Old Spice Man’s Youtube responses to fan questions
Old Spice has successfully shed their long-standing image as purveyors of tiger ppiss with their current ad campaign. Now they’ve begun their mastery of the internets by allowing average schmos to interact with Old Spice Man himself.
VIDEO: Remy Ma 7 minute freestyle from behind bars
Remy puts the female rap world notice.
VIDEO: UNKLE – Follow Me Down (feat. Sleepy Sun)
UNKLE still pushes the envelope.
VIDEO: Toyota swagger-jacks Hip Hop swagger
We’ve reached the point where popular culture is remixing Hip Hop.
VIDEO: The Cleveland Show Rap Battle Featuring Kanye West
Hot like Dylan on fiyah…which is actually hotter than fiyah!
VIDEO: Guilty Simpson – Get Riches
Because sometimes you just need to hear some real hip hop.
Open letter to Steve Jobs’ open letter
The original title of this post was: WTF is your problem? Steve Jobs is a giant tool. I was going to go off on Steve Jobs for banishing Adobe Flash from the iPlatforms. I was pissed because Adobe creative products had kept Apple alive during its lean years. The Mac platform has long been recognized as superior by creative types and it seemed like Jobs was delivering an unwarranted deathblow. But after reading his Thoughts on Flash, posted on Apple.com, my only complaint now is with his bedside manner.
Jobs nailed all of the issues that have plagued Adobe over the years. Security problems. Slow updates. Having a closed system. Slow-loading software. Memory hogging apps. Then he dropped the bomb: Adobe had been the last major developer to fully adopt Apple’s OS X platform and bigger still, HTML5, javascript and CSS have all evolved to the point where they’re starting to supplant Flash dynamism.
Factor in the wider audience that non-Flash sites have and I have to reluctantly join the masses that are sounding the death knell for Flash. At least when it comes to mobile apps. I’ll still design and produce Flash interactives, just not with the frequency that I have in the past. And it won’t be the first thing that I recommend to clients. But Steve Jobs’ rationale isn’t the only list that I’m working from, I have my own reasons too. Chief amongst them is Flash’s clunky approach to accessibility. Not good for some of the clientele that I deal with.
So maybe all of this is the demise of Flash. Or maybe this brouhaha will light a fire under Adobe’s innovative ass. I hope it’s the latter. Adobe has been THE software staple for many designers including myself. I’d hate to see them go out like suckers.