Entries from August 2009

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

What A Difference Three Years Makes

Back in early 2006, Chevy tried to get on the whole “consumer generated content” bandwagon (or bandSUV, I suppose), with a website which allowed users to easily create their own “ads” for the Chevy Tahoe using provided video and music assets. In theory, the idea was to generate interest in the vehicle through user created [...]

Monday, August 24th, 2009

today’s awesome ad award goes to:

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Also awesome: wonderful and wondrous large-scale art creations shown happening absolut-ly anywhere but the desert.

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

What To Do After An Overnight Success

If, sometime circa 2004, you were out and about at certain underground parties in the Los Angeles Circus scene, and saw someone wearing a particularly striking pair of pants (male or female), created from asymmetrical strips of leather sewn in a twisted, impeccably tailored way, like the trappings of some Mad Max forest nymph biker [...]

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Generation Fame

“I think Andy Warhol got it wrong: in the future, so many people are going to become famous that one day everybody will end up being anonymous for 15 minutes.”
- Banksy
Well, it’s the future, and fame has propagated apace with Moore’s law. Thus, it only makes sense that 30 years since the release of Fame, [...]

Monday, August 17th, 2009

The Peril of Perfect Evil

Have you noticed the slate of WWII resistance movies lately? There’s last year’s Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise, which depicts the actual attempted plot devised by a cadre of senior German officers to assassinate Hitler. Earlier this year saw the release of Defiance, also based on a true story, with Daniel Craig and Liev Schriber portraying [...]

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Hot New Trend Alert: Quirky songstress/songwriters crooning ditties about web applications, on pianos

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Amanda Palmer performs “I Google You”:

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Kate Miller-Heidke performs “Are You F*cking Kidding Me? (Facebook Song)”:

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