Category Archives: amazing stuff

Nike just keep ‘getting it’

…and making truly awesome content

Nike Woman from edouard salier on Vimeo.

Human Chain from NikeSportswear on Vimeo.
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What brands can learn from Lady GaGa

Yes, I know, I’m falling to the banal plannery / marketing gurus trap of writing best practices through some reverse-engineering of a success story. Easy to spot and articulate when the success has been achieved, damn hard to really make it practical for future briefs. In essence it’s this simple truth:
Be yourself and be great, [...]

My top things and stuff of 2009

This is just me. OK?
For all categories- in no particular order

Best albums of the year
1. The phenomenal handclap band - S/T
2. Fontän - Winterhwila
3. Rone - Spanish breakfast
4. JJ - JJ no 2
5. The XX -S/T
6. Jana Hunter - There’s no home
7. Memory Tapes - Seek Magic
8. Fat Freddy’s Drop - Dr. Boondigga [...]

In case you missed it

Just in case this piece of sheer genius didn’t make it to your stream yet…
Tokujin Yoshioka: Maison Hermès window display

This one goes straight to “damn i with i’d think about it” + “inspiration” lists
Enjoy
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So good it deserves more than a tweet

Funny now that large bulk of sharing stuff migrated to the twitterverse I seem to have developed a new filter of content to enter this blog. Among them a new category emerged: “so good it deserves more than a tweet”.
Some things, like this video below are just so good that even if I [...]

I’ll show you a tribe

For couple of years now I have this fantasy of taking a year off, go back to academia and do a year long ethnographic research + photo book (although i’m the lousiest photographer on earth) + dedicated blog etc with one of the most fascinating urban tribes/communities - the messengers.
I don’t know if my [...]

Two comments on tweenbots

Tweenbots is absolutely incredible project by Kacie Kinzer, a student at ITP. You see it / read about it and it makes you want to free-hug someone.
Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination [...]

Just in case you’ve missed that

This is just brilliant

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Remix culture on steroids

This is the most exciting thing I’ve seen online in a while. thru-you is an incredible project from Ofir Yekutiel AKA Kutiman, a groovy dude from Tel-Aviv that already established himself as a nu-funk talent. Kutiman searched through hundreds of youtube videos and remixed them to create awesome new music. I’m sure some people did [...]

In praise of KideoPlayer

who said that websites can’t make you cry?
KideoPlayer, the new digitoy from Tom of Poke NY just made both my digital strategist self and my daddy self cry with delight. It’s a super-easy, interactive, fun and safe way for parents and babies/toddlers to “channel surf” YouTube together and find fantastic content. For now, it’s manually [...]

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