brands, behavior, culture

bravecadet: (via Baubauhaus.)

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:30:28 -0400

bravecadet:

(via Baubauhaus.)

Beautiful.

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:41:35 -0400

Beautiful.

kleinmania: Big Deal

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:01:26 -0400

kleinmania:

Big Deal

I love this jeremydwill: I never will, in my entire life,...

Mon, 02 May 2011 01:04:53 -0400

I love this

jeremydwill:

I never will, in my entire life, celebrate the victory of death of another human being but this GIF……

4chan right now.

Mon, 02 May 2011 00:08:00 -0400

#awesome

link

Porn as a hobby/craft.

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:42:00 -0500

Amazing die-cut collages from Rebecca Cooper.

via: TWBE.

I’m trying to improve my penmanship while re-reading...

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:07:48 -0500

I’m trying to improve my penmanship while re-reading Husserl’s concept of phenomenology.

Both are proving more difficult than they have any right to be.

hinternetz: I totally can’t stand this spot and unlike Nick...

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:56:00 -0500

hinternetz:

I totally can’t stand this spot and unlike Nick below, it didn’t get me to the website. i tend to despise blatant metaphors like that operating in a way that feels condescending and vapid all at the same time. With better creative, even your biker target can FEEL the prison insight & resulting call-to-action to customize your own bike.

PAGING Kyle & John & Sara & Jill & everyone that I’ve had the conversation about crowdsourcing with — why it’s so often problematic. I’d obviously need to dig deeper here to determine the origin of the concept etc but it feels like a likely result of unfocused creative / planning just bubbling up as a folk-approved story line. DISLIKE.

nickrunyan:

Victors and Spoils’ first crowdsourced spot for Harley-Davidson.

I feel like I’ve seen this concept before, but with hamsters in wheels instead of people in cages…

The ending doesn’t really fit, but the spot did get me to Harley’s website to customize one of my own.

I totally agree. This spot is shitty. Wasn’t the promise of crowdsourcing a brand new world of fresh ideas that could never have come from ‘traditional’ sources?

In an interview with Forbes about new agency models, etc… Jon Bond said “if you just want to get the best creative you can, fast, for the best price—[crowdsourcing is] a great way to do it.”

Victors & Spoils has some pretty talented creatives and strategists on their payroll, but if this—a watered-down, un-engaging imitation of Apple’s ‘1984’—is the “best,” I’m pretty disappointed.

Victors and Spoils’ first crowdsourced spot for...

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:35:51 -0500

Victors and Spoils’ first crowdsourced spot for Harley-Davidson.

I feel like I’ve seen this concept before, but with hamsters in wheels instead of people in cages…

The ending doesn’t really fit, but the spot did get me to Harley’s website to customize one of my own.

State of the Union, According to 4,000 NPR Listeners.

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:29:00 -0500

Salmon is the most bipartisan fish. It lives in salt water and fresh water.

Original here.

Is this card too weird for a "thanks for the job interview" follow up?

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:35:29 -0500

This guy’s cards are pretty nice.

5 Emotions Invented by the Internet

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:09:58 -0500

1. A vague and gnawing pang of anxiety centered around an IM window that has lulled.

2. A sudden and irrational rage in response to reading an ‘@-reply’ on Twitter.

3. The state of being ‘installed’ at a computer or laptop for an extended period of time without purpose, characterized by a blurry, formless anxiety undercut with something hard like desperation.

4. The car collision of appetite and discomfort one feels simultaneously when using the internet to seek and consume images or information that may be considered unseemly or inappropriate.

5. The sense of fatigue and disconnect one experiences after emitting a massive stream of content only to hit some kind of ‘wall’ and forget and/or abandon the entire thing.

Read the entire piece on Thought Catalog.

Focusing on solutions not problems.

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:58:00 -0500

Focusing on solutions not problems.

11 things that were interesting in 2010.

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:40:00 -0500

2010 wasn’t bad. It wasn’t great either, but at least it wasn’t totally boring. Here are 11 things that kept me entertained.

· The McRib.

· Honoring Glen Bell, the founder of Taco Bell.

· A website that made me laugh.

· The 37 or so ingredients in a Twinkie.

· People played around with Chatroulette for a little while.

· Smart people win at drinking.

· A short film (1:09) made entirely on a flatbed scanner.

· Advertising got automated (and it wasn’t pretty).

· My bocce ball team made it to the final four.

· A behind-the-scenes look at professional hand models.

· A typology of lifeguard chairs.

If you think I’ve left something out, would you let me know?

2010 Recap: The Top 10 Most Downloaded Articles from the Journal of Consumer Psychology

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:29:00 -0500

1. The unique consequences of feeling lucky: Implications for consumer behavior

2. How successful would a phone-pillow be: Using dual process theory to predict the success of hybrids involving dissimilar products

3. Everything you always wanted to know about SEM (structural equations modeling) but were afraid to ask

4. Dual effects of implicit bystanders: Inhibiting vs. facilitating helping behavior

5. The habitual consumer

6. Free will in consumer behavior: Self-control, ego depletion, and choice

7. The broad embrace of luxury: Hedonic potential as a driver of brand extendibility

8. Structural equations modeling: Fit Indices, sample size, and advanced topics

9. Beyond fit and attitude: The effect of emotional attachment on consumer responses to brand extensions

10. Social identity threat and consumer preferences

Estrella Damm’s Inedit, a collaboration with Ferran Adria...

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:52:00 -0500

Estrella Damm’s Inedit, a collaboration with Ferran Adria and the sommeliers from elBulli, is awesome. It’s a blend of lager and wheat beer designed specifically to pair with food. And I think I just bought the last of it from the store.

Definitely try to find some if you can.

Cheers!

Last.fm listening as a giant poster.

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:58:47 -0500

Give LastGraph your Last.fm login and they’ll generate a giant .pdf of everything you’ve listened to. It takes a little time, but it’s pretty sweet… and it’s free.

Here’s a detail shot of my graph:

To see the humongous chart of everything I’ve listened to since March of this year, click here.

Democrats have better taste in TV... most of the time.

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:22:51 -0500

Brothers & Sisters? Really, Democrats? Can’t we do better? Yes we can.

From this somewhat interesting article.

New FDA Anti-Smoking Labels for Cigarette Packaging.

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:58:42 -0500

The FDA (which can now regulate tobacco products) unveiled a bunch of new warning labels for cigarettes. They’re taking public comments and will select 9 from the 36 proposed.

It doesn’t really look like anyone put much thought at all into these. In fact, they’re pretty terrible. And generic “It’ll give you cancer” messages have been proven ineffective (and even counter-productive for younger smokers).

However, what has proven effective, even with younger potential smokers is social perception. Kids who thought their friends were effected by anti-smoking messages were less likely to state intentions to start smoking.

Maybe that’s the thought behind the FDA’s new designs. They just got some shitty stock photography and wrote some totally bland, inoffensive copy on it. There’s nothing compelling or controversial about it at all. It makes cigarette boxes look totally lame. It’s a sort of un-branding.

For young people, it seems that smoking is largely a public performance… it’s all about creating perceptions. And people look to brands to help them create those public perceptions. The FDA is potentially taking away some of the power of those brands to help kids create a desirable public image. Of course, some of these are pretty funny and that helps build social capital, which would make them less effective.

Maybe it’ll work. I used to smoke Kamel Reds (partly because the packaging was cool, and I’m a bit of a design nerd) and this doesn’t look nearly as cool as this.

mikearauz: New balance sneaker Projection mapping_01 (by...

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:59:14 -0500

mikearauz:

New balance sneaker Projection mapping_01 (by Hayoung Jung)

Projection mapping is still pretty badass, even on a small scale.