So I was just reading a review of Sacha Baron Cohens new “Borat” movie, and did a wikipedia search only to learn theat he was “SUPER GREG” of SG fame years ago.

Never heard of Super Greg? he was part of an early viral marketing campaign for Lee Jeans

Here is a mirror of the site, and make sure you check out the link to the videos towards the bottom.

Other videos in this campaign where “Curry” and “Roy”

Grammy Award winnner/singer/songwriter Jeff Tweedy is part of the growing group of artists that understands that there’s more to music than selling pieces of plastic, and suing your fans.

In an interview with Wired Magazine, Tweedy said:

“A piece of art is not a loaf of bread. When someone steals a loaf of bread from the store, that’s it. The loaf of bread is gone. When someone downloads a piece of music, it’s just data until the listener puts that music back together with their own ears, their mind, their subjective experience. How they perceive your work changes your work.”

Jeff Tweedy is the leadsinger of the popular band Wilco, that won two Grammy’s back in 2005. He doesn’t consider copying and remixing as evil, but as a way to facilitate creativity.

On the official website of the band from Chicago we even see a link to the BitTorrent tracker where Wilco fans actively share high quality recordings.

“Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator. People who look at music as commerce don’t understand that. They are talking about pieces of plastic they want to sell, packages of intellectual property. I’m not interested in selling pieces of plastic.”

For those who are interested in the copyright debate, here’s a presentation by Larry Lessig titled “Who owns Culture“. The presentation served as an intro to conversation about p2p and free culture by Jeff Tweedy and Larry Lessig (audio link).

The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a virulent new strain of Sexually Transmitted Disease. The disease is contracted through dangerous and high-risk behavior.

The disease is called Gonorrhea Lectim and is pronounced “gonna re-elect him.”

Many victims contracted it in 2004, after having been screwed for four years. Cognitive characteristics of individuals infected include: anti-social personality disorders, delusions of grandeur with messianic overtones, extreme cognitive dissonance, inability to incorporate new information, pronounced xenophobia and paranoia, inability to accept responsibility for one’s own actions, cowardice masked by misplaced bravado, uncontrolled facial smirking, ignorance of geography and history, tendencies towards evangelical theocracy, and categorical all-or-nothing behavior.

This destructive disease originated only a few years ago from a bush found in Texas.

They grow up so fast don’t they?

Republicans are starting to save money in Washington by not buying bookmarks anymore.
They recommend you just bend over a page.

So here is another puzzle piece for the new PayPerPost.com contest entitled “payperpostbluemonster”. I post it and get $10. I collect all the pieces and make $500.
It’s like taking candy from a baby I tell ya. Easy cash!

PayPerPost.com is where bloggers make money through blog ads and posting of reviews for products. I just made a quick $10 for like 2 minutes work. You just made squat reading about it!

So here is a puzzle piece for the new PayPerPost.com contest entitled “payperpostbluemonster”. I post it and get $10. I collect all the pieces and make $500.

PayPerPost.com is where bloggers make money through blog marketing and posting of reviews for products. If you haven’t signed up yet, I suggest you do.

Like so many others I watched the gubernatorial debates of Dick DeVos and Jennifer Granholm. Later that night I was at a local bar and in walked Dick DeVos. I asked if he woud like to join us. He said that he would be happy to but it would work like this, I woud buy two drinks and give him one, then I would have to get two of my friends to buy two drinks and they would each give me one and I would pass one of those up to him, then they would get two of their friends and so on.

Well, not happy with the “plan” and noticing that Jennnifer Granholm had also walked into the bar, we decided to ask Jenny if she wanted to join us. She said that she was worried about how well we could hold our liquor and didn’t want to be with a bunch of lightweights. I said “Lightweights, What are you talking about?” and Granholm said “I’ve seen it before, we all go out… and in five beers you’re gonna be blown away!”

Guess you kinda gotta live in Michigan to get the joke.

Like any reasonably creative and curious human, Scot can’t resist a dirty rear car window. We suspect that Scott started off with clever sayings, like, “Wash Me”. Probably his first image was thhe uubiquitous smiley face. Unlike most folks however, Scott lives on a mile and a half of dirt road – caliche, as the locals call it, road-base: a blend of limestone dust and gravel and clay. Driving over this surface results in a fine, white dust that billows up behind any vehicle driven faster than a galloping turtle, coating the rear window. Being an experienced artist (and let’s face it, a little…different), it wasn’t long before Scott was experimenting with techniques to achieve these amazing detailed and shhaded drawings.

More here

“The State Board of Education on Tuesday approved public school curriculum guidelines that support the teaching of evolution in science classes — but not intelligent design.

Intelligent design instruction could be left for other classes in Michigan schools, but it doesn’t belong in science class, according to the unanimously adopted guidelines.

Intelligent design has also become an issue in the Michigan governor’s race.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos, a conservative Christian, said last month that he approves of intelligent design being taught along with evolution in science classes, though he said the decision should be left up to local school districts.

Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who is Roman Catholic, said Michigan schools need to teach evolution in science classes and not include intelligent design. She said school districts can explore intelligent design in current events or comparative religions classes.”

So, if you havent seen these email picture going around, they are a series of paper creations made with a single piece of paper. The entire series can be seen here if you haven’t been already bombarded with it in your email by all your office buddies.

Thus the basis of my experiment.

I have taken the pictures and added a small banner with my blogs URL on every picture. I am going to send these out to a select group of people to hopefully see how quickly they travel and propigate.

If you’ve arrived here via the banner on an image – please leaave me a comment and let me know who sent it to you.

You know, when I first got into advertising Lee Clow was already a rock star in the advertising world as then CD and now Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of TBWA\Worldwide. I have followed his career over the years and always admired him not only his eye for design and sense for what’s cool, but also his philosophy on creative and the creative process. he also holds a special place in my heart for creating the Apple Computers “1984″ ad.

On the other hand Alex Bogusky is the new rock star of advertising. he is the Creative Director of Crispin Porter +Bogusky and is the mind behind the Burger Kings Chicken Ad, Slim Jim and Sprite ads.

So, AdCritic.com got the 2 of them together to talk about advertising and life in general.
Listen to these two.

“Five months ago, Wired News senior editor and former hacker Kevin Poulsen whipped up 1,000 lines of computer code that scoured MySpace’s 1 million plus profiles for 385,932 registered sex offenders in 46 states.

The code turned up many false or unverifiable matches. Poulsen worked part-time for several months sifting the data and manually comparing photographs, ages and other data. In all, he was able to confirm 744 sex offenders with MySpace profiles. Of those, 497 are registered for sex crimes against children. Of these, six are listed as repeat offenders.

MySpace told Poulsen that it would like to ban sex offenders from the site but is waiting for new laws that would make it easier for them to do so. The company is lobbying Congress for legislation that would require sex offenders to register their e-mail addresses with a central database.

Wired News will publish the code Poulsen used under an open-source license later this week.”

Read the complete story here

Both actually (see picture) and figuratively (see below):

CBGB hosted its final concert Sunday night after a 33-year residence in downtown New York as the iconic, grungy bastion of punk.

The concert, headlined by rock poet Patti Smith, and a featured guest appearance by Blondie was to be the final note sounded in a drawn-out battle to preserve the legendary club. A homeless advocacy group that owns the property, the Bowery Residents Committee, is not renewing CBGB’s lease, which expired in August 2005. The club will close Oct. 31.

The club’s run may be ending at its Manhattan location, but it will continue in different ways, Smith said.

“CBGB’s is a state of mind,” she said at pre-show news conference. “The new kids have to have their own places.”

CBGB’s closure has prompted protests, tributes and vigils for more than a year – a cycle ended when CBGB’s owner, Hilly Kristal, gave up his legal fight to stay.

Cha-Ching!

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Me too.

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The eccentric Southern tradition of “eephing” is best described as the hillbilly equivalent of the hip-hop human “beat box” vocal style — a kind of hiccupping, rhythmic wheeze that started in rural Tennessee more than 100 years ago.

Just like human beat-box artists of the 1980s rendered perfect imitations of drum machines with their mouths, the original eephers of the 1880s imitated the hogs and turkeys living in their backyards.

The odd music genre — variously spelled “eefing,” “eeephing” or “eeefing” — appealed to a young Memphis producer named Sam Phillips, who recorded “Swamp Root” as one of his first singles. It didn’t really catch on, but another of Phillips’ offbeat performers — a fellow named Elvis Presley — would.

More here

I’ve tried the whole X-10 home automation and home security thing and canned it because of it’s flakiness, and main stream home security like Brinks and ADT can be quite expensive. So I’ve been hearing a lot lately on the radio about this LaserShield Home Security System, and thought I’d check it out.

The nice thing about this system is that it is portable and you can take it with you if you move. It’s also easy to use, activates in seconds and still has 24/7 professional monitoring if you want. It’s even pet friendly with special attachments to block out your animal from setting it off. Best part is that it is even available at most retailers like Comp USA, Home Depot, Costco, Kmart, etc.