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Who’s the new frontman for Van Halen?
1October 3, 2007 by Colin
Rockin’ axe. Check!Rollin’ drums. Check!
Grungy concert t-shirt. Check!
Bank of Marshall amps? Check!
Extended walkway for outrageous on-stage antics and guitar solos? Check!
Leather pants? Check!
White pleather jacket with gold brocade and arm chevrons? Ummmmm.
Short spiky hair? Jeeeeeez……..
Overextended leg kick? Phew, back on solid ground with that!
It’s David Lee Roth – who’s obviously been watching old game tape with Sammy Hagar at the helm of Van Halen.
image grabbed from videophone footage shot at Van Halen’s last rehearsal concert, at the LA Forum last month.
h/t to Cleveland Scene
[tags] Van Halen, David Hasselhoff, Allen Frew, Glass Tiger, Richard Marx, leather pants [/tags]
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XP – not to toot my own horn
0October 3, 2007 by Colin
… but I’ve written some interesting posts over at my other blog, sosaidthe.org. They tend to concentrate on government communications, so I’ve stopped posting these sorts of ideas here at canuckflack. Still, I think they’re worth a gander:
- New recruits stumble on Facebook: how much embarrassment can your new employees bring to the office?
- Is blogger outreach a timebomb in your work plan?
- Conferences: the crucible of government communications.
[tags] Facebook, employee communications, blogger relations [/tags]
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Chalk Signs – Corporate Promotion and Staff Uprising
0October 3, 2007 by Colin
Chalk signs. You know – chalkboard signs decorated with menus, promotional tag lines, simple price displays, usually found at grocery stores or restaurants – that rough and personalized touch that helps build a personal bond between you and your retailer.One Canadian company, Chalk It Up!, has created 400 boards since 2001, including 75 for the Ruby Tuesday chain of casual dining restaurants. Claire Watson, the principal artist, has posted several images from her work on flickr.
Chalk signs provide hearty opposition to the polished and focus-tested stalagmites that otherwise dot the grocery floor – the promotional pop-ups, tasting stations, shipping palettes disguised as festive boxes, and good old fashioned Super Bowl celebrity cut-outs.
Properly conceived and executed, chalk signs can convince a consumer that their chosen shop or store is so fresh, so responsive and so connected to the community that their signs HAVE to be chalk, HAVE to be changed every day.
When institutionalized, though, chalk signs can prompt memories of the big bad wolf, dressed in Grandma’s bedclothes: when Whole Foods, Starbucks, Domino’s or Movenpick Marche list ingredients, menu items or prices in a chalk script, I get a faint whiff of lupine halitosis.
The most appealing quality of chalk signs is their humour. Subtle, ironic, sophisticated, blunt, or punny. The artists and workers who put some real effort into the signs should be recognized – at the very least with a piece of flair that says “I’m the chalk artist, tip me well!”
In the wrong hands chalk signs can provide quick outlets for staff dissatisfaction – like at this New Orleans Starbucks.
Lord of the Bings, from Lizzy poo‘s portfolio of chalk signs on flickr.
[tags] chalk signs, chalk menus, restaurant menu [/tags]
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Blood Stains from the slaine Monks of Lindisfarne in the Viking attack of 793AD. Folios 191v and 192r of the Lindisfarne Gospels - written and illuminated by the Anglo-Saxon Bishop Eadfrith in 698AD.
Liber generationis Jesu Christi
“Lo, it is nearly 350 years that we and our fathers have inhabited this most lovely land, and never before has such terror appeared in Britain as we have now suffered from a pagan race, nor was it thought that such an inroad from the sea could be made. Behold, the church of St. Cuthbert spattered with the blood of the priests of God, despoiled of all its ornaments; a place more venerable than all in Britain is given as a prey to pagan peoples.”
Alcuin, Letter to Ethelred, King of Northumbria
Images: British Library
I had a Brooks Brothers 15 1/2 - 35 shirt and we used its front pocket to determine when the Pilot design was “pocket sized” - Joel Jewitt, discussing the invention of the Palm Pilot
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