This past weekend the Times produced its Year In Ideas Issue. It is compilation of well – ideas. My favorites are Never Ending Bubble Wrap by Mugen Puchi Puchi, Locavores and Air Bags for the elderly. Check it out.
An old intern of ours works for an agency in NY that is doing a pretty cool promotion for the 2nd season of Flight of the Conchords. You can submit a lipsynch video of the song “Hiphopopotamus vs Rhymenoceros.” One of the videos will actually get chosen to air on HBO. Check out the site here.
Two French Rock Gods, Gaspard and Xavier, also known as Justice, released their live CD & DVD combo, A Cross The Universe, this week. The CD consists of thunderous crowd screaming renditions of tracks from their 2nd album Cross. However, the DVD is really the most interesting part. On their 3-week tour of the US of A, Justice brought along two directors to film every single moment of the band, and that’s exactly what they did. The film is a montage of all sorts of unexpected things that happened along the tour, with a little bit of live rocking mixed in between, but really not a lot. Here’s a little list of moments you’ll witness in the film: drinking, fighting, groupies, shooting guns (and several interesting arguments for the right to bear arms), religous iconography, roid ragers moshing, insane American fans, bleeding, strobes (the film will definitely cause epileptic seizures), sex, Sam Elliott as the Justice bus driver, and like I said, some rocking.
PG-Rated teaser after the jump, if you want the real NSFW trailer you’ll have to find it on YouTube yourself (It’s the fifth one down).
Many of us have trouble getting a grasp on the differences in creating files between the comfortable print world, and the ever-moving target of successful web design. hopefully this page can become a resource to help educate in different theories, practices, and processes in designing for the web. I will keep posting new alerts here as a running dialog, and will ultimately get all this information into the Wiki (Search for “InteractiveResources”).
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Last night a few of us from the office headed out to the Philadelphia Creative Guide Toys for Tots event at Northbowl, a local bowling/bar/lounge/general hip&cool place to hang out. The following is a record of our night, which included beers, bowling, the best mac & cheese in town as well as the musical stylings of Phil Collins & Whitney Houston.
I celebrated Thanksgiving in Palm Springs, CA this year. It was like taking a trip back in time. Not a bad idea, considering it was also my 30th birthday. Really, though, the amount of Mid-Century Modern architecture there is incredible. I was able to sneak into the Parker Palm Springs (recently designed by Jonathan Adler) and tour the Robert Alexander House where Elvis and Priscilla Presley honeymooned.
