Archive for the ‘Branding’ Category
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I’m Banksy
That’s what Justin Timberlake said at the Oscars. I was quite surprised at the time, remembering years ago when the name ‘Banksy’ was just a whisper heard on the streets of London, and now he was being referenced in a joke on one of the biggest international stages the world has to offer. I was pretty much clueless as to the events that have transpired between those two states of his notoriety – from unknown to infamous, all the while remaining a ghost. Then I saw Exit Through the Gift Shop… and all that changed.
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Evil Beaver
A while back I posted about a TV commercial… that had plagued my mind with wonder since I was young. I’ve pondered exploring the moral implications of what we are doing to ourselves, to our kids, by targeting them with bizarre surreal TV spots just to get a cheap rise out of them and make a quick buck. I’m sure there have been many qualified over-opinionated psychologists that have written book after book on the subject and I daren’t bother to compete with them. I wasn’t sure of what side of the fence I sat on with the argument but
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Introducing Pixels From The Edge Version 3.0
I’m proud to say my blog finally grew up! It’s gone from an ugly duckling to a swan (or was it a swan the whole time? I forget how that story goes).
Version 1.0…
This humble blog started one random February afternoon just over two years ago after I’d spent a great deal of time digging up the solution for what I believed to be a common problem. When I finally figured out the answer I felt that it was so simple and so important that I wanted to do the next developers that came along a favor and leave -
It’s too orangey for crows
This is a nutty one. When I was a kid there was a TV commercial for Kia-Ora fruit drink. The deal is this kid’s walking along drinking his juice and a crow (in a zoot suit) happens by and wants some, to which the kid responds “It’s too orangey for crows, it’s just for me and my dog”. But the crow wants some so bad he makes like a dog and starts barking. And I don’t wanna even attempt to get into what happens next, just watch it.
Yeah that’s some weird shit right? I was just minding my own…
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Changing your Twitter name? Watch out!
It’s cool that Twitter lets you change your Twitter name, there’s not a lot of apps that I can think of that allow that. But at the same time there should be a big fat warning sign when you do. It’s no biggie, I’m not trying to scare you away from doing it or anything, I had to change mine fairly recently (basically my old name sucked) and I’m glad I did, Twitter switches over all your friends and followers automatically so no issues there, but there are a few things that you should bear in mind before you do:…
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De-Branding Myself
So here I am, I’m 32 years old and I’ve been on the web forever, shit before the web even really existed I was gophering German university FTP servers for pictures of Claudia Schiffer. And what do I have to show for myself now, for all my years of online service? Who the hell am I online? londonstreetlife? Really??? Now that I can finally see it for what it is, it really is all kinds of lame. A buddy of mine got an iPhone last year and my phone broke so he lent me his old phone, he was all…