(TrendHunter.com) Are sock garters for women are about to become fashionable?
The first pair of the quaint and peculiar socks in the gallery are part of designer Nerea Lurgain’s Spring 2009 collection. The other images…
The Guinness Book of Records recently launched its 2009 edition with the most bizarre photo shoot on the steps of London’s Trafalgar Square.
It featured the world’s smallest man, Pingping from China…
At today's Web 2.0 conference in New York, Brooklyn-based start-up Drop.io and online ad agency Organic are unveiling technology they created through collaboration — a riff on Drop.io's private file-sharing service. The new tool lets users assign content a location and create rules that the content may only be accessed from that location. Drop.io service lets users share e-mails, links and multimedia with a predefined group of contacts. This new service allows users to also add a predefined location in which to share files. Think of it as mobile social sharing with a GPS twist.
LONDON – The television industry is guilty of putting a wall between programme makers at one end and advertisers at the other, according to ITV’s new director of television Peter Fincham, who believes the more it can be broken, the better.
(TrendHunter.com) Melissa Cloutier’s clever Take Out Coffee cardboard packaging offers java junkies a handle to hold a paper cup of hot coffee comfortably. Not only that, there are two convenient holes to hold the creamers…
(TrendHunter.com) With the depressing state of the economy and recent news of the credit crisis and the financial drama of Lehman Brothers and Bank of America, TrendHunter.com thought it’s a good time to ease your pain…
(TrendHunter.com) In an enlarged image these drop earrings look like those rabbit’s foot key chains from the 80’s. Thankfully not one bunny was injured in the making of them.
We may be just heading into fall, but these…
LONDON – Logan Wilmont, the executive creative director of Draftfcb, abruptly departed from his job today.
(TrendHunter.com) The Guinness Book of Records recently launched its 2009 edition with the most bizarre photo shoot on the steps of London’s Trafalgar Square.
It featured the world’s smallest man, Pingping from China…
While Grey New York will continue to support the Annual Broadway Flea Market to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. It’s the fourth year that the shop will be raising money side-by-side with Broadway’s big name celebs. Last year, Jerry Saviola, Senior Vice President, Casting of Grey New York, raised $10,000 with the support of his staffers.
Other than that bit of charity, not much is going on over at Grey. Oh, except for that whole revamping the brand thing. It’s an over the top battle to redefine the whole Grey network, not just New York. It’s a dramaedy if you will. The very talented CCO Tor Myhren have got to be just a little stressed. Dancing in the street with Bernadette Peters should make a nice break for them.
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(TrendHunter.com) Greg Lynn won the Golden Lion for the best installation project at the 2008 Venice Architectural Biennale, for this series of furniture made from recycled children’s toys.
The pieces include four tables…
TeliaSonera, the cellphone provider, has a browser with which you can connect to the web called Surf Open. When you view a web page with Surf Open, you’ll see a header, a matching menu footer, and advertisements from Telia in both areas – above the newspapers site. Basically – the browser removes any ads displayed on the newspapers site and inserts TeliaSonera’s own ads. This pissed newspapers off enough when Surf Open launched in February that over 40 newspapers joined the boycott and disabled Surf Open browsers from accessing their content. For a while, Surf Open didn’t show their own ads at all, but today they relaunched with ads again.
“The provider owns the area in the display”, says Telia’s Information Director Bengt Olsson to Medievärlden and adds “the newspapers haven’t understood how the internet works”
“I’ll assume that they misquoted him, else the man is an idiot” said Morris Packer from Expressen’s mobile content to Veckans Affärer, and Anna Serner agrees with him: “That’s like saying that the mailman owns your mailbox.”
“Everyone realizes that it is unreasonable that a distributor – in this case Telia – should make money off of advertising space that other parties – the newspapers – have already sold. A reputable company such as TeliaSonera should surely be able to generate revenue in a more responsible manner,” said Anna Serner, Managing Director of the Swedish Newspaper Publishers’ Association.
For those who think that this idea is comparable to the Opera browser’s advertising display or other (free) software that displays ads to stay free, keep in mind that TeliaSonera is a distributor that has customers paying to use this service, and they are locked to using this system only. What if the broadband internet that you paid for locked you to one browser and put their ads all over it, would you think that was OK?
Sunday at Conflux, the art and technology festival for the creative exploration of urban public space, was hot in every sense including (unfortunately for Summer-phobics like me) in the meteorological one.
Given both the temperature and his own intrepidness, all my admiration went to Lucas Murgida. Last year, the artist was teaching Conflux participants the handy and delicate art of lock-picking. For this edition of the festival, he built a beautiful wooden cabinet, left it on a sidewalk and hid inside it. Mugida stayed in this torridness, for hours and with just a bottle of water, not revealing himself until a passerby would bring the cabinet to their home.
The name of the performance is 9/10 because Murgida wanted to check what would become of the often-quoted phrase, ‘Possession is 9/10 of the law’ when private property is placed in a public space. As he wrote: A person is not sure how to look at the object at first, but will usually fall back on the golden rule of U.S. culture (finders keepers, losers weepers) and claim it to be theirs. I am hoping to subvert the “finder’s” personal space by claiming it to be my own public space.
Saturday wasn’t much of an adventure. The cabinet was left in the street, people appeared to be tempted but they left it where it was. Now Sunday was more eventful, the artist and the cabinet got rolled into the storage room of a restaurant. As he had drilled a hole in the cabinet, Lucas was able to take pictures and get an idea of what was going on. The plan was to slip out unnoticed and leave the cabinet to its new owner.
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Jenny Chowdhury was braving the mellowing heat in her 802.11 Apparel – Wifi Jacket. Part of a line of clothing that reflects wifi strength detected in the wearer’s immediate environment, the jacket literally “bring to light” a portion of the invisible radio waves by illuminating five stripes in accordance with the wifi signal strength.
The basic stripes of LEDs are integrated into a flower motif. This design choice associate our natural environment (the flower pattern) with the synthetic one (technology.)
More wearable devices were displayed all along the festival: CO2RSET which monitors air quality and tightens or loosens on the body in response to the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere; the Back-to-Back Massager vest which rows of electric massagers are pointed outward in order to massage others; Compli-mum, a kind of armor for women that plays movies and changes its own shape by separating or gathering parts of its construction through the use of microcontroller and a motorized skeleton structure and a very fetching Helmet Piece which i’m inconsolable to have missed.
Another work i missed because i was so busy passing the microphone to the public for a Q&A of the panel i curated for Conflux (more about that soon-ish), is The Light Mobs which showed participants how to use a simple little mirror (the pocket Lightcoder) and sunlight to transmit information.
But lucky me! i met Geraldine Juarez the day after and she gave me one of the Lightcoders to morse around and lucky us! she documented the action online.
I finally did a Botanicalls tour in which plants guide you by telephone in the area surrounding Conflux HQ. Each tree or plant, speaks in their own “Botanicalls” voice, based on their botanical habits and characteristics. It all started with the arrogant Rose and her ridiculous French accent (i’m allowed to write that cuz i gave her my voice) and ended with heart-breaking cries for help coming from the kitchen of a vegetarian restaurant.
LONDON – Travel guide brand Lonely Planet is to make its city guides and phrasebooks available on Sony Ericsson mobile phones, via the Sony Ericsson Fun and Downloads portal.
LONDON – Branded content agency Kameleon, set up by former MindShare executives Richard Armstrong, Anthony Edwards and Mark Webster, is launching with a partnership with independent producer All3Media.
Once upon a time, we asked if it was time for Showtime to quit charging. Well, now it is—at least briefly. The pay cable network is offering the first episodes of the new seasons of Dexter and Californication free online, two weeks before they hit TV. You can watch either by entering the apt password “Lady Killer.” It’s another smart move for Showtime, whose Dexter campaign has been getting quite a lot of press. Last month, fake magazine covers starring Dexter himself covered newsstands. Before that, Portugeuse agency Torke Guerrilha (whose Web site is worthy of a click) created some awesome Dexter guerrilla work with blood-flushing urinals, Dexter brand plastic wrap, a dead guy on the street and bloody body parts in a butcher’s window. That campaign was limited to Lisbon, but caused a minor U.S. fan frenzy, thanks to the power of the Internets. In all the hubbub, let’s not forget Showtime’s Californication campaign, which became pure genius the moment Duchovny entered rehab for his sex addiction. Staged or not, how serendipitous! It’s also nice to know the network doesn’t only pimp out its female stars. Showtime knows what you really want: porn, weed, and violent psychos. Take that, Skinemax!
—Posted by Rebecca Cullers
Yes, the day we all wait anxiously for each year is here. It’s the official Talk Like a Pirate Day. So in honor of this fun, we decided to pull together some pirate-themed or influenced ads from our archives (leaving out many of the spots for the Disney movies, of course). So grab your pirate name and a flagon of rum and sit back and enjoy!
FedEx – Pirate / Counseling (2005) 0:30 (USA)
LONDON – Blyk, the mobile network that offers users free calls in return for receiving ads and promotions, has signed up double the number of UK users it had targeted when it launched 12 months ago.
LONDON – Regional publisher Newsquest’s 135-year-old paid-for paper, the Richmond & Twickenham Times, is to become a part-free, paid paid-for model.
LONDON – Absolute radio plans to hand listeners an insight into how its weekly playlist is decided, as well as having the chance to voice an opinion on the music that is played, ahead of its rebrand from Virgin Radio later this month.
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