i just got a Mailer Daemon & ALWAYS PICTURE HIM LIKE THIS!!!!!!
Where does Daemon put the email fail? Oh, my the intertubez are terribly complex! Note to self: I’d so love to do a Dante’s inferno inspired cartoon mapping out the Hinternetz Hades.
Oh look, it’s a smarter and more interactive version of American Apparel’s Lookbook! We all know that the “trend” of social shopping is here to stay, and Uniqlo has executed on Facebook in a smarter way than I’ve seen it done by a fashion brand so far. Well done!
Users can like and dislike looks on Facebook and any item can be purchased by clicking “Buy The Look” — which redirects you to the store site. It appears that all the user-generated looks are rigorously moderated for legitimacy (eg. are they a Uniqlo product) and it appears that comments are also moderated.
The site is translated into 7 languages so far but it seems that the Facebook app is not (can’t confirm). Also, rumor has it that the brand is going to extend UNIQLOOKS to mobile in March with an iPhone app (scoop via www.thedrum.co.uk).
Great work by Uniqlo is not news— here’s a bit of an archive of past work. Still, this is pretty impressive. Most exciting of all to me is the way that the models’ / consumers’ personal social links are included within the site and app. Very, very cool and user-friendly.
I’m very curious who the AOR / digital agency on this work was? Any tips would be appreciated!!!
Uniqlo recently launched Uniqlooks - a Facebook integrated online photo sharing community featuring on-the-street style looks.
FURBALICIOUS!!!!!
i badly want someone to redo “Fergalicious” as “Furbalicious” — Weird Al Yankovic, are you there?
Seriously, I loved hating them so much as a kid, they deserve a ridiculous tribute.
(via lipglossandlace)
Art. Fashion. Ascots?
Rarely does painting have the modern feeling of say, instagram to document daily looks. And yet these paintings do just that— they’re just so modern and yet display such classic men’s fashion remixed in fresh ways. Love these collaborations between Sergei Sviatchenko and Noriko Okaku!
As a high school junior, I was told to check out this cool thing up at Columbia University by a friend of a friend that worked in a comic book store who knew I was into computers and art and ideally any and everything that combined them. We couldn’t muster up the courage to go to campus let alone figure out how to find the room in the computer music hall where Dorkbot took place. When we finally figured it out and went, Dorkbot was 3 years old. The first session I attended proceeded to basically blow my mind and reveal these insights for me:
During college I remember obsessing over calendars to see if i could be home for the first of every month’s Dorkbot meetings. As it expanded nationally and globally, I attended a few meetings in other cities and even one abroad. It always is a little awkward. It always has some laughs. It always brings up ideas. And generates conversation. It’s totally unsupported by brands or crappy marketing or agendas. It’s art for arts sake. and dork for dork’s sake. It’s really fantastic. If you haven’t been, find one in your city and go to it.
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Dorkbot, the informal monthly presentation series for “people doing strange things with electricity,” will celebrate their 10-year anniversary tonight in NYC! If you’re in the area, you should swing by — Dorkbots are a ton of fun, and this is the one that started them all!
Tonight’s event will include the standard three presentations, as well as a performance by LoVid, possibly some music, and definitely some pizza and beer. Festivities begin at 7pm. For the Dorks!
dorkbot-nyc meeting & 10th Anniversary Party!
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Location One (Greene between Canal & Grand)
Wednesday, 01 December 2010, 7-9pm
$15 (suggested donation to Location One, no one turned away)
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you’ll be listening to it ALL DAY. lately i’ve been thinking a lot about environmentalism and how it applies to things like music. How it’s so much more green to buy music electronically vs tangibly. Seems like there should be more of a push behind that to pressure artists and labels to go exclusively digital?
It is Fashion Week & I hate it but I love it but I hate it. I want to find ridiculous things that work for FNO - fashion’s night out. how about FUCK, No Oreos?!
So, irony of models enjoying cookies aside— in an effort to provoke the thoughts and imagination of consumers, enviable blog-I-love The Cool Hunter launched Access Agency early this year. an entity created to help raise the hip factor of already existing brands. First up to the plate? McDonald’s—which TCH transformed into McFancy, an “upmarket temporary McDonald’s store that launches at Fashion Weeks across the world.” And let’s be honest here, who wouldn’t want some fast food between all that running around? Of course, this initiative exists only in the minds of the good people at The Cool Hunter (no fries at NYFW for you!), and not actually going to accompany the McCafes in the tents. We’re beyond bummed, but we’d love to see some of our favorite trashy snacks get this luxury lift. Gold-dusted Oreos, anyone?
This all reminds me of THIS very Chanel-for-the-proletariat art by Tom Sachs. Love it! The other concepts have less to do with fashion, really. I just love the gummy neonness so much:
With its bright colours and cute appearance, McMobile will be photographed and broadcast in social networks by the consumers where-ever it shows up. McDonald’s could even run a “Spot McMobile” contest online to increase the visibility. Online tie-ins with the TCH site and its cool-aware audience would add yet another global dimension to the presence of McMobile.
We believe that McDonald’s can have major presence at events like NY Fashion Week, movie premiers and other high-profile events by creating a space to fit that environment.
So maybe, Mickey D’s will strut it’s stuff at #NYFW after all?
