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Tune In Saturdays: Hype Machine Music Blog Zeitgeist

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Groupthink

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For those of you still insisting that your research methods consist only of the relationship between your customer, your product and maybe a few competitors, this is probably worth a watch. 

Advertising's failure to account for the social nature of human beings is one of our biggest failures, and likely about where the line between a prosperous future and failure lies. If your not designing for talkability, we hope you enjoy fail camp.


ps. I'd also consider this a fair indictment of focus groups. If most people are willing to blatantly lie to fit in, how do you think they'll react when the answer isn't so black and white?


Transformation

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"'Innovation' died in 2008, killed off by overuse, misuse, narrowness, incrementalism and failure to evolve. It was done in by CEOs, consultants, marketeers, advertisers and business journalists who degraded and devalued the idea by conflating it with change, technology, design, globalization, trendiness, and anything “new.” It was done it by an obsession with measurement, metrics and math and a demand for predictability in an unpredictable world. The concept was also done in, strangely enough, by a male-dominated economic leadership that rejected the extraordinary progress in “uncertainty planning and strategy” being done at key schools of design that could have given new life to “innovation. To them, “design” is something their wives do with curtains, not a methodology or philosophy to deal with life in constant beta—life in 2009."


-Bruce Nussbaum

Read the rest here.

Tune In Saturdays: Benji Hughes

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BenjihughesBenji Hughes is clearly one weird dude. I'm not sure what exactly the North Carlina songwriter is on, but give me two of whatever he's having. The guy looks like he's straight out of the 70's rock and roll scene, with songs that have this crazy, but fitting mix of folk and lounge music, good old hip hop, and randomness. The whole thing is very odd, and very appealing. A great party record.


He looks like an Allman brother, sings like Beck and suffers the dating travails of George Costanza. But on his sprawling double-CD debut, Benji Hughes is unmistakably — and always hilariously — his own man. The North Carolina-and-Tennessee-reared artist specializes in laugh-out-loud vignettes about hipster culture, with catchy, eccentrically arranged songs that straddle folk, lounge, electro, synth rock and a half-dozen other styles.


Home.MySpace.


Benji Hughes - Girl in a Tower (video)


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Benji Hughes - A Love Extreme Introduction (video)


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A Love Extreme (Benji Hughes) from New West Records on Vimeo.