"Working sucks" seems to be a popular theme finding its way into several current ad campaigns, says Adpulp user, Tim Wassler (who kindly sent us this image). These two billboards are currently running on a building side in the financial district of downtown San Francisco. …
Like Butta
Hugh has been carrying on about global microbrands, of late. While such entities are rapidly multiplying online, it's neat to learn about the old school variety, from time to time. The New York Times: The beauty of Diane St. Clair's pasture beneath the Green Mountains draws the occasional tourist. But Ms. St. Clair recalls one who stood out. She was wearing Gucci shoes. And she wanted to photograph the cows. The …
Paranoia Will Destroy Ya
Lifehacker is justifiably concerned about random companies hosting personal, mission-critical information. Call me paranoid, but what if Gmail goes down, or Google decides to stop being “not evil”? What if angry project management trolls hack 37 Signals and record my every to-do, building a too-personal-for-comfort profile of my every day activities? What if del.icio.us disappears? What if Flickr, who has photos of …
How To Be A Buff Swinging Multimillionaire
Fortune takes a hard look at The Donny's book, the agency he built and the man himself. The book, which Deutsch co-wrote with author Peter Knobler, is more about Donny Inc. than Deutsch Inc., his advertising agency. It's a primer on how to become a buff, swinging multimillionaire ... like Donny Deutsch!" "There's just this big disconnect between brand Donny and Deutsch Inc.," says Rob Schwartz, executive creative …
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Mosslessness
Gawker takes a look at H&M's print work sans Kate Moss. As found in the latest issue of Paper, the interim ad in all of its empty, purple glory. It’s amazing how they perfectly articulated that “fuck, Kate’s on coke and we gotta pull her at the last minute” sensibility. …
Listen To Sally
Talent Zoo has launched The Naked Career, a podcast from Sally Hogshead. Her first effort features an interview with Lance Jensen, President & Co-Founder of Modernista! Future episodes will feature Luke Sullivan, Group Creative Director at GSD&M; Scott Goodson, Co-Founder of StrawberryFrog; Avi Dan, Managing Partner & CMO of Berlin Cameron/Red Cell and Brad Brinegar, President & CEO, McKinney + Silver. On a related …
Please No Nintendo At The Counter
The New York Times: Nintendo of America will offer free wireless Internet access for its Nintendo DS portable game system at McDonald's restaurants. Customers will be able to play select DS games with other players around the world. McDonald's offers wireless Internet, or Wi-Fi, access to laptop users for a fee in 6,000 restaurants nationwide, but the free Nintendo arrangement will permit the DS machines to play …
Online Ad Sales Red Hot
USA Today: Internet giant Yahoo — locked in battle with Google and Microsoft over who will dominate the Web — said Tuesday that the red-hot online advertising market helped boost its quarterly revenue 47% over last year. "The results highlight the power of our brand," Yahoo CEO Terry Semel said in a conference call with analysts. The company reported earnings of $253.8 million, or 17 cents a share, on revenue of …
Go Somewhere With Your Agenda
AGENDA INC.™ is looking to hire talented researchers, account planners, strategists, bloggers and videographers for contract work on a range of upcoming projects. Please send information, resumes, including experience and typical day / week rate to [email protected]. …
Consumption And Production
Danah Boyd has been thinking about the practice of remixing, or repurposing, content (something we do a lot of here): A huge part of the identity process is to consume culture, mix it and personalize it, and share that with our friends because it has identity implications. Why can't we consume for identity, for culture, for life? Why can't we recognize that remixes are active consumption where we've made culture …