September 24, 2009 @ 7:37 pm
This post seems rather fitting considering the fact that I just posted about The United States of McDonald’s. Anyway, here are some examples of the clock made of McDonald’s foods that DDB (The Philippines) created which ended up increasing sales in the area by 13.9% vs the same period the previous year. The billboards were put along the roads to entice people to go eat McDonald’s no matter what time it is. Pretty, eh?
January 29, 2009 @ 11:11 am
This is interesting. Very Small Array has posted visual representations of Billboard’s Top 100 hits in 2008 which makes it very easy to digest information (especially when the information is in list form like it is on Billboard’s website). Anyway, it’s amazing how much pop music was pushed through the radio last year while almost every other genre took the back seat.
And judging by what’s playing now on the radio, it looks like 2009 is shaping up to be very similar. If you’re curious, VSA also put together graphs and charts for Pitchfork Media’s top 100 tracks of 2008. But honestly, it’s Pitchfork, so how accurate can this be except in representing the indie music out on the market?
December 1, 2008 @ 6:04 pm
The big PSP billboard on Houston Street and Lafayette Street has finally been taken down. I can’t remember a time when the PSP sign was working 100%. It seemed like every single time I saw it, there were either dead pixels or the screen just wasn’t on.
But the thing that irked me the most about it was that the screen wasn’t the same proportions as a regular PSP screen. The large billboard was erected in May 2005 and has called that corner home for more than 3 years (too long if you ask me — especially since it wasn’t even working most of the time).
If you’re nostalgic about the sign, you can visit its better days via Flickr.
