what your brand can learn from gaga
Church of the Customer rounds up five key loyalty lessons that your brand could learn from the Gaga marketing and brand genius.
(Everyone could use just a little bit of Gaga.)
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:55 AM
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Friday, February 19, 2010
how your website sounds
If your favorite website could sing a song, this is what it would sound like.
The Code Organ has some complex algorithm magic that analyzes the code of any url, and turns it into music. Because the world needed this.
Labels: creativeinspiration, music, webdev
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:44 AM
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
jingle artists get mad competitive
You have probably already seen that the greatest jingle in the history of jingledom was produced earlier this week.
It turns out that Love Jingles isn't the only jingle maker in the jingle industry. Brian King, another jinglemaster wants in on the action. He's challenged Love Jingles to a jingle-off. (That sounds dirty, doesn't it?)
They'll each post a jingle for the Purple Goldfish Project, and the winner will probably have to buy the other jingler a beer. Or gets the jingle crown.
Can't we all just jingle along? (See what you're missing, if you don't pay attention to the internet??)
Labels: adindustry, music
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:59 AM
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
digital music marketing genius.
Check out the new C-Mon & Kypski video, currently being produced. You can watch the video as it is being produced, ONE FRAME AT A TIME. Even better, you can add yourself to the production (as many times as you'd like) by contributing frames to the video.
Charlie at Curve Detroit points out that any business can learn from this creative feat. C-Mon & Kypski have done a bunch of things right:
+ They appealed to the 90% of the audience who might NOT want to participate because they're too shy, afraid, whatever - these people get to watch the process unfold.
+ They let the visitors that participate in the site become OWNERS of the product. Think they'll talk about it? Share it on Twitter or Facebook? Post about it? You bet.
This is crowdsourcing done smart, done well, and done right. Thanks, Charlie!
Labels: marketing, music, social media, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:21 AM
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Wednesday, January 06, 2010
super hero eighties
If some of the more famous 80's albums were realized with comic book heroes instead, the world would have been a different place.
Labels: creativeinspiration, music, parody, pop culture
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:20 AM
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Thursday, December 24, 2009
christmas album art from the olden days
Some awesome Christmas album covers from the olden days when people purchased music, and it came on large discs that required packaging.
Labels: creativeinspiration, holiday, music, package design
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:36 AM
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Thursday, December 03, 2009
ideas win.
OK Go became a household name based on the success of a single video that went viral. And it wasn't a million dollar budget that got Here it Goes Again millions of views. It was a great idea.
Their new video is just as clever. They've taken an age old video effect, "trails" and made it fresh and fun. Once again - not technology, not a kabillion dollar production budget, just a fantastically great idea done well. Woot.
Labels: creativeinspiration, music, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:29 AM
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Friday, November 27, 2009
youtube made interactive in a new way
This is a fun way to promote musician Adam Ben Ezra, using a YouTube video. It's not just a music video...it's a music video that you can play with it.
Always great to see existing tools used in new, creative ways.
Labels: creativeinspiration, music, youtube
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:21 AM
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Friday, October 30, 2009
rock and roll: dead, but well photographed
There's an incredible exhibit that just opened at the Brooklyn Museum, featuring a collection of works from the legendary photographers of rock and roll.
The show includes early shots of artists, live shots, portraits, crowds and fans, and album covers and concepts. See you there. (One of my all time favorite covers is pictured above - Bow Wow Wow, shot by photographer Andy Earl.)
Labels: music, newyork, photography
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:47 AM
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Monday, October 26, 2009
names: more popular now than then
Here's a visual representation of first names appearing in the lyrics of the top five songs every year from 1891 to present. Just because it needed to be done. From Kevin Dugan.
Labels: creativeinspiration, music, pop culture
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:24 AM
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
remix your friends
Say goodbye to the rest of your day. Orange has created a wonderous tool that lets you create remixes of songs using your own voice and the sounds produced by your friends.
The Sound of Orange RockCorps lets you sample videos and sounds from your friends, auto tune them to perfection, and then lay them all down on a pre-arranged hit song. Sounds confusing, but if you watch the video, you'll want to spend the rest of your day creating mixes.
The effort helps raise awareness about Rock Corps, Orange's promotion to incentivize volunteerism. Super awesome.
Labels: autotune, creativeinspiration, mobile, music
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:37 AM
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before the internet, people wrote letters
Letters of Note is an awesome blog devoted to an era when people wrote things on paper. Specifically, the blog focuses on nearly famous letters.
You'll find the note from Mick Jagger to Andy Warhol especially interesting, whether you're a client, agency, or fan. Inspiring.
Labels: art, design, music, pop culture
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:20 AM
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Monday, October 12, 2009
magic music sun boxes for fun in boston
Friend of Plaid and super artist Craig Colorusso is doing an amazing art/music installation on the north shore in Boston.
He's created twenty magic boxes, each solar powered with a different guitar sample. As the sun shines, the composition comes to life and continuously evolves. Watch video of the piece at a recent installation in the Nevada desert, above.
See it for yourself this Saturday, on the north shore in Boston.
Labels: art, creativeinspiration, music, outdoor
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:47 AM
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Friday, October 02, 2009
classic album art reworked
Artist Eric White has re-imagined some classic album covers in new ways. Iconic art like Who's Next has been turned into Who Texted, a fun realization of what that legendary photo might have looked like if it were taken today.
24 of his creations will be on display at Sloane Fine Art in NYC until October 10. (If you're stuck in a conservative workplace: there's one NSFW image featured in the gallery.)
Labels: art, creativeinspiration, music, parody
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:54 AM
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
the future of the music business = ad business?
In the old days, developing artists would do everything in their power to get attention from music labels - usually their single chance at success. Now that music labels have imploded and artists are born through advertising, the internet and elsewhere, artists have other opportunities.
Which led the band New Age Dad to create an open proposal for ad agency Crispin, Porter & Bogusky. They detailed the pitch through Twitter and their website, and propose that the agency use their song "the Weekend" in whatever new car commercial that Crispin produces. (That is, as soon as Crispin chooses which car company to work with, now that the VW account is so last year.)
Labels: adindustry, music
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:48 AM
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009
how to turn heads in a music video
It's like the more you watch it, the more mesmerizing it becomes.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:38 AM
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Monday, August 17, 2009
the killers lend their voice to unicef
MTV Exit and Unicef have collaborated to produce some stunning work, the latest which features this video by The Killers. The effort looks to raise awareness of human trafficking and is not what it seems at first. Even more haunting on the second play.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:10 AM
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
watch coachella from the comfort of your desk
Couldn't make it to the Coachella music festival this year? Wonder what it might have looked like?
Now you can watch the entire festival from beginning to end, in this super cool time-lapse video. Half the fun, without getting your hair messed up.
Labels: creativeinspiration, music, photography
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:11 AM
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
parents, you can stop paying for singing lessons
Someone has auto-tuned the news. The technology for manipulating video is getting freaky easy; in a few years, animated characters that look like real people may be here, like this Heavy Rain game trailer, and then you won't have to play with any prior recordings but can simply create your own.
What will the world look like when we can't believe anything we see or hear on video? Oh, yes. FoxNews.
Via Canadian coolhunter Andy Jukes.
Labels: music, technology, video
posted by Ben Kunz @ 7:11 AM
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Monday, July 13, 2009
what you can do with your old cassettes
Back in the olden days, people recorded music onto devices not too unlike your iPods of today. Only these devices needed to be played in a larger device, and they could only hold one album or playlist per device. These devices were called cassettes.
Now, you can archive them and enjoy their history (thanks, Joe Snow!) - OR - you can use them to create linear art. Art Backwash shows the entire process for creating Sinatra, pictured above.
Labels: art, creativeinspiration, illustration, music
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:31 AM
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009
not the kind of viral you were planning for...
While flying to Nebraska, musician Dave Carrol had an unhappy experience with United Airlines. While on the tarmac at O'Hare Airport, he was horrified to look out the window of his plane to see baggage handlers tossing his $3500 guitar around. When it arrived smashed, he pursued the issue with United Airlines. You've probably already guessed where this is going...
Dave didn't get a new guitar so he decided to tell the story in song. And video. And now the message continues to spread.
Labels: customerservice, music, travel, viral
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:28 AM
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009
music video shot with iphone video
Check it out - an entire music video shot with nothing but the new 3GS iPhone. Proof that you don't need a film budget to produce a music video. Although a stellar production team, director, studio and killer editing can't hurt, of course.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:16 AM
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Monday, July 06, 2009
you don't need a hollywood effects budget
Here's one of the most creative music videos that you've seen in a long, long time.
Incredible creativity, lots of planning and a handful of webcams from fans come together to achieve glorious video magic. From make the logo bigger.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:27 AM
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what it takes to be a leader
Sometimes it's just having the guts to step out and make it happen. From Neal Stewart.
Labels: creativeinspiration, music, viral
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:16 AM
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Monday, June 29, 2009
a tribute told with twitter
Maybe you're tired of all of the Michael Jackson tributes and pretend news...but this one is completely different: A tribute to MJ carried forth with tweets. You'll want to watch it twice. Amazing.
From Robert Scoble
Labels: mashup, music, pop culture, twitter
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:12 AM
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Friday, June 26, 2009
michael jackson broke the internet
Techcrunch has an interesting story about how the Michael Jackson news spread across the internet, and the impact of mondo traffic, public interest and internet stability.
And here's a great post on how the story broke, and how credibility still has value. Even on the internet, even with Michael Jackson.
Labels: music, news, pop culture, publishing
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:05 AM
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
remember times of awesomeness or just live vicariously
Everyone loves a great music festival. If you're too uptight to go to one, or just want to see the experience through other eyes, your day is here. Festival Annual looks to be the most glorious photo annual ever assembled.
What better way to share the festival experience, than with the people that make it happen? Festival Annual is collecting the most awesome gallery of shots from festivals across the globe. The best will make the book. You can get in on the action and submit your own shots, too. Or at least follow them on Twitter. Awesome idea.
From FrankLampen
Labels: music, photography, pop culture
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:36 AM
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the ramones are social media experts
I believe in punk rock as a life philosphy. Even as a branding strategy. So there's some special love in my heart for this video that declares social media as the new punk rock. Hey. Ho. Let's go.
From Greg Verdino.
Labels: music, social media
posted by darryl ohrt @ 6:56 AM
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
now you can stay in the "my name is earl" motel
This may prove to be a valuable tool during the upcoming Plaid tour. A pop culture treasure map.
Want to know where Laverne and Shirley's apartment is? Or the Christmas Story house? Or the I Am Legend apartment? It's all there.
You can submit new spots, or just bask in the branding that made it all happen, from AOL and Visa. Fun. Found on Make the Logo Bigger
Labels: film, music, plaidsummertour, pop culture, tv
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:32 AM
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Monday, May 04, 2009
how rock stars fly
Joe Ribaudo spotted some pretty freaking cool plane graphics in Fort Lauderdale.
Labels: creativeinspiration, design, music
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:04 AM
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smart people listen to...counting crows?
The Wall Street Journal reports about a 25-year-old Caltech graduate student that has mashed together data from those silly Facebook "Favorite Artists/Books" lists with data from College Board's SAT scores database, to create Books and Music that Make you Dumb.
It seems that the smart people are enjoying Beethoven and Counting Crows. (Sigh.) From HeeHaw Marketing
Labels: facebook, mashup, music, pop culture
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:46 AM
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Monday, April 20, 2009
send this to the computer nerd in your company
They'll love you more than they ever did before. Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody performed entirely on old computer things. Like a geek cupcake with extra icing.
Labels: music, technology, viral
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:02 AM
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
dr love says drink dr pepper
You might normally find Gene Simmons irritating, obnoxious, pigish and annoying. But something about his new spot for Dr. Pepper makes him more lovable. Or at least tolerable.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:39 AM
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Friday, March 20, 2009
work it make it do it makes us harder better
Even if you're not a Daft Punk fan, surely you can annoy your cubicle neighbors by playing this Daft Punk simulator on your computer's keyboard. I say keep playing until you get a visit from Human Resources. From Ryan Kuder.
Labels: creativeinspiration, music
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:29 AM
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Friday, February 20, 2009
every website should have a knob like this.
(This is really just a lazy excuse to post about the Beastie Boys on BrandFlakes.)
Check out the Beastie Boys site for the re-release of Paul's Boutique - it's got a volume knob. Only it doesn't control the volume - but instead controls the amount of stuff on the page.
I want this for CNN, with preferences that allow me to tune out stuff that's not within my interests. Genius.
Labels: creativeinspiration, music
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:40 AM
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Friday, February 13, 2009
using digital noise to your advantage
Sometimes hot video producers can just blow you away with the killerest concepts.
Today, that comes in the form of a music video for the band Chairlift. Their video utilizes compression artifacting (that pixely stuff that makes it hard to see detail in lower resolution online videos) and turns it into wonderous eye candy.
Labels: creativeinspiration, music, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:36 AM
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
what not to wear: grammy night
Just when you thought the music industry was completely dead, people actually tuned in and watched the Grammys.
The performances and music have all been well covered (and are downloadable) elsewhere. So Laura Sweet picked up the challenge of fashion coverage. If you like checking out rock star fashion, then you'll love her post critiquing the ensembles seen on Grammy night.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:27 AM
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Thursday, January 22, 2009
carpet that you don't wipe your feet on
Some people just breathe creative awesomeness. Like every little thing they do or try is filled with wonder. Mark Mothersbaugh is one of those dudes.
You probably know him as a member of the best band in jumpsuits - Devo. You may also know that he has produced countless kidriffic soundtracks to television shows. He's written books, and hosts a drawing segment on Yo Gabba Gabba.
And, because that wasn't enough...he's designing carpet. Not just squares and shapes, but the most "whoah, check out that rug" kind of carpet.
Labels: art, design, interior design, music, productdesign
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:01 AM
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Friday, January 02, 2009
if people won't buy music, will they buy chocolate?
At least you can't download chocolate. Check out the behind the scenes look at the making of some new Grace Jones album art. Way to create some delicious buzz, delicious album art and delicious chocolate, all in one tasty move.
Labels: art, music, photography, yummyfood
posted by darryl ohrt @ 9:00 AM
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
how to produce a video without a camera or production budget
Isn't it awesome when creative genius trumps production budget?? From Ryan Varjas, via Facebook.
Labels: creativeinspiration, music, video, viral
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:51 AM
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008
throw away your video camera
Really. Who needs it. All the cool videos are now made with stop motion, or photos, or whatever.
Two awesome videos that are making the rounds in internet land are living proof that you don't need that old video recording machine. The clip above was produced with 45,000 individual photographs. For real.
And then there's this new clip from Melpo Mene. More wonderous stop motion. See? Everyone's doing it. What are you waiting for? You have thousands of photographs to shoot. Get moving!
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:05 AM
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
8 bits are all the range
All of the cool kids are dancing to chip music. That 8 bit low-fi music made popular by the early generation video games.
Now there's a Blip Festival coming to NYC in December. The festival will feature music, art and pop culture associated with the glorious 8 bit revolution. This is a must do for any computer/game/designer/creative nerds. From Boing Boing.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:52 AM
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
stuff you didn't know about the blues
This ad campaign may teach you a couple of things.
1. Britney Spears is proof that blues does indeed exist today. Or needs to exist.
2. There's a National Blues Foundation. (To help more fortunate kids find their way to the blues??)
The campaign features some fun and beautifully designed print work and of course a campaign site where you can download posters and learn about the blues.
I especially liked learning what music would be like without the blues. (But Daft Punk would still exist, right?)
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:34 AM
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Thursday, November 06, 2008
get lost in nyc
To many, a 5000 foot maze in the middle of a warehouse in NYC just reads "fire trap." But since everything they do over at Eyebeam generally rocks, we trust that the Underground Mixer this weekend will be a safe, fun place to meet cool people and see some great art/performance/technology. All in one friendly place.
Labels: architecture, art, creativeinspiration, music, newyork, technology
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:20 AM
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008
how to sell product in the music industry
We try to keep self promotion to a minimum on BrandFlakes, but we've been a part of something that we're super proud of.
We've produced a pre-release site for the new Umphrey's McGee record, Mantis. What's the big deal? Umphrey's are doing something absolutely and totally legendary.
The music business is imploding. Artists and labels for the most part haven't given fans any good reason to buy a compact disc. While the rest of the industry is weeping, suing their fans, and pointing fingers - Umphrey's McGee decided to do something. Mavericky.
If you pre-order their new release Mantis, you'll not only receive the CD - but loads and loads of bonus content. And we're not talking about a free extra track. Alternate studio recordings. Never before released historic recordings. Remixes. Experiments.
Even better - the more fans that buy the release, the more bonus content Umphrey's will unleash. Everyone who buys gets EVERYTHING that's been unlocked on release day. If that weren't enough, the CD will also unlock additional material throughout 2009, when placed in your computer.
So pay attention, music industry...here's how Umphrey's has reinvented the business:
+ They've provided content (a product) that fans can't get or download elsewhere.
+ They've motivated their fans to promote the product, because the more product sold, the better it gets for everyone.
+ They've listened to their fans and created a product, an experience and a place where they want to be.
Results? Sales are through the roof. Fans are raving, complimenting and thanking the band.
So HOORAY for Umphrey's McGee. (And the best creative agency in all of the land that helped make it all possible.)
Labels: marketing, music, social media
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:42 AM
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Monday, November 03, 2008
how to reach the rockers in their cubes
Where are all of the AC/DC fans now? Probably working in cubicles across the corporate land. So how do you share the new AC/DC video with them, when their evil IT departments have blocked access to YouTube?
Create the music video in Excel. Really. You can download an Excel file, right? Genius.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:08 AM
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
what now for weird al?
The Catch Up Lady chats about a recent Wired article on Weird Al Yankovic. And how his act is now done by teenagers on YouTube from the safety of their living rooms. He perfected the music video parody, and then the internet gave us all the means to produce them on our own.
Catch Up Lady has a couple of ideas on how Weird Al could own social media. I've got a feeling that Weird Al isn't so worried. But I like that his name is only a misspelling away from Wired Al. That should be his new thing.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:42 AM
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Thursday, October 09, 2008
girls: pay attention to this old woman
Since girls no longer have role models available to them in Hollywood or celebrity culture, they could get confused. Not to worry. Because Sharon Osbourne is here to save the day. She's here to teach your daughter important life lessons. Like that it's not ok to get drunk and show everyone your hoohoo. Or to drink a bunch of tequila and act like a pirate. (what's the harm in that one?)
The new show is called Charm School, airing on VH-1. (For those teen girls that still watch tv.) Should be a hoot. From Adrants.
Labels: ads, music, pop culture, tv
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:51 AM
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Friday, October 03, 2008
greatest mapping tool ever.
Want to see what iconic album artwork was photographed in your neighborhood? Traveling somewhere, and want to recreate your favorite album shots?
Word Magazine has created a Google Maps mashup that shows where album cover photographs were shot. This is awesome. Highly recommend a peek before leaving on your next trip to wherever. Unless you're going to Oklahoma, because it looks like they don't have any famous album covers there. Or North Dakota. Someone should check in on North Dakota, and make sure it's still there.
Labels: art, mashup, music, pop culture, social media
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:57 AM
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Thursday, October 02, 2008
this guy used to be my hero.
Now Johnny Rotten is doing commercials. For butter. This could have been butterlicious, had he not read from the obviously agency written, corporate approved script that doesn't reflect his personality in any way. At least he still wears plaid.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:13 AM
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
google earth = new hot video tool
Chemical Brothers + film makers + artists + photographers + GOOGLE. What do you get? A really cool video. From The Denver Egotist
Labels: film, google, music, photography, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:31 AM
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
vinyl. it never really went away.
Check out this sweet collection of the best ever vinyl packaging designs. Now that vinyl records are back big time (mp3's are so yesterday), this is a welcome feast for the eyes. Maybe there's a future for cassettes, after all.
Labels: creativeinspiration, design, music
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:39 AM
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008
stones logo finally sells for what it's worth
John Pasche sketched what would become the legendary Rolling Stones logo while in art school, back in 1970. That sketch just sold at auction for around £50,000. That's like 600 kabillion U.S. dollars. Yet still about half what the logo would cost for Paula Scher to design today.
Time to start a filing system for all of those napkins, sketchbooks and notepad doodles. You should save everything, and never throw away anything, ever again.
Labels: identity, illustration, music
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:41 AM
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
an entire movie about posters
There's a movie opening at the Montreal Film Festival next weekend that you really need to see. It's a movie. About posters. Rock posters. Died Young Stayed Pretty.
I started in this business doing rock posters, so I'm obligated to see this. You don't have to - you can go see Tropic Thunder instead. But if you really enjoy pop culture, music inspired work and street art, I suggest that you get in a car and drive to Montreal. Or just wait for the DVD.
Labels: design, film, illustration, music, streetart, youthmarketing
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:46 AM
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Friday, July 18, 2008
this dude will not be at roger's picnic
Roger's Wireless is putting on a big music festival that they call Roger's Picnic. And they want to let everyone know what kind of cool bands are playing there. And motivate the audience to check out the Roger's Picnic website.
So M30 in Toronto created a campaign that promotes the festival by showing you what kind of bands WON'T be there. Who won't be there? This totally metal dude. Or Bomb Bay. Or Roulette.
What a cool way to build curiosity, and drive traffic to the site. Nicely done.
Labels: ads, music, pop culture, youthmarketing
posted by darryl ohrt @ 9:13 AM
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Friday, July 11, 2008
a picture of punk rock
A friend of mine, C.A. Vanaria has just published a beautiful book documenting the punk and rock scene in Boston, during the heyday of the 80's. The Boston Years 1979-1986 features stunning photography of bands like Anthrax, B-52s, Billy Idol, The Jam, The Shirts, Talking Heads, The Clash, Tom Petty, X, and XTC before any of the 'uncool' people even knew about them.
This is a great trip down memory lane for aging punks, and a wonderful photographic history lesson for those born in the 90's. Her shots are nothing short of historic. You should buy this today.
I'm still pissed that she got to see XTC, and I didn't.
Labels: music, photography, pop culture
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:20 AM
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
video to watch again and again
Really cool video produced from the desktop of a Mac. This may have you watching again and again. And again. And Again. From 30gms.
UPDATE: Here's an attempt at producing the same video, on a PC.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:25 AM
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
how they did things before photoshop
Back in the day when artists shaved their heads and wore nothing but tube tops, it was difficult to get your body into complex yoga poses. And they didn't have Photoshop to fake it. What's a photographer to do??
Check out this post detailing how the shot of Grace Jones, above, was achieved. Think of how many buttons you'd have to push today, to achieve the same shot. ;-)
Labels: music, photography
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:18 AM
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Thursday, June 05, 2008
let peter gabriel pick out your music and movies.
That dude Peter Gabriel has been up to some really good stuff. Personally, I think he should be punished for having anything to do with Genesis, but since forgiveness is in vogue, we'll look the other way.
Now he's created The Filter, a site that helps you identify what music and movies you might like.
This would be cool for picking out movies, I guess. So now when my wife gives me that look like "Are you serious? we're really going to watch Night of the Comet??" I can look back with a straight face and say "What? Peter Gabriel picked it out. He says we'll really like it."
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:44 AM
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
proof that the end is near
Ummm. Styx. Coffee. I give up.
From Coudal.
Labels: beverage, music, pop culture, yummyfood
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:15 AM
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Thursday, March 27, 2008
behold the muxtape
Back in the olden days, there was this thing called a cassette. Essentially, a throw-away mp3 holder. Before mp3's existed. People even sung songs about them. Anyway, people used to use cassettes to make mixtapes for their friends. It was like social networking before social networking or the internet existed. You could share your custom mixtapes for someone's birthday, going away party, or whatever.
Muxtape has created today's version of the mixtape. Upload your mp3's, and share your mix with the world. Or your friends. People are really digging this simple tool, and it's buzzing up the internet.
Labels: music, social media
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:48 AM
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008
packaging saves the day
The special edition of Grand Theft Auto comes with some pretty sweet packaging that even includes a GTA safety deposit box.
And the new NineInchNails release is available in special packaging, too. You can download the release for free - or spend more dough on NIN goodies. This gives a real reason for fans to spend money on something they can't download or trade for free. Sweet packaging. The $300 version even comes packed with a Trent Reznor autograph. Cool.
Who says package design for content is dead??
Labels: design, gaming, music, package design, youthmarketing
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:22 AM
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Monday, March 03, 2008
chrome and fire and lense flares, oh my.
From the band that brought you the groundbreaking music video DANCE, comes a super rockalicious tribute to cheezy motion graphics.
DVNO is a sweet video celebration of chrome, fire, animated neon and everything else you still see on the small-time news channel intros. Awesome reminder of yesterday.
Labels: design, illustration, music, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:11 AM
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Monday, February 11, 2008
previously on lost...the band
Missed Lost this week? No problem. Now there's a band, called Previous on Lost, that posts a new song each week, detailing what's happened in the latest Lost episode. Can your brand inspire bands? From BuzzFeed.
Labels: music, myspace, social media, tv
posted by darryl ohrt @ 6:13 AM
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008
what to do with your old records.
In the olden days, before the system of wires and tubes that we call the internet existed, people saved their music to large vinyl discs. Cooler people even called it 'wax." And instead of iPods, they carried these disks around in milk crates. The problem is, many old people have basements and closets full of these black discs, and have nothing to do with them. What to do? Put the old people to sleep? Or find a safe place to put the black plastic discs?
Artist Carlos Aires has found a solution. Laser cut (I assume) art made from old records. I sooo want many of these. Found on NOTCOT.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:46 AM
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
find, embed, link all of your favorite music.
Check out this amazing music search engine, SeeqPod. Search for just about any song in the world, and listen to it immediately. Get the song's lyrics, the artist's MySpace page, tour dates, and even embed it into your blog. Setup a playlist, and share it. Pretty cool.
I've chosen to embed your favorite Rick Astley song above, because I know how much you love to rock out on a Wednesday morning.
Found through Jesse Kanner, via Facebook
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:33 AM
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