Oct 232006
- This octopus’s chameleonish camoflage is incredible. [Wohba!]
- Tony Hawk has gone through the selling-out looking glass. He’s simultaneously promoting a) his video game; b) some brand’s skateboards; c) Jeep; d) Rolling Stone; e) his charity; f) some bands; g; McDonald’s; and h) probably a bunch of other corporate entities. But somehow it doesn’t offend me–I think it’s a combination of transparency (he’s not exactly shying away from admitting his many marketing obligations), credibility (he’s promoting brands that fit with the rest of his persona, or at least he’s done a great job of crafting a persona to fit those brands), tradition (Hawk’s been incorporating brand logos into his games for a decade) and avant-garde pastiche (at a certain point, the excess becomes a statement in its own right–other examples are the incredible collage of advertisements on soccer jerseys abroad and NASCAR vehicles here in America and the sheer overwhelming tastelessness of the Vegas strip). For whatever reason, Hawk’s massive and interpolated marketing campaigns just don’t set off my sell-out radar as much as they ought to. If you’re interested, the New York Times article I linked at the beginning of this rambling paragraph is a good read. [NY Times Technology page]
- Jack Black’s anti-piracy PSA, produced as part of the run-up to the upcoming Tenacious D movie (which you can count on to be better than its horrible preview, but probably not so much better as to be actually good), is excellent. It does a great job of laying out the reasons why it’s so important to stop internet pirates before artists lose any motivation to create. Do your duty as a global citizen and watch it right away. [Boing Boing]
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