I suppose this concept isn’t too dissimilar from your run-of-the-mill graffiti, but there’s something about its messaging that’s a whole lot more appealing to me. Hijacking traditional, necessarily negative messages, if for only a short while, to deliver something more positive strikes me as one of the highest forms of piracy (somewhere below this).
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…and they don’t take kindly to being eliminated.
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If three graphic designers can recreate d-day for practically free…
Hollywood, you’re proper fucked!
Somewhere in this video lies my key to that age-old childhood riddle: what do you want to be when you grow up?
The annotated making of a thirty second ad spot for a sub shop — absolutely ingenious…
[via: Vitamin News]
I’m going strait to the front of the screening line.
Goddammit, I can’t wait for the Month of ridiculous “Year of…” statements to be over!
Following up from a few days ago, vote for the most foreboding pre-9/11 ads.
My vote’s for Cookie Monster…
I’ve been using Firefox 3 Beta 2 on my XP box at work since its release. Other than a few little user interface bugs (and really, who uses bookmarks anymore?), it’s been rock solid. Stability’s great and all, but I’m looking forward to the final FF3 for one damn reason: it’s fast. Countless lags and […]
From copyranter’s brilliant collection of 9/11 advertorial premortums…
Hey, isn’t that plane flying a little low?
ASBESTOS: What Can’t It Not Do?
Some closer than others.
As an aside: from copyranter’s about me section — some sentiments I can get behind…
I hate capri pants. Also: advertising, advertising people, PR people, marketing people, salespeople, real estate people, journalists, lawyers, doctors, […]
This Koffler piece on Obama’s policies is a must read. Spoiler:
In other words and in short, Obama’s slogan, “stand for change”, is not a vacuous message of uplift, but a content-laden token of dissent from the old-style liberal orthodoxy on which Clinton and Edwards have been campaigning. At the same time, Obama is not offering […]
Those who finish what they started…
Zed Shaw, “expert” programmer and “master” profanitist (see: Rails is a Ghetto), bangs out this hysterical gem in a paper about his XUL experimentation, an interesting take on that awkward, fuzzy space between desktop and web apps…
I see now that XUL has a distinct disadvantage as people don’t know whether to think of it as […]
Via Boing Boing.