Kid Cudi – Soundtrack 2 My Life (video)

Posted: March 25th, 2010 | Author: Shaun | Filed under: Music | Tags: , , | View Comments

I saw Kid Cudi live last weekend, and because I’ve been pumping his music out of my laptop speakers ever since, I thought I’d share the new visuals for “Soundtrack 2 My Life” with you. The director reeaaally pulls all the scenes together in this quite perfectly.

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Jay-Z Kicks Off Super Bowl 44

Posted: February 8th, 2010 | Author: Shaun | Filed under: Music | Tags: , , | View Comments

Although Run This Town has been far too overplayed for it’s own good, this remix that aired right before the Super Bowl is enough to make it sound fresh again.

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Lego’s X NES = 8 Bit Trip (video)

Posted: August 24th, 2009 | Author: Shaun | Filed under: Creative, Design, Music, Video, Viral | Tags: , , , , , | View Comments

Now this is kind of cool. These guys just brought together two great sources of fun from childhood: Lego’s and the original Nintendo. How about the free promotion that the two brands recieve from this. The video is spreading like wildfire and the it already has over 200,000 views on YouTube.

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Coldplay – “Strawberry Swing” (Video)

Posted: August 16th, 2009 | Author: Shaun | Filed under: Music | Tags: , , , | View Comments

Although it’s been over a year since Coldplay released their critically aclaimed album, Viva La Vida, the band is still putting out some great music videos. The song “Strawberry Swing” is set to be the 5th single from the album, and while it most likely won’t have much success on the charts as a 5th single, they decided to create a video that watches more like a short film than a traditional music video.  The dream-like video in which a superhero seeks to save a damsel in distress from a giant squirrel was directed by the visual artists Shynola.

It’s been a rather slow week in the marketing and advertising world, other than Mad Men campaign, nothing has really stood out or blown me away, but this video did.  Enjoy!

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Mos Def Selling His New Album On A T Shirt

Posted: June 18th, 2009 | Author: Shaun | Filed under: Music | Tags: , , , , | View Comments

 

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Mos Def’s latest album, The Ecstatic, has sold around 40,000 copies since its release last week.  Mos Def hopes to add to that total by selling a digital copy of his album on a T-shirt in July. The shirt will cost $39 and will have code on it that lets each fan who buys it download the album online.  Soundscan is actually reported count sales of the shirt as official album sales. 

Let me tell you, this is a smart move right here. Not only is it giving fans added incentive to buy the album, but its also creating more profit for the artist because, as designer Jeremy Wineberg said, ” You’re bypassing the middleman, like iTunes.”

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