Category Archives: Made For America

Thoughts and observations on American culture.

Bearskin Beguilement

Virgin Atlantic gives away tickets to passers-by who raise a smile from a Grenadier Guard.

(via Creativity)

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N.Y. Gets Technology Upgrade

 

On NYC Connect, Wired, Broadband Connect Map, Broadband Express, CitizenConnect.

(via Mashable)

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Daddy Knows Best

The Top 20 most-shared “dadverts” have been collectively shared around 1.7 million times.

(via Unruly Media)

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Support Max Page

Volkswagen’s Darth Vader to undergo open heart surgery. You can donate here.

(via AdWeek)

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Politicization of Twitter

Also, did you know: only 33% of Americans have followed a brand in social media.

(via Convince & Convert)

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Here’s To You, Steve Jobs

In five words: Obama, Clinton, Lucas, Bono, and more thank the late great.

(via Netted)

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Inside Joke

National Women’s Health Week: Sir Richard’s notes the lack of chemicals in its products.

(via Creativity)

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Corp Vid With A Diff

Virgin airlines have created the first movie shot entirely onboard an airplane. Premiering at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June, Departure Date is a 30-minute film designed to play as an in-flight marketing pitch masquerading as a rom-com to promote Virgin services to LA.

(via LA Times)

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Murder at the Met

Cluedo in the 21st century at a museum with a corpse named after a Lana Turner character.

(via The Met)

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e-Cigarettes: Cool Draw

Smoke inside, like your daddy used to.

(via AdWeek)

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Praising the Negative

Despite their severe tone, debatable integrity, and generally absurdist scenarios, some of the most-viewed political ads of this election-cycle aren’t all unpalatable; some are amusing, many are revealing, while one or two are actually watchable.

(via Guardian)

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#DollarShaveClub

(via DollarShaveClub)

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Attention Span

(via Brandwatch)

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Our Super Bowl Favorites

Audi: Vampire Party

Volkswagen: Dog Strikes Back

Geico: Maxwell the Piggy Meets the Street Luge

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Best Banned Super Bowl Ad

(via Guardian)

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Best Ad of 2011

(via Adweek)

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Obama Gets A Tumblr

UPDATE: The President joins Google+.

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The Future of E-mail

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Meyerowitz on Photographing WTC

And, the same story, ten years later.

What Matters Now?: Joel Meyerowitz on Ground Zero from Aperture Foundation on Vimeo.

#whatmattersnow

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White is the New Green

Ahead of President Obama’s Jobs speech this evening, we are anticipating that one of his initiatives will follow the proposal put forth in July by former President Clinton, when he wrote in The Atlantic that: “the single best idea to jumpstart job creation” is to “Paint Your Roofs White.”

This should have the added effect of saving energy and (contrary to the view expressed last night by a Texas Republican) cooling down the environment by one degree in our cities and three degrees at the poles—positive news for the Polar Bear, seen below in an eye-catching campaign by Ogilvy SA for Greenpeace.

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