archiving the day

My name is Phillip. I'm a 26 year old account planner,or brand planner, or strategist or whatever you want to call it at an advertising agency called mcgarrybowen in New York. I've worked for retail giants, pro-sports teams, an energy company, and in consumer electronics. My job entails explaining social concepts and trying to generally be "up" on stuff like trends, people's habits, media, the kind of stuff that may interest my clients (especially when they have no idea how it would interest them). I really enjoy my job (probably what I'm least bad at) however I do have a secret desire to be a music critic for one of those really trendy and pretentious music websites (see: Pitchforkmedia or Cokemachineglow). I'd wear ill fitting pants and ironic t-shirts, drink pabst and hate any band that got remotely famous. But I digress.

This blog helps me focus on interesting stuff that I find by saving it all in one place.

"the way to be interesting is to be interested" -R. Davies, Important ad guy

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My Email: phillip.t.lee@gmail.com

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June 2

Auto-Cannibalistic Table

Sure it’s an omnivore now but how long until they start making tables that eat meat and then how long until those meat eating tables turn on their human masters? When we start letting the tables eat its basically like unleashing skynet.

From article:

Why can’t a table eat itself? Tables support food, but why can’t they BE food too? The Auto-Cannibalistic Table understands that in nature energy and matter are in a constant state of transformation, cycling and recycling. It understands these facts and its design explicitly celebrates them. The Auto-Cannibalistic Table is made from paper egg flats, flour paste, soil and seeds, and when water is added, the seeds germinate and so the table begins to eat itself.

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May 28

Just Landed

Hey this is cool. It takes every instance of someone saying “just landed in ____” on twitter then takes their profile information to figure out where they are from and shows their flight on a map. The video is 36 hours of “just landed in” tracking.

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May 27

Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator | Clean Energy | US EPA Ever wonder what it really means when someone says 800,000 metric tons of carbon. Well this calculator can give you an idea. For example 800k tons of carbon is the equivalent of 146k cars on the road for a year. Like everything else big government agencies do it isn’t pretty but it is interesting…to me…I think.

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szymon:

brilliant WeightWatchers ambient

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May 12

Seth Godin on the tribes we lead | Video on TED.com Favorite TED talk so far this year.

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May 1

The best map ever

This is a great way to make a map and I hope it becomes an iPhone app.

From the article:

What’s going on?

Imagine a person standing at a street corner. The projection begins with a three-dimensional representation of the immediate environment. Close buildings are represented normally, and the viewer himself is shown in the third person, exactly where she stands.

As the model bends from sideways to top-down in a smooth join, more distant parts of the city are revealed in plan view. The projection connects the viewer’s local environment to remote destinations normally out of sight.

How?

Jack Schulze explains…

“First we take an electronic Manhattan. It’s a patch-work of various commercial sources, where we’ve repaired walls that aren’t drawn right and roofs that don’t fit. About a tenth of the city is re-built by hand, then textured.

“The projection seen here is a combination of city manipulations in modelling software, and choosing the best lens for the simulated camera. The nearby buildings obstruct the view if you get that wrong, or the distant ones stop working as a conventional map. There’s fine tuning and instinct. Let’s not demo the power of 3D applications, but make a map which is both useful and optically awesome to look at.

“Annotations come after the render. You’ll see that roads have to contour around buildings that would otherwise hide them. The design key is what’s handiest for a person standing in this exact spot, looking at this exact poster.”

Why?

Because the ability to be in a city and to see through it is a superpower, and it’s how maps should work.

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April 29

“ Instead of delivering up a bunch of links, the Wolfram/Alpha search engine tries to put a narrative around a user’s question and allow them to drill down. Indeed, the result presentation features graphics and other computational features. Think part calculator, part search engine. Wolfram/Alpha’s demo: Search results meet analytics | ZDNet.com

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The Pizza Box of the Future Has Arrived

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April 27

bigcrush:

thedailywhat:

Viral Ad of the Day: Remarkably surreal ad campaign for Scrabble, designed and executed by Ogilvy and Mather, Paris.

Two more: Sumo, Yoga.

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April 22

Michael Kontopoulos’ sculptures that almost tip themselves over - Boing Boing

From the post:

Michael Kontopoulos made these wooden sculptures that hit themselves with a hammer and almost tip over. He calls it “a system of sculptures that is constantly on the brink of collapse. My intention was to capture and sustain the exact moment of impending catastrophe and endlessly repeat it.”

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