Entries from August 2008

Monday, August 25th, 2008

once bitten…

HBO has created a monster with the promotional campaign for True Blood, a new TV series from the creator of Six Feet Under, set to premiere September 7th. AdAge (which has a nice little video about the campaign here, but no way to embed it elsewhere) explains: While they’re only one part of the larger [...]

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

that thing in the desert

To all my peeps heading out to Straight Pride next week, just wanted to say… don’t forget to hydarte.

Monday, August 18th, 2008

the end of counterculture

“Deal with it. Rock’n roll.” – The Rules of Attraction, by Bret Easton Ellis While I was in New York a couple of weeks ago, it came to my attention that hipsters had managed to really piss Adbusters off. If you don’t happen to know what “hipsters” are, or if perhaps you are assuming it’s [...]

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

building characters

While trying to track down a quote from Bret Easton Ellis’s The Rules of Attraction, I came across a LinkedIn profile for Sean Bateman. In case you’re not acquainted with Sean Bateman, one of the main protagonists of the Rules of Attraction, here’s his LinkedIn profile: Sean Bateman Student at Bennington College Albany, New York [...]

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

post-war trade launches!

A quick little break in the travelling silence just to mention that Post-War Trade, the “democratic future of merchandising” dreamed up by Amanda Palmer of The Dresden Dolls, and produced by Katie Kay–indisputably two of the savviest, sassiest lasses I know, whom it was my pleasure to introduce a few years back–is now, finally, up [...]