"Apple Store Employee featured in NYT: I was earning $11.25 an hour. Part of me was thinking, ‘This is great. I’m an Apple fan, the store is doing really well.’ But when you look at the amount of money the company is making and then you look at your paycheck, it’s kind of tough."
— Jordan Golson, Apple Store employee • DIscussing his wages earned relative to the thriving success of his company, in a New York Times article today that’s definitely worth a read. The balance of jobs Apple has brought to the American economy have been weighed heavily towards retail, the sort of job for which many employees make around $25,000 per year, despite working for one of the world’s most profitable tech titans. As the article points out, Apple’s hourly rate for retail workers is above average among many competitors, but the products Apple sells add up to a much bigger profit per employee – the average Apple Store worker is responsible for moving $473,000 worth of products per year, yet many earn (based on that $25,000 figure) below 20% of what those sales bring in. Conversely, CEO Tim Cook’s 10-year vested stock grants? Today’s share price would fix them at $570 million. Which is, obviously, mondo money. (h/t Gregory Bufithis) source (via • follow)
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SARCASTIC STREET ART
UK-based artist, Mobstr is leaving snippy little messages on London’s walls. They’re mostly simple sentences minimalist in nature and loaded with attitude.
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“Sometimes I would run out of film and still shoot with an empty camera.”
Photographed by Isa Brito
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Name: Celia Cruz
Dates: 1925-2003
Why she rocks: She was one of the most successful salsa performers of all time, and earned 23 gold albums. She was known as “The Queen of Salsa” and “La Guarachera de Cuba”.Quote: “If I had a chance I wouldn’t have been singing and dancing, I would be a teacher just like my dad wanted me to be”
Because of this woman… Cuban music became popularized around the world.
Via becauseofthiswoman:
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Black, Beautiful and Framed
Dacia Carter 2012, Oil on Canvas.
Source: kehindewiley.com.
From Aunt Jemima to hyper-sexualised video vixens, mainstream depictions of Black women are littered with stereotypes. An Economy of Grace, an exhibit running at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York City, is artist Kehinde Wiley’s stunning effort to challenge similar misconceptions through the use of portraiture.
In all of the exhibit’s paintings, the models exude a vibrant and regal quality. There is none of the eclectic, afro-donning, power fist up, baby-tied-to-the-back-of-an-African-mother type of imagery that I’ve come to expect. No, the women featured in An Economy of Grace looked sassy and sophisticated. I could imagine myself meeting up with them to go shopping in SoHo or grabbing Sunday brunch together in our dolled-up glory.
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For all the people who ask me for writing advice...
Via neil-gaiman:
1 Write.
2 Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.
3 Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.
4 Put it aside. Read it pretending you’ve never read it before. Show it to friends whose opinion you…
(Source: Guardian)
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Restauranteur in China Boasts 18 Robot Workers
A restaurant in Harbin, China staffs 18 robots; one to welcome customers as they arrive, others to cook the food, and more to deliver plates to tables. The owner says the robots, which cost between 200,000~300,000 yuan ($32,000~$48,000 USD), can display 10 different emotions and speak simple phrases.
The robot stops automatically if a customer gets in its way thanks to ultrasonic range sensors, and will sound an alarm if it needs to be repaired. And it knows to return to its power source when it gets low on juice (its batteries have a life of around 5 hours). Via futurescope.
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Bennett Foddy is a philosopher and game designer whose works will be on view at this year’s Pulse NYC art fair, which opens on May 4th. Go check out the show!
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