A friend of mine just told me about this film. In typical pirate fashion, I just downloaded it today and I’m looking forward to watching it when my workload slows down, maybe this weekend.

yeaaaAAhHhh!!

I dunno if our average reader will find this interesting, but me, being me n all, I find it really interesting. It’s also on topic, so I figured I’d post. A wide array of folks in the hip hop world talk about the internet and specifically social networking, the way it fits into todays promotional mix, and how it’s changed the game. It’s “the biggest gift to the industy… ever”.

Shouts to @ItsMotorMane… I spotted this over on BlogOrDiePGH, in the backend before he even posted it.

this has to be some of the most artsy material that any government agency has ever put out, ever. the FDA recently unveiled a batch of proposed warning labels and branding to be added to cigarette packing and marketing materials. it basically takes the cold hard facts about smoking, and shamelessly portrays them in a way that no cigarette buyer could ignore. there are both comic-esc looking images (as pictured) and scary, medical photos. i don’t have much else to say, but it’s worth heading over to Wired to check out the rest of it.

This is a really cool video about the social media revolution. I’d like to write more but the #’s in this video say it perfectly.

I just really love unconventional and stupid advertising… and Steve Nash always cracks me up.

My dad just emailed me this today. It’s some sort of marketing material from Sprint. I love it.

Every music video you see today is laced with product placements, etc… but watching this video today, I was kinda blown away by it. This is ridiculous. These are like product HIGHLIGHTS! It’s like a big ad. Maybe it’s coincidence, but:

• The first 2 cars in the video, which dominate the backgrounds, are both 2010 Chevy Camaro’s.
• Conjoure gets a shout in Luda’s first and some real face time as he says it.
• Crown Holder, a limited designer brand with some pretty crazy attention to detail on it’s pieces, has one of their back packs(?) no just worn, but the gold emblem on it gets it’s own shot… TWICE.
• Nuvo, which always gets loves in videos, gets the most love of all. At one point the set has nothing but Khaled, 2 females, and a bev cart with like 10 bottles on it. Logos on the bottles getting major face time.
• Then, to top it off, T-Pain sings the final hook into his iPhone 3Gs which is running the I Am T-Pain app…

Like I said, music videos are always loaded with products, but this is cracking me up. Some of these look like straight up product highlights. There’s probably some I’m missing too.

Oh, and Luda kills this shit.