Today at Renegade, we could not get off the subject of reproductive, rather anti-reproductive devices.
First, I brought in the limited edition Palin Condom I got at the 140 Characters Conference in March. You may have seen the Obama “Use with Good Judgement” and McCain “Old But Not Expired” condoms on CNN or being sold in Times Square by the fine fellows at Practice Safe Policy. Mine is better, tho.
See? You can get it here.
Then, another Renegade tweeted out a link to a case study for a fictional iPhone app submitted to the Cannes Future Lions 2010 Competition. Using this app, one can knock up their iPhone by mating it with another. Then a simulated baby is created that needs to be coddled, fed, you know – everything a baby needs. To be saved from the embarrassment of a screaming phone baby in public, the young target must purchase a pack of Durex condoms and scan a QR code to get the Anti-Knockup Application that keeps the womb in their phone barren. We all think it’s brilliant. I hope you do, too.
Durex Baby from Peter Ammentorp on Vimeo.
All that blathered, with this post I am inaugerating a new category for the Saw a Good Idea blog: condom promos. Once we started talking about their use in advertising (even Renegade has put ads on condoms!), we realized this may be a fun category to acknowledge. I hope you love it. On Monday, I may have second thoughts about the new category and just make this series of posts. We’ll see…
Next up? The Flojuggler.
Can’t help but love this one. These kids are dancing like crazy for H&M.
What I consider socially acceptable is often not in line with the views
of others. Here are three examples of the inappropriate (I call them
joyful) acts I commit on a weekly, if not daily, basis: dancing to my
iPod in public, calling my superiors "Dude," and playing with other
people's children (being a stranger).
While other art students from my old school in Boston would quietly
sneak touches of artworks by artists they adored (if you're shocked,
get over it – artists frequently touch each others pieces), I would get
hyper and jump and shout when a piece really knocked me out. I have
received the nastiest "Your-behavior-is-SO-inappropriate!" glares in
the gallery setting.
Today, I found a sister in art reaction, Allison Reimus, a MFA student
at American Univeristy in Washington DC. Her blog, a compilation of
user-submitted photos gathered since 2007, is titled Jumping in Art Museums. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I have.
Just saw this cool video on gaming blog offworld.com of a graffitti game for Wii:
WiiSpray Teaser from Martin Lihs on Vimeo.
Designer Martin Lihs developed this open-ended game, in partnership with Montana Paint, in an effort to “give graffiti a new virtual level surpassing tactile boundaries of the tangible world.” I think the guerrilla aspect of graffitti is lost in this concept, but nevertheless, I dig it for two reasons:
1) Its simplicity. No instructions are needed to interpret the console, so users are free to explore the possibilities on their own — ie. get creative faster. The simplicity of the program is what gives it fluidity, makes it easy to get from concept to creation.
2) Its cleanliness. One can tag up their wall until there’s no tomorrow without inhaling any xylene fumes or covering themselves in toxic paint. This is more of a plus for someone who is an actual graffitti artist because they can practice and plan their pieces without mucking up so many walls and brain cells. In that light, I guess it’s a plus for moms as well.
Who needs the latest generation of iPhone when you have an iPod Touch? If you aren’t ready to make the jump to AT&T, you can have all the same SMS text functionality at your fingertips with an iPod Touch. MogoTXT is an online service that let’s users with or without cell phones send text messages to anyone as long as they have internet access. It’s a pretty neat idea. Incorporate that with the VoIP/iPod set-up and you have a makeshift iPhone. Way to go, MacGyver.
