'Litany' by The Independent

"Litany," by Lowe Worldwide for The Independent, launched in 2000 and still makes a nice, melodic watch.

You will occasionally feel provoked. You'll wonder what this is building to, what revolutionary slogan you're about to get sandbagged with ... but the conclusion is simply the product itself, quietly parked on a porch step with a last accompanying "...don't read."

You are moved, but not overworked. You understand.

What finesse.

Via Georges Mohammed-Chérif of the infamous Buzzman, which most recently graced us with a convoy of falling angels.

Geek Hierarchy of Needs

Via @loulouk.

35MM: The Message, The Medium, The Message

The speed with which awesome stuff is being created, published and shared today is whiplash-inducing, exponential.

35mm from Pascal Monaco on Vimeo.

I can hardly keep up. And I have trouble imagining a time or place when true creative work was rare and had to be passed, intact but tattered, from hand to hand, or only recounted: a treasure whose survival relied on the willingness of a living vessel to carry and spread it with fidelity. Now our art stands alone and often runs, with little motivation on the part of the creator.

So much of the beauty we're making now is just mash-ups and homages, like this (or like this!). These are great to watch because you can see how a message manifests itself to another person, how we can never, none of us, see exactly the same thing behind our eyes, and how the seed of that ingested mass communication grows and mutates into other messages we can't control.

And yet somehow there remains an underlying known aesthetic, a cue or value that we can recognise...

Proof that My Commitment to Evolving Communications Technology Has Changed Lives, Broadened Experiences...

So I recently found -- and finally read -- the email you sent about the launch of that one site. It was when I was redoing Riz's bathroom. So I would leave it open while chipping away at her wall - shirtless, you know? ...Because it's sweaty work. And every once in awhile I'd turn around and there'd be some random guy just sitting there. Watching me. Wanking off.

- Kito, New Years, reminiscing about ChatRoulette.

Iran Threatens to Boycott London 2012 Olympics Because - Wait for It! -

The logo, a jagged representation of the year 2012, has been said by its critics to resemble many things, from a swastika to a sexual act, but the Iranian government argues it represents a veiled pro-Israeli conspiracy.

Sometimes I feel like the world is being run by kids playing dress-up. You know? Same arbitrary logic, put together by the trigger-happy wack kid who made sure he grabbed the snappy red man pants before anyone else could get to them.

The Silver-Bullet CTA ... If You're a Panty Vendor.

You can always rely on German e-boutique Liaison dangereuse to come up with an angle its counterparts haven't considered. (Remember sexy burqa girl?) But this is one of those ideas that seems so tie so naturally into the free and fetishist world of lingerie that you wonder why it wasn't done before.

"Striptease Shopping" is exactly what it sounds like. For Valentine's Day in Germany, men were drawn to the site via banner ads and invited to pick out a lingerie set for their honeys. (A full set isn't cheap, either, and if Dude will get some anywhere but Frederick's of Hollywood, any woman worth her box of Cailler finds herself awestruck ... and touched.)

The killer call-to-action: men were drawn to one piece or another by a seductive dance, but a full striptease was performed only after the sale was closed. Traffic rose 155% that day, and sales hit a 50% high: an enormous margin for lace.

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