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Archive for January 2012

It’s Face Time

January 27, 2012 | 3 Comments | View

Today is Tom Saitta’s birthday. That being the case, we wanted to take a moment and a sliver of bandwidth to recognize and honor the day our Vice President of Account Management became a living, breathing creature – and to toast the man that creature became. You’re a fellow of distinction, dedication, heart, and soul. Beyond [...]

Instagr/am/bient: Stop, Collaborate and Listen

January 20, 2012 | No Comments | View

One of many lessons to be learned from hip-hop (or Kenny Rogers) is that it’s hard to beat a solid collaboration. For us that goes exponential when you make it cross-media, with bonus points if there’s an iPhone involved. So you can imagine what happened when we got ahold of Instagr/am/bient: 25 Sonic Postcards – the [...]

True and Smart Transparency at the CES

January 13, 2012 | No Comments | View

While every organization under the sun has been grappling with either being or appearing transparent, Samsung’s been making it happen in the truest sense. Behold, the best thing we’ve seen out of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (admittedly from afar), Samsung’s Smart Window: Weird how it makes that town so small, though. Beta? Bugs aside, [...]

Enjoyable Edification

January 6, 2012 | No Comments | View

Resolutions, diets, and ‘new you’ to-dos are all well and good, but instead of more of that, how about we kick off 2012 with 100 of the greatest gig posters of the last 5 years, as curated by the author of The Wall: Modern Day Music Posters, Tom Booth? It’ll be just as good for you – [...]