March 2011
Dana Vachon on Rebecca Black's "Friday" as radical... →
peterfeld:
Don’t miss this.
In an instant day passes to night, and the realism of the bus stop gives way to a surreal blue-screen panorama of a full moon and false city running on loop as Ms. Black rides in the convertible, apparent-heiress to the grand American tradition of high school cruising, that curious space birthed by Cold War highways (themselves relics of our atomic fears) in...
“the more eyes on fashion, the more opinions about fashion, the more exploration...”
– anna wintour (want to be a part of “the conversation”? follow vogue on tumblr.)
Of fuck that noise. She doesn’t even know the Tumblr exists Sarah. Real talk! It’s not a conversation. It’s more spewing of images in the hopes it drives traffic back to something so advertisers like...
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Aol folds 30 brands, including Politics Daily,... →
flavorpill:
Beside ourselves. So much love to everyone in these uncertain times.
entertainmentweekly:
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soupsoup:
Aol has gone from suck to blow. I love URLesque and many of the people who work there. What a shame.
URLesque was a unique gem in the crazy internet. I will miss it.
Wow, what a shame. Here’s a quote from the article…
All told, some 30...
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“Everyone knows it is wrong to begin a sentence with a conjunction such as “and”....”
– There is probably not a person alive who does not have some bee in his bonnet about the way other people speak and write. But where do such laws come from? (via theeconomist)
Reblogging this for Ben.
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Welcome To This Integrated Marketing Meditation... →
I so enjoy that Oly has given us lovers of the delightful genre of marketing person humor something so wonderful.
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Heel-Aholic: How Fabulous is Ann Taylor? →
heelaholic:
Hi! We read your post about your recent experience in an Ann Taylor store and wanted to reach out. We would love to get more details on the store you were at so we can provide your feedback to our stores team. So glad you like our Silk Ethereal Dress and we hope we haven’t soured you on Ann because of your store visit!
Wow, that is some customer service. They came across my lil...
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“Clearly, it will be a shitshow. Last year, there were 30,000 people, with...”
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The full quote I gave for this story where nearly everyone said exactly the same thing: group messaging will be huge. But not everyone was as grumpy as me. (via fimoculous)
The live back channel? Yeah I think we call that email. I had this severe temptation to write an email to all of these...
Watchdogsareadorable:
“Chariot” by Joshua Bennett
Joshua will be one of the judges (along with myself) for Rugby’s online poetry contest. Read all about it:
Rugby is launching an online poetry campaign, where the works of both established and up-and-coming poets will be featured as voiceovers in online video. The video will celebrate the current fashion collection but move far beyond the product to...
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“Borders ended up caught between the variety of the Internet and the intimacy of...”
– How Borders lost its soul - Bookstores - Salon.com (via housingworksbookstore)
What’s Borders again?
That was news last month. It’s this month now.
(via marleymagaziner)
Plenty of people who have left Hyde Park still maintain memberships to the Sem Coop. No one calls it 57th Street though...
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Clothing Swap?
I ran out of hangers today. And I just bought a new pack a few weeks ago. I may have a problem. You see I accumulate clothing without even trying. A PR sample here, a marketing sample there and you would think I have the gravity of a black hole the way clothing just finds its way into my arms. And not just Ann Taylor clothing either!
My closet it STUFFED to the gills. And a lot of it is really...
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My Biggest Complaint About Start Ups
I was having this discussion over breakfast a few months back with an ad land/start up type I met on Quora (no lie) and it is refreshing to see it finally make it into the wider discourse. My BIGGEST complaint about start ups is how little they understand the brand and ad agency landscape and what we as advertisers want from them.
Take A Read
Then there’s the issue of communication. Jon...
Make It So: Design lessons from sci fi →
murketing:
Interesting-sounding project: Book (in progress) by Nathan Shedroff & Chris Noessel, Make It So, about how “Interaction and interface designers can learn practical lessons from the interfaces in Science Fiction films and television.”
Though lacking rigorous engagement with users, production designers are nonetheless allowed to develop influential “blue-sky” examples that are...
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