Comments on: on Ian Curtis tennis shoes & using rock icons to sell “product” http://foolam.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/on-ian-curtis-tennis-shoes-using-rock-icons-to-sell-product/ I'm too old for this. Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:41:29 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: tony d. http://foolam.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/on-ian-curtis-tennis-shoes-using-rock-icons-to-sell-product/#comment-3 tony d. Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:18:54 +0000 http://foolam.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/on-ian-curtis-tennis-shoes-using-rock-icons-to-sell-product/#comment-3 i remember the nick drake / stooges ads were really bugging me. and *then* i saw a volvo ad with two 30-somethings and a dog. soundtrack: minutemen's "love dance" instrumental thing -- but it's from the same record with the lyrics "fuck advertising commercial psychology / psychological methods to sell should be destroyed..." i think that one got pulled really quick though. i remember the nick drake / stooges ads were really bugging me. and *then* i saw a volvo ad with two 30-somethings and a dog. soundtrack: minutemen’s “love dance” instrumental thing — but it’s from the same record with the lyrics “fuck advertising commercial psychology / psychological methods to sell should be destroyed…”

i think that one got pulled really quick though.

]]> By: Mike Perkins http://foolam.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/on-ian-curtis-tennis-shoes-using-rock-icons-to-sell-product/#comment-2 Mike Perkins Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:11:04 +0000 http://foolam.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/on-ian-curtis-tennis-shoes-using-rock-icons-to-sell-product/#comment-2 It hurts when something is commercialized. It is hard to resist attaching your relationship with the music to whatever object the advertisement is selling. <a href="http://gawker.com/news/fashion/shoes-will-tear-us-apart-249327.php" rel="nofollow">from Gawker</a> <a>more pictures</a> Global Specialization.. John Maeda also designed a new shoe: <a href="http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/SIMPLICITY/" rel="nofollow">Timetanium Ventilator</a> I'd write more but I need to get <a>dressed</a> and get to band practice. It hurts when something is commercialized. It is hard to resist attaching your relationship with the music to whatever object the advertisement is selling.

from Gawker
more pictures

Global Specialization..

John Maeda also designed a new shoe:
Timetanium Ventilator

I’d write more but I need to get dressed and get to band practice.

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