On February 3, 1959, a Beechcraft Bonanza plane crashed in Iowa, with on board Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper. They did not survive, and Don McLean sang about “the day the music died.” A year earlier Elvis was forced into the army. Rock’n’roll seemed dead. It was 1963 when Don McLean got […]
My first article of the year and already I have this itching urge to clarifying something, namely: I consider my life one big experiment, and ‘collecting’ many experiences is key. To achieve that, it means I sometimes do things which are considered morally wrong, leastwise according to the conventional system. That ‘urge for experimenting’ however […]
Super Mario, Donkey Kong and Sonic. All game-characters from way back. But all made for kid’s games. Even Link from Zelda wasn’t exactly a badass. And let’s not even speak about Kirby. Games used to be cute. We’d rescue princesses from castles or return baby monkies to their mommies. Well, thanks to Playstation, that changed. […]
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.” That was said by Vince Lombardi. He was talking about American football, but the meaning of the quote could go way beyond that. Sport is many things; competition, business, […]
Justin Bieber – the kid with a whole legion of teenage girls behind him and an even bigger army of grownup misanthropes who hate him with a passion. Bieber makes an excellent target to bully, specially because of his elated fans. Though in a sense, his popularity is a form of democracy. Saying Bieber is […]
Often, the first think people shoot at you when at ad-contest is finished is the peculiar question “Did you win?”. And whilst it is questionable whether winning is key to a competition, it sort of makes the rest look less valuable. Besides, it kinda leaves a bad taste in your mouth to say you didn’t […]
Osama bin Laden, also known as Usama bin Laden, Usama bin Ladin, Ussamah Bin Ladin and Oussama Ben Laden, is no more. But like many notorious people, OBL was used in many ads and will probably continue to do so. He often functions as a metaphor for something that’s evil or someone that’s incredibly hard […]
I suppose April 2 is a good day to look back on the ‘not-so-serious’ announcements made yesterday, although most of them where made pretty seriously. ` LinkedIn The business-oriented social networking site filled the usual ‘People You May Know’ with some rather unusual names. Playmobile Apple Store This might actually have a chance of succeeding, […]
Listening to the old internet dail-up sound definitely takes me back to a time, not so long ago (10 years?) where I had to ask my parents every time if I could go on the internet. The computer would use the telephone line, so we couldn’t receive any phonecalls (and to be honest, I for one […]
Maybe I’m just being grumpy here but I can use a good rant since I’m getting really really tired from seeing the same faded faux Polaroid aesthetics all over again. All I see is old timey photoshopped images. I can understand people are trying to be cute but just because it looks ‘vintage’ and ‘antique’ […]