Cool advertising:
“To p romote the exclusive thrillers and horror films on 13th Street, the toilet of a nightclub in Hamburg was specially prepared. Just after entering the room, the light suddenly goes out and the room is bathed in Black light. And now a bloody crime scene becomes visible on the floor and walls: “See [...]
Still on the anthropology of cellphones: Playing With Fire: On the domestication of the mobile phone among Palestinian teenage girls in Israel. “[The paper] examines how the mobile phone alters social dynamics, relationships, and the construction of gender in Palestine. In short, they document how culturally specific gendered practices (not technological features) frame the meaning [...]
The money of the US presidential candidate
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Coolhunter launched dear-god.net. I’m only posting this because Coolhunter launched the site. I’m not particularly a fan…
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A great piece by NY Times on Jan Chipchase, anthropologist for Nokia: “His mission is to peer into the lives of other people, accumulating as much knowledge as possible about human behavior so [...]
For women: Top Ten Trends/Ready to Wear Spring Summer 2008
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I once had an idea of designing pencil with smell and taste, so you know, when you’re chewing the end of it, it actually taste good. Well, it seems that the smell part is gaining the mainstream (but it’s kinda old, my girl only used to [...]
I told y’all I would get back at you with a list of sites of street hunting. Check this out.
The 50 greatest comedy sketches of all time: with videos.
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Kanye West blog. And it’s like any other blog. He’s posting some fresh stuff, like this BMW Billboard in Moscow, the Loopita seating and that wireless remote control from B&O
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The Everywhere girl: a girl took a photoshoot for a stock photo website and became the “stock-photo [...]
I posted about Ndeur yesterday, a company that made custom painted shoes. Here’s a bunch more, from today’s buzzfeed.
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Improveverywhere make the day for those little league kids: The best game ever
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Consolidated aesthetics: “I like the idea of a consolidated aesthetic totality; what you make looks like what you listen to, sounds like what you wear, [...]
Op-Chart: Making Money Hand Over Fist
An oil trader demonstrates the hand signals used on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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The top 25 blogs, by the Time Magazine
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Through Springwise (coolhunting of businesses)
NDEUR handpainted shoes
Etsy, hum, ebay for handmade stuff
Issuu is a new site that converts users’ documents into interactive, magazine-style online publications that can [...]
David Yocum and Brian Bell’s architecture office in Atlanta.
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A huge thread on kottke.org of people mispronouncing words on purpuous
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Fears: Ranked from childhood through parenthood
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Ad for American Apparel, back of Vice Magazine
via Copyranter
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A great biz card design for a couple counselor
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“Ten Thousand Cents” is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using [...]
Hum. Nothing will happen with the Eiffel tower after all. (in french)
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The New Kids on the Block are back: “New Kids On The Block — five now fully-grown men who forever defined what the modern boy band would look and sound like — are back together for the very first time in nearly a decade [...]
