| Some etsy designer makes iMaxi iPad cover as a product meme. Posted: 03 Mar 2010 02:00 PM PST 
It seems like if you are an independent designer trying to ’sell shit’ on the internet, building a cutesy Apple accessory is probably your best bet. If your product is a good enough meme, you will get natural coverage on large technology blogs, then inspire purchases by wealthy people who need zany gag gifts.
Does n e 1 know if they can make a tampon that holds an iPod shuffle?
Are tampons more alt than maxi pads?
Are maxi pads for old ass bitches with ‘heavy flow’? This iMaxi iPad cover seems ‘funny’, like a link I would share with my friends. Introducing Hip Handmaids' exclusive iMaxi—the only Apple iPad case made with protective wings!
With its durable vinyl outer layer and plush, quilted-cotton sleeve, the iMaxi helps keep your iPad clean and dry. Plus, the iMaxi’s Velcro-latched, advanced wing design wraps snugly around your device, so your iPad always stays where it should. Best of all, it shields it from all those unsightly and embarrassing data leaks that would make any motherboard worry!
Each handmade iMaxi can be easily customized to fit your active lifestyle. Please view other listings for different color options including our uh… “lived in” red thread interior. If you don't see a color you like, just ask!
Should I get an iPad, or is it a ‘bullshit’ product?
Should I get an iMaxi or is it just a gimmick?
Do u like zany Apple accessories, or do u just carry around ur Macbook in an empty paper Whole Foods bag?
Should I have my period on this zany product? |
| CNN writes articles about Babies in Bars in Brooklyn ‘controversy’ Posted: 03 Mar 2010 01:05 PM PST 
For some reason, CNN wrote an article about a ‘controversy’ in Brooklyn. Apparently, young alt parents are bringing their babies to bars, then other patrons are ‘pissed off’ that there are babies in their bar. All they wanna do is get their smoke on and get their drink on, but then there are babies ruining the chill/party vibe of a bar.
CNN.com may or may not be the same quality as a ‘local news’ puff piece: It is a question in Brooklyn, New York, that’s fired up online arguments, prompted unofficial protests and made outsiders giggle. And while the issue may not be exclusive to that area, it’s the stuff disputes are made of in what Sasha’s dad, Matt Gross, calls the kid-heavy “greater stroller zone” of Park Slope and its surrounding neighborhoods. Single hipsters and others without (and sometimes with) kids complain about being asked to watch their language, to not smoke outdoors near strollers and to keep their drunk friends under control so as not to scare the little ones. They don’t want to feel pressure to play peekaboo. They want to cry over their beers, they say, without having an infant drown them out. If anyone is spitting up, they want it to be them.
It seems like some sort of CNN journalist/internet writer picked up this topic from niche blogs, and converted it into a ‘national story.’ Just want 2 make an ‘oddly enough’/regional puff piece type of news story before I die. Is this a ‘real controversy’?
If parents want to bring their kids to bars, should they go 2 Chili’s?
Should I move 2 Brooklyn, or is it a place 2 raise kids?
Should babies be allowed in bars?
Should parents drink around their babies?
Is Brooklyn a relevant area 2 cover/live, or is it the same as suburbia?
Should u have kids and bring them 2 relevant dive bars/music festivals? |
| Adbusters releases new issue predicting the end of culture/civilization/Generation Y/etc. Posted: 03 Mar 2010 06:50 AM PST 
After the success of the hit article/magazine/issue Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization in 2008, AdBusters has been jonesing hard to create a new idea / meme / controversy to go viral as a convo topic 4 pseudo-intellectual-internet-users 2 help their brand. I am not sure if their magazine appeals to Generation Y, or older people who frown down on Gen Y / hipsters / modern counter culture.
Basically, these is a group of articles presenting the idea thatt Gen Y ‘fucking sucks’, Gen Y doesn’t know how 2 express their innerspirit and usually just chill on the internet, and when the Western World becomes ‘ours’ within the next 10 years, we will lose to China since we are just a bunch of out-of-touch with reality dreamers. It seems like a good set of ideas to read while you are passing a bowel movement on a toilet (This is a compliment).
It seems like there are a lot of great sensational buzz statements in this piece about Generation Y: Now that so many Western economies are trapped in a deepening recession with no end in sight, Gen Y faces the possibility of becoming a lost generation, plagued by un- and underemployment for the whole of their adult life. We were born into Spielbergian dreams and all-you-can-eat promises of prosperity, but now we'll be lucky if we can scrape together a scrap of the half-eaten capital pop tart.
In addition, these titles + descriptive phrases are somewhat ‘interesting’, like something that sounds like it is written in the Bible, except they are making prophetic, absolute statements: The Coming Barbarism Gen Y is the greatest threat to consumer capitalism yet.
The Birth of Altermodern Is postmodernity slipping into something new?
Bleak, Shallow and Repetitive Virtual life seems increasingly less worth living.
Rupture or Rapture? This millennium-long human adventure of ours may now be reaching a climax.
Do yall think Adbusters has a strong brand, or are they a just a better/worse version of Newsweek/Time Magazine? Sorta would be chill if the world ended bc of Gen Y.
Is Gen Y going to ‘choke’ when it is our time 2 shine?
Is capitalism/democracy ‘bullshit’?
Is society post-post-post-modern? (WTF is altermodern?)
R u worried abt society, or should we just tweet/chill on FB? |
| American Apparel Finds the best bottom / butt / ass in the world. Posted: 03 Mar 2010 06:01 AM PST 
The popular ass “boom boom” from Santo Domingo has won American Apparel’s best bottom competition. She will soon be flown to Los Angeles, home of the Am Appy HQ business campus, where she will participate in an exclusive photo shoot. Do yall think she deserved to win, or is her ass ‘overrated’?
Is this the greatest marketing experiment in the history of gimmick internet marketing utilizing soft porn?
Is Am Appy ‘revolutionary’ or are they exploiting women? These are the top 5 butts: #1 boom boom from Santo Domingo
 #2 Maria from Austin
 #3 Mira from Chicago
 #4 Stepho from Los Angeles
 #5 DONK from Van City
Do yall think that the correct ass won?
Do the top 10 butts deserve more than a goodie bag worth $300?
Is Am Appy the future of marketing?
Should they have a ‘wet tshirt contest’ as their next voting gimmick?
Maybe something abt the perfect alternative breasts?
R u turned on or disgusted? |
