Hasta La Creative!

Today, Seattle-based agency Creature (they of recent storefront fame) opened a vinyl record shop in their ever-changing office window where customers can buy records by the pound. It’s a call back to nostalgia for family-run butcher shops and the original small business. You even buy your records out of a deli case and take them home wrapped in butcher paper. The first person to conduct business in Elpee’s Beat Shop bought 10 pounds worth of music. Thankfully, at $1.46 per pound, 10 pounds of “Choice Cuts” records costs much less than 10 pounds of tender ribeye. For the thriftier shoppers, there’s always the “Prime Beats” quality of vinyl selling for $1.03 per pound.

The storefront, with all of it’s Seattle-y charm, will be open weekdays throughout the holiday season as well as the occasional weekend. I’m not sure what kind of records you can buy – one of the press photos shows off a cutely tattered Nat King Cole album – but for a place rooted in music history, I’m hoping there’s plenty of variety. As of the opening, Creature promised 1,000 albums for sale. And if seeing all the butcher paraphernalia makes you hungry, there’s always Meat Loaf.

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DirecTV, the largest U.S. satellite TV service, is near an agreement to renew its exclusive deal with the National Football League for NFL Sunday Ticket, people with knowledge of the matter said.

The multiyear contract would let DirecTV keep carrying the out-of-market Sunday-afternoon games it’s had for almost 20 years, said the people, who asked not to be named because the talks are private. While the new pact isn’t final, the outlines are set and it could be announced this month, one person said. A deal would extend the four-year, $4 billion contract that expires at the end of 2014.

With Sunday Ticket, DirecTV would retain key sports programming it can use to fend off competitors and web-based entrants looking for exclusive content. While the company has offered the package since 1994 and is one of the few pay-TV players with national reach, the NFL has said it talked with a wide range of suitors.

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"Perfume," the newest single off Britney Spears' latest album, Britney Jean, is ostensibly about a weird love triangle. But what it really seems to be about is selling the singer's fragrance line.

Fantasy—Britney's best-selling perfume—is heavily featured here (it also has a cameo appearance in her song "Work, Bitch"), with Britney playing the "other woman" and singing, "While I wait I put on my perfume / yeah I want it all over you / I gotta mark my territory."

Scenes of Britney spraying herself with Fantasy run throughout the video, inspiring teenagers everywhere to overload the olfactory senses of everyone who passes them in the mall. So was the song written specifically to market her line? I'd guess so, especially since—and I say this as a 1997 BritBrit fan—the lyrics are just awful. Via Mashable.

Precisar usar mapas de papel ou até mesmo pedir informações para estranhos. Fazer um telefonema para os seus amigos. Enviar algo por correio. Ligar a TV ou comprar um jornal para saber as últimas notícias. Escrever com uma caneta ou lápis. Um absurdo! Como é possível viver dessa maneira?

Cinco nativos digitais tentam sobreviver a uma semana sem internet nesse curta-documentário, acima, criado pela Mother London. A agência acompanha como os viciados online conseguem sobreviver no mundo real.

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Kmart and DraftFCB Chicago have put a holiday twist on the retailer’s “Ship My Pants” viral hit promoting the store’s e-commerce site by introducing characters from Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” into the scenario.

Instead of shipping things like pants, in “Ship My Trousers,” directed by Bob Industries’ Zach Math, classic holiday characters like Bob and Mary Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the Ghosts of Christmas Past and Future send off old-timey wares like bloomers, petticoats and wardrobes.

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Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin met with publishers this week to discuss a book they intend to write about their son and his fatal shooting.