several walls in the Le Marais section of the city. I was super imposed on a copy of the Mona Lisa painting thanks to my friend Bob Risse who is a street art aficionado.
Bob is exploring ways to get involved in the street art world. You may think the art looks like graffiti, but many art pieces you see on the streets, end up in famous art galleries and museums. Shepard Fairey, Banksy, and Mr. Brainwash, are among the street artists who are known worldwide and have sold works for millions of dollars.
Bob, now known as Radio Robb, has sublet his apartments in Paris and Miami Beach, and will be touring the world over the next few years with his life partner Alfonso. They will be in search of the next phase of their lives. Bob sold his tech business 25 years ago, and has been involved in real estate and art ever since.
Bob plans to paste many of his large multi-media, avant-guard photos on walls everywhere. Many companies with blank walls welcome art work because it draws crowds. Street art work is either painted, drawn, or pasted on walls. Some art work disappears immediately, others stay for weeks and months.
Radio Robb gifted me some wall space in Paris because we always collaborate together. It was a complete surprise and I thank him for it. Eliot and I spent three fabulous days with Radio Robb in Paris and hope to meet up with him and Alfonso again soon. We wish them safe travels and good health.
New Musical Discoveries In Paris
Our friend. Bob Risse, took us to a Parisian art studio today to meet some of the local talent. The facility is called Les Frigos and is situated in the 13th District. One hundred artists and musicians rent individual spaces that become their private workshops.
We had the good fortune to meet Jacques Remus, an experimental musician, on one of our drop-bys. He is famous for working with sound sculptures and musical machines (robots). His creations have appeared in many musical shows, concerts and interactive sound installations. Remus was kind enough to explain two of his new concepts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6u0MtiqCrs
Smart Toilet Paper Could Save Your Life
The next time you wipe yourself after doing your bathroom business, you might be holding some new clues about the future of your health. A number of companies are developing smart toilet paper that could possibly predict or detect more diseases than ever before.
The first one that just made news was announced by British scientists who said smart toilet paper could help fight obesity. Researchers said smart toilet paper is helping them understand the biological processes that create fat around the waist, better known as pot bellies.
The information was published in Nature Genetics. “It identifies the series of actions in the gut that fuel the build-up of fat around the waist. Fecal metabolome is a method that shows how the gut drives these processes and distributes fat.”
Doctors said that under the microscope, the stool samples revealed signs, or biomarkers, of internal fat around the waist.
Expect to be reading more about smart toilet paper and the diseases researchers can identify in the near future. Click here to read the Newsweek story.
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We Went From A Riverboat With A View Of The Seine This Week ….
To Our Hotel With This View This Afternoon. Eiffel Tower To The Left.
I have to say I loved being that close to the water. We had three huge windows that were just inches higher than the Seine for a week. I could easily see the water from every angle in the room. I felt like I was floating on water all the time. Very dreamy.
“Influencers” Get The Biggest Salaries
Eiffel Tower With Dancing Lights
We are in Paris till Tuesday. I’m writing you on the last night of our Riverboat Cruise. It was an amazing week.
Now, for the topic of the day: “Influencers.”
The world has changed dramatically since we applied for jobs. Today, recruiters in the fields of entertainment, journalism, sports, modeling, art, real estate, philanthropy, and tech (and more) no longer just focus on education and experience. They want to know how many followers you have on Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and Facebook.
The job seekers with the most social media “influences” could get the best jobs because they offer a built-in audience. Many job categories today are trying to reach larger audiences. If a candidate, with a million followers, applies for a job, he or she will likely get the position over everyone else. Companies want “influencers.”
It’s worth a lot of money to brands. One tweet from an “influencer” is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in advertising.
Recruiters are using social media to scout fresh talent.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who has 106 million Instagram followers— is earning $1 million to promote his 2020 movie “Red Notice” on his social-media accounts. That’s in addition to the $20 million Universal Pictures is paying him to star in the movie.
The next time I hear a senior person say that social media is a waste of time, I will remind him or her, that there is some very serious money to be made online.
Back to the Riverboat……
We are in Paris till Tuesday. I’m writing you on the last night of our Riverboat Cruise. It was an amazing week.
Now, for the topic of the day: “Influencers.”
The world has changed dramatically since we applied for jobs. Today, recruiters in the fields of entertainment, journalism, sports, modeling, art, real estate, philanthropy, and tech (and more) no longer just focus on education and experience. They want to know how many followers you have on Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and Facebook.
The job seekers with the most social media “influences” could get the best jobs because they offer a built-in audience. Many job categories today are trying to reach larger audiences. If a candidate, with a million followers, applies for a job, he or she will likely get the position over everyone else. Companies want “influencers.”
It’s worth a lot of money to brands. One tweet from an “influencer” is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in advertising.
Recruiters are using social media to scout fresh talent.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who has 106 million Instagram followers— is earning $1 million to promote his 2020 movie “Red Notice” on his social-media accounts. That’s in addition to the $20 million Universal Pictures is paying him to star in the movie.
The next time I hear a senior person say that social media is a waste of time, I will remind him or her, that there is some very serious money to be made online.
Back to the Riverboat……
Here are friends we made. I promised no names. They are not “influencers” and they want to stay that way.
Monet’s Garden
It was quite a treat today to visit the gardens of Claude Monet in the village of Giverny. He moved into his home in 1883 and died in 1926. Monet created the most extensive gardens that have been immortalized in countless paintings. It’s wonderful to know that Monet pursued gardening as much as he loved painting. Lucky man to have two amazing passions.
I took these photos with my iPhone. A lot of my friends take photos of flowers all the time. I never did. This was a great opportunity. I couldn’t pass it up. A number of people told me they waited a lifetime to see these gardens. It didn’t disappoint.
Amazon and The Synagogue Of Rouen
No, Amazon didn’t buy a French Synagogue. These are two different subjects I want to talk about today.
First Amazon. Be very careful about returning too many Amazon items. The company is cracking down on people who constantly return things. The Wall Street Journal just did a story about how Amazon is closing down phony customers. I suggest you read it so you don’t get a surprise rejection. Click here.
On to the Synagogue. AmaWaterways featured a Jewish Heritage tour today of Rouen. The city is about 90 minutes north of Paris. The temple we visited has been around since 1954. It was completely rebuilt after it was destroyed during WWII.
Only 250 families belong to this temple and most Shabbats only attract 10 to 20 people every Saturday. A Rabbi travels from Paris to Rouen to conduct services. About 700 members show up for the High Holy days.
The temple had one marriage and one Bar Mitzvah in the last three years. Most congregants prefer going to Paris because it’s easier for families to gather there.
One of the senior members of the temple met with us, showed us their Torah, and even blew the Shofar. AmaWaterways brings passenger guests to this temple every week. They also give a weekly donation of 50 Euros.
That’s what I call smart marketing.
Street art work in Rouen.
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