Apr
10
Now There’s a Home for Your Lame Home-Made Sports Videos
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That home is “Homestyle Sports.”
Apr
10
Flickr Users Protest Video, iJustine Says Quit Being A Btchr
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What the hell? Flickr decides to make it possible for users to upload videos along with their photos and what do some people do? That’s right. They bitch.
Apr
10
Feed Company Drops Stats on Zune ‘Masks’ Effort
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Hey, remember that Zune Masks spot? Feed Company, which seeded it on YouTube and elsewhere, sent us metrics on how well it fared.
Apr
10
AdLand Investigates: Is there a bear penis flopping around in a Lowe’s Home Improvement commercial?
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It’s not often that we get questions regarding ursine sexual organs here at AdLand,* but one of our site’s good pals was watching his large screen HDTV (show-off) when a Lowe’s commercial came on featuring a ornery grizzly bear. The minute-long commercial was about 32 seconds in when he noticed “something dangling and wiggling ‘down there'” on the bear.
Of course, AdLand had to investigate, and what did we find? Was it indeed a happy bear penis? Was it simply a matted clump of bear hair? Was it really David Hasselhoff’s stunt double in the bear costume? Judge for yourself.
Superadgrunts, see the full commercial here, and then, thanks to our patented AdLand Bear Penis Detector Zoom 3000, see a close-up of the scene in question here.
*I know! I know! Hard to believe!
Apr
10
Meet Pike Place, the Ghost of Starbucks Past
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On Tuesday Starbucks debuted the fresh-brewed Pike Place Roast, named after the street where, in 1971, the first Starbucks was born.
Apr
10
Space Goggles – Bright, Futuristic Glasses (GALLERY)
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(TrendHunter.com) With the increasing buzz about luxury space travel, there has been a heavy emphasis on futurism in fashion, from metallic fabrics, to fun, over-sized space goggles like these.
Sure they’re a little bit ’80s, and look a lot like something you’d pluck from your childhood dress-up trunk, but the conf…
Apr
10
Neg’s Urban Sports (RIDICULOUS) – Top 6 Games to Prank Your Way to a Good Time (VIDEO)
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(TrendHunter.com) Bored? Downtown? Neg’s Urban Sports are outlandish challenges where contestants disrupt social norms, pranking victims in score-able challenges. For example, how long can you ride a big stranger? When you knock on a stranger’s door, how long can you keep them from closing the door? Be crazy, and …
Apr
10
DIY Music Videos – Animoto Slide Shows (VIDEO)
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(TrendHunter.com) Animoto is an easy-to-use website that allows you to create completely customized music videos using your own photographs. This is the future of animated slide shows; you’ll never go back to PowerPoint presentations again!
After selecting a song of your choice and the images you want integrated in …
Apr
10
Xiaxue Was iJustine Before Justine Became iJustine
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Back in 2004, Singapore hottie Wendy Cheng, aka Xiaxue was just a blogger.
Apr
10
Coffee, Tea … or Richard Kirshenbaum?
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Sassy Richard of kishenbaum + bond is launching a show on Plum called Creative Lunch. Think Oprah, except people will be picking at food while weighing in on almighty Creativity. Slated guests include Martha Stewart, Matt Lauer, and David and Dylan Lauren.
Apr
10
Yahoo Taps Google, Webby Would-Bes Go Live, BMW Gets Tagged, and the Most Beautiful Marker We’ve Ever Seen
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– YAHOO’S PARTNERING WITH GOOGLE FOR SEARCH ADS OMG. Whew. Glad that’s out of the way.
Apr
10
Real Insight That Builds A Business Doesn’t Grow On Trees
Posted in: UncategorizedMatthew Milan, Director of Insight and Planning at Critical Mass, is sharing slides.
On page eight of this deck, there’s a nice quote from Ron Johnson of Apple. He says, “Design works if its authentic, inspired and has a clear point of view. It can’t be a collection of input.”
I love it when people refuse to compromise their vision. That is, I love it when their vision is grand and wise.
[via Jack Vinson]
Apr
10
Wired Fashion – Lederhosen with iPod Controls
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(TrendHunter.com) How many times have you put on your Lederhosen on in the morning, or when you go to the gym (mostly), and you’re like, “WTF, why can’t I control my iPod though these things?”
I know right? Like everyday.
Well, now this problem is solved.
These bad boys have the controls built right in.
Thank…
Apr
10
3G iPhone Within 60 Days? (VIDEO)
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(TrendHunter.com) According to Cnet News, the legendary tech columnist Walt Mossberg, or Uncle Walt, from The Wall Street Journal has predicted that we will see the next generation of iPhones within 60 days. An iPhone with 3G capabilities. He made a very subtle statement while speaking at a conference held by beet.tv…
Apr
10
Emotion-Sensitive Cell Phones – TouchMan Shares Your Feelings Visually (GALLERY)
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(TrendHunter.com) The TouchMan cellphone concept can become a piece of furniture which allows its user to communicate in a very personal way with relatives, friends, coworkers, etc. The communication becomes extra personal because, apparently, this gadget allows for the visual sharing of emotions.
“They could chang…
Apr
09
Flashpedia, everything Flash
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My good friend Panxo (A.K.A. TheMechonConnection) just sent me this website that holds a whole lot of nifty minigames, videos and apps made in Flash.
Quite the spot to spend some of your lazy hours.
On another matter, a lot of you’ve been asking why I’m kinda missing from my website. The thing is I’m setting up a few projects and one of them involves several changes around here.
In the meantime I’ll try to catch up on the posting frequency.
Greetings to all of you still passing by.
Apr
09
Street Lingerie Models – Marks & Spencer Urban Underwear Campaign (GALLERY)
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(TrendHunter.com) Thank God it was a sunny day, or the poor model would freeze!
As a creative way to promote the launch of their latest Ceriso lingerie collection, Marks & Spencer took their line to the streets of London.
Kristina modeled the lingerie pieces on the street for everyone to see with a big smile on h…
Apr
09
Google Earth Games – Where On Earth Is Waldo? (GALLERY)
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(TrendHunter.com) Remember the Where’s Waldo books you loved as a kid? Now you can play the high-tech, ultra-modern version with Google Earth!
Where On Earth Is Waldo? is the creation of Melanie Cole, a Media Art student who came up with the idea for her graduation project.
The glasses-clad, lanky geek in the stri…
Apr
09
Photographers, we’ve got to find a better way.
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I don’t know about your inbox, but mine usually nets around 200 emails a day. A majority of those are work-related, some are from friends and a few here and there are from businesses (newsletters, notices, etc.). With [approximately] 200 emails sailing in, I rarely have time to read/respond to the ones that I REALLY want to.
These days, there’s a new beast adding to that volume — emails promoting the new shot from so-and-so. I knew that I was going to get an email, since I signed up at a few of our friends’ book showings. When the emails arrived, it was good to take a quick glance at work from friends I may haven’t seen yet.
Then, the emails kept coming. And then, even more arrived. So much so that I’m receiving about 15 emails a day from photographers from around the United States (maybe beyond). A majority of them are from people I don’t know and/or have never heard of. Either way, I KNOW I didn’t sign up for these emails — which I’m now calling spam.
I’ve recently chatted with a local photographer and have heard their recent troubles of connecting with today’s creatives. In a world where iStockPhoto and Shutterstock exist, our photographer friends are probably feeling the squeeze some.
I feel your pain. Really, I do. But we’ve got to stop sharing email addresses. It’s not okay. What makes it worse is that I’ve "unsubscribed" to about 20 of them already.
Maybe we should come up with a large web site, much like Flickr, that photographers are able to upload their shots and tag them, group them, etc. Also included on this site could be an RSS feed, maybe a featured artist section, too. Then when anyone is looking for a particular style of photograph, or a certain person’s work, they could go there. It could be the end-all, be-all spot.
Who’s in?
Apr
09
Cewebrity Tattoos – Tay Zonday Chocolate Rain Ink (VIDEO)
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(TrendHunter.com) Remember Tay Zonday, the young baritone who become famous for his YouTube video in which he sang Chocolate Rain? One guy loved the internet celebrity so much, he had Zonday’s face tattooed on his shoulder!
I’m a bit of an odd person myself, so I can’t judge others for doing bizarre things, but thi…
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