My aspirational couple: DON’T EVER BREAK UP!
I wouldn’t be able to handle it. Never mind Blue Ivy.
By the way: if any tall (ahem, sorry) digital businessman/ you’re a business MAN nerds want to be the Jay to my Bey, I’m open to dates/negotiations/applications. I just bought a pair of hot pink shoes myself. I support the Knicks. And I have an iPhone.
Beyoncé and Jay-Z pictured above composing the Tumblr image post below. They could trip a referee.
This is some serious Tumblr detective work right here.
(via braiker)
A Popularity Content: Which agency would you most like to work at?
As a class assignment, my Miami Ad School students had to compile a list of 15 companies they’d like to work for. (There are 10 students in the class.) 5 companies/careers were supposed to be outside the box, but for the 10 agencies: it’s really a popularity contest!
At the bottom I included what I thought were surprising exclusions.
So, the sliding scale of popularity:
Wieden & Kennedy and Mother tied with 8 votes each.
2nd place, with 6 votes: Droga5.
3rd place, tied with 5 votes: Barton F Graf 9000 & Grey New York.
3 votes: Google, mcgarry bowen, BBDO New York, R/GA, DDB, Anomaly, AKQA
2 votes: Mekanism, Campfire, Saturday Night Live, 360i, Taxi, Pereira & O’Dell, BBH Labs, being self-employed/running own agency, Goodby, Apple, HBO
1 vote, ad agencies: Sid Lee, HUGE, Decon, JWT, Tribal DDB, Deutsch, Chandelier, Createthe, Critical Mass, Strawberry Frog, Brooklyn Brothers, 160over90, Forsman & Bodenfors, 72andSunny, Wexley School for Girls, David&Goliath, Lowe, Gotham, EVB, KBS+P, Razorfish, Design Memory & Studio D’Artisan (design studios), Chiat LA, JWT, Draft FCB Chicago
1 vote, outside of advertising:
- writers for: the Onion, 30 Rock, ESPN, Car & Driver Magazine, a greeting card company, Grantland, speechwriter on Capital Hill
- art directors/designers for: IDEO, Vice Magazine, Helmut Lang, Monocle Magazine, Milk Studios, Ance, Optimist magazine, T Magazine for the New York Times, Women’s Health Magazine, GQ Magazine, Self Magazine, Opening Ceremony stores, nail color designer for OPI, Barney’s
- working for production/entertainment companies: MTV, Parkwood Entertainment, Pixar, AMC Television, Twitter, Superfad, Blizzard, Paramount Pictures, Summit Entertainment, producing a Fringe-style show, music coordinator for television
- outside of traditional employment: building a better Barcade, running a Tiki Bar, an afternoon bartender, a ski instructor, a sculptor, running a soup restaurant, a meterologist, Hawaii Search & rescue
Surprising that they’re not mentioned: Saatchi & Saatchi, McCann Erickson, Mullen, Martin Agency, Ogilvy & Mather, Young & Rubicam, Johannes Leonardo, Publicis, Leo Burnett, Euro RSCG, Crispin Porter & Bogusky, GSD&M, Big Spaceship, Cramer Krasselt, Mr Youth
Morphing Mess of the Day: Fun Fact: Lindsay Lohan is 25 years old.
This. is truly frightening.
Now, I’m going to moisturize my face.
Regrding Baylor & Long Beach State’s Uniforms
I like design and I like sports. OK, maybe I love both.
And I went to a university whose alumni base STILL argues over the school’s/brand’s type change in the late 90s. You either love the old school Pitt script and all it represents- or you’re over it.
So the uniforms worn by Long Beach State, designed by Nike, and those by Baylor, designed by Adidas, interested me yesterday. Look at these two links for photos & reaction,
Long Beach State has awesome uniforms; Baylor jumped the shark with those highlighter uniforms. The black & green uniforms with the yellow trim bother me less, but the yellow in particular seem over designed for design’s sake. To that point, from the article, “With these uniforms on, the Baylor Bears will demand your attention.” Um, *their play* should be commanding your attention, not the uniforms themselves. It seemed like on Twitter, gauging reaction from Andy Katz and the Fug Girls (an ESPN basketball commentator and fashion bloggers who like sports, respectively) they could not get over Baylor’s uniforms. Yes, they won the game, but people couldn’t get over the look of them. We lost focus on their play.
Long Beach, on the other hand, it seemed like people would comment on their play and, offhandedly, oh by the way, those are great uniforms. The Baywatch type? The fact that they refer to themselves as ‘the beach?!’ Amazing. The design complements their play, their location, and the school’s culture: it doesn’t overshadow their play.
What does Baylor’s highlighter yellow home unis say about their play?
The phrase that came to my head was ‘a streak in the dark.’ Yes, every team wants to go on a streak this year but- man, those are bright.
Last year, as I walked back to the Austin Convention Center from a journalism panel on #longreads (that was a 15 min walk away from the main SXSW action by the way) I passed a ton of Brooklyn Brewery signs. Now, I live a short walk away from the Brewery and run past it most mornings, in Williamsburg. As I noticed they were having some lunch event, I thought, no way! No way do I come to SXSW, Texas, and leave Brooklyn, than to drink my own borough’s brew at a hipster party.
Jessica, my colleague, wisely said we should double back & check out the scene - which I’m glad she did.
It was a Top Chef-style food competition, using pork. So my stomach died of pleasure multiple times that afternoon.
I just wanted to share what Brooklyn Brewery is cooking up this year: a Taco experiment.
$10.
We’re going to try to make it!
