The M&Ms Campaign spearheaded by
BBDO continues to impress. The latest iteration I particularly like are the celebrity print ads. Bobby Flay, Indiana Jones, Kyle Busch. I hope they continue because it can become the next big iconic print campaign, like the milk mustache or Absolut Vodka.
A good sign is the latest iteration by
Latinworks, Austin TX (good friends of mine Manny Flores, Alex Ruelas are the founders) featuring Wilmer Valderrama and discussed in the
NYT. Ok, I wish it was someone with a bit more street cred like Carlos Santana but hey, it’s gotta start somewhere.
All of this is exciting, of course, because we were there at the beginning. We created
becomeanmm with
BBDO back in early 2007 and users started creating their own celebrity M&Ms, like The Donald to the left. Awesome.
posted by on July 03, 2008 at 07:40 AM
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Automotive
Auto industry
sales figures are in and it’s a s**t storm. No surprise. Who the hell wants to buy a new car when the
price of gas is $1000/gallon?
It’s time, finally, for Detroit to develop electric cars. Right?
I was watching
The Early Show on
CBS and there was a bit on the new
Tesla all-electric car. I guess it’s really fast and can go over 200 miles before needing a plug-in, into any regular electric outlet, to re-charge. Beautiful. Imagine a world with no gas stations and a lot less smog and no reason to worry about
OPEC. I feel better already.
So, Detroit…it’s called the tipping point.
posted by on July 03, 2008 at 05:48 AM
That fantastic Advanced Beauty project, curated by Matt Pyke of Universal Everything, with audio from Simon Pyke of Freeform, now has a trailer on Apple.com. In HD too! Ooooh, shiny! Take a peek. The Blu-Ray will be released in November.
posted by on July 02, 2008 at 04:28 PM
filed under:
Lunch
posted by on July 02, 2008 at 02:51 PM
filed under:
Photography
I returned this week from a 10-day vacation overseas, which is nothing special if you’re , but it had been almost 8 years since I’d left the country, so for me it was kind of a big deal. I even had to renew my passport.
Anyway, I took a lot of pictures (just over 1600), which, again, isn’t really that special, especially when you consider that more than 3 times that number of pictures gets uploaded to
Flickr every minute, but I actually plan on going through my pictures and publishing the ones I like, so, again, it’s kind of a big deal, but this time in a rather cumbersome way rather than a really exciting way.
Though I guess it is still pretty exciting, being able to sort through all the pictures I took while I was tooling around the Bavarian countryside and relive all the memories, blah blah etc etc.
But it’s gonna take a while to go through over 1600 pictures and evaluate each one on its nostalgic and/or artistic merit, so in the meantime I decided to just stitch ‘em all together into one big index print using Ruby and ImageMagick and plop that onto the Internet instead:
I think it makes for an interesting study of how I go about taking pictures. Plus it’s the only way you’ll get to see just how many drunken pictures I took out the back window of the taxi-wagon I was lying in the trunk of after my great-uncle’s birthday party. Yeah.
posted by on July 02, 2008 at 12:35 PM
Ah a short week. so i figured i’d post up some attackers today.
222.35.43.67 ->
200.152.223.219 -> 200-152-223-219.sodobrasil.net.br
213.79.69.146 ->
221.195.56.54 ->
218.233.240.170 -> 218-233-240-170.youiwe.co.kr
202.168.255.47 ->
207.44.132.29 -> ns2.unique-media.com
211.245.23.143 ->
62.225.15.82 ->
217.243.170.50 -> mail.altradbaumann.de
216.30.179.173 -> mars.scholarone.com
posted by on July 02, 2008 at 09:21 AM
filed under:
Mobile
Man I know four people who have had the iPhones lost or stolen in the last week or two and let me tell you, it is a bad time to have an iPhone stolen. They’re all suffering from iPhone withdrawal,trying to make it to July 11. It’s bad. It’s funny, too, because Apple clearly has a store of them – another friend of mine had her iPhone break, and she went to the store and the genius opened up a drawer and had a whole batch of 1st gen iPhones for repair swapout.
There should be some sort of program (he says, half facetiously) where if you can prove you owned an iphone, you can get another one in the interim. Or something. I understand Steve’s obsession with low inventories and no obsolete devices in the storerooms, but I think he took it a bit far this time. He literally took the hottest consumer electronics product out of the market for two full months. This is sort of unprecedented, isn’t it? I can’t think of any other example of it.
In any case, hold on to your iPhones, man. It’s a jungle out there without them.
posted by on July 01, 2008 at 10:42 AM
Anyone who has been around me in the last few weeks has heard me preach about how great it was to learn PHP and be able to build stuff myself. In one of those preaching sessions with my friend Eric he suggested I check out this article about programming being the literacy of the 21st century . Needless to say it’s a great read and one I’ll need to do a proper writeup about at some point soon. In the meantime, here’s a nice paragraph from the piece:
“One might ask, ‘Will every educated person really have to program? Can’t the people who need programming just buy it?’ Possibly. Of course, with that model, we have in a sense returned to the Middle Ages or ancient Egypt, or even before. Then, if you needed to communicate your thoughts on paper, you couldn’t do it yourself. You had to hire a better-educated person - a scribe - who knew the writing code. Then, at the other end, you needed someone to read or decode it—unless, of course, you were ‘well educated,’ that is, you had been taught to read and write and thus had become literate. “
via Eric
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