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Get Serious: Alternate Reality+Transmedia Brand Campaigns

27, Aug 2009

Just bumped into this full case study today while pulling together a presentation and had to share… The Dark Knight “Why So Serious” campaign by 42 Entertainment.
While this isn’t new news, it’s an example I’ve used many times to show the depth that online media, social engagement and intrigue can take to promote an entertainment [...]

And You Thought Talking + Blackberry Was Multitasking

8, Aug 2009

Posted via email from experiencefreak

The 30th Century Man: Scott Walker.

15, Jun 2009

“This makes Behind the Music look like Disney”
Virtually unknown to those outside of his music heights in the UK in the 60s, Scott Walker is both pop star of the boho 60’s pop set, a hauntingly dark musical artist of the ilk of Brian Eno, Trent Reznor and Radiohead and avant guard that explores issues [...]

Remi Gaillard’s Pac-Man

19, Apr 2009

Wired Game Life brings us a peek into Remi Gaillard’s latest stunt, real world pac-man.  In a kind of Jack-Ass meets punk’d, our favorite yellow pixel chomper freaks out grocery store patrons, country clubbers and security guards along with his crayola-colored ghost arch enemies.
Absolutely hilarious next move from the same guy who’s punk’d Jacques Chirac.

Check [...]

The Future of Music w/ the Mentalists

18, Mar 2009

You don’t need roadies and you may not need instruments (as we know them). Check out UK band The Mentalists as they perform quite well, using iPods and iPhones:

tip off by jasonoke.

Are you suffering from Tech Euphoria?

15, Jan 2009

James Howard Kunstler thinks you are…. (interview excerpt follows):
Personally, I think one of our biggest ailments now is the techno-grandiosity displayed by people in the tech sector. There’s some notion that just because we can move pixels around a screen with a mouse, that all the woes of mankind will yield to a set of [...]

Digital Detox: Falling off the Wagon

9, Sep 2008

some people take the test.

hotels have offered up an escape:
those with a large perv-monkey on their back go to the hollywood rehab-spa.
others simply don’t bother and embrace their own digital-Geeking Man yearly.

Hi, My Name is Andy.  An I’m a Digi-Holic.
If you are as voraciously connected to the marketing interwebs as this man, or blog so [...]

Indiana Jones and the Lego’s of Doom: Fanboy Film.

21, May 2008

.. another random tangent in anticipation of tomorrow’s Indiana Jones release: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Fanboy’s get their geek on:
courtesy of Geekologie.
Note: The initial reviews are pretty brutal, but this movie could be a straight-to-video disaster and I’d still be grinning in anticipation.
Disclaimer: Don’t let the fact that [...]

Forget the Tango. Remember the Slow Dance: “Que Vuelvan los Lentos”

12, May 2008

pure awesomeness: Que Vuelvan los Lentos.

this slow dance revival/protest has me inspired. being a child/teen of the 80’s my Austin revival playlist will be as follows:
1) songs from any of the following movies: say anything, pretty in pink, st. elmos fire, sixteen candles, or any other assorted cusak or brat pack flick.
2) morrisey or [...]

TwIDter: What kind of twitter are you?

2, May 2008

so now that i’ve expanded my twitter roster a bit, i’m noticing all kinds of twitter-heads. from a simple “what are you doing”, people have moved on to use the platform in several different ways.
here’s an unstable (literally and figuratively) sample size-up of twitter user segments:
twIDsmentation:
twiIDsters: revealing, unfiltered, if not sometimes scary personal headlines
twurps: [...]


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