Entries from June 2007

Friday, June 29th, 2007

more skin.graft fabulousness

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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

today’s awesome ad award goes to:

found in Pride Magazine (my friend brought it back after going up to s.f. last weekend to dj at the gay pride parade)
 

this needs no explanation. it’s just awesome.
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

we reserve the right to refuse service to marginal subcultures

even funnier on the heels of the post about the nature of subconscious cultural aesthetic values, is this bit from ikea perfectly exemplifying what i like to call a “lifestyle slur“:

“Brightens up your grad’s dorm. Unlike a creepy gothic roommate, who can be a bad influence.”
….. all it takes to ward off the influence [...]

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

(i promise i’ll get back to watering those “marketing” tags soon)

i mean, i have to…. otherwise, how are they ever supposed to grow?
but i just had such a horrifyingly depressing day at the doctor’s office, i can’t help this post.
first, there was the june 07 vanity fair that was chillin in the waiting room, all innocuous-like with bruce willis on the cover doing something totally [...]

Monday, June 25th, 2007

have you ever tried not being a mutant?

one of my favorite movie moments of the past decade has got to be that moment in x-men 2 when iceman and the rest of the teen mutants are hiding out at iceman’s house and his mom asks, him “have you ever tried….not…being a mutant?” like it would just solve everything.
i went to see the [...]

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

where is everyone?

i moved my blog and everyone disappeared! i’m really missing the three people who used to read this blog. where you at? if you come back, i’ll get you on the list. (bring a friend, and i’ll put you down +1).
in my previous post i wrote about how hip hop culture offered the first really [...]

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

the art of miscegenation

it’s hard to comprehend this now, but before hiphop there was no such thing as a racially integrated culture. when hiphop came down from the bronx and created the roxy in downtown NYC it brought with it not just a fad, but a complete cultural shift that was ushering with it a racially integrated lifestyle. [...]

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

when it’s not new media no more

 

i just saw this great post, don’t hire an internet person, that touches upon the (mindnumbingly frustrating) misconception that an internet strategy could be considered so separate from the rest of the whole campaign concept that delegating it to an isolated individual–”the internet person,” who will inevitably end up getting shoved in a closet–is actually [...]

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

ode to music festival websites

working on music festivals has gotten me to thinking about the kind of presence that these events develop online.
p.t. barnum pretty much laid the template for the concert promotion industry, and in that process also invented the advertising industry. thereafter events and promotions have been inextricably linked, like a codependent couple stuck in a mutually-enabling [...]

Monday, June 18th, 2007

happy birthday, blog!

after spending more time hanging out with just consonants than a writer really has a right to (php, ftp, css, html–i’m totally over my quota, i’m kind of scared to know what kind of overage charge i’ve incurred from the vowels), i’m happy to announce that www.social-creature.com is finally fit to see the light of [...]