Cool Japan?, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. I can’t believe that this is the best that Japan could do to show how cool it is as a travel destination. Just gobsmacked, shockingly bad creative. Maybe its a secret plan to stop gaijin visiting, or just to get boring old gaijin to go so you can have [...]
All in all, you’re just another brick in the wall, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara.
When the media industry must think about their customer it seems like its the analogy of trying to put the genie back in the bottle or in the words of The Beatles, a exhortation addressing customers for them to: Get back, get back Get back to where you once belonged Get back, get back Get [...]
image001, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. Smirnoff are planning something special for the launch of their new flavoured vodkas. Get yourself down to the Covent Garden piazza immediately after work this Friday.
CHART OF THE DAY: Breaking Down The Advertising Apocalypse – B2B marketing is at ground zero. All you people in business-orientated PR sectors like technology: be afraid if you are not running integrated digital programmes already. Your spend may be safe, but where are you going to get coverage? trendwatching.com – “TRANSPARENCY TRIUMPH” White Paper: [...]
Kudos to Andy Bargery for running this event it was great to meet existing contacts and make some new ones. We had an uncharacteristically hot autumn day to decamp to the basement at Ember in Farringdon. It was good to catch up with a good number of people: James Whatley Vikki Chowney Selena Chan Robin [...]
Brad Pitt gurning, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. The Brad Pitt portrait on the cinema posters bugged me for a bit and then I realised what it was. They reminded me of the world gurning championships held at the Egremont Crab Fair every year. It is more the tilt of the facial position than anything else, [...]
I awoke on Monday morning to hear the first shot in the Kraft Foods bid for Cadbury: what may be a prolonged hostile takeover bid remincescent of the famous Barbarians At The Gate (but without the decadence) takeover of RJR Nabisco by KKR (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.) in 1988. Cadbury is one of the [...]
Hacking the Magical Number Seven With Storytelling – interesting how storytelling helps the memory, of course social media now means that brands have less control over their own stories. Atomisation of content nukes the context making it at most an optional opt-in. Japan’s 32 Best iPhone Apps (All Available In English) How UK Government spun [...]
7 pounds for a packet of Cigarettes!, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. I was in Reading, visiting a friend from my days in the north and came face-to-face with the price of cigarettes for the first time in a good while. Being a non-smoker, I was shocked, cigarettes with the exception of ‘Pall Mall’ now cost [...]
Mark Pesce, one of the pioneers of the modern web; who was the prime mover behind a now-forgotten technology called VRML. In the mid-1990s virtual reality was all the rage and the future was going to be all about tactile gloves, video visor helmets and surround sound; so a three-dimensional worldwide web made sense and [...]
Damien Hirst rapidly changed his image from enfant terrible of the art world to plonker with this ongoing dispute against Cartrain. For the love of Damien, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. Hirst objected to Cartrain’s montages which featured images of Hirst’s diamond-set skull piece ‘For the love of God’. Cartrain ‘borrowed’ pencils from Hirst’s Pharmacy exhibition [...]
People of Walmart – this explains sooooo much The Great Debate » Sun software is the tail wagging the dog Customer Experience Matrix: Show Me the Numbers: Hard Data on Internet Use and Media Spend DSGi staff attack customers on Facebook, sleep with them on MySpace | BitterWallet – my favourite insult from the quality [...]
I have been a long-time fan of Stüssy streetwear (not to be mistaken with the new adventures of Shawn Stüssy as S Double, who left the business a long time ago). Some seasons their designs have gotten a bit tired but overall I have come back because they turn out quality clobber I like. However, [...]
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