Toxic Avenger. N’importe comment.

August 27th, 2010 • View Comments Allgemein
Tags: Music, Prediction, Social, Tech, Trends, visual, World

Toxic Avenger‘s new video ‘N’importe comment’ carries the social graph to the extreme. It’s an almost scary vision what you can see in the video below…but I think we are not so far away from it. Thanks to thestrategyweb for the video.

Semi-Annoying Memes. Song Lyrics on Threadless Shirts.

April 30th, 2010 • View Comments Trends
Tags: Experimental, Fashion, Funny, Ideas, Lifestyle, Memes, Music, threadless, Trends, visual, World

Time for some new ideas kind of new ideas modifications of existing stuff to make it feel new. All of us got pretty annoyed lately by wallpaper-sized infographics staging statistics from ‘How many died in WWII’ to ‘How many people use twitter?’ So now after we get sick of these the evolution goes on – Band lyrics infographic shirts.

And as davaidavai loves social effects we want to stage this new trending topic before it is completely annoying…in about three days.

This one is still pretty fresh on threadless – currently it is only a submission. So if you ever want to buy it, go there and vote for it. You remember the song, don’t you?

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Absolut. NY-Z.

März 26th, 2010 • View Comments Underway
Tags: Absolut, Brands, Cool, Event, Facebook, Jay-Z, Lifestyle, Live, Madison Square Garden, Music, NYC, Social Networks, Underway, Viral, We like

There are only few brands in this world to consistently communicate and cooperate on such a high level as Absolut. Actually stuck in a low interest market with a completely generic product But it manages to bring the Arrr back into Marketing. Its success formula is simple: Intertwine local places and artists and stage the brand as enabler in the background. For its current sponsorship of Absolut’s Concert Series (in tandem with TBWA\Chiat\Day), the brand is cooperating with the notorious Jay-Z.

This week ABSOLUT Concert launched “NY-Z”, a 17-minute online film and lovechild of director Danny Clinch. Through a partnership with Madison Square Garden and Jay-Z, the brand follows the hiphop star in the days leading up to his 9/11 benefit concert. He reflects on his life in a candid, Sinatra-esque way that kind of reminds us of “Fade to Black,” the documentary film Jay-Z did in 2004 during his “The Black Album” tour. (via Culture-Buzz)

The mentioned video is the highlight feature of Absolut’s Facebook page. And yes, it is exclusive, cool and stages the brand more than well. Plus I really like the video personally since I had the pleasure to see Jay-Z at Madison Square Garden NYC last week as surprise guest for Alicia Key’s concert. A convincing presentation and well tuned interaction of story and platforms. Cool, Absolut NY-Z.

Code Monkey. A Hymn for the Industry.

Februar 3rd, 2010 • View Comments Allgemein
Tags: Funny, Jobs, Music, Truth, World

Jonathan Coultron is a singer and songwriter from NYC. His song Code Monkey has been around for some time but it took me until today to find it on thesixtyone.com. And it’s a fantastic song – a hymn for a whole industry. Check it out here and sing along

Cool. Band gets social to apply as Faith No More’s Support Act.

Oktober 27th, 2009 • View Comments Twitter
Tags: Cool, Creativity, Funny, Ideas, Lifestyle, Music, Twitter, We like

I love clever little ideas. The kind of ideas with a clear message, no agencies involved…just something to make you smile. This one is one of these ideas: For about 17 years now I am a fan of Faith No More. I almost cried when they made worldwide reunion tour earlier this year. As they have just announced their U.S. tour, L.A. based band called “Feast of Fetus” applied to play as their support act. How?

Simply by writing a song which is basically a plea with the Prog Rock Gods. Enter your twitter username and password and you send a twitter message together with the song to Faith No More’s band members Roddy Bottum and Mr Gould. Nice, funny and hopefully effective (via FNM Blog).

But only if you support Feast of Fetus.

Gaming. The very, very, very cool new DJ Hero trailer.

Oktober 15th, 2009 • View Comments Games
Tags: Cool, Funny, Games, Ideas, Lifestyle, Music, trailer, visual, We like

Okay, my next Wii purchase will be this: Activision’s DJ Hero is going to be launched on Oct 27th. And I just found this extremely groovy trailer from Visual FX studio Framestore, London. Looks like serious fun and a cool presentation (via Creativity Online).

Crazy. Meet a Belarusian Media Mix.

Oktober 12th, 2009 • View Comments Experimental, Ideas, Media, We like
Tags: Belarus, Cool, Creativity, Eggs, Experimental, Funny, Ideas, Media, Music, visual, We like, World

And now for something completely different: Advertising in the post-Soviet world (for the kids: the Soviet Union was…okay, forget that). The Prodigy just toured Belarus. Their gig at the Dinamo stadium in Minsk was advertised for, beyond other media, on eggs, which were sold in local stores. Ummm…I guess, you got to target your customers where they are, right? (via Englishrussia)

Whatever. Remix something somewhere somehow.

September 4th, 2009 • View Comments Events, Ideas
Tags: Creativity, Event, Experimental, Funny, Lifestyle, Live, Location, Mashup, Music, World

Okay, this is maximum idiotic. Jesse Stills has created this piece of Remix-Mashup-Ambient-Locationbased-GPS-Whatever to do something. I don’t know what it does. But it is digital and weird. (Via Createdigitalmusic)

GPS Beatmap from Jesse Stiles on Vimeo.

Nike SB. Today was a good day.

Juli 20th, 2009 • View Comments Brands, We like
Tags: Ads, Cool, Music, Nike, Skateboarding, Sport, Viral

On days like these I feel like a granddaddy talking to his grandparents about the music back in the days. Nike SB has just published a very, very cool short clip for the launch of Paul Rodriguez‘s third shoe Zoom P-Rod III. It features skater god Rodriguez, his shoes and…Ice Cube. To all kids younger than 28: Ice Cube was a gangster rapper (a musicial style which was pretty popular in the mid 1990s) back in the days. His 1993 hit ‘Today was a good day’ was cut to make it fit into prime time TV and his short appearance gives the skater story a nice twist.

Well done, Nike. You made me think of the good old days when we still sang songs about dough, bling and AK-47s. So romantic!

(via Freshngood, Athadi, Tautoko)