When Vice is Virtue
Posted on March 29, 2009 - Filed Under Advertising, Creativity | Leave a Comment
When Vice is Virtue
The kings of cool take on big brands
by jeff beer
When a trio of self-proclaimed drug addicts and welfare cheats from Montreal launched a free newsprint tabloid called Vice in 1996, they wanted nothing less than to change the way media portrayed and spoke to youth culture. Over the last decade, that tabloid [...]
Harmony Korine’s New Target
Posted on March 29, 2009 - Filed Under Creativity, culture | Leave a Comment
Back in 1995, I saw Kids and it was the first flick I thought really showed what it was like (or felt like) to grow up in the 90s. While this year, The Wackness played the nostalgia card for the same era, Kids was, for obvious reasons, more of its moment, offering up the grittier [...]
Read More..>>Can the CBC Learn a Lesson or Two From NPR?
Posted on March 24, 2009 - Filed Under culture | Leave a Comment
Just read Anya Kamenetz’ Fast Company story on NPR and am convinced, in light of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s recent Parliament panhandle, that the CBC could learn a thing or two about combining quality programming with innovative and competent business practice from the American public broadcaster.
Now, if you judged things by just reading comment sections [...]
Is Squeak E. Clean the future of music?
Posted on March 11, 2009 - Filed Under culture | 3 Comments
When a copy of NASA’s The Spirit of the Apollo hit my desk a few weeks ago, I’ll be honest, I wasn’t that interested. Sure it’s got Ol’ Dirty, Kanye and George Clinton, but it’s also got Tom Waits and Karen O. It’s a noble goal to bring music worlds together but sometimes certain ingredients [...]
Read More..>>Feedbag 3.10.2009
Posted on March 11, 2009 - Filed Under Creativity, culture | Leave a Comment
The festival of links continues…
(originally published at Creativity)
Arkitip meets Dwell’s Kyle Blue
The always interesting Kitsune Noir serves up this fine lil’ interview with the design director at Dwell magazine, Kyle Blue. One more reason to keep mags alive.
Scanner + Sandwiches? Scanwiches!
If you’re a connoisseur of the sandwich arts, get ready for a mouth waterin’. This [...]