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Y’all know how much I love hipsters. So when the opportunity came up to put a bunch of hipsters in a Honda ad, there was no resisting it.

I’M IN UR ADS MESSIN WIT UR MEMEZ!

David Horvitz (via nevver, somethingchanged)

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Brilliant TV spot by STW agency Assignment Group. Making of here.

Stunning short film by Ogilvy & Mather Hong Kong for Shangri La.

So let us talk then about wisdom. It is an old saying, but true nonetheless, that the wise person is certain of little but his or her ignorance. A wise man is wise enough to know what he does not know. He believes the world is too mulitfarious, changeable, and miraculous a place to put much trust in feeble humanity’s ability to comprehend and control it as we would wish. Therefore, a wise man counsels caution, and encourages us to pay attention to our ignorance—what we do not and cannot know—as we make our way through life. My favourite investment banker, The Epicurean Dealmaker, dissects Peggy Noonan’s latest crazed WSJ rant in his post “It’s All How You Look At It”

Back in 2004, Steven Levitt asked ‘Why do crack dealers still live with their moms?’. One of the most fascinating (and entertaining) TED talks of all time.

lanipauli:

The Periodic Table of Mad Men

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bohemea:

Christina Hendricks by Don Flood

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Incredible short film created for Coca Cola’s Burn energy drink by Publicis Mojo and Exit Films.

Tamu Townsend, a 37-year-old technical writer in Montreal, said she regularly received [Facebook] prompts to connect with acquaintances and friends who had died. “Sometimes it’s quite comforting when their faces show up,” Ms. Townsend said. “But at some point it doesn’t become comforting to see that. The service is telling you to reconnect with someone you can’t. If it’s someone that has passed away recently enough, it smarts. As Older Users Join Facebook, Network Grapples With Death - NYTimes.com (via rickwebb)

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The American dream itself — a house, a job, a car, a family, a little lawn for the kids to frolic on — has expanded into something far broader and less attainable than ever. Crafty insta-celebrities and self-branding geniuses and social media gurus assert that submitting to the daily grind to pay the mortgage constitutes a meager existence. Books like “The 4-Hour Work Week” tell us that working the same job for years is for suckers. We should be paid handsomely for our creative talents, we should have the freedom to travel and live wherever we like, our children should be exposed to the wonders of the globe at an early age.

Somehow “Mad Men” captures this ultra-mediated, postmodern moment, underscoring the disconnect between the American dream and reality by distilling our deep-seated frustrations as a nation into painfully palpable vignettes. Even as the former denizens of Sterling Cooper unearth a groundswell of discontent beneath the skin-deep promises of adulthood, they keep struggling to concoct chirpy advertising messages that provide a creepily fantastical backdrop to this modern tragedy.

“Mad Men”: Stillbirth of the American dream - Mad Men - Salon.com (via fluffynotes)

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coketalk:

It takes a special kind of narcissism to celebrate ignorance by comparing one’s self to genius.

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Having accepted the premise that ‘everything is media’, there is a corollary rule that goes with it at CP+B: ‘everything is branding’. The old way of thinking was that a person’s impressions of a brand could be formed and shaped by advertising alone, but that view has given way to a new, more holistic one, recognising that there are countless opportunities for contact between a brand and a consumer. Each one of these ‘touch-points’ - which can occur on the street, in the store, on the phone with a sales rep, in a bar talking to other people, on the Web, or wherever - all contribute to shaping the impressions and attitudes someone has about a brand. They are all connected to one another (or should be) because they are all part of the same unending story of a brand. Hoopla, by Warren Berger and the CP+B crowd

PacMan in candles - awesome stop motion animation (via @brainpicker)

The final thing I’d say about optimism is this. If we took the loopiest, most moonbeam-addled Californian utopian internet bullshit, and held it up against the most cynical, realpolitik-inflected scepticism, the Californian bullshit would still be a better predictor of the future. Which is to say that, if in 1994 you’d wanted to understand what our lives would be like right now, you’d still be better off reading a single copy of Wired magazine published in that year than all of the sceptical literature published ever since. Clay Shirky’s interview in The Guardian, ‘Paywall will underperform – the numbers don’t add up’

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