A Source Of Inspiration

Yesterday i saw this.

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Today Seth wrote about this:

Early in December my Son and I went to Winnipeg for an exhibition lacrosse game of our favorite team, the Minnesota Swarm. Winnipeg is about 8 or 9 hours and an border crossing away from our home, so it was a non-trivial jaunt for a sporting event. For us, it was a novel adventure. I’ll spare you almost all of the details other than it was a wonderful trip and Winnipeg was an awesome place to visit, even in the winter. Everybody we met was really great and especially helpful, which leads me into the actual story. Two other die-hard Swarm fans made the trek up as well. We sat on one side of the MTS Centre and they had seats on the other side. The game was fun, even if we did lose. Once the game was over the other guys stood up from their seats to leave. Someone tapped one of the guys on the shoulder and when he turned around, he asked him “Did you drive up from the Cities just for the game?”. His answer was, of course, “yes”. The man handed him a twenty, said “gas money”, and walked away. To this day I am still astonished by the man’s anonymous generosity and can’t help but reflect on how that simple act affected the perception of folks from Winnipeg and perhaps Canadians in general. Like I said, i’ve told that story to many many people and the universal response is “whoa”. I’m sure the people that I told have told it to others and so on.

How quickly and thoroughly did that simple act trump any efforts that the local tourism board could have done?

With Web 2.0 loosing its momentum (Henriette feels the same) and social networks reaching a saturation point, getting more personal seems to be the obvious choice.

And it isn’t hard as it used to, thanks to the many digital tools now available. But it will surely require a new shift from companies, used to large media plans and broad market segments. Welcome to micro-targeting.

Btw, Torke (the folks from Invisible Red) have definitely a sense of humour with their new homepages.

Call it environment marketing, buzz marketing or guerrilla. It doesn’t really matter, since it surely has already caught your attention. And probably one of these stunts was done by these folks: Graffiti Research Lab

The media is getting too crowded and these non-linear approaches to communication are getting their prime time now. It’s hardly conventional, and if a brand has the guts to live on the razor’s edge, they should check some amazing stuff that Graffiti Research Lab did. A few of my favorites:

• LED throwies
• Light Criticism (with AAA)
• Interactive Architecture

Never thought I’ll ever see this, but it seems HTML got a life of its own.

“The html-movement-library is a web-based repository of short video clips and images by various performers who use html tags, as a starting point for generating movements. The idea of the library is to develop an expandable movement alphabet of the html language. The goal of the html-movement-library is to provide different materials for enacting and visualizing the architectures and language-structures of Websites …”

Source: Rhizome

From Chimpancingo - Mexico, arises the iconoclastic Silverio.
Provoking performances banished him from several stages but were the jumpstart to a more global reach.

You really should listen to the electro-cheese music by the neanderthal Silverio along with stage dancer Ceci.

image © http://www.rock.com.mx

MORE:

The performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUaftTy9Ck8

The video clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb4UT7YuI9g

The Label: http://nuevosricos.com/