From the monthly archives:

November 2010

Ontological Germination

November 28, 2010

Viral marketing doesn’t work for dish soap and cars the same way it works for fantasy films because it doesn’t create that playful spark which ignites when we believe, even for a split second, that something truly chimerical is taking place.
Viewing the below footage out-of-context will send a chill up your spine for a mere [...]

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Running with It

November 24, 2010

In an earlier post, I created some artwork for a replica bottle of Sunset Sarsaparilla, a branded power-up from the game Fallout: New Vegas. Well, a Norwegian reader named Knut Olav Alendal printed them out, affixed them to bottles, and was kind enough to snap a few photos against the stark backdrop of the inky black [...]

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Ghost Box – The Other Channel

November 23, 2010

The soundscape that emerges from the Ghost Box record label is difficult to describe with a single word. “Haunted” is probably the best match in the English language, but the eeriness of the aesthetic has more to do with the sense of nostalgia that it provokes in the listener – although the memories come [...]

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Gift Shop

November 18, 2010

826 National, an organization that develops creative writing centers for young people, recently opened a storefront in Washington DC called the Museum of Unnatural History.

Graphic designer Oliver Munday designed several products for a storefront for the nonprofit, and they’re quite awesome.

Thanks to the Murketing Tumblr for the find.

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Fridge

November 15, 2010

In 2004, a 19-year-old named Mark Zuckerberg designed and launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room. This was Zuckerberg’s refrigerator.

Actually, it’s Zuckerberg’s 2004 refrigerator as portrayed by David Fincher in The Social Network.
What you’ll see in the film is a ton of Ivy League undergrads guzzling Mountain Dew and Red Bull, wearing GAP sweaters, and discussing [...]

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Sunset Sarsaparilla

November 12, 2010

In the post-apocalyptic American wasteland of 2280, the options for quenching one’s thirst are essentially limited to three beverages: purified water, radioactive water, and Nuka-cola (also radioactive).
In certain regions of the southwest, however, the bleak and brutal existence of wastelanders is marginally brightened by an alternative soda called Sunset Sarsaparilla.   Although known to [...]

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There Will Be Gamer’s Thumb

November 7, 2010

Created for Empire Magazine’s annual Done in 60 Seconds contest, this mock-up of There Will Be Blood sums up the plot of the film in exactly one minute.

The guys behind the faux Super Nintendo title are Liverpool-based filmmakers Adam Wright & Owen Williams, and this little short got them into the top five of this [...]

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Road Trip!

November 3, 2010

What the badge says.  Specifically, at 11am on Saturday with Gladys Santiago, Rebecca Cullers, Pete Hottelet and Rob Walker.
If any readers are in or around Savannah this weekend, say hello if you see me.  I look like this:

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Choose Wisely?

November 1, 2010

Created by various members of the Something Awful forum, these Choose Your Own Adventure books will likely never grace the shelves of the Young Adult Fiction section.

Most of the submissions used the cover art of actual releases, but simply changed some of the text.
My favorite, of course:

The people who enjoyed Bantam Books’ original CYOA series [...]

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