Who thought the South Bank centre would be ones to get down with it? It being the freestyle oral workouts of modern one man bands, beatboxing. They’ve hired beatboxer meister Shlomo as their new artist in residence, after seeing the multi-talented motormouth combine beatboxing through a loop sampler, beatboxing and drumming simultaneously. He’s set to [...]
Talking your way to the top
WTF?!? P Diddy to get 50/50 share of Ciroc Vodka profits?
My head is spinning even though I’m pretty sure there’s is no way in hell this is right but according to Yahoo! News Ciroc Vodka’s parent company Diageo, has not only given the green light to endorsing this joker – they’re actually giving him half the profits! The Alan Partridge of hip hop (albeit with [...]
Audi to move into the mobile phone market?
This may only be a pipe dream, and if an Audi mobile does actually make it into production it will be as an accompaniment for your Audi vehicle. Outside of it having an mp3 player, Wi-Fi, 3G and sat nav the phone will take pictures on any fuckface who tries to steal your car and [...]
Beyonce invents mobile phone
Th R&B superstar hasn’t so much invented it as designed it really. Samsung seem to be doing tie-ins with everyone they can get their hands on and it appears bouncy’s made herself available for a quick squeeze.
The ‘B’Phone’ features a Beyonce themed start-up screen and the ability to download exclusive Beyonce photos and videos. [...]
LG developing a phone a with Rolex
After already designing and releasing a phone with Prada, LG have turned their attentions to designing a phone with another world famous luxury brand – Rolex. If you’ve been reading these pages for a while (I doubt it, we’re less than a month old) you’ll know what I think of these tie ins.
Only a vapid [...]
Advertisers aggressively launching into video games
Pretty much everywhere you look. Toyota today launched a new Xbox Live game in which you are a Yaris car with a tentacle protuding out of its sun roof and which shoots stuff on the street as you drive past. Brilliant. It’s available for free to Xbox Live customers in Canada and the U.S.A. and [...]
Steve Jobs smartest man on earth, O2 getting raped
Here’s an interesting article by Don Reisinger at CNET news outlining how Steve Job’s wiley ways are rinsing O2 and leaving them for dead on the side of the road. As I reported earlier in the week the terms of the iPhone deal are not only incredibly unfavourable for O2 but it appears that Apple’s [...]
Scoring Hennessy, Pha-reeell
Doing his bit to breakaway from boring hip hop stereotypes the groundbreaking visionary that is Pharell Williams has decided to put his hand to scoring three Hennessy TV ads and 10 webcasts. Don’t think I could put it any better than the CEO of Berlin Cameron United, the advertising firm that put the ads together. [...]
