Commercials We Love :: Top Digital – What Sound Can Do
Our sense of sound is one of our strongest in terms of discerning situations that can be either life threatening or as soothing a gentle tide. After a while, it’s also one we can easily take for granted. That is until a wickedly funny commercial for Top Digital (Italy) reminds us of the fact that every sound tells a story. Thanks to the good folks at Saatchi & Saatchi for coming up with this one.
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Docs We Love :: The Century of the Self
In our consumerist society, the SELF is exalted and it’s desires reign supreme. Sigmund Freud was the first to examine our subconscious through psychoanalysis and his American nephew, Edward Bernays, used his uncle’s techniques to manipulate the masses by establishing the field of “public relations” and advertising as we know it. These techniques were so effective that soon the US government, political parties and the CIA began implementing them. Why do we buy things we don’t need? Is satisfaction our ultimate pursuit or is it a way for the powerful to keep us in line and docile? Has consumerism become the opiate of the masses?
The Century of the Self explores all these questions through an in-depth look at the history of psychoanalysis in our modern culture. – Moni Pineda
topics we love :: poster boy & moma
We were a bit surprised to find this article on Poster Boy in New York Magazine this morning. It details the remixing of one of MoMA’s “most extensive and expensive advertising campaigns in history” by Poster Boy and his unlikely and supposed “accomplice” Doug Jaeger, “the marketing executive who created the campaign for MoMA.” We’re not really sure if the reporting is accurate or what the “real” story is at this point since we haven’t heard from either Poster Boy or Henry.
artists we love :: alexandre farto aka vhils
The already prolific Portuguese-born Alexandre Farto’s range spans from collage to portraiture. Of late he’s taken to creating works purely from in situ materials, taking Vandalism as art to its logico ad absurdum conclusion. Advertising hoardings are torn to make fresh images, and plaster drilled away at until the remaining relief forms the work. He is, at the time of writing, experimenting with a cocktail of Quink ink and household bleach. But this is a long way from brutalism.
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Exhibits We Love :: Poster Boy – Not For Prophet
Mighty Tanaka celebrates its Grand Re-Opening in Dumbo with Not For Prophet, a solo show by one of favorite street artists, Poster Boy.
Nov 10, 2011 | Categories: FWL BLOG | Tags: 120 seconds, advertising, art, AXIS, commercialism, dumbo, exhibit, friends we love, Mighty Tanaka, poster boy, social commentary, street art, Subway Art | Leave A Comment »