Social-Creature

while usually i am the one trying to express how parties are social media, here’s a fun little slideshow about how your online community is a party waiting to happen. eventually are we heading towards an understand that any platform which facilitates interaction, community (and identity) development, and experience creation is a social medium?

ok, enough about skin.graft. they ain’t the only circus designers on the block. next friday, june 22, kucoon designs is bringing the boom-wow to the derby in los feliz (random bit of l.a. history: the derby was charlie chaplin’s old club). come see it so you can say you knew about it before the trend [...]

oh… HELLS yes! You heard it HERE first. From apparelnews.net: It’s not every day two former circus performers join forces to launch a clothing line…

according to Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation, afrika bambaataa defined the four elements of hip hop as djing, emceeing, breakdancing, and graffiti. of the four, only graffiti makes a case that its conception was a little more immaculate. in truth, it’s the only element that can actually even pursue [...]

completely hilarious! it actually made me want to buy dr. bronner’s soap! and i NEVER wanted to buy it before, cuz the packaging is so personality-less, and spouts those weird quasi-culty hippie messages. but hey, anything punk-rock endorsed can’t possibly be as hippie as i thought, right? and their great sense of humor totally absolves [...]

i find the synchronicity of elements that shape the development of culture as fascinating as its effects. like the random mutations of evolution that become brilliant adaptive advantages, there’s almost a kind of magic to these whimsical convergences of what retrospect makes appear like fate. a butterfly flaps its wings in the concrete jungle, and [...]

starting this blog seems kinda like merging onto a freeway. one doesn’t just take a sharp left turn and blurt out some sort of doctoral thesis, rather it’s a continuous, gradual process of edging closer and closer to the main flow of traffic, with ideas expanding on ideas, expanding on ideas. i’ve been tinkering with [...]

just yanked this bit of rad from jeremiah owyang: my favorite part is where she goes, “you don’t know anything about me.” and he says, “i know everything about you sweetheart!” and starts spouting off all sorts of demographic statistics. perfect case in point about the difference between knowing your demo (defined by the market), [...]

just saw a great bit by sarah dopp about the trend of an established company’s new community site campaign that involves an outdoor advertising strategy to drive traffic–case in point: reebok’s goruneasy.com that i already wrote about glowingly HERE. what i find particularly interesting about this approach that’s being adopted not just by reebok, but [...]

you ever have that feeling that you’re living in the future? like you’re driving on these strange elevated chutes, and whether or not to have kids is now a choice, and you have no need to think about WHERE food comes from, it just generally appears at the beckoning of a shopping cart. it’s pretty [...]