“By using the past as a sanctuary, I feel more connected to others.”™
The reinvention of reality TV from screaming twenty-somethings to screaming adults frantically trying to live their lives has grown fast. And in one area in particular, it’s booming.
Don’t you love when you see something that you think is a “concept” then you find out it’s real and can be bought with a click of a button! That’s what happened when I saw this book: Sterling’s Gold: Wit and Wisdom of an Ad Man.
Using photography and open source maps as a window into the past.
For those of you that don’t buy into the feel good whimsy of General Mill’s retro cereal boxes and the rebirth of toys like My Little Pony and Carebears; there’s still a lot of nostalgia out there that’s beginning to widen out.
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 [...]