Hunter's Canvas

Stay Classy, Madison Ave.

Is this really where we're at? Using paint cans to represent non-whites? Learn how to market to four huge non-white groups from a single book? Horrified, though not surprised.

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99% effective at what?! Say it! Say it!

I love Sarah Haskins.  She's the genius behind the "Target Women" videos on current.com.  I catch her on feministing.com.

Marketing: you're doin it right.

Converse and Amalgam/NY produced a great video to go along with an original track called "My Drive Thru" featuring Pharrell Williams (N.E.R.D), Santogold (my fav), and Julian Casablancas.

This is the way to do marketing.  Grab a few ultra-hip musicians, create a fun, summery track, and a very well-done stop animation video.  Here it is:

One. Easy piece.

Come hell or high water, I'm going to find one of these and rock the sh*t out of it. 

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Fuck you WNBA Public Relations!

The WNBA recently unveiled its plans to boost support for the league and its bottom line: femme-ing up its players.  Instead of focusing on the amazing athleticism these women possess, instead of putting more money behind marketing and media for the teams and the league, their answer is to make these athletes "women first."  There are all sorts of gender issues here: the sexualization of women, the homophobia that exists in sports, women forced to change instead society moving forward.  It's just disgusting that we are still forced to deal with things like this in 2008.

Below is a commentary from Feministing.com's "Friday Fuck You" series on YouTube.  (Definitely worth subscribing to.)  Also check out the discussion on Feministing.com here.

Levi's: how viral is done

Comcast has joined Twitter. Could this possibly be good?

 

So Comcast is now on Twitter.  While this makes me want to puke quite a bit (especially the name Comcast Cares) I do think it's a step in the right direction.  Comcast is an evil behemoth corporation and the thought of them trying to become more "personal" just doesn't seem right, but at least maybe they are listening to consumer complaints and trying to do something about it.  A perfect example of my love/hate relationship with Social Media.

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This is a fun little site

Awesome!

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Super Bowl XLII Recap!

Eric and Aldo at Super Bowl XIX, originally uploaded by darsys.

OK, so until a couple weeks ago, I didn't understand football at all.  I didn't understand the mechanics of the game and never really understood why people get so fanatical about it.  But I recently moved to Providence (home of the Patriots) from New York, my home town and a city I love dearly, and I now realize that it's really just about pride.  It's totally silly and pretty meaningless in the scheme of things, but I was proud to be a Giants fan last night (even when they were down a bunch of points with only minutes to go) and it's mostly because I'm proud to be from New York. Really kind of silly.

It was a very exciting game to watch.  And who can't enjoy a tear-filled interview with a wide receiver named Plaxico? That was certainly more entertaining than the ads this year.  Overall they were awful, with two great standouts:

And:

So I'm basically a sucker for anthropomorphic animation, and now football as well.  Go Giants!

Look at this dog

lookatthisdog, originally uploaded by sugarfreak.

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