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  • In this famous 1985 television advert broadcast in the UK, model Nick Kamen stripped down to his white boxer shorts in a launderette so that he could wash his 501s. He did so to the strains of Marvin Gaye's 'I Heard it Through the Grapevine'. The ad reached number 6 in a UK poll of 'The 100 Greatest TV Ads' in 2000 (Robinson 2000). It kicked off a series of classic retro 50s-style ads which increased sales of Levi jeans by 800% by 1986. It reputedly did almost as much for promoting boxer shorts.

    John Hegarty, a founding partner of BBH, was the creative mind behind this ad. The ad led to Nick Kamen becoming a one-hit wonder with 'Each Time You Break My Heart'.

links for 2009-04-28

  • These days, the hirsute pursuit has evolved into a full-blown, full-grown trend. According to the marketing research company The NPD Group, sales of electric shavers and men’s facial trimmers have dipped 12 percent just in the last year while beard-related activities are, well, bristling.
  • …when a beat is looped, i can take a piece of this record and use it and, when its looped, its just has a different life of its own … it tells its own story"
  • This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the "Amen Break," a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music — a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Nate Harrison's 2004 video is a meditation on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, and the history of a remarkable music clip.
  • his study investigated biased message processing of political satire in The Colbert Report and the influence of political ideology on perceptions of Stephen Colbert. we found that individual-level political ideology significantly predicted perceptions of Colbert's political ideology. conservatives were more likely to report that Colbert only pretends to be joking and genuinely meant what he said while liberals were more likely to report that Colbert used satire and was not serious when offering political statements.Conservatism also significantly predicted perceptions that Colbert disliked liberalism.
    (tags: humor politics)
  • Had Public Ad Campaign’s New York Street Advertising Takeover just finished with the whitewashing of 120 illegally NPA operated advertising locations, it certainly still would have been a success. But no, Jordan Seiler had to turn things up a notch. Once the buffers were finished painting over the ad blight, over 50 artists (of which only 1 was arrested) moved in to transform the newly created public canvasses into works of art. While my colleague was buffing the billboards, I was indiscriminately shooting the action, including the best part: the artists, who used posters, paint, and even performance art in their creative reclamations. Jump for the massive billboard-beautifying gallery.
  • And that's where it all happens!

    2006 and 2007 UK beatbox champion Beardyman and 2007 UK DMC Champion JFB have been turning rooms of fresh-smelling, stationary punters into rooms of sweaty, dancing punters for a total of about 9 years, and for the first time they are bringing the benefit of their experience to bear on their first official joint venture, BATTLEJAM. Artistic adviser and resident genius, the esteemed Ed Solo from Undiluted, su

  • More new school beatboxing … that kinda reminds me of Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, but, taken to the next level..
    (tags: music)
  • But that's even better. there's a bunch of beardyman videos on youtube, just help yourself.
    (tags: music)
  • That's good. Really good. CRAZY GOOD!
    ;P
    (tags: music japan)

i’m tired of hearing about the swine flu.

c’mon you people, ease up..

rereading the news:

a “mild’” swine flu epidemic could lead to the deaths of 1.4 million lives and cost the global economy more than $US330 billion ($463 billion) in lost output.

> that’s about 0,02% of the world population (or 2 out of 10 000), for a lost output of 0,85% of the world gdp.

The figures, based on economic modelling of an influenza pandemic, also reveal that the most serious “ultra” scenario would cost 142.2 million lives around the world and reduce growth by $US4.4 trillion.

> that means a catastrophic scenario would be quite worse, with 2% of the world population and about 8% of the world gdp.

as a comparaison, the same article states that sars caused 774 deaths.
so don’t start panicking.
yet ;P

links for 2009-04-25

  • Such a constrat from a society where its member commit suicide when they don't perform well …

    …wabi-sabi nurtures all that is authentic by acknowledging three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect."

  • Haha! Denim is french and the jean is italian. Talk about a true american fashion icon ;P

    The word comes from the name of a sturdy fabric called serge, originally made in Nîmes, France, by the Andre family. Originally called serge de Nîmes, the name was soon shortened to denim.[2] Denim was traditionally colored blue with indigo dye to make blue "jeans," though "jean" then denoted a different, lighter cotton textile; the contemporary use of jean comes from the French word for Genoa, Italy (Gênes), where the first denim trousers were made.

  • for their 25th anniversary.
    25.
    damn.
    (tags: pop culture news)
  • and brings with it a page of the web history. like everygood internet kid, i once had an awful geocities page ;P oh well.

    After careful consideration, we have decided to close GeoCities later this year. We'll share more details this summer.

    (tags: web news)

links for 2009-04-23

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  • it, 38, is of medium height and solid build. He has a stern, square face that would be suitable on an evening newscaster if it weren't for a tangled scar above his lip that resembles a strand of barbed wire. He makes his living scouring the old ranches, ghost towns, abandoned homesteads, and forgotten antique shops of the American West in search of vintage clothes. When most people hear the word vintage, they think of bell-bottoms from the seventies, but Brit's definition of that word goes many decades deeper into American fashion. He has a particular interest in denim workwear from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His company's name is Carpe Denim, and he sells his products, or "pieces," to a disparate array of clients, including Hollywood wardrobe departments, private collectors, and companies like Levi's, Ralph Lauren, the Gap, and Dickies.
  • un Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun's cash and debt.
    (tags: news business)

links for 2009-04-17

  • Why does service suck?
    We already have your money, so who cares? We don't.
  • Note to myself: how fucked up would it be for Sasha Grey to become the next America sweetheart?
    ….
    .
    anyway… from Grey:
    I’ve got to diversify myself. Do I want to be 35, having sex on-camera? No. I want to be sitting on a fucking porch at my beach house with my own successful company.
  • Audi: Your move, BMV.
    BMW: Checkmate.
  • not that I ever wondered what cute girls where thinking, but if that's one of ur interest… ;P

    Modelfeed is where models come to share. And they bring all of their stuff with them. We are an international collaborative blog sharing the real lives of models as they do their thing. Log on and share their obsessions, big and small. From organic food and home cooking, to films and music on high-rotation, this season’s best shoes straight from the runway, on-location hair and make-up tips and secret insider shopping destinations all over the world… with a couple of incredible restaurants, hip hotels and cool bars thrown into the mix. Modelfeed. Not made up.

    (tags: news)

links for 2009-04-15