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My good buddy Jon Setzen and I had a long chat last night about all sorts of wonderful things, and thus, we have a brand new episode of The Build Up. We’ve been pretty busy since our last podcast so we had quite a number of things to speak about. Let’s see how much hate mail we get!

• Stealing on the Internet
• Bobby rants about not being able to go back in time
• You’re gonna get what you give
• SXSW was pretty great this year
• Icelandic adventures
• Formal Design Education Is Necessary for Practicing Designers. Yea or Nay?
• Is Vine still cool?
• Good magazines we’re into
• With music from New Radicals, The Aislers Set, Rhye, Devendra Banhart, and Cayucas

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We’re finally back with a new episode of The Build Up, featuring myself and good buddy Jon Setzen. Thankfully Jon defeated his sinus infection so that we could continue bringing you snarky, beer fueled commentary about design, technology, music, food, etc. Here’s an overview of what we spoke about in this episode.

• The joys of using Vine
• Cool people to follow on Vine
• Thoughts about the BVD rebrand of 7-11 (putting lipstick on a pig)
• Ugh, nostalgia fueled design
• Yay, Harvard Books redesign
• The forward thinking of Billboard
• Musicians making millions
• Everybody’s working for the weekend
• Comments on websites, connecting through social media
• Food week on TFIB
• Damon Albarn is seriously under-appreciated
• Creative Mornings, Joe Stewart and the sandwich as a design metaphor
• People hate change
• Palm Springs is amazing and I wish I was still there
• Kyle’s epic 2012 music round-up
• Music from My Bloody Valentine, Christopher Owens, Damon Albarn & Malian Musicians and Pure Bathing Culture

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Jon Setzen and myself are back with a new episode of The Build Up for the new year, and we’re so excited to be back at it. I feel like we’re really getting good at this, such as figuring out how to use dual microphones to record, but we still sadly don’t have the podcast on iTunes. We’re working on it! This episode was a good one, here’s what we spoke about.

• Is everyone leaving New York for the west coast?
• Overdue Movie Review
• Bobby’s Top 3 Most Inspiring Films
• The difference between Bill Cunningham and Scott Schuman
• Drinking delicious beers
• Checking out Untappd, a cool way to check-in to your beers
• Flickr vs. Instagram – Again
• Our favorite Instagrammers
• Feeling refreshed in the New Year
• Horrible Year End Lists
• Future plans for The Fox Is Black
• Appropriate music for restaurants
• Featuring music from The Field Mice, Sam Prekop, and Efterklang

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As we approach the end of one year and the beginning of another, podcast co-captain Jon Setzen and myself decided the final episode of 2012 would be a year in review, the best of the best. 2012 was a really great year for both of us and ’13 is looking to be equally bright.

Our third episode is about a lot of things:

• Most life changing app of the year
• Top 5 favorite albums (and our runner ups)
• Best gadget of the year that’s not the iPhone 5
• Most eye opening design experiences of 2012
• Best design trends of the year
• Best meal of the year (there were actually many)
• Screw you Instagram, we’re back on Flickr
• 3 work-related work-related goals for 2013
• Music from Heavenly Beat, The Walkmen, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, and Dirty Projectors

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As promised, the second episode of The Build Up. We’re taking this two week schedule pretty seriously as it puts a fire under Jon’s and my ass to make sure we’ve got some cool ideas to speak about. As with the last episode the conversation is both casual and the topics varied, so prepare for an entertaining blend of thoughts, criticisms and ideas. On a technical note we’re still looking into putting the podcast onto iTunes so try to be patient. In the meantime you can listen here on the page or download the mp3 if you’re retro like that.

Our second episode is about a lot of things:

• Stanley Kubrick exhibit at LACMA
• The function of museums
• Good Icelandic beer
• How amazing Thanksgiving is
• Good people in Portland
• The best football ad ever?
• The Hobbit posters are lame
• Good typography skills are necessary
• Jon’s new candle line Arlo Jacob
• The absurdness of that tiny Instagram projector
• Gimmicky products
• The importance of good customer service
• Brands using social media
• Jon’s obsession with shoe videos
• Good music from Lost in the Trees, Jon Brion, The Magnetic Fields, and The Avalanches

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