Nerd jokes have become the official mainstream humor. Recently, MIT had it’s first ROFLCon where you could find who’s who of the Internet and accidents masters of the viral world.
In a previous post, I sort of lamented about the silliness of Internet memes and was hoping it will evolve beyond the trivial. But it seems [...]
Archive for April, 2008
LOLanguage
Posted in Internet, interactive, tagged LOLanguage, meme, memes, ROFLCon, Samuel Weller, The Pickwick Papers, World's First LOL on April 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A website is a website is a website #2
Posted in creative stuff, interactive, tagged cool websites, digital works, Massive Cube, web plus on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier I posted about a simple and beautiful one page / double column website. And now I stumbled up on this website for Massive Cube, an interactive design and development company, that is anything but simple and regardless, it’s BEAUTIFUL!
It seems to be that Massive Cube is probably a new kid on the block as [...]
Leo Burnett is confused about professionlism in advertising.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Leo Burnett, Leo Burnett's dress code, Misplaced professionalism in advertising on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is the kind of thing an agency starts with good intentions and ends up doing something remarkably boneheaded. Of all the things an ad agency can do to improve it’s creative offerings, client relations, operational efficiency and over all culture – setting a dress code seems like the wrong choice. Ad agencies, amongst all [...]
Pepto-Bismol reminds you what went wrong as you wash away those stains.
Posted in creative stuff, tagged Good guerilla, Pepto-Bismaol, Publicis NY on April 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From Publicis NY comes this latest work for Pepto Bismol. It’s refreshing to find something creative in this category.
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Naked and distorted on Park Avenue
Posted in cool stuff, tagged Lever House Art Installation, Park Avenue art, Richard Dupont on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lever House has a new installation by Richard Dupont…nine naked men Duponts in the lobby and you can get the perfect view only from one angle. It’s a full body scan of him from General Dynamics, on the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. This is what he had to say…
“The viewer walks around the [...]
Smart commercials on the idiot box
Posted in cool stuff, creative stuff, tagged 'I love the world' 72 and Sunny, Boom De Yada, cool tv ads, Mitsubishi robot ad, NEW Discovery Channel Commericial on April 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The first one is a new (I think) commercial for Mitsubishi Canada, agency unknown. If you know who did this, please post the credits in the comments. This is a pretty smart spot, considering that we’ve seen the same devices used in car and other commercials for a while, and yet these guys have managed [...]
Is there any hope for Internet Meme’s beyond cats with bad spelling and grammar?
Posted in cynical pov, tagged branding, digital advertising, interactive, internet memes, meme, web plus on April 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »
“A meme can be just about any form of non-genetic information transmitted from person to person: a word, a song, an attitude, a religious belief, a mealtime ritual, an engineering concept.” – Robert Wright, NONZERO – The Logic Of Human Destiny.
Ever since Britain’s World’s angriest atheist invented the idea/phrase meme in 1976 (Yes, it’s been [...]
It’s spring in New York
Posted in Random sightings, tagged Manhattan, New York, Spring on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A website is a website is a website
Posted in cool stuff, creative stuff, tagged digital, smart websites, web plus on April 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Yeoh Guan Hong’s website, Super*Nature is a beauty to behold. It’s smart, elegant and the user doesn’t have to navigate across 23 pages to understand what the artist is all about. You can do it in just one page.
With all the cliche’s in creating a website having been exploited beyond belief – simplicity and navigational [...]
Audi Gymnasts
Posted in cool stuff, creative stuff, tagged Audi Gymnasts ad, BBH London on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BBH has just released a new Audi ad, and it’s fantastic!
The ad, shot in Budapest by Paul Hunter and performed by Hungarian gymnasts , is smart and powerful and it’s soooo Audi. It’s pointless to nitpick specifics in an ad as beautiful as this, as adverts like these needs to be [...]
Dragon Blood tree
Posted in cool stuff, tagged biodiversity, Dragon Blood tree, nature on April 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As the AFP release says, this Dragon Blood tree can be seen “on the virtually untouched Yemeni Island of Socotra, a site of global importance for biodiversity conservation, located in the northwestern Indian Ocean, some 350km south of the Arabian Peninsula”
McDonald’s laconically summarizes the US school system
Posted in cynical pov, tagged McDonald's, subway posters, US primary school system on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hulu
Posted in cool stuff, tagged free online viewing, hulu, movies, sports, tv series on April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hulu is being seen as the future of television. Currently, it’s available only for US audience, maybe you could try plugging in an US zip code and try your luck. Because this is seriously cool shit.
The origin of Peace
Posted in Uncategorized on April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s not often, we I spend time wondering how some of the most famous logos symbols came about. Recently, I stumbled up on the thought process and design origins of the Peace symbol. Here goes…
“Gerald Holtom, a designer and former World War II conscientious objector from West London, persuaded DAC that their aims would have [...]
Evol
Posted in creative stuff, tagged evol, short films on April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Click on the image to watch this nice short film.
The Edge
Posted in creative stuff, tagged amazing photos, cool stuff on April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Via. Click here for more super cool photos.
