Erika Iris Simmons makes stuff out of other stuff, like in this case, film and cassette tapes. Buy prints of her "Ghost In The Machine" series on Etsy, or work it into your next ad concept.
Why is watching someone tattoo another someone so fascinating? Watching Russ Abbott from Ink & Dagger tattoo this Brit for three days is great to watch, too bad they focused on the tattooing more than the awful pain faces Adam Machin must have been making by day 3.
No disrespect to the Marines (seriously, all respect in the world), but this poster's not really pulling it's weight for us. The big whop about this poster is that it's the "first 3D illustration in the 63-year partnership between JWT Atlanta and the USMC," but it just looks like a G.I. Joe figurine yelling at a guy going #2.
If you listen to The Moth Podcast or This American Life, you're familiar with Mike Birbiglia. If you don't well, you should and all you need to know is that he once sleepwalked out of a 2nd story window acting out a dream. Knowing that makes the fact that he's sleeping in a Macy's window for the next 6 days to promote a Downy product seem much more interesting. Follow along on Facebook and Twitter.
Urgent Genius may be the most vague competition our there - the premise: create "content" around a "trending topic" and whoever gets the most "likes" after 7 days "wins." And what you win is even more vague - a mention in a talk at SXSW (possibly delivered by a stranger muttering to himself in the porta-potty) and book (probably produced on Blurb) and they're working on getting the winners "commissions." BUT go ahead and enter anyways, the prize they don't mention is that we'll write you up, which is worth exactly $6.75, according to our tax attorneys.
160over90 in Pittsburgh is looking to hire, and in the process may lose their ECD. They're holding a "Job-A-Thon", during which their ECD, Jim Walls, will interview as many people as he can before he a) collapses or, b) quits, but not before 24 hours have elapsed. Having participated in more than one interview, this sounds both cruel and unusual Those are two things we really like, along with sparkly unicorns.
The waterboarding begins Feb 10th at 6:00AM - even if you don't need a job, it'd be worth the trip to Pittsburgh. Sign up here.
