Kubrick is a collectible line of toys made by the Japanese company MediCom. The company was found by Tatsuhiko Akashi and a former Lego employee. Named after Stanley Kubrick, these exclusive toys have been crafted to pay homage to pop culture icons such as The Beatles, Daft Punk (both of which we have in stock at the RSVP Gallery), Batman, Star Wars and more. Kubricks are known to come in three different sizes designated as: 100% (six centimeters high), 400% (24 centimeters high), and 1000% (60 centimeters high).
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“Think like a CFO”
Taking social online to offline and then back
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My first visit to New York City included stepping into the 24,000 sq ft. M&M store on Times Square. Not only did I end up buying M&M merchandise, which is now part of my everyday life, but I also spent an hour just going through one shelf after another, ogling at the seemingly attractive and overly creative transfusions of the brand.
I am not going to hesitate to declare that, soon, advertising will be a bad word. Soon, social media will become an overused, meaningless term.
We, as marketers, must take the necessary steps to define what’s next and bring it closer to today. Let’s redefine the branding models and readjust our thoughts. It is about time we stop limiting ourselves to advertising and selling products blatantly while ignoring the cultural halos that surround our brand messages. Let’s over-deliver.
Brands that will continue to provide extra-ordinary experiences to enhance people’s lives will be the ones with dedicated fandom. Let’s shift our minds from moving pockets to moving cultures.
Take a look at these brands across the globe, who have recently created experiences by mounting their brands in unexpected environments, digitally or physically.
Of course they have to be believable. They can’t be pipedreams. Or as John Naisbitt once said: You can’t get so far ahead of the parade that no one knows you’re in it.
From an execution perspective, you have to think big, start small, and scale fast. You can’t think big and start big, that’s almost impossible. You need miniature versions of your grand idea so you can validate its parts, and then iterate and tweak constantly. There’s nothing wrong with having a really big idea and launching only aspects of that idea.
Stop and smell the roses
WSJ’s John Freeman quite explicitly expressed his panic wrapped in the form of an awakening article on the need to slow down our communication pace.
Southwest Airlines announced today about their plans of enabling free Wi-Fi on all their flights, at all times, starting next year. Southwest will not be the only one enabling you to tweet while you gaze down at the sundry lands. Soon, going offline will be a luxury.
Freeman also elucidates that our generation needs a radical movement towards slowing down our communication, that we need to concentrate on quality over quantity.
I don’t agree with everything being stated here but this is a great read, nonetheless.
Read the article here.
The author rightly says on access to high-speed Internet: “It has made it more difficult to read slowly and enjoy it, hastening the already declining rates of literacy. It has made it harder to listen and mean it, to be idle and not fidget.”
“A large part of electronic communication leads us away from the physical world. Our cafes, post offices, parks, cinemas, town centers, main streets and community meeting halls have suffered as a result of this development.”
I think that the answer is not slow communication but it is about having access to faster communication but knowing where to stop and integrating order into the everyday.
With the overabundance of information, when do we say enough?
How can you not salivate to more knowledge? And more narcissism? And higher connectivity?
One of the 2009 Cannes Ad fest winners: A short film about communication
