Peace Nerds.

Written by Peter. Posted on April 26, 2010. Filed under annunciation, signs, work. No comments.
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Neat quickie shot of the stuff on our mantle at my office at Annunciation Interactive.  Photo by our friend and client David Guidry of Lakeside Photoworks.  The ‘Peace’ card was from our buddy Jake at PeopleMover last Xmas I think.

Won’t Bow. Don’t Know How.

Written by Peter. Posted on April 16, 2010. Filed under annunciation, dirty, fauborg, katrina, orleans, politics. No comments.
Won’t Bow. Don’t Know How.
David Simon’s new HBO series ‘Treme’ debuted last Sunday, and I got to watch it recently.  It’s always tough to see New Orleans portrayed by the outside world, but Treme does so relatively well.   Gorgeous cinematography, great music and vibe – so we’ll try to forgive the heavy-handed cultural name dropping and awkward references.  All [...]

DMC New Orleans

Written by Peter. Posted on April 12, 2010. Filed under kids, orleans, user interface. No comments.
DMC New Orleans
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.

TrustoCorp Truth.

Written by Peter. Posted on April 6, 2010. Filed under advertising, consumer, design, graffiti, guerrilla, pranks, signs. No comments.
TrustoCorp Truth.
Check out this great Flickr set here. Decorating the streets of Los Angeles, Miami and New York City, street artist TrustoCorp adds personality to Metropolitan areas with these hand painted street signs. While all of the signs are amusing, some of them seem to carry a social message, while others come off a bit lighter. [...]

Warmongering By the Numbers.

Written by Peter. Posted on April 2, 2010. Filed under politics. No comments.
Warmongering By the Numbers.
Great collection of infographics re: military spending from The Guardian.

Square Coke Box.

Written by Peter. Posted on March 28, 2010. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design, food, trend, user interface. No comments.
Square Coke Box.
Really neat packaging design concepts, apparently from a freshman student.  Good article here.

Power Users Dominate.

Written by Peter. Posted on March 11, 2010. Filed under business, consumer, interactive, internet, technology, trend. No comments.
Power Users Dominate.
Interesting stats article today on mashable.com about Twitter users’ usage.  I was going to link it up here, but the front-page PopURLs mention crashed mashable.  It basically said something to the effect that only about 21% of users had actually tweeted more than 10 times.  Something like 34% had only tweeted once. I’m intrigued by [...]

Crack Lock.

Written by Peter. Posted on February 18, 2010. Filed under consumer, design, guerrilla, pranks, user interface. No comments.
Crack Lock.
I haven’t actually tried this yet, but I’ve always been intrigued by locks and their vulnerabilities.  This diagram purports that any combination lock can be cracked relatively quickly with an applied process.  Hmmm.

The 1-second Flight.

Written by Peter. Posted on February 17, 2010. Filed under uncategorized. No comments.
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I believe that this is from Intel’s lobby.  Really puts Moore’s Law and the explosive expansion of technology in perspective.

Support Your Local Heroin Brand.

Written by Peter. Posted on February 9, 2010. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design, graffiti, guerrilla. No comments.
Support Your Local Heroin Brand.
Neat blurb about a startup art project documenting ‘heroin brands’ – the stamps found on bags of heroin identifying their maker or seller.  This has always been a little intriguing to me.  You can support their project with a small donation here.