Meme Huffer

I'm with Shepard Fairey

Well, I would be if I could vote in the US.

image from Obey

Update: and I'm not alone

Chewie meets Marilyn (Friday fffound)

For Jonesy.

(found at ffffound)

Great Quotes for Planners #46 -on originality

"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats." -Howard Aiken

Monday music

We're huge Nick Cave fans here at Meme Huffer, so are massively excited by the fact that there is a new album on the way. To add some biblical boogie to the start of your working week, here's the video for the title track "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!":

And you can view the seance-busting teaser films here, here, here, here and here

"I am your father" (Friday ffffound)

Dug up at the continuously wonderful ffffound.com

Great Quotes for Planners #45 -be a rebel

"When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion." -C.P. Snow

For "crimes", insert the word "advertising".

Don't follow the herd -just because every mobile phone brand uses alt-folk, doesn't mean you should.

BTW, there's a great piece in today's Campaign (sorry, it doesn't seem to be online yet) on the spate of pseudo Cogs & Balls spots... which is kinda like all those "alternative", "non-conformist" kids who all dress in exactly the same way (& working in Camden, I see them everyday).

Break category conventions -as BBH puts it, when the world zigs, zag.

Advertising from a bygone age

Ah, for the days when you could use domestic violence to sell grocery products!

Join the army, travel to exciting distant lands, meet exotic interesting people, and kill them.

A lovely bit of aikido-move billboard-jamming, found over at ffffound

Great Quotes for Planners #44 -feel the pain

"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking." -John Kenneth Galbraith

Planners need to cultivate a certain intellectual masochism, a desire to keep searching and to always question the obvious answer. If we let ourselves be wrapped up in the intellectual cotton-wool of tried and tested theories, status-quo reflecting research reports and so-called conventional wisdom, we'll end up pushing undifferentiated ideas and advertising which sticks neatly to the category cues. Yawn.

So suck it up.

Friday ffffound

Ah, truth in advertising!

Have a great Friday.