Des Temps

Category: Our World

  • Sun Chips

    blame it on the sun?

    Last week I was at the Sustainable Cosmetics Summit. During a Q&A session, we discussed which companies can show their customers true sustainability. And while it’s not cosmetic, the example I shared was Sun Chips. Not because of their solar powered factory, but because their bags are now fully compostable.

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    So beyond any talk of green practices, their waste product, when in the hands of consumers, does not have to be waste. Actions speak so much louder than words. Can we see any other major CPG brands in the compost bin?

  • PIA

    where will we go from here?
    San Francisco, 2063.
    A service android brand-named PIA has replaced the majority of third tier labor in the United States. Hospital nurses, hotel workers and other maintenance driven industries all use the sleek, black-clad, human-organ powered machine to supplement their human workforce….
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    Desedo friend Tanuj Chopra was one of 11 filmmakers to tell a story for the new ITVS series Futurestates. Step into the world of PIA.

  • Blood, Bruises and Levi's

    Jumping into the wayback machine, here is a Levi’s spot we cooked up whilst bumping Motley Crue in ’05.

  • The Voice of God

    Newsman John Facenda was the famous voice behind NFL Films for almost 20 years. It was he who could make a mundane game appear to be a battle for the ages. I just learned that it all began by chance in 1964, when John was watching football at bar and he

    …started to rhapsodize about how beautiful it was. Ed Sabol, the man who founded NFL Films, happened to be at the bar. He came up to me and asked, ‘If I give you a script, could you repeat what you just did?’ I said I would try.

    NFL Films won’t allow us to embed but you can hear that stentorian voice here.

  • Rhythm Nation

    Perhaps it’s the rainy weather that drew me toward Janet this weekend. Her 1990 album Rhythm Nation 1814 just sounds like sunshine and rollerskates.


    This is the only album to ever notch 7 top 5 Billboard hits. It surely spawned millions of slumber party dance routines and lead to Janet signing the largest recording contract at the time, $32 million with Virgin.

  • Tasha Say Yeah

    do what u wanna do, say what u wanna say
    One of our fave young thinkers, Natasha Davis, has started a quick interview series called Tasha Say Yeah!.

  • On To The Next One

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    Jay-Z’s video for On To The Next One is brilliant. It feels controlled yet crazy. It times image to sound perfectly. And, it has Community‘s Joel McHale playing The Joker. When describing the video from script to screen, director Sam Brown said:

    I’m aware that as I’m shooting the images are getting darker and odder. Jay and his people came and went so they haven’t seen anything else. I wonder what the hell they’re going to think of it all. Whenever I’ve been given a big opportunity I’ve tried to be a bit reckless with it, to take chances. It’s very rare that this doesn’t pay off in some way. Playing things safe never gets you anywhere.

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