the 215mag blog: March 2010

Annie Leibowitz is funny.

Unaired HP spot for their campaign "Let's Do Amazing".

Philly Recycling

Love that the ad/marketing world actually showed some love to Philly, other than flash mob crap and other shove head in the sand debacles that creams this city periodically.

Besides the fact that our designer said "i'm sorry... this is 2010 right... why does this feel like early 90's", this is still kinda cute. And as I've said before, it's for the environment so it's good. And that is that.

This is from Adrants (click on this is if you wanna see the actual campaign):

"These streets are reflections of ourselves." That's a line in one of the commercials from a new LevLane-created campaign for the Philadelphia Recycling Office. There are five spots in all. Each is the result of a 75-person audition of word performances from Philadelphia area artists.

With the tagline, Un Litter Us, the campaign aims to get people to care about their neighborhoods by informing them they are what the residents make of them.

In addition to TV, radio, transit and, the campaign will also include street poetry events, Facebook and Twitter presences, signage-designated "Litter Free School Zones," and block-by-block community mobilization drives.

Can a skinny pant obsession really compromise someone's penis & scrotum?

Skinny pants is an obnoxious term, anyway. In some odd, circuitous way, this totally justifies everything that I say is wrong with this world. Period.

MTV True Life I'm Obsessed with Skinny Jeans even though it took away my Privates

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I Feel Better Video by Hot Chip

OK, so i should love this song as I am a huge fan of freestyle (i know, shut it) and 80's music. However, upon listening to it for the first time all I could think of was the pedophile from Family Guy. The whistling s's pretty much tips it over the edge...and this video so doesn't help. A creepy balding guy facing off to and with "male models" ("male models" should ALWAYS have an allusion to air quotes). However, it's a good song. It really is, but mental images of Chris wearing tighty whiteys are never necessary.

Hot Chip - I Feel Better Video by Hot Chip
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How to Make it in America

So HBO has brought us another amazing series called How to Make it in America. Don't sleep on it.

Bitches who give all women a bad name

Ok, so I'm almost embarrassed to admit this - but yes, I watch the Bad Girl's Club. Season 4 just wrapped, and watching the reunion, I realize
how bad these bitches make women look.

The worst one? Miss Natalie "I RUN LA" Nunn, who tried to extend her 15 minutes by claiming to have fucked Chris Brown, even though he denies knowing her.

Because she's so obnoxious and looks like a horse, watch her get her ass beat by another chick in the house - just for some late night laughs.

Teenage Flash Mobs

Ok, I know you've all missed me while I was on hiatus (I was curing cancer, fighting super villians, and warding off a plague of locusts, you know, the usual).

Our city has had another instance of flash mobs, this time infiltrating

South Street.

Sgt. Ray Evers said early Sunday morning police had made three arrests - two for disorderly conduct and one for aggravated assault. Evers said there were no reports of injuries or damage.

Police had spent several hours trying to disperse the huge crowd and move the flood of teens west toward Broad Street.

So I have had enough of you fucking asshole teenagers participating in these flash mobs.

Don't you have lives?

Adida Originals - The Women

What to say? Quasi cute (and clearly current) girls making you forget that the clothes are just a little bit silly. But that's redundant. It's okay, as with all things Adida's, it's fun to watch.

And here's a compilation of Adida's Originals stories. And, for all women who complain about men, a little testosterone goes a long way here.

Whopper Face

In Brazil, ordering a Whopper at BK means getting your face on the wrapper. Hmmmm...so many ways to read that.

FACEBOOK

I've always been creeped out by the idea that social networking happens on a platform that can co-mingle 10 year olds with 60 year olds. How many ewwwwws is that? However, this is a supercoolrocking! take on how weird it all really is. All wrapped up in an 80's glam rock homage.

Greenpeace gives Kit Kat a slap!

And i was afraid to watch Shutter Island!

Have a break? from Greenpeace UK on Vimeo.

KICK ASS FRONT WOMAN

She's Asian, fronts a band called Vagina Panther and her name is, wait for it.....Dead June. I have no idea if I even like the music, but the whole thing is so awesome.

Calligraffiti

by Neils Shoe Meulman, launched in Berlin, March 10th. Coming to Philly, TBA - September, 2010. Can't wait.

For the low, low price of 20K

A diamond ipad?

InkQuencer

Just wow.

Danish designer Sebastian Ronde Thielke developed this pen which can play music based on input a photo via camera hooked up to the program.

inkQuencer from Sebastian Thielke on Vimeo.

Heineken - Made to Entertain

Sweet promotion in Italy. Stick with it, the payoff is really cute.

Heineken İtaly Activation from Kreatif360 on Vimeo.

This is not fake

Weird, weird stuff.

Heheh, the pix is so tiny. And have I mentioned weird? Click here to find out why the Mona Lisa has morphed into something so undeserved.

And while we're on the subject....

Absolutely the funniest spoof of, uum, yeah, Chatroulette.

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c

Tech-Talch - Chatroulette

www.thedailyshow.com

Daily Show
Full Episodes

Political Humor

Health Care Reform

Okay, another Chatroulette feel good video

combined with my new obsession - diy auto-tune!

Chatroulette can be sweet

I know, right? Seems impossible that anything regarding Chatroulette is sweet...But this is. Someone placed a piece of paper with a drawing of the Peanut Butter Jelly Time dancing banana, and a note suggesting that the person on the other end dance or gtfo. The people shown here chose to dance!

Barbie + Mad Men

Threesome, Mattel, Lionsgate and AMC gives us these 4 collector "Mad Men" dolls, available July 2010. Smart.

2010 Creativity 50

"Our annual list of the most influential and inspiring creative personalities of the last year."

Here's Creativity's 5th annual list of their 50 most creative peeps for your edification (and mine, cause honestly, I didn't recognize a buncha people even tho their titles are mad cool!). Loving Dave Eggers inclusion but so sick of Lady Gaga. She wears tons of makeup, makes avant garde (ish) movie music videos and shows her ass a lot, not kidding, but that's not so much innovative as DONE BEFORE again and again. But at least she's not Fever Ray, oh wait, she made it, too. Argh.

Wow, Ron Howard directed this

Unfortunately, when Heidi Montag speaks all I hear is blah, blah, blah cause all I'm thinking is how she doesn't look like herself anymore. I think she's poking fun at herself and that's kinda cool, or else it is yet another freaking way for her to get publicity - dunno how she got rid of her 160 pound of detritus that she calls her husband, tho....

Heidi Montag Says No to Plastic from Heidi Montag

Even if you're not a fan of spanking...

A fetishwear company created little stickers of rear ends to be placed on ketchup bottles, so when trying to get that red gooey goodness out, you have to, hehehe, spank its bottom!

New way of viewing a movie

So, with this digital era upon us like a tsunami (yup, devastation and all), this new way of engaging viewers by seemingly having them dictate the actor's actions via cell phone is a natural evolvement - oh look, yet another way to have people thinking they have control while documenting how many people the brand has engaged.

This was kinda cool, tho.

Skinput - when good old touchscreens just don't do it for you anymore.

Apparently skin is an amazing surface for interactive media...who knew?

This is some GOOD cheese

This literally take you through the gamut of emotions. I was touched, then fearful, then frightened and sad and then....redemption.

Next Level of Flash

or some shit like that. I wasn't so in love with it, but apparently it's cutting edge and interactive and pops out and on and on....

“And Then There Was Salsa” from Frito Lay Dips on Vimeo.

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