Archive for December, 2008

Brooklyn We Go Hard

04 Dec 2008
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Love this new vid, made by Evan Roth, one of the originals from Graffiti Research Lab. And, uh, anyone else think Jay cribbed that voice-buckle from Wayne? – link from Michael Karnjanaprakorn


Ad Age: Multicultural Markets

03 Dec 2008
yoyoyo amigo? STFU.

Ad Age published an essay by MHB about how social media will help get advertising past tired cliches when attempting to engage multicultural marktes. TBD when SMH will slowdown.


Blue Ocean?

02 Dec 2008
(hugh macLeod draws good)Appropriately Complex

Both Ad Age and Huffington Post published the below essay I wrote for the forthcoming book Project 100: Marketing in the Social Media Era. The idea that online is ‘colorblind’ is now thankfully being replaced be a more intelligent discourse on the topic. No doubt, you can see more about it here at Desedo, cause [...]


Sex For Sale

02 Dec 2008
barbiegirlwho-am-i

i can’t tell you you’re oppressed without asking your opinion on it. -Fatemeh Fakhraie I’ve written before on the subject of sex and authorship and believe in the virtues of Neo Burlesque and Suicide Girls as a potential source of empowerment. Yet what still struck me in this clip from Sundance’s Pleasure For Sale is [...]


The World According to James

01 Dec 2008
LeBron's FortuneLeBron James (center) with Lil Wayne

The popcorn, jokes, and testosterone zing around the room with all the patience of an electron. Across town the same scene is amplified in a crowded bar, long and skinny, the popcorn substituted with beer. In both rooms the flicker of television screens — rhythm — and the dance between sports and advertising provides the [...]