Awesome ad for the madrid metro. It’s like having a sunroof in your metro ride.
Texas legalizes dildos. Yeah you heard my right.
The trailer for the last Indy is out. Enjoy.
The whole 25th anniversary thriller album here in stream (with Kanye West, Paul McCartney, Will.I.Am, etc…) For US based ppl only.
The new sushis! Coming to a restaurant near-by. Mongolian hot pot, dosas, pupusas, korean bibimbap, mangosteens, offal…
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Wish y’all a lovely Valentine day.
Buy your loved one a Pink
“Love in the City is a concept by Dutch designer Anke Weiss to turn red stop lights into love hearts.”
Spike Jonze directed the last Kanye West videoclip, Flash Lights
Netdiver best portfolio/websites/artists of ‘07
Here’s the Alien Abduction Lamp.
Actors breakthrough.
“Jack Nicholson told me several years ago. “I’d been working for 12 years, and then the part in ‘Easy Rider’ changed my life. Very few people have ever had the experience where they sit back and say, ‘I am a movie star.’ I knew it at the first showing of ‘Easy Rider’ at the Cannes Film Festival by how the audience reacted to the movie. A lot of people would say, ‘I know I’m a movie star, but, oh, I wonder what’s going to happen. . . .’ I knew it then: I was a movie star. And it was great.”
That’s funny. It’s the first time I heard about “auto-tune” ever. “If you’re unfamiliar with Auto-tune, and especially if you listen to much pop and rock, you might not hear it initially. When overdone, the effect yields an unnatural yodel or warble in a singer’s voice. But the sound is so commonplace in modern mainstream music that your ears may have tuned out the auto-tune!” Now, the audio provided is quite nice. It really makes you realized why you always though your fav artist voice sounded a bit strange sometimes …
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Hydro ad. “They are many young engineers. We can’t wait till they grow up”. 4 stars stuff.
The 10 Funniest (worst?) Anti-Drug Commercials In Advertising History
Holiday Inn tv spot (my fav one is the Humpback whale)
Yes we can parodies
I.E., Gonna be wars, Bomb, bomb bomb Iran.
Local governments around the globe are coming up with some of the most innovative ways to cut energy use. There are lessons here for places of all sizes.
“The weinerein (wine bars) owned by Jürgen Stumpf are welcome holdouts. These wine bars — all based on an honor system — have a charming, if maybe a bit naïve, faith in mankind’s honesty. For the price of 1 euro (about $1.50), you rent yourself a glass and get to sample as many of the wines as you want.”
You’re moving every 6 months? Capsulo is for you. A box containing everything you need for your bedroom.
http://www.mein-casulo.de/en/casulo/casulo_photos.htm
Do All Companies Have to be Evil? Enron, Google and the evolutionary psychology of corporate environments.
” The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed—for lack of a better word—is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms—greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge—has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed—you mark my words—will not only save Teldar Paper but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA.”
New insight website discovered. Fitch (design agency)
“Fitch was asked to rebrand HiQ in line with their plan to revolutionise the way fast fit car care is delivered in the UK. The new look and brand positioning, designed by Fitch, were developed to reflect the strong customer-led ethos which is at the core of HiQ’s new retail concept.” Hell YEAH! Btw just browse through their cases, this agency rocks.
Artist of the day: Socalled
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Music For One Apartment And Six Drummers (via bienbienbien)
God, without the fuss. “Joel Osteen has the largest congregation in the country. His syndicated TV program is the most-watched religious broadcast in the nation, with 7 million viewers. It also airs in more than 100 foreign countries. His first book, 2004’s Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential, sold more than 4 million copies, and his latest, Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day, for which he got a $13-million advance, had a first printing of 3 million copies, reportedly the largest ever in Simon & Schuster’s history.” I loooove religion. Just kidding.
How americans spend their money. Great infographic…
Improveverywhere made a round on the Web lately ‘coz of their “Frozen Grand Central“. I’m quite hooked on whatever these guys are doing, wheter its the boxer subway ride, the suicide impro or the we-go-to-that-store-shirtless. (their site’s down, I’ll update the links for the vids 2morrow.)
Good alternative/street marketing idea for Callaway Golf Hyper X Driver: “golf tees with burnt tips were scattered around golf course tee boxes and pratice ranges”.
And I came across this quote today….
‘I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.’
- Douglas Adams in ‘The Salmon of Doubt’
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Male models are becoming skinnier and skinnier.
“When I started out in the magazine business in 1994, the sample size was an Italian 50″ (That’s a 40 for you in North America) “ Yet just six years later […] the typical sample size had dwindled to 48. Now it is 46. The big, great looking models just stopped going to Europe. They knew they’d never get cast.”
How-to manage people… “If you’ve ever worked with an editor who makes slight modifications to every single effing thing that comes through the door then you know what I’m talking about. Your desire to execute is deflated because you no longer own anything thanks to the misguided idea that the readers will somehow notice a slight improvement in quality.” This is so true. I remember being in a job where my boss would rephrase anything I wrote to end up with the exact same sentence 6 to 7 rephrasings later. I mean, talk about a motivation killer.
Here is HBSP blog advices about it
I know I’m probably reaaaally late but. Yes we can. Quite a moving song, because of really strong discourse.
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unpolitically correct questions for candidates. Which, I think, should really be asked.
“How would you suggest that we reason with someone who claims that his or her decisions are informed, shaped, even dictated by fundamental religious principles, which nevertheless can’t be probed or questioned by those who don’t share them?”
The VW Van turned 60 this month.
Extreme football (soccer) for EA: FIFA Street 3, by W+K A’dam.
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Here are my favs ads for the 2008 Superbowl
1st quarter
Budlight - Cheese Party (Coz every year, I’m digging Bud light ads that emphasis our male fraternity ;P)
Doritos - Message from your heart (I’m a sucker for user powered stuff.)
2nd
Pepsi Stuff was quite good! I mean, seing JT getting drag along like that can only be funny..
3rd
Hyundai Genesis wasnt that bad.
4th
I kinda like both of the E-trade ads.
Bud Light/Semi Pro ad
Overall, a quite deceiving Superbowl for the ads. I’ll wait for the ‘09 yield.
Nike uses mangas for their lastest ads of baskets
Absolut Machines. Even though I applause the initiative, the creativity and the crazyness of the idea, I found it just too complicated to be a good marketing support.
From Contagious Magazine: “While interactivity and user generated content are nothing new, the inventions showcased at absolutemachines.com most certainly are. M.I.T. graduates Dan Paluska and Jeff Lieberman spent six months developing the range of devices, including one which shoots rubber balls at the keys of a marimba and another which uses robotic fingers to ‘play’ a set of wine glasses. A separate machine was developed by a Swedish company, Teenage Engineering and uses a chorus of ten singing robots, aptly named the Absolut choir. “
Weare allows you to create a small pixelised drawing which they’ll include on their next item! Nice..
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Ikea launched in the UK « BoKlok […] a groundbreaking new concept to housing that involves providing space-saving, functional and high quality properties at a price that enables as many people as possible to afford a comfortable home. »
SUPERBOWL ADS! I love it. It’s like a second Christmas. Stay tuned for my favs!
Carla Bruni and French President Nicolas Sarkozy tie the knot
A recap + opinion from Adam Gopnik. You gotta love this: “…this time [Sarkozy+Bruni affair] the media is not trying to pry into the private life of a public man; this time, a public man is trying desperately to parade his private life in front of the media”
Entries for the New Yorker’s Eustace Tittley 2008 contest
More about the New Yorker? They launched a “what’s going on” blog about a week ago.
Coolhunter magazine had some nice updates in the last week
In case you haven’t notice yet, Agenda INC is becoming my fav source for everything marketing+luxury related. Here’s another well linked post about China frenzy for luxury.
Wilkinson Eyre Architects have won the competition to masterplan the Apraksin Dvor district in St. Petersburg, Russia. (I have no clue about where it is or else, it only made me think about The Cloud, a speculative project for Dubai)
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