Diesel Hightop ninja shoes??? Yes please.
7.27.2010
Jersey Shore Season 2.
Yall know I like my trash tv. Well....Jersey Shore is back, and when you add that to the list that is already up....tv is just become my lover. The lover that keeps on giving. Anyway...a few highschool pics of a few of my favorites and then the trailer.
J.Wow before the Wow...
Pauly D. looks like every itallian kid I went to highschool with. It's uncanny.
Mike- the Situation and his...familly. I think Mike is on the left....no, the right...or is it the front?
The Black Popeye, Einstein and Superman.
I have to say...I never ever once in my life wondered what these three dudes looked like as black men. Leave it to the ad people in Africa to wield the visual. Black Popeye kinda reminds me of my grandpa...hah. Line: “Must be the Omega 3.” So, Im guessing this Saldhanha stuff makes you strong, smart and super. Can looks like Cambells.
Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Cape Town, South Africa
7.26.2010
Mad Men, Season 4 Review.
Madmen Season 4 kicked off last night. And I thought it was good (granted I was still riding the high fro Trueblood). But, still...it was a great first episode. We know that "the dudes" split from Sterling Cooper to open their own shop, and this episode gave us a glimpse of what it takes to do such a thing. It showed the free-for-all pitches. The internal arguments between management. But most of all it showed us that good creative is not the "be all and end all" to running a successful business. They had the name, "Draper" and they had the creative talent. But they didn't have the reputation. They didn't have the agency culture. They were missing...the swag.And without that...they are just another small shop that does nice work. And that's a truth that holds true today. Which is why I watch the show. To see the parallels in advertising from back then to now. That...is what is so genius about it. I really could give two sh*ts about Don's personal life. It's the fact that they nail timeless agency truths left and right. That same swag that makes young creatives today fixated on shops - it has to be established. Are you a "fuck off, we do creative shop" or are you a "Yes maaam shop"? The quality of work will always follow once agency figures out - their personal swag.
And as for the women of Madmen: Betty is still a soulless bitch who hates her children. Peggy had got a new haircut to match her new found confidence. And Joan is still the hottest red head chick I have ever seen in real or made up world since Wilma Flinstone. And she's got her own office now. Zing!
P.S. I tried to do a review without spoiling anything, for those of you who are too cool to watch premiers on their actual premier days.
How to Spoon.
This is a 1950's educational film that teachs spoon their ladies. Narrated by Dexter's Michael C. Hall - starring Bill Dawes and Lauren Schacher.
Baby T-Rex arm- that's me.
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Tight Rope (Remix). Janelle Monae ft B.o.B. and Lupe Fiasco.
This... is hot. She rhymes too???? Game changing.
7.21.2010
Tramp (Fine Tip Pin Ink) Stamp.
I'm not exactly sure what the market is for really really fine pens, but if I were a fine pen finatic, I would be all over this. It's a funny idea. Not sure it it need so many executions.
It couldve also used a bit more layout love.
VIA Agency: Grey, Barcelona, Spain
The Linkdown.
1. Stickers that could (will) get you arrested at the airport.2. Lindsey Lohan finds the humor in here incarceration....slutty humor.4. IPAD finger painting. This is the most useful thing I've seen the IPAD used for thus far.6. Wow, someone of note finally said it..."FOX is Racists."7. First Uncle Jessie , and then Steve Urkel, all the beliefs I established as a kid, need to be re-worked.8. BP uses photoshop to really pound it into our heads that the crisis is fixed.
The "Y" Rebranding.
I'm into it. Not to sure about the vibrancy of the color palletes. I get it....just not sure it is right. Agency to blame, I mean credit with the change...Siegel + Gale.What do you guys think? Does it make you want to join? I used the Y once. I needed thier pools to practice swimming laps back in high school to pass a life guard test. Besides the changing rooms, I had a positive experience. Lol.
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Tree Hotels in Sweden.
"The Treehotel, run by Britta and Kent Lindvall, is a cooperative concept between well-known designers and architects. The result is a unique collection of hotel rooms (6 completed and open for booking as of this month) perched up in the pine trees of Northern Sweden. The concept "live in a treehut" is given a new dimension, created in harmony with nature and ecological values and is built on the philosophy to find another way to experience the value of a forest rather than cut the trees for industrial use...."
This is a cool concept. Take that thing that is a childhood staple (a tree house) and sell it. People are nostalgic like that. The one I'm featuring here, I think is the coolest of the lot with mirror outsides so that you see the reflection of the forest only. The actual space inside is.....eh. But if I was ballin, I would totally fly to Sweden and book a week or two.
The only short coming....it's in the middle of the woods. You are stuck in this fucking hotel room in the trees. Perfect scene for a scary massacre movie involving running through the woods chased by a swedish crazy with a chainsaw. And you know non virgin and black people are the first to go.
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