Killing Them Hardly » kids

5 yr old on Brands.

Peter — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:51:28 +0000

Interesting perspectives on brand identities from a young expert.

Lil Evel

Peter — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:14:31 +0000

Saw this recently – this little guy, who has plagiocephaly, has parents who must have grown up in the 70s with me… A+ for the Halloween gear!

Reverse Halloween.

Peter — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:02:33 +0000

I love this silly Halloween comic – and the mischievous vein it taps – Halloween was always among my favorite nights of the year ;-)

Viral Rain Dance.

Peter — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:10:42 +0000

Twenty Bs pointed me to this amazing clip of some guys dancing on a rainy street corner in my old hometown of Oakland, CA. Love it. Joyful expression.

Bionic Action.

Peter — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:02:58 +0000

Found this online – a 1973 ad from Kenner – makers of the Six Million Dollar Man bionic action figure. This, along with the Evel Knievel figure, was the bomb back in the day. The ad was in heavy rotation in early to mid-Seventies Marvel comics.

Back for More.

Peter — Fri, 07 May 2010 20:30:44 +0000

I played guitar for this band in the late Eighties. Looking forward to seeing them later this month!

DMC New Orleans

Peter — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:11:47 +0000

I’ve always been a bit of a turntablism geek, and hope to get down to the Hookah Club for this national, umm, battle. Regardless, some of the older championships have been pretty insane.

Choose Your Own Visualization.

Peter — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:09:20 +0000

Children of the 80s may remember those awesome ‘Choose Your Own Adventure‘ books, in which the reader determines the storyline by choosing to follow plot path options. This site features some incredible Flash visualizations of the plot possibilities as motion animations. Select a Title, and then hit the ‘Play’ button to watch the magic.

Social Media Ghettos.

Peter — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:28:51 +0000

I’ve noted before that the vast, competing social networking sites seem to be aligning to members based on socio-economic status. The Globe And Mail’s Lisan Jutras continues the topic:

Last year, Facebook overtook MySpace in numbers of members. If you are like me, you made the switch because information was better organized on Facebook, and the layout was more conducive to clear communication. The fact that you were leaving behind a berserker aesthetic – cursors shaped like flames or hearts, layouts that take forever to load (and by forever, I mean, oh, one or two minutes), and messages wRiTtEn liKe ThIs – was a bonus. But according to Ms. Boyd, something more nefarious was going on, and that something was “white flight.”

Ms. Boyd came to her conclusions about MySpace – that MySpace is a digital “ghetto” populated by less-educated, lower-income non-whites – after months of research and interviews with teens across the United States. more

True Friendship.

Peter — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:56:00 +0000

Saw this on PopUrls this morning and thought it was sweet. Reminds me of hanging around the White Hen Pantry as a kid, reading their Marvel comic books.