Links for 2008-02-02 : SleeveHeads, ImprovEverywhere, Roasting Plant, Albion, André Balazs

• Vinyl Sleeve Heads
  An interesting grass roots trend has appeared on the web recently - taking a picture of a record sleeve within the context that it could have been placed and then uploading it to a Facebook group.
  (tags: art music photography vinyl record flickr yadogg)



• The Day Time (Kind of) Stood Still in New York
  ImprovEverywhere’s latest stunt: making time stop at the world’s biggest train station. For this flash mob event, over 200 improvers crowded the main concourse of Grand Central Station, and at the same exact time suddenly - froze
  (tags: improv flashmob socialmedia)
• Fully Automated Coffee Shop
  Following in-step with experiential branding principles, Mike Caswell founded Roasting Plant in New York’s Lower East Side.
  (tags: experiential coffee instore trends)



• Albion’s New Model Agency presentation
  One of the perennial questions in the marketing industry is “What will the agency of the future look like?”One of the UK’s hottest shops right now is Albion and they’ve posted their vision…
  (tags: albion advertising future marketing digital)
• La Maison d’Andre
  The bullet-pocked Jean Prouvé prefab masterpiece that André Balazs snapped up for almost $5MM at an auction will go on display next week at London’s Tate Modern.
  (tags: balazs prefab architecture tatemodern)



• What’s the next BIG thing in Second Life? Bouncing boobs…
  In Second Life female users are flocking to a new virtual store selling a combination of “flexi prims” and “sculpties” which are used to simulate organic boob-like shapes.
  (tags: secondlife metaverse gaming)