You Kutztown kids did a fine job of imitating us for this poster photoshoot, we must say. Despite all the time that Doug & I spend crafting our ~*~signature looks~*~, apparently we can each be simplified for parody purposes:

Doug — a mustache.
Me — glasses & a scarf.

Above: side-by-side comparisons of a couple of our favorite student impersonators vs. THE REAL THING. (We couldn’t do a real-time comparison because Doug shaved off his mustache last week. THANKS, DOUG.)

Thank YOU, Kutztown! Hope to see your internship applications filling up our inbox ASAP.

+ In case your garden is lacking something that you.. just can’t put your finger on

+ For the gal looking to avoid the bird flu, without losing her stylish edge

+ We all know how annoying it is to take your sun glasses fully off your head

+ For the man whose pillow is never cold enough

+ And my personal favorite

1. The blatant rip-off of the ‘Got Milk’ campaign that has been taken beyond the novelty ‘Got Jesus’ bumper sticker and moved to the back of an oil tanker

2. Oil mustache

3. Oil in a drinking glass

They were also the folks behind the Kickstarter video for Chunklet’s Indie Cred Test. HIlarious!

The following story is about Mike the headless chicken or also known as Miracle Mike. A Wyandotte chicken that lived for 18 months after his head had been cut off. Yes, it lived for 18 more month after its head had been cut off with an ax in 1945 by owner and farmer Lloyd Olsen in a little American town called Fruita in Colorado, USA. First it was believed to be a hoax but not long after it hit the news it became clear that it was indeed strange reality. So what happened.

Expecting his mother in law for a visit on September 10th 1945, good old Lloyd went out to slaughter a few chicken. He knew his mother in law especially enjoyed eating the neck therefore he wanted to keep as much of it as possible. The first doomed chicken in line was a rooster named Mike. Once separated from his head, Mike ran off, still alive. Knowing that this is not abnormal Lloyd moved on paying attention to get the job done with the other chicken. But, damn Mike didn’t die and even after spending a night in a box to keep his disturbing appearance away from his mother in law Mike was as lively as ever. Now being intrigued for how much longer that poor rooster could survive Lloyd started feeding him with a pipette. After a week he wanted to know what the hell was going on and drove Mike 300 miles to the University of Utah.

There doctors there realized that Lloyd had chopped off the head but he had missed a jugular vein and most of the brain stem. And on top of it a blood cloth prevented that poor Mike didn’t bleed to death. With the attention Mike had gotten within a week alone in Fruita Lloyd and his wife Clara figured they could probably make a buck or two with the headless creature and started traveling the country. Mike became famous and was featured in magazines such as “Time” and “Life”. However, Mike’s career came to a sudden stop at a motel in Phoenix sometimes in March 1947 on their way back from a tour. Dealing with a severed trachea Mike couldn’t get enough air and choked to death in the middle of the night.

While Mike’s fame faded shortly after his death his spirit was awakened in by Fruita’s chamber of commerce sometimes in 1999 when looking for a hook to draw tourists attention. Now why did I read about this on a Friday morning in a German newspaper. Because thousands of tourists from around the world celebrate every year in the 3rd week of May the “Mike the Headless Chicken Day”. So, every looked for a weird event to attend? Get yourself out to Fruita, Colorado for the 2012 “Mike the Headless Chicken Day”. Find more information about it here: Fruita, Mike, “Mike the Headless Chicken Day”.

At this point you’re probably asking yourself, “what is Jobathon”? And you’d be right. Which is why we’ve laboriously prepared this short informative video. Take a look!

Basically, we’re hiring. Designers, art directors, copywriters and just about any other job you can think of (as long as you are thinking of “designer, art director or copywriter”). In order to fill all these job openings, Executive Creative Director Jim Walls will be conducting interviews non-stop for at least 24 hours, or until he collapses.

Will he collapse during your interview? There’s only one way to find out.

Jump on over to http://72.10.33.187/jobathon to fill out an application, read more about Jobathon, or to just check out some mind-boggling, eyeball-searing, awesome-ness web design. It will probably be fun!

I recently stumbled upon this map while scrolling through my favorite gossip blog (shown below as a small island floating in the Sea of Opinions). Naming almost every single social network, blog, file sharing platform, online game, communications tool and inside joke that the internet has to offer -and then mapping them out in a way that seems to denote a hierarchy of size certainly, and power and influence, arguably – this “Map of Online Communities” started to make me think about social media in a new way.

The idea of social media as its own world, quite literally mapped out, helped me see the current state and possible opportunities of online communication differently. Now, I’m no general or explorer, and have never been very good at the game of Risk, but the ideas of  “uncharted territory” and expansion certainly comes to mind.  Especially if you’re a brand vying for new ways to reach an untapped audience or if you’re a marketer trying to build from an up-and-coming media platform.

This map could certainly be used as a strategic tool for brainstorming sessions, inspirations for marketing plans, self pondering, market analysis and more. Think expansion and exploration. Incorporate ideas that will shift the borders, cause a little chaos and change the lay of the online land. Think of things that will change the communication universe. Use it for the obvious reason maps are created, to explore, and look into new communities or media platforms you’ve never heard of.

Or you could just enjoy it for the obvious reason: humor. Visit the sovereign state of OK GO Videos in YouTube, or the giant crater marking where Adult Services used to be on the isle of Craiglist. Explore the beauty of Duckface Mountains in Facebook or visit the space where the kingdom of Oh No They Didnt once resided and is now for sale (my ontd bbs know what I’m talking). Get your smug on in Snob Sound and end your travels with a laugh in the Sea of Memes. Just explore a little.

Feel free to check out the map more at http://xkcd.com/802/

Alright, I’m out. Currently setting sail for the Sea of Zero (0) Comments!

Do you have opposable thumbs? Can you lift a 24 by 38 inch sheet of 100 pound text stock? Do your jeans frequently cut off circulation to parts of your legs?

Then we may have the job for you.

160over90 is looking for a talented, passionate, experienced poster holder–also known as “Designer Hands”–that will help lift (har har!) our designs to the next level.

YOU HAVE:

• 1-3 years experience being photographed holding real (or fake) work

• Well-manicured hands (no Limp Bizkit tattoos and/or flipper hands)

• A robust inventory of American Apparel hoodies

• No known allergies to inks or spot-varnishes

• No double chins (lower portion of jawline occasionally appears in our work)

• A mastery of both the two-fingered and four-fingered grip (knowledge of Swiss cross-clasp grasp a bonus)

WE HAVE:

• A group of talented creative professionals

• A robust 401(k) plan

• Competitive health-care coverage

• A shitload of stuff to mock up

Salary commensurate with experience.

If you have more talent than that (and we hope you do), we also need to fill key positions like a Creative Director, Senior Graphic Designer, Senior Copywriter, Interactive Designer and Production Artist. Visit our Job Board to apply here: 160over90 JOB BOARD. (seriously, we have a ton of stuff to mock up cause we’re up to our eyeballs in work. Apply now!).

This item was a bag of Rap Snacks. A .875oz., 25-cent bag of ‘Bar-b-quin with my Honey’ Flavored Chips. Rap Snacks combines the image of hip-hop artists with the salty deliciousness (the BBQ have 200 mg of sodium per serving) of a variety of potato chip flavors. But the most amazing thing about Rap Snacks is the seemingly incongruous relationship between the artist endorsing the snack, the name of the chip and the messaging that appears on the bag. For example:

Murphy Lee
Pimp Education
Red Hot Riplets

Dirt McGirt
Think Responsibly
Sour Cream & Onion

Stat Quo
Pursue Your College Degree
Sour Cream & Cheddar

Baby
Stay Away From Guns
Bar-B-Quin’ with my Honey

Pretty Willie
Love Your Neighbor
Salsa Cheese

I would have loved to have been part of the discussion where they came up with these groupings. I wonder which groupings didn’t make the cut? Or could you imagine being on the conference call where they contacted Murphy Lee and asked “How do yo feel about Red Hot Riplets?”

Rap Snacks – you are my wildest marketing dream.