Archive for July, 2009

Engadget reports that in the slow saturation of Asian markets everywhere, Apple marches on confirmed to be delivering the iPhone to commies everywhere compliments of Chinese telecom, China Unicom.

Greedy Korea Telecoms

27, Jul 2009

The Korea Times reported on a very well written article (for once) that outlined the major issue(s) and problems facing the mobile internet industry in Korea.  To sum it up basically the Korean telecoms are greedy bastards and would rather cripple the entire mobile internet industry, ignore the customer, and stunt technological growth out of [...]

Historical moments relived Lego style.  Check it yo, i thought it was damn cool!
http://www.fubiz.net/galleries/set/classics-in-lego/

Yes another week has gone by just THAT quickly folks.  For your eyegasmic pleasure here’s your weekly Friday Goodies.
WEB
Personal website for M. Night. Shyamalan:  http://www.mnightshyamalan.com
Coke Zero – Prove Yourself:  http://gringo.nu/projects/pqp/
International Body Painting Festival:  http://www.dibf.co.kr/
Living Sasquatch:  http://www.livingsasquatch.com/
TV
The PEN Story

555 Kubrik:  “What if a house could dream?”

Nike SB: Today Was a Good Day – P. Rod & [...]

AdFreak ran an article about how the guy who sold his domain SyFy says that NBC ran a shell company to prevent him from knowing who really bought it.  That in itself is either really smart, or really fraudulent.  I leave it up to you…
Anyways, my big issue is this re-branding bandwagon that CMO’s seem [...]

News Mixx

24, Jul 2009

General noteworthy news i stumbled on…

Amazon buys Zappos for $850 million

Omnicom Takes Big Hits in Q2 Revenue, Profit

JWT Absorbs RMG

Microsoft Changes ‘Laptop Hunters’ Ad After Apple Complains

Burger King Relaunches BK.com

Sony, Best Buy’s Latest Sports Sponsorship: Pro Video Gaming

Bell Tolls for Gidget, the Taco Bell Chihuahua

Barnes & Noble Takes on E-Book Market

It’s that time again!
TV
HP “Invent”

Dakotafish “Landlocked”

Deus “Cookie”
In order to launch DEUS, a TV series for teens, about an A.I. computer program gone wild – we decided to create DEUS in real life!
Stage 1: We invited teens to enter a sweepstakes, by filling out a form with personal data – while secretly installing a cookie file [...]

For some odd reason as i run around attending to this and that – the song by Haddaway, “What is Love” pops into my head.  Although i have transitioned from “Designer” to “Director” since 3 years ago, it never ceases to amaze me just how abstract and subjective the term “productive” is – not to [...]

I decided i would (as best as i could) have a Friday “Goodies” Day, where i compile in one post, my favorite works of the week.  So without further ado:

The Eternal Moonwalk

8, Jul 2009

While the world grieves for the biggest pop star in the world, Michael Jackson, there have been numerous dedications.  As a digital guy, it’s only fitting that it be a successful viral microsite dedicated to MJ’s signature move – the moonwalk.
Check it out at:  http://www.eternalmoonwalk.com
Thanks for the memories, RIP!


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