From time to time we stumble upon videos or images that cause us to take our creative lasers away from creative production. With all of the amazing videos on the internet we had to create what we call the two minute rule. Basically, the way it works is if one of our designers or other team members finds something on the net they feel everyone has to see, they can send it out to the rest of the team, but you only get two minutes a day. This works pretty well for us, and keeps us on task.
A while back we found this video which is a great satirical view of client vendor relationships. We can’t say that anyone has ever asked us to design anything for them at a discount, or we get a lot of requests for free or spec work. In fact, most of our clients are very happy with the pricing we offer as a boutique creative agency, but we can relate to the implied ridiculousness of this video.
I know you probably haven’t experienced this type ludicracy from any of your clients, so you may not be able to appreciate the subtle humor of this video. We assure you, its a rare occurrence that we run into people that think its OK to ask us to do work for free or at a discount, but this video has done a great job of portraying how those people are perceived in the marketplace.
Our friends over at twitter are in talks to raise 100 million in funding for their site. I don’t know what the exact numbers are, but when a hacker got into the Social Media Micro Blogging service, he found projections for the site to hit 25 million users by the end of the year. Others have expressly disagreed, with research showing that twitter usage statistics will fall closer to 12.1 Million. If you take the valuation implied by the funding, One Billion, it means your twitter page is worth somewhere between $40 and $83 bucks!
As with most Advertising agencies, coffee runs freely here at Laughing Samurai. For drip coffee, there isn’t anything better than Stardust in the mornings, but sometimes in the afternoons we take a run up to Starbucks to refuel our creativity fuel tanks. Despite the trouble they have had in the past few years, the brand that they have developed is truly a part of American culture. A big part of the experience, for people that go there frequently, is using the language of Starbucks to order their drinks. This language has helped them essentially brand the experience of ordering coffee — something that used to cost pennies is now over two dollars.
So we got to thinking, what is the most obnoxious thing you could order using the secret language of Starbucks:
Grande decaf iced triple shot 6 pump vanilla non fat one splenda caramel macchiato.
Maybe we should have a “Order the most annoying thing at Starbucks day?”
