BrandBox

Episode 36 - Elon Rorschach

Show Notes

What happens next in Elon’s Twitter experiment?

• Matt Levine "Money Stuff" Bloomberg
• Nate Silver
• "The Culture Industry"
• Elon As Rorschach
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Episode 36 - Elon Rorschach

Show Notes

What happens next in Elon’s Twitter experiment?

• Matt Levine "Money Stuff" Bloomberg
• Nate Silver
• "The Culture Industry"
• Elon As Rorschach
• Send your ideas to [email protected]
• Apply to SVA Masters in Branding Program

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Show Notes

Why don’t brands take a stand on abortion rights?

• Justice Alito’s Opinion, Leaked on Politico
• Pew Research Center Article
• Fast Company Article on Brands and Roe Decision
• Send your ideas to [email protected]
• Apply to SVA Masters in Branding Program

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Episode 34 - Vibe Shift

Show Notes

Why is everything so strange?

• "Vibe Shift"
• "A Vibe Shift Is Coming"
• "I Support The Current Thing" Graphic
• Walter Benjamin "The Work of Art in the Age of Technological Reproduction"
• Andy Warhol Car Crash paintings
• Kyle Rittenhouse
• Grant McCracken's "Chief Culture Officer"
• James Gleick, "The Information"
• H.G. Wells, "The World Brain"
• Send your ideas to [email protected]
• Apply to SVA Masters in Branding Program

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Episode 33 - Red Friday

Show Notes

Brand War One: Beginning In Ukraine. Recorded 3/6/22.

• Derek Thompson's Framework
• "How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art"
• Russians line up to shop at Ikea
• Father destroys son's iPad in anger at Apple
• Felix Sater
• Fiona Hill Putin analysis
• "Chesterfield Kings" band
• Send your ideas to [email protected]
• Apply to SVA Masters in Branding Program

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Episode 32 - Our Sporting Life

Show Notes

Melinda, Mark, and Tom get ready for "the big game" by discussing the role of sports in American culture.

• Theodore Adorno
• Noam Chomsky
• 2021 Top 100 Viewed TV Events
• Mark Fisher
• Paul Virilio
• "The Ice Bowl" Game
• 1958 NFL Championship Game
• Brian Flores NFL Lawsuit
• Baseball "Steroid Era"
• Michael Jordan
• Steph Curry
• 1960 Olympic Games
• Sports gambling statistics
• College athletes name, image, likeness rights
• Cornhole competitions
• Send your ideas to [email protected]
• Apply to SVA Masters in Branding Program

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Episode 31 - OK Pop

Show Notes

Melinda, Mark, and Tom discuss the growing influence of Korean culture in today's world.

• K Pop Wikipedia article
• New Yorker K Pop video
• Psy "Gangnam Style" video
• "Korean Wave" Wikipedia article
• Chinese "masculinity crisis"
• Korean feminism backlash
• New Yorker "Instagram face" article
• "Boyfriend/Girlfriend Bars" in Japan
• Mark Fisher: Luxury jetset capitalism
• "Airspace" Verge article
• John McWhorter NYTimes column: "Negro"
• Judith Butler: language regulates identity
• BTS McDonald's Meal
• Howard Bloom "recruitment strategy"
• BTS Stephen Colbert "Boy With Luv" performance
• Blackpink COP26 climate change video
• Wikipedia "Korean Wave" article
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Episode 30 - The Meta Mall

Show Notes

Season 2 debuts with a discussion of some implications of Meta's metaverse announcement.

• Mark's article: "Don't Be Distracted By Facebook Going Meta"
• Dazzle ships
• Facebook's Metaverse Announcement Video
• Microsoft's Metaverse Announcement Video
• Beat Saber
• Ben Thompson's Stratechery interview with Mark Zuckerberg
• Send your ideas to [email protected]
• Apply to SVA Masters in Branding Program

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Episode 29 - Pick-A-Doodle

Show Notes

Lessons from David Hockney's "worst" work.

• Introduction
• David Hockney's Piccadilly Circus Underground Logo
• Original London Underground rondelle
• Man Ray interpretation
• Hockney's new version
• Public responses
• Peter Saville iZod Alligator redesign
• Hockney signs in underground station
• Young British Artists collection by Charles Saatchi
• Jackson Pollock
• Walter Benjamin: "All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or create one"
• Andre Serrano, "Piss Christ"
• Sister Wendy
• New Statesman Hockney article
• Dunkin'
• The Vessel at Hudson Yards
• "Little Island"
• Student designed Univ. of Tennessee t-shirt
• Attribution theory
• Daniel Kahneman's new book "Noise"
• Hockney's "Piccadilly Circus"
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• Apply to SVA Masters in Branding Program

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Episode 28 - No Kidding

Show Notes

How will falling birthrates in the West and China change the world?

• New York Times: New China Three Child Policy
• CIA World Population Website
• PEW Research Center Fertility Website
• Deborah Adler medication bottle design project
• Brian Eno article
• CIA Immigration Data
• Rachel Chrastil - How to Be Childless
• BrandBox Live Show Note Discussions on Clubhouse
• Send your ideas to [email protected]
• Apply to SVA Masters in Branding Program

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