Hasta La Creative!

(TrendHunter.com) Get back at those rude awakenings delivered by your alarm clock. The Laser Target Alarm Clock turns off when you take aim at the bullseye and shoot it with a remote handheld laser. Oh, and that’s the …

(TrendHunter.com) I absolutely love this anthropomorphic chair designed by Sergio Gill. The funky chair which made it to the IWF Design Emphasis Competition, resembles a reclining female figure. Gill used a software pr…

Ad blogs are becoming commodities, but today I stumbled on one that’s worth noting. It’s called Creative Beef. It’s written by an anonymous copywriter who offers insightful analysis wrapped in biting humor.

Check this:

1) An ad agency is like a collection of small hostile tribes that are constantly battling each other for resources, power, etc. To succeed you must prove your loyalty to all of them.

2) Unless you are the star Creative Director, keep your brilliant ideas to yourself. New ideas are dangerous and indentify you as a trouble-maker.

3) All deadlines are lies.

4) Most of the changes that come from the client don’t really come from the client. Learn to identify your coworkers’ handwriting.

5) The harder you work, the harder they’ll make you work.

There’s more. Much more. So get over there.

Get them while you can.
Té Casan Limited Edition Shoes.

Advertising Agency: BBDO, New York, USA
Creative Directors: David Lubars, Bill Bruce
Creative Director / Copywriter: Pierre Lipton
Creative Director / Art Director: James Clunie
Photographer: Giblin & James, Billy Siegrest
Retouchers: Act Two, Steve Lakeman
Art Producers: Betsy Jablow, Cecilia Marshall
Model-makers: Swell New York, Makoto Aoki

Get them while you can.
Té Casan Limited Edition Shoes.

Advertising Agency: BBDO, New York, USA
Creative Directors: David Lubars, Bill Bruce
Creative Director / Copywriter: Pierre Lipton
Creative Director / Art Director: James Clunie
Photographer: Giblin & James, Billy Siegrest
Retouchers: Act Two, Steve Lakeman
Art Producers: Betsy Jablow, Cecilia Marshall
Model-makers: Swell New York, Makoto Aoki

(TrendHunter.com) Completion of a 100 year old engineering project finally happened a few days ago. The tunnel between New York and London, called the Telectroscope, allows residents of both cities to peer down the gia…

The research group I used to be part of, the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT, is looking for a research director. If you are into social media, fandoms, games, media consumption (aka connections planning), pop-culture and other cool stuff, this is an amazing gig. Apart from the obvious perks, you’ll get a much better shot at getting into the sold-out events like the ROFLcon a few weeks back and Neil Gaiman’s lecture today.

There are roughly 100 million people in virtual worlds at the moment and the vast majority of them are kids and teens. These worlds, which in general are rather simple looking, allow kids to hang out together on the web. Collectively, the kids in this "new mall" are spending over $1.5 billion on avatars, clothing, pets and the like. That's real money on virtual stuff.

MINNEAPOLIS (AdAge.com) — It's hard to come up with an optimistic assessment of the official Nielsen season that ended Wednesday, considering the challenges and ratings reductions that network TV faced. Much of the medium's malaise can be chalked up to the Writers Guild of America strike, but the nets' fortunes began to fall along with the leaves last year.

Ariel Waldman has a problem with Twitter.

The reality of Twitter is that they refuse to warn and/or ban people who use their service to “abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate other Twitter users” (to quote their forth line item on their TOS page). What does this mean? In short, anyone can use Twitter to consistently harass you and ruin search results for your identity and Twitter won’t execute any means of community management.

In June 2007, I unfortunately found myself on the receiving end of multiple accounts of harassment from a user on Twitter.

Caroline McCarthy, who writes The Social on c|net says Waldman is hardly the average Twitter user.

Well-known in geek circles, she’s a “social media insights consultant” who contributes to tech blog Engadget and runs her own site, Shake Well Before Use, about “art, advertising, sex and technology.” In other words, in the bubble-like culture of Web 2.0, Waldman is a sort of celebrity–and with celebrity comes scrutiny and often ugly commentary.

Waldman, who could not immediately be reached for comment, also works as the community manager at Pownce, one of Twitter’s few rivals in the microblogging space, giving her a bit of a conflict of interest in the issue.

Biz Stone of Twitter says, “Twitter recognizes that it is not skilled at judging content disputes between individuals. Determining the line between update and insult is not something that Twitter nor a crowd would do well.”