While it’s not necessarily capitalism per se when you’re promoting an animation film festival, this still belongs in our odes to well executed commercials. Ogilvy puts together this really clever live action piece to promote the Anim’est International Animation Film Festival in Romania, which goes down the 7th-16th of October in Bucharest…

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13 May
Design, Hotels, Style / Design, Travel
Checking In: W Hotel, London
Europe’s flagship W opens in London, but can the transatlantic cool of the brand be translated?

The second edition of our Checking In series, Lost In A Supermarket’s quest to cover all things we hold most dear (see our review of the gleaming new Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Hong Kong). In this review we jump continents from Hong Kong’s Ritz — now the highest hotel in the world — to the W Hotel […]

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21 Sep
Film, Music, Read / Look / Listen, Video
Girl Talk “NYE Chicago” Documentary
Greg Gillis blows up Chicago, films behind-the-scenes for Pitchfork

Today PitchforkTV debuted their documentary covering Girl Talk’s much buzzed about New Year’s Eve concert in Chicago of this year. If you’ve ever seen Girl Talk (aka Greg Gillis) live, you know he’s one of the most energized, fist-in-the-air performers out there. The blood and sweat Pittsburgh’s favorite son pours into each show is undeniable, […]

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7 Oct
Comedy, Furniture, Weirdness
The Shit Box: From the Brown Corporation
When you gotta go, you gotta go...

If most or all inventions come as a result of necessity, then this one takes the toilet cake. Richard “The Big Shit” Wharton, founder of the the Brown Corporation, was on day three at a festival and had to go. He didn’t want to use the port-a-shitter (can you blame him?) and didn’t want to […]

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