No Man’s Blog

Asi Sharabi’s Private Selections

The Furure of Advertising

I’m increasingly getting bored to death from 100+ slides plannery presentations on The Future of Advertising (or Planning for the New World, or something like that) that keep springing every other day yet don’t really do much beyond recycling the same materials that’s been around for well over 5 years. (Sorry Aki, , nothing personal, [...]

The end of sentimetality?

I’ve been thinking quite a lot lately about life in/with the cloud. That near future where every piece of content (music, video, books etc) will be accessible in real-time, at all locations, on all platforms. Or something like that. Now there’s been some interesting writings about our changing notions of ownership. Increasingly, some predict, people [...]

If I had told you

… two weeks ago that a lo-fi horn with a funny name will become such a sensation you’d say I’m talking crazy.

I just can stop

If this doesn’t feel your heart with joy something is obviously wrong with you

Notes on ‘Like’ (and why Nike got it wrong)

What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of the word LIKE? Until very recently, LIKE, for me, was the lukewarm, shy cousin of LOVE. “I like you” was merely a regulator, a milestone on the path to saying “I love you”. Of course it also means to favour something (not [...]

Uniqlo ‘uTweet’ vs. Diesel ‘a hundred lovers’

Couple of months ago two clothing/fashion brands wanted you to look at their new collection. And they both doing it in a very interesting way. One was very innovative but complex, the other was no new-news but very simple and slick. I thought it’s be nice to compare their performance, mainly from a social media [...]

Every Dog Matters

If you’re in a hurry just go and watch this video here You know I normally don’t shout about own work but this one is important. At Hyper we’ve recently been working with Pedigree to launch their 2010 Pedigree Adoption Drive – a campaign aimed at reducing the numbers of abandoned dogs on our streets. [...]

Long Live Alex

The nice people from Innocent have a new thing with rising comedian Alex Horne: If Alex or anyone else will make it to 150 years of age, Richard from Innocent has £1 million up for grabs for the first person to live to 150. Here is why Alex has a good chances to succeed: Apparently [...]

Tweets out of place/time

Last weekend i decided to switch off. I needed a break from the world of stuff and so exercised my Jewishness and went offline cold turkey for the Sabbath (From Friday eve to Monday morning). Apart from the much needed break and the (leaned) ability to not be (self) distracted one thing I found really [...]

Leave Hitler alone!

Here is something I never thought I (or anyone else) would ever say… [if you want to skip the words and just join the group] So Constantine films decided to join the hall of fame of media dinosaurs who simply don’t get contemporary culture and brutally savage the wonderful showcase of recombinant culture that are [...]