El Gaffney

Three Days Until the World Cup

Four until USA beats England.

One of the last things I worked on back at Wieden was ESPN’s marketing for the very quickly approaching World Cup. One of the most interesting things we did with them (and a South African artist collective) is put together 33 murals that told the stories of each participating team (and another for the tourney). You can check them all out here on Facebook or on Flickr. But, of course, this is the most important one:

Finally, here’s the “anthem” TV spot (Bono and all) for the entire event:

P.S. I’d like to promise more activity over here, but with game-watching and my new job, I can’t be sure. Thanks for keeping me around.

Tags: art, soccer, worldcup

M-E-T-H (no O-D), DAN

I’ve just about given up on putting a thoughtful or thought-provoking post up here. No time. (Oddly enough, the Old School line that went through my head — “I don’t know if we’ll have enough time” — would have been appropriate given I hit up Bed, Bath and Beyond on the regular lately.) So I’ve been reduced to what are essentially blown-out tweets. Slashies: Tweets-slash-Posts – and not the other way around! In case you’re not “following me,” this Bruno interview, Daily Show clip and a capella version of I’m On A Boat have been worthy of broadcasting to my 300 friends.

This guy, Dan Meth in case you didn’t click the link you lazy bassmaster, deserved a blog mention. (Mostly, I just wanted an excuse to write my witty title.) I saw this yesterday and immediately wanted to buy it and put it up on my wall.

So good. He also does “pop cultural charts” like one about the topics of early Early Beach Boys Hit Songs (cars, girls and surf) and illustrations like one of Ivan Drago and his four bad-ass lines of dialog (“if he dies he dies”).

My kind of art.

Tags: art, movies, popculture

That’s So College

Two videos that leave me in awe of college students. (Sorry no Asher Roth below.)

Mike Posner is a senior at Duke (via Shut Up We’re Blogging)

Bang-yao Lui is a senior at Savannah College of Art and Design (via Brand Flakes for Breakfast)

And of course, there are these recent Harvard grads who started Unithrive (a non-profit loan program at Harvard) featured in the Sunday Times.

Tags: art, college, entrepreneurs, genY, students, videos

Make a Personal and Presidential Statement

A cool new application from Paste Magazine called Obamicon.Me. (Probably a better name than Faireysize Me.) Just as Logobama helped bring individuals into the election period, this allows people to express themselves in the days leading up to following the swearing in of our President-elect using the iconic Shepard Fairey poster and a very interesting, easy-to-use interface. So in anticipation of next Tuesday, I wanted to make a few extremely politically-charged statements.

Enjoy, but also be on alert.

Tags: art, obama, personal