Sep 1st,
2010
I came across this earlier in the summer and just saw it again in Steve Jobs’ live conference. Enjoy. See more at tarpsurfing.com
Aug 19th,
2010
I stumbled across this yesterday and wished my friends and I had this chart in high school. It may have prevented a number of social headaches.
…there are, as I reckon, about three levels of relations that should be considered when deciding who you can date: “personal,” “professional,” and “other.” Of course a lot of that “other” is going to be concerned with instances, like, say you’re at a kegger and you meet a Japanese foreign exchange student and you’re both really drunk.
Check out the full sized chart and the hilarious article at The Morning News.
Aug 19th,
2010
The cartoon Simon’s Cat perfectly illustrates the life of cat ownership. The newest video demonstrates cats’ abilities to be entertained by nothing and completely destroy anything it wants.
There are more of these videos, and they’re pretty funny. More of Simon’s Cat should appear at the end of this video, or check them out at simonscat.com/films.
Aug 16th,
2010
Unsuck It is a site to help wade thru the bullshit buzzspeak of everyday creative/agency/business life.
At [company X], we take [Y] seriously.
Unsucked: We don’t care, but our lawyers do.
Make It Pop
This looks great, but if you can make it pop a bit more, we’ll be done here.
Unsucked: Add cliche elements to a site’s visual design (e.g., ribbon, drop-shadow, bevel).
Social Media Guru
The company’s social media guru thinks we should be on Facebook.
Unsucked: Douche rocket.
Aug 16th,
2010
The Twit Network is a hilarious Twitter-based spoof of the trailer for The Social Network (the movie about Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg).
(Don’t mind the unfortunate YouTube screencap. Yipes.)
Aug 13th,
2010
What would advertising for social media giants have looked like in the 1950s?
Sao Paulo ad agency Moma Propaganda made this series of vintage ads for YouTube, Facebook, Skype and Twitter. The campaign titled “Everything Ages Fast” was used to promote the Maximidia Seminars.
Continue reading for full-size posters :)
Jul 15th,
2010
Unless you live under a rock in the deepest part of the ocean with no internet connection, you’re probably atleast semi-aware of the Old Spice online phenomenon that happened this week, which we tweeted about several times.
It all started with a few clever commercials that were very well received online over the past few months. The Old Spice Guy (Isaiah Mustafa) is a hyper-masculine character along the lines of the many legends of Chuck Norris, who claims that using Old Spice body wash will make your man smell like he looks like him.
This week, Old Spice (and ad firm Wieden+Kennedy) took this already successful campaign and brought it to the people. Old Spice guy began answering questions from Facebook, Twitter & the rest of the internet with short 20-60 second videos wearing just a towel in his bathroom. He made videos for some of the top blogs online, some top celebrities, and many everyday folks.
In all, by my count, they produced 183 videos over the course of two days, posting them in real time. Many of the responses were posted less than an hour after the users’ questions. With this many videos, it’d be easy to be repetitive and get tired, but the writing and delivery as so well executed you can spend hours of your day watching these.
We’ve selected five of our favorites. Continue reading to see them, including a back & forth between Alyssa Milano which included him actually sending her flowers and one true-life marriage proposal (She said yes).
Jul 13th,
2010
Jul 13th,
2010
Modern Toss have created this Periodic Table of Swearing poster. The 42 cm x 59.4cm Giclee print is a limited edition of 100. $90. Sold Out.
Click the poster to see it full size. The poster should be available here once the new color edition is available.
Jul 8th,
2010
Nothing like a Lego stop motion short film. This is for you action junkies. It is shocking how many times this same genre of Lego films has been attempted. Warning: If you become faint at the sight of blood or red Playdo please watch at your own risk.