January 2010
December 2009
Dear Tumblreens
Just a brief note. If your Tumblr profile pic is a flower or a Mad Men caricature and your Tumblr’s name is “Musings from the Bottom” or “The Perky Omelette” — there’s a very good chance I’ve forgotten who you are in real life. If that matters.
TV advertising used to work like this: you sat on your sofa while creatives were...
– Douglas Haddow: Hail the rise of “loser-generated content”
This is precisely what I don’t understand about the hundreds of talented people who make very creative entries for contests put forth by companies like Doritos and McDonald’s every year. You are doing advertising for them, with no more bait...
A few timid people, who fear progress, will try to give you new and strange...
– Franklin Delano Roosevelt (June 28, 1934)
Classics: Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes...
ilovehotdogs:
I’m not even going to attempt a Star Wars write-up, that is too nerdy EVEN for me! But after recently re-watching this film I am still in awe of this gloriously spacey logo.
Funny how out-of-context, it’s very, very dated and DISCO, but we all happily take it as the brand of this huge, sprawling space opera thing without a second glance. Well spotted.
atencio:
Yep.
Atencio, you spend your evenings much differently than I do. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go make some bitter, bitter resolutions for the new year.
Videogum’s look back at 2009’s viral videos. It kind of makes me happy to be part of the stupid, goofy human race. Play us into 2010, Keyboard Cat.