Entries Tagged as 'hybridity'

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

today’s awesome ad award goes to:

Amanda Lepore in an ad for the Jawbone headset. Just saw it in Vanity Fair (the one with Marilyn Monroe on the cover). The image on the opposite page, was of a “surgeon”: Definitely makes you look. Like this? Share it! Tweet

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Filed under ad, celebrity, culture, gender, hybridity, social psychology, tolerance, trend

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 [...]

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Filed under change, countercuture, culture, fashion, future, hipster, history, hybridity, irony, lifestyle slur, myth, prophecy, stereotype, trend, urban anthropology

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

hipster screamo southern rap

I got an email a few days back that read: fromjustin boreta subjectif the glitch mob went screamo dateWed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:35 AM http://profile.myspace.com/brokencyde prepare yourself But I was getting ready to head out to San Francisco for the PSFK conference, (and to be perfectly honest, was kind of scared by the whole [...]

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Filed under change, consumer insight, culture, future, gate-crasher, hybridity, irony, marketers, music, prophecy, rad!, the glitch mob, trend

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 brand [...]

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Filed under ad, article, books, campaign, caucasian, change, circus, consumer insight, context, controversy, countercuture, cross-cultural communication, culture, discovery strategy, fashion, friends, future, gate-crasher, hiphop, history, hybridity, identity, identity marketing, katie k, kucoon, L.A., media, music, myspace, myth, prophecy, remix, skin.graft, social psychology, trend

Monday, March 17th, 2008

adore adore

heard a track on indie 103.1 a couple of weeks ago by a dude named yoav and really dug the sound, then i checked out the lyrics last night, and was completely sold. with songs about the nightlife underbelly (“club thing“) and celebrity culture (“adore adore“) it’s like social psychology insights on a guitar–with a [...]

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