Category: culture | 文明 | 미디어와 예술 | 人文
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Blazed & other things
Blazed I was having an online conversation with friends in the game about our favourite advertising, and this one came up. I hadn’t seen it before. It’s a public service announcement from New Zealand: Blazed – Drug Driving in Aotearoa. Guinness Rutger Hauer ads I also managed to find all the Rutger Hauer ‘Pure Genius’…
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Authenticity is changing porn + more
How social media and our obsession with authenticity is changing porn | Dazed – “Authenticity and amateur (fall) into traps about not acknowledging porn performance as craft, labour, and work”, Sullivan says, referencing a piece in the SF Weekly in 2014 by performer Siouxsie Q. In the article, the pornstar argues that, although authenticity is “one of feminist porn’s…
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Super Bowl LII & other things
Super Bowl LII adverts It was the Super Bowl LII in the US which means a festival of TV advertising If Super Bowl LII had a star it would be Tide’s ad as the most interesting because of the way it let the audience ‘in’ on the advert playing off against the cliches used in…
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The art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
Sonny Liew’s The art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye is the autobiography of a fictional comic book creator. It is also an illuminating history of Singapore and a clever exercise in multilayered storytelling. Charlie’s story takes you through his family’s history, growing up in a shop house run by his parents and his own life that largely…
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Vaseline FUBAR & other things
Vaseline This week has seen a couple of mind boggling marketing moves. First of all Vaseline made Valentine’s themed content that in retrospect probably doesn’t seem like the smartest idea now. I am not sure what this a parable of: The decline of corporate communications and legal in a company as reputation guardians? The decline…
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World Creative Studio + more things
Mood Swing Rebrand – World Creative Studio – interesting take on MTV’s rebrand in terms of approach to the communications challenge. What is even more impressive is that it is coming out of MTV’s inhouse World Creative Studio An Ad Executive Often in the Vanguard Peers Into the Future – The New York Times – The…
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Dark Satanic Mills
Dark Satanic Mills immediately looked like the kind of graphic novel that I would like. I grew up with British dystopian science fiction with a fascistic bent. From the numerous franchises within 2000AD magazine to Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta. The tone of these stories was set by a UK dealing with: Decolonisation and trying…
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Connie Chan + more things
I love Connie Chan blog posts and presentations. In this talk she covers how Asian applications manage to squeeze so much more features into their apps than their western equivalent to provide a fuller eco-system of services that she terms super-apps. Connie Chan isn’t only smart, but manages to talk about Chinese eco-systems in a…
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Fieldnotes & other things
Fieldnotes Chad Dickerson’s Fieldnotes – Fieldnotes is an email newsletter from one of the key people during Yahoo!’s web 2.0 geek golden age and former CEO of Etsy. Chad Dickerson was in charge of Yahoo!’s Brickhouse incubator and the Yahoo! Developer Network. He then went to be the CTO of Etsy and was then promoted…