Dear Childhood : Grow Up
The upswing of all things 80’s now seems to come with a requirement, and that is to be better than you used to be.
“I like to feel like I did back then.”™
The upswing of all things 80’s now seems to come with a requirement, and that is to be better than you used to be.
A beer that includes pirate ship oak, tobacco, honey, killer whales, 60 foot waves and force 10 storms. Perfection.
This by far is one of the more successful and clever bids I’ve seen in a while for a viral campaign, especially at something that’s getting as much attention this year as San Diego Comic Con.
The iPhone’s full of quirky, clever, funny and utterly useless aps that mimic real-life objects. We’re just glad this one actually has some real functionality alongside its totally retro fun allure. Though the TI-85 was the standard scientific calculator when I was teenager, I actually remember seeing one of these on my parents’ writing desk [...]
TelegramStop is a new Melbourne, Australia-based enterprise that has become a popular alternative to e-mails and traditional greeting cards. I have never received one before but I do get excited if I receive an actual card over an e-card so I would probably pass out if I got a telegram!!
“Make me feel like I did back then”. TIME TRAVEL is all about recapturing those feelings from times gone by. We find a lot of fun “retro kitsch” in this wave.
As someone in early my early 30’s it’s a trip to hear my generation now be referred to as “oldskool” by Gen y’s.
What’s even more [...]
Many of us grew up with the classic’s first released by game manufacturers Nintendo and Sega. Memories of blissfully spending countless hours maneuvering Mario and firing away those nasty mushrooms using the “A” or “B” button are about as cozy as baking cookies for Santa. The nostalgia alone has leaded some of us [...]
Microsoft would like to take us back for once –waaaaay back, back to a time when computers didn’t enslave our lives as tightly as clocks do. We’ve taken a moment to imagine what that felt like, and yes a bit of nostalgia crept up around our memories.
Precisely the feeling Microsoft [...]
Mickey is back and he is hitting the streets! Spotted several months ago by Culturewaves’ graphic design guru and future honorary Disney imagineer, Locke Hilderbrand, Mickey Mouse gear is starting to pop up everywhere.
With Mickey set to celebrate his 75th birthday a resurgence of Disney in fashion couldn’t be more timely or appropriate.
Refinery 29 is [...]
Will radio survive technological changes? A recent New York Times article questioned radio’s ability to rebound considering all the competing technologies from iPods and other music storage mediums including cell phones to internet radio.
I have little compassion for greedy mega corporations that have monopolized and homogenized the airwaves, but I know that the government was [...]