This interactive poster (which just won a Cannes Silver Lion this week) was erected at a bus stop in Hamburg (no, Berlin), Germany. An eye tracking camera was installed in the board, so that when you looked directly at the domestic violence, after a delay, the scene morphed into spousal harmony.
The latest issue has at least 10 examples of sponsored content where the magazine editorial and publishing teams have worked with government boards, a property developer and lifestyle brands to create new content that wins for the reader, publisher and advertiser.
PSFK has been discussing the rise of media as the creative agency for a couple of years now - and Monocle is leading the trend where titles help brands by creating content readers really want to consume (rather than the stuff many ad agencies hope will catch our eye).
“The Cosmetics Chosen by 1,200,000 People” is a “mook,” the curious Japanese word for a cross-between a book and magazine.
Like other crowd-sourced products and self-publishing “keitai novel” sites that have proved hits lately, this does a nice job of making users of the site feel like they are really part of something greater—ensuring that a good number of them will feel vested enough in the creation process to purchase the book not only for the information but also as a “souvenir.”
Mokku, a maker of toys and novelty FMCG, has recently begun selling a series of green tea modeled after the famed Yamanote Line in Tokyo. Doing a full loop around the downtown area, the Yamanote is a key connector and an iconic line.
The numbers look suspicious.
Each of these two tests provides strong evidence that the numbers released by Iran's Ministry of the Interior were manipulated. But taken together, they leave very little room for reasonable doubt. The probability that a fair election would produce both too few non-adjacent digits and the suspicious deviations in last-digit frequencies described earlier is less than .005. In other words, a bet that the numbers are clean is a one in two-hundred long shot.
An Iranian blogger (whose URL I will not publish) live blogging from Baharestan Square in central Tehran today captures but brief glimpses of the unimaginable horror that took place today. Bus loads of protesters were stopped and unloaded from their buses by "black-clad police" and literally herded. When the massing was sufficient, as the barely controllably distraught Tehran caller to CNN described first hand, hundreds of the regime's Basij thugs poured out of an adjoining mosque and commenced a massacre with axes, clubs, guns and gas.
Angella Newell and Hayley Sudbury have picked up on the combination of people’s curiosity about wine and spirits, the fact that social media can make it all more accessible and that tastings are normally really dull. So their concept is to use social media to organise imaginative tastings with a range of engaging experts, quirky settings and fun themes that make the events good fun. Their tastings are the Mr Scruff and Cut Chemist of the gastronomic world.
Traditionalists say the use of BlackBerrys and iPhones in meetings is as gauche as ordering out for pizza. Techno-evangelists insist that to ignore real-time text messages in a need-it-yesterday world is to invite peril.
The translation of what's being said:
- How to send a recommended letter with La Poste
- Connect yourself to the La Poste website and follow the instructions. There it is
- Write the text, nothing complicated.
- Validate it and La Poste print your letter and send it to the recipident.
- Et Hop, it's gone!
San Francisco conceptual artist and journalist Jonathon Keats is trying to rejuvenate literature in the age of hyperspeed media by writing a story that will take a millennium to tell.
The catch? The story, printed on the cover of the recently released Infinity issue of Opium Magazine, is only nine words long.
The printing process in question is a simple but, as usual with Keats, pretty clever idea. The cover is printed in a double layer of standard black ink, with an incrementally screened overlay masking the nine words. Exposed over time to ultraviolet light, the words will be appear at different rates, supposedly one per century.
Rather than accept the decline of the physical album as an inevitability, some people are taking active steps to avert it. Case in point: music/fashion impresarios Invisible DJ, in conjunction with LnA Clothing, have designed the first ever "Music Tee" for
Mos Def's
latest album, The Ecstatic.
It's a fairly straightforward concept in the vein of Of Montreal's promotion for Skeletal Lamping, which makes us wonder why more artists aren't trying it. The Mos Def music tee has The Ecstatic's cover art on the front, the tracklisting on the back, and a code for a downloadable version of the album on a tag.
Music tees for Santigold and Miike Snow are also in the works.
Their jeans, called "Cracker," are displayed on the ground floor. People can come in and try them on but no one buys a thing until the wearer and the designer look long and hard at the mirror to decide whether a particular pair fits like a charm.
If anything is amiss, in the designer's eyes, the potential buyer is politely discouraged: Sorry, no deal. One customer described the experience: "It's like unrequited love. I'm heartbroken."
I’ll be travelling for the next two weeks so there shouldnt be much activity here til i come back!
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The name Pussy shocks and demands attention - that's the point. Inhibition is a recipe for mediocrity. This is a premium energy drink named with confidence.
The same lesson applies to Twitter. The most important thing about it isn't the messages themselves — most of them are admittedly banal — but the form of the message: 140 characters or fewer. by forcing users to commit their thinking to the bite-size form of the public tweet, Twitter may be giving a powerfully productive new life to a hitherto underexploited quantum of thought: The random, fleeting observation.