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 | I popped over to the Karen Millen boutique last week to check out some dresses and fell in love with this Karen Millen ruched silk dress ($299). This fall, it’s about going bare without having to really go bare — find a dress with a sheer top or sleeves to give just a hint of what’s under. For more slightly sheer looks, try Elizabeth and James’ gauze t-shirt dress– it’s a sophisticated spin on a casual classic. Alice + Olivia’s embellished dress is just that, with sheer panels, lace, and rhinestones adding to the mix. Click over to Coquette for more sheer dresses and other fashion and shopping finds. |
In another bit of retail jibber-jabber, we return to March of last year when the jewelry company Tiffany & Co. announced that they would be carrying a line of Frank Gehry-designed shiny bits. From there, the story disappeared and we assumed that the most exciting things was, you know, people bought some of it and stuff. But behind the scenes, even before the launch, Gehry had landed in some hot water with a company called Circa Publishing Enterprises, who had brokered the connection between Tiffany and the starchitect with the understanding that they’d get a share of the profits. When Gehry and Tiffany decided to go it alone themselves, Circa sued. This was back in 2007. But now, this week, the suit has been kicked out of court, with Circa failing to prove that they had a shared-profit agreement with Gehry from the start. So, see, if you ignore the probably thousands of dollars in lawyer fees he’s had to spend over the past couple of years on this, not all news is bad news for Frank Gehry.
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Publicis has created a new Malibu campaign to bring new life to the slogan ‘Get Your Island On’ – which was cooked up by the drink brand’s previous agency, Droga 5.
The new campaign is based around the comical antics of MC Wonder Full and DJ Bernhard – who run a pirate radio station (Radio Maliboom Boom) on a beach in Barbados. The duo feature in a couple of ads currently showing in the US – where their fans can tune in to Radio Maliboom Boom radio shows via the campaign website: radiomaliboomboom.com. The site also tells the story of radio station and of its two disc jockeys via several online films.
Here are the two ads plus one of the online films – a music video for a track performed by MC Wonder Full – all set to hit UK shores later this year…
Snowflake:
and Sunshine:
Credits for Snowflake and Sunshine:
Creative agency: Publicis London
Client: Pernod Ricard
Brand: Malibu
Copywriter: Dave Sullivan
Art director: Stuart Farquhar
Exec creative directors: Tom Ewart & Adam Kean
Agency producer: Colin Hickson
Production company: Smuggler
Production co. producer: Gustav Geldenhuys
Director: Randy Krallman
Editor: John Smith @ The Whitehouse
Post-production: Framestore
Audiopost-production: Wave
Planner: Catherine Lusher
Media agency: Carat (US)
And here (below) is the ‘official video’ for Let Me Get That Boom Boom by MC Wonder Full – which wasn’t, we should point out, directed by Randy Krallman (who directed the above ads). Publicis’ Tom Ewart explains: “Online films like Give Me Some Of That Boom Boom were co-created by Publicis and Great Works in a ‘writing room’ we hosted here in London to generate a consistent narrative for Radio Maliboomboom across all media channels. We wrote a full history of the DJ’s from birth to present day, which included how the guys met and Wonder’s first (slightly questionable) music video. This ensured that wherever the DJ’s perform, and whereverthe content appears, it is true to the characters and the idea. Writing rooms are the future of integration.”
Let Me Get That Boom Boom by MC Wonder Full:
Shame this wasn’t released as a single in time for this year’s Notting Hill Carnival (taking place this weekend here in London). There’s some hilarious dance moves in here. And the air-horn thing is put to great comical use!
Le projet “And Everything Was Alright” est un court-métrage réalisé par le duo Robert Kilman et Safwat Saleem. Il raconte la belle histoire d’un ours solitaire qui se prépare à voyager dans l’espace. A découvrir dans la suite.
While at her local Nordstrom’s Department Store, my friend spotted the piano player using a MusicPad Pro for his sheet music. It’s a digital device, much like a Officially, the product is a “music performance computer tablet.” My friend called me immediately to tell me about this space-saving and organized device.
Digital sheet music for the MusicPad Pro can be purchased and downloaded from the website FreeHandMusic.com. If I understand the information on the website, there is also a subscription service where users can have continuous access to a music library for around $50 per month.
Upon further research, I’ve learned that my comparison of the Music Pad Pro to a Kindle is actually quite common — so common in fact that FreeHandMusic has now made their sheet music available for purchase on the Kindle. Since the MusicPad Pro retails for around $900 and the spiral binding your music.
(Image of the MusicPad Pro via FreeHandMusic.com)
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Remember a couple of weeks back when we wrote a post that included some talk about Cintra Wilson‘s NY Times piece about the opening of a JC Penney in Manhattan? Personally, we loved it, picking on both the ego of the city and the company’s general identity with equal, very funny-yet-mean digs. But apparently our opinion wasn’t shared by the masses, as since its publication, the Times has received loads of mail about the piece, forcing editor Clark Hoyt to profusely apologize and even Wilson bowing to appease the angry crowd forming at the gates. In one of the more painful sections of Hoyt’s apology, he even went to JC Penney’s PR person to ask them what they thought (surprise: they weren’t pleased). In this writer’s opinion, the whole thing is just brutal, this backing down for what we thought was a smartly-written, even-handed opinion piece (most of the reader quotes Hoyt includes in his piece seem to be from people who only read the first half of Wilson’s story). What’s next? Apologies for movie reviews? Or telling Nicolai Ouroussoff to stop getting people all worked up? We figured the banner Wilson was writing under, “Critical Shopper,” was a good indication that you’d be reading the opinions of a critic. Fortunately for us, there was this brilliant response by blogger Lewis Grossberger: “Clark Hoyt, Go Soak Your Head” Its central argument is that the editor is apologizing for making the paper interesting and readable. It’s a fantastic counter and brilliantly written, far better articulating our distaste after reading Hoyt’s piece. But that’s just this writer’s opinion. Apologies in advance if this has upset anyone at all, for any reason, ever.
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