You completely lose touch with the world around you and hear nothing but music.

You don’t control or over think what you ‘re creating. It just becomes something beautiful to you.

You start to shape pieces of who you are and at the same time know you’re releasing toxics.

You finally make a path… a path that you can travel down freely.

…and don’t you dare judge me — but this only half of the apps I allow (LOL)

Most of us spend our day glued to our computer screens; answering e-mails, updating our calendar or writing reports. And when we are away from our computers, we have our iPads and our smart phones filled with apps that help us do, find and learn everything. So you would think that as soon as we got some downtime, a break from the chaos that is our lives… we would “tune in, turn on and drop out” as they used to say. But we don’t. We have found a new drug. Salivating over the newest pins… scanning the latest status updates…  snickering over blurbs no longer than 140 characters.

So what makes us so connected to these networks?

Over the last 6 months I’ve been asking myself… what is it that that makes us so addicted to this “drug”?

The answer is this: jQuery Masonry The word “Masonry” is something we see and use everyday. It’s this concept that makes humans connect strongly with platforms like, Pinterest and Gentlemint. With our society craving fast content, our brains are also craving an easy way to digest all this content and we probably don’t even notice it. What is it about this layout that makes us scroll for hours and continue to build highly durable data constructions.

While geeking out with my soon-to-be-hubby, @markhayden he says “jQuery Masonry arranges divs of dynamic size within a predefined area similar to how masons meticulously choose various sized bricks to create a solid wall, a piece of ux art”  I love this quote and show off some of his smarts

Here are a couple visuals to make this blog post look sexy:

Also here are a couple links that have this same concept:
https://www.clipboard.com/

http://fab.com/feed/

http://www.thefancy.com/

Big thank you to @Brillskymedia and @markhayden for helping me with this post #PandaLovesYou

Facebook has launched a new concept called Offers. My first interaction with this concept was with Sprinkles Cupcakes (of course) my good friend Hallie claimed this offer and it popped up in my News Feed!

So. Of course. I had to claim this bad boy because… well I love cupcakes! I was super excited to see how this new concerted worked…

The experience was smooth and my whole network saw that I claimed this one FREE cupcake. Now, did I go and get this offer… um NO! #FAIL, right? But I will say this experience was easy and viral…

Check out what my good friend Joseph said about this concept:

Have you claimed am offer? If so what was it and how was the experience?

Please enjoy and give me your thoughts/comments…AND Merry Christmas to all us social geeks!!

I need to get back to packing (LOL)

Here’s a sketch I did couple weeks ago…

Resource links:
https://developers.facebook.com/roadmap/

The experience I’m going to share is one of the best experiences I’ve had with a brand:

The kicker to this experience is that Tory Burch not only gave me easy access to a money-sucking Facebook Exclusive App, but she — well her marketing team makes it incredibly easy for me to share Pins to My Style board without making me leave Facebook.