Archive for the 'Culture' Category

Web: Operation Firefox

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Firefox is looking for people doing guerrilla marketing for them.

The task is to install giant 3.5-foot Firefox stickers. More info and apply (until 09-Nov-2007) at “Operation Firefox”

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Life: Diesel Sweeties comics

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On “Diesel Sweeties” life is a pixelated romance with robots / men / women and of course superheroes. Great site - have a look (a teaser below)

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Music: Lolly Jane Blue - Worms

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Singer and song writer Lolly Jane Blue had great success end of last month at the Amsterdam Underground Festival 2007.

Here’s a link to her video “Worms” - an experimental underground music video showing Lolly Jane Blue on her way down the earth layers…

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Advertising: Hip-Hop for Food

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What is getting one of Switzerland’s biggest companies (Coop) to ask the country’s best known and maybe most controversial Hip-Hop artist (Stress) to write a song for them and do a TV spot?

And this without prescribing the topic or other limitations put up.

… and then the whole thing becomes a great success and is shown multiple times everyday on TV.

It’s not exactly like 50 Cent would do a clip for K-Mart - (despite he might never consider this because of…)

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Video: Ne me quitte pas

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Jacques Brel’s ultimate classic covered in many languages from Afrikaans to Greek…
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Video: P-Funk documentary

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When you like funk, this one hour documentary on George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic is a must.
… What’s your funk aptitude, bobba?
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Design: Moleskine notebooks on the web

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Note- and Sketchbooks from the manufacturer “Moleskine” have for two centuries been a daily companion of artists, writers and designers.

The legendary notebooks were originally produced by French bookbinders who mainly supplied Parisian stationery shops until 1986 when the last of these family run businesses shut down in France. In 1998, a Milanese publisher brought the Moleskine brand and revived the tradition. Since then the Moleskine books have again found many friends around the globe…
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Food: Squirrel now officially on the menu in the UK

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The UK newspaper “Daily Mail” today reports that grey squirrel are now “officially” on the menu in restaurants in Britain.

…A top restaurant is serving up free grey squirrel pancakes to hungry diners. Peking duck-style squirrel wraps are being offered to diners at…
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Video: Bad day

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So it’s video night tonight - well then you should also have some “happy music”

try this one - Daniel Powter’s “Bad day”…
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Video: It’s no good

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One of our greatest - Depeche Mode performing “It’s no good”

But then there is also “Sister of night” for the dark side of it (sorry we could not locate a video online)…

and for something completely different (the best as well - words are very unnecessary… ) “Enjoy The Silence”…
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