Swoon: Swimming Cities of Serinissima Fundraiser

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Swimming Cities of Serenissima, international street and installation artist Swoon's floating art project, is the kind of undertaking that puts it in … more

Airstream x MINI Cooper S Clubman x Republic of Fritz Hansen

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For someone raised traveling in a converted bus like myself, this new Republic of Fritz Hansen-designed Airstream and coordinating modified MINI Coope… more

Rocawear Mobile RocPopShop

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by Tamara Warren Taking the temporary retail concept to a mobile level, Jay-Z recently collaborated with architect David Ashen of D-ash on a tricked-o… more

BEST COMPANY EVER

Great shizzle from my friend(s) at BEST CO EVER.

Boxed Water Is Better

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With Boxed Water Is Better, the only thing you're really consuming is the water itself. A new brand—and concept—Boxed Water has successfully taken the… more

Sixth Sense from TED

Three Exceptional Scotches

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We're not Irish enough to know if it's total sacrilege to drink scotch for St. Patrick's day festivities, but we've had the good fortune of being awas… more

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http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2009/03/_would_you_live.php

Audi Annual Report

Caught this over on PSFK.com

http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/audi-posts-record-profits-unleashes-interactive-annual-report.html

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http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2009/03/formation_iphon.php

Limited-Edition Graphic Levi's 501 Jeans

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Levi's recently released a limited-edition series of four pairs of jeans featuring vibrantly colored graphics. Geometric prints in red, blue, orange a… more

Monterey Bay Shores Eco-Development

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This spectacular design—still in the works—aims to convert a desolate desert, into a thriving environmental preserve and eco-resort. The building inco… more

Europeans are cooler than us

Well...some will argue that England is not Europe...but you know what I'm talking about.

http://creativity-online.com/work/view?seed=767f67de

The Value of Free

Is free-dom killing America?

A very good business man once said, "if it's free, it has no value."

I look around at sharing that the Web 2.0 environment has created and I wonder if the "free" exchange of ideas, technology and information is what's killing the economy.

Think about it...back in the day, if you had a great idea, or figured out how to do something better than someone else, you packaged it up and sold it.

Now, people are developing technology, sharing information, providing services...all for free. And as stated above...if it's free, does it have value.

Take Google. I get on Google at work, type in the name of a company I saw over the weekend and get the scoop. I don't click on any ads...I don't buy anything, and the only "cost" is that of my company to the internet provider. Google gets nothing.

I really don't know where I'm going with this yet...but it seems to me that free nature of our economy is currently crashing on itself. and maybe what we need is less 'free-dom'...

sPb

Renzo Rosso: Diesel Planet Store Fifth Avenue

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Fresh off a smoke, Renzo Rosso sat down with us to answer a few questions about Diesel's newest and largest Planet store on swanky Fifth Avenue in NYC… more

LVHRD ARCHDL V

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Pitting two architecture firms against each other in a timed construction duel, LVHRD sets the scene for another one of their infamous creative compet… more

Fastest Weiner in the West

My boy Ralphie defended is Weiner Dog racing title yesterday. I hope to have some action shots soon...but here he is chilln' pre-race with Lala

New Kicks from Ospop

Just got my new kicks from Ospop...super comfortable, with some pretty basic/clean lines. Dig them...

Cameratruck

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Taking pinhole photography to a whole new scale, photographer Shaun Irving transformed a delivery trucks into the world's largest mobile camera, the C… more

MoMA Atlantic/Pacific

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In a new initiative taking art far outside the museum walls, MoMA sprinkled the Atlantic/Pacific subway station in Brooklyn with 58 reproductions from… more

Remarkable.

Caught this vid from Seth at TED on the "importance" of being "remarkable". (actually, it was linked to a PSFK article...so go there, too). The purple cow example is not new...but it's still striking, and it confounds me that more marketers, brand managers and product designers don't follow it. why do beer companies think that new secondary packaging will sell more beer when EVERY beer company is always changing their secondary packaging.

a great example was a brain drizzle i was in a few weeks ago and someone asked, "can we tell or show that we're are smarter than the other guys." and the resounding answer was no...we can't. we can show them we're smart...we can show them we're good...but we cannot show them we're smarter. what we need to show them, i argued, is that we're remarkable. we'll see how it goes....

Big News Baby!

Switch in the news today!

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/workplace/story/E6985C4F9700C725862575500004DF1D?OpenDocument#tp_newCommentAnchor

Love this dood...

Amazing Tricycle Jump - Watch more Free Videos

http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2007/06/big_agnes_a_cou.php

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Knuckledraggers going stealth

The Whip by Cheetah Ultra Sports

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If the Navy SEALs were to ever have an official snowboard, it would have to be The Whip F-117, so named because it draws inspiration from the F-117 St… more

The Stash at Killington: Rough Cut and Interview

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Last week we were invited by our friends at Burton to go up to Killington, VT to try out the new Stash trail which opened early this year. Taking ridi… more

BFD CP&B

No sour grapes...as those cats in Miami and Boulder do some clever work (my agency isn't even an ad agency). But any organization that employes a hack like Bob Garfield has no biz handing out awards. Like the conversations regarding the MLB Hall of Fame...why does the press decide who wins? Shouldn't it be the clients and their peers? And shouldn't results matter? I mean, clever work and great strategy only matter if it moves the needle. Maybe it is...I haven't eaten at a BK in 5 years...but I see a lot of them around so I'm sure they must be doing something right.

Anyway...i just find odd humor in self-serving industry awards. Although I'm sure I'd have a different POV if I was holding my Lion on the beaches of Cannes with bubbly near by and a bevey of local beauties keeping me company (sorry wife).

Happy Birthday Martin Luther King, Jr!

Pac-Man, Astroids and...

http://www.spaceinvading.com/

Footy-boots.com

Great video...just in time for the double-derby week for Everton. It's put up or shut up for my Toffees...they can talk Europe all they want, but if they cannot do something in these two trips to Anfield then they will get nowhere on the continent.

Other than seeing that mutant Rooney in here...this is pretty good.

remember this kids...

...something to remember that posted:

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killer videto

This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.

Now's the Time

Is it me...or does it strike anyone else in the marketing/design/communications industry that now is the time to make bold moves?

One, no one else is...everyone is hanging onto the "o shyt" handle and being ever so conservative. Consumers are scared shytless...but still spending money like it's going out of business. I got dragged to Target this weekend by my wife, and other than wanting to cut my own head off, I was amazed at the amount of people out and about buying crap. And yes, it's crap...low cost crap...but they're still spending money.

You can quickly ID some recession-proof industries...beer, anything with a little "i" infront of it...but there is a chance for someone somewhere to make a splash. Retail space is available EVERYWHERE, both traditional and non-traditional.

And while banks aren't throwing money to everyone...a smart, disruptive and authentic business plan will standout and give someone a chance to steal thunder that usually takes years to build.

Detriot Don't Git It...

There's an article on Ad Age's web site discussing the lack of "takers" for a 50MM campaign to save the US Auto Industry. The folks at this "forward thinking" ad agency, made up of a bunch of (you guessed it) guys who used to work on auto biz, feel the problem isnt the quality of the product Detriot is peddling...it's the perception of the auto industry itself. They say the campaign will show Americans how important the auto industry is...

I can't say I disagree with the perception of Detriot...massive 'bonus' structures for executives regardless of profitability, embarrassing innovation, outdated sales structures, and a less than motivated work force supported by less than competitive union puppets.

The bigger issue, that advertising cannot solve, is that the American people aren't interested in saving this Detriot. The American people don't want the American auto industry, as it is, to be saved.

Before you start trying to change perceptions of the auto industry, the entire system, from executives thru mfg and sales need a shake up. Someone with vision needs to take a good look at the future of the industry...honestly assess what the market will bear, both here an abroad, and move forward. Everyone involved with Big Auto needs to reshape that industry with an eye to the future and avoid dragging the past with them.

Robbie...you are a bad mofo...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa55PUwo00E

Flyover Skiing Part II

Caught this on Thrillist this morning...pretty effing sweet. Not all that confident in the "breaking" it describes...but hell with it...would be awesome if we could just get some effing snow around here...and if someone could lend me $2500 bucks.