Entries Tagged as 'culture'
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
today’s awesome ad award goes to:
the ad in this case is the overall concept and execution of this whole thing. not just the video below.
Adidas Originals Left To Right:To celebrate the iconic Superstar shoe, Adidas Originals produced a pair of giant sized exact replicas. Housed in separate studios, they invited friends and artists at Surface2Air and Upper Playground to celebrate […]
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
lucent dossier at the edison ~ downtown LA
Lucent Dossier’s first night as the house band circus at the Edison goes down tomorrow night.
The Edison is re-introducing and reinventing the spirit of cabaret. Reminiscent of Paris and Berlin of the early 20’s, Wednesday nights the venue is transformed into an exploration of the past — a peek into the decadent, sensuous underbelly […]
Friday, April 11th, 2008
a magical video ad-venture
shot and produced by the kicakss siouxzen kang, and featuring an unreleased glitch mob track! if this doesn’t make you wanna go, you’re probably not someone who likes FUN!
Sunday, April 6th, 2008
beyond content
This whole thing Radiohead’s doing, encouraging remixes of its songs is way clever.
Radiohead, iTunes and GarageBand are giving you the opportunity to remix the band’s new single “Nude”.
To make remixing easy, the separate ’stems’ from the song are available to purchase from iTunes. The ’stems’ available are bass, voice, guitar, strings/fx and drums. You can […]
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
the evolution of the LIB music player
LIB06:
an immobile little flash dookiy embedded in the site:
up close it looked like this:
at the time we thought it was quite the snazz.
LIB07:
we figured this kind of media thingie shouldn’t be trapped on our site, so we created a “portable” popup player that you could launch on our site, and then take along with you […]
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
the integration is the message
Have you seen these billboards?
They’re all over the place:
Been wondering what the hell that’s all about, maybe?
Well, answer #1 goes like this:
Hope people have been seeing the billboards that I have put up around town. I think its important everyone knows how much Sarah Marshall SUCKS! How she does look fat in those jeans! […]
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
culture seeks its level
In Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture, Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter explain that really, there was never any conflict between the two to begin with. Counterculture hinges on, and consumer culture consists of, the expression of your lifestyle/identity. Whether you’re choosing to wear Nikes, Doc Martens, or some crazy obscure Japanese […]
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
yet more from the New Yorker!
“THIS TRACK JUST MADE ME PREGNANT” - Sasha Frere-Jones, pop music critic at the New Yorker, waxes poetic about the Glitch “Lazer-Bass” Scene. Read more…
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
“this above all else…
…to thine own self be true.”
- William Shakespeare as Polonius
YOU MUST READ THIS STORY FROM THE NEW YORKER:
Something in me had snapped, was broken beyond repair. My taste had been central to my identity. I’d cultivated it, kept it fed and watered like an exotic flowering plant. Now I realized that what I thought […]















