A Choice Selection of Epic Metal Covers
My music taste is rather eclectic, however one of my favorite pastimes is finding epic metal covers of songs that deserve epic metal covers. One of my other favorite pastimes is finding epic metal covers of songs that definitely don’t deserve epic metal covers. I’ve compiled a list of my favorites here to share.
So, without further ado, get your week started off right with some sweep picking.
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Brokechella
If the ticket price of a weekend at Coachella scared you away from Indio this year, not to fear. Luckily for Los Angeles, there’s a cheap and (more importantly) worthwhile alternative in Brokechella, the one-day downtown music festival. Tickets are only $10 bucks (and $5 if you pre-order) for a full day of great music.
The event is on Saturday, April 20th and you can purchase tickets here. See below to check out the full artist list for each of the festival’s stages.
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Office Picks – The New Year
We’re a little ways into 2013, so we thought we’d share some of the tunes we’re listening to. Check them out below.
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How to Make a Halloween Pumpkin Keg – Animated GIFs
Here are some animated GIFs that can help you make your very own Pumpkin Keg for Halloween!
Copywriting Resources in Print
Here are some resources we’ve compiled for copywriters. These are helpful for both experienced copywriters or those looking to get familiar with advertising writing. We hope you find these as helpful as we do.
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The Future – Vision and Reality, Part 2:
Envisioning the Future Today
In the Part 1 of this series, we reviewed some visions of the future from the past. Although some of these visions, especially that of Sir Arthur C. Clarke, included rather accurate predictions about the future, many of the predictions were either “laughably conservative” (as Clarke might put it) or overly optimistic and absurd from today’s point of view.
In this blog, we shall take a look at some more contemporary visions of the near future, including those of tech companies such as Microsoft and Google. We shall discuss some of the similarities and common themes as they relate to technology and user experiences that they all share.
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Office Picks – Welcome to Fall
Fall is in full swing. Halloween is just around the corner and then Thanksgiving after that. Here’s what we’ve been listening to in the office while the leaves change.
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Easteregg.in – Simple Easter Eggs for Your Site
Perhaps some of you remember with fondness the Konami code from days spent gathered around the television and a video game console. I know that I certainly do. Easteregg.in is a tool that gives developers easy-to-use templates to implement their own Easter Eggs in web products. Simply choose between the different types of Easter Eggs and methods of activation and then throw it into your code! I thought it was a cool concept and decided to share it.
If you’re interested, here is Easteregg.in’s Github page.
[REVIEW] Scientific Advertising by Claude C. Hopkins
“The only purpose of advertising is to make sales.”
While it’s not the only point that Claude C. Hopkins makes in Scientific Advertising
may be a dated book, but its relevance to contemporary advertising hasn’t disappeared. It is still provides valuable insight into the craft and purpose of advertising.
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The Future – Vision and Reality, Part 1: Envisioning the Absurd Future in the Past
“The only thing that we can be sure of the future is that it will be absolutely fantastic.” — Sir Arthur C. Clarke, 1964
This is part of a series of blogs on visions of the future. Although rather complex when accurately taking into consideration socio-political, ethical, and cultural aspects, we shall focus primarily on technology and the user experiences that we expect to find in the near or distant future. But before we examine our current ideas of the future, let us go back in time and see how people envisioned our presence. As tempting as it is to laugh off historic visions of the future today, it might prove helpful to examine them. Common mistakes seem to be made whenever we try to envision the future.
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