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By: This Week’s Weekly Links of the Week - Week 38 » SOME RANDOM DUDE

This Week’s Weekly Links of the Week - Week 38 » SOME RANDOM DUDE — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 05:20:25 +0000

[...] Yeah, I know – I am WAY late on this week’s links. I was a little distracted with the events of the weekend and had limited access to the internet. I am back-dating this post nonetheless just for the sake of records. Every once in a while, this seems to occur – I try to keep it to a minimum, but life happens. The Nine Inch Nails viral campaign caught my attention (as well as many others) this week. You can check out all the websites put up under the Noteworthy Sites section. [...]

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Designing Good - Collection 16 » SOME RANDOM DUDE — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:27:23 +0000

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By: Yooch

Yooch — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:30:35 +0000

I love http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/
SO compelling. Very optomistic and then pessimistic. I can’t tell if it’s either or or both.

Frickin awesome find kellie. U rocksors.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:18:54 +0000

Rad. Do I just have to be famous before I can start leaving shit anywhere and getting called clever for it? I’ve lost a lot of stuff, plenty of it in bathrooms. Let me know.

By: Steve Tucker

Steve Tucker — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:18:34 +0000

NIN are cool, though its been aaaaaaaaaages since I’ve listened to em :D

By: somerandomdude

somerandomdude — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:05:00 +0000

By the way, 42 Entertainment is responsible for this campaign. Pretty cool work.

By: kellie

kellie — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:52:17 +0000

As much as I hate most advertising, I must admit, this project is pure genius, especially when I survey contemporary music and find American Idol mania. I have been delving into the NIN campaign throughout the day to learn more about the mystery behind the album. Each link, each user theory, each discovery around the world, is pushing me deeper into the rabbit hole.

What makes it brilliant above other viral campaigns? There’s obviously a comprehensive story line behind the music and it will eventually tie all of the obscure pieces together to create an epic masterpiece of art, design, multimedia, popular music, and literature. High and low brow combined. There is a mythology being created with characters and events that incorporate clever metaphors, political ideology, concepts borrowed from current events, etc. All of this make me think of black and white art films like La Jetee. The novels 1984 and Brave New World. The eccentric authors Thomas Pynchon, Philip K. Dick. I have no doubt that NIN is paying homage to something or someone in the world of art and academia.

Trent Reznor and Co. outdid themselves and really created something intelligent, beautiful and worthy of investigation. Most impacting is the fact that NIN has created a frightening new world that not so subtly parallels ours…

By: kellie

kellie — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:42:20 +0000

Here’s a cliff notes version of what’s taking place in this epic story:

http://www.echoingthesound.org/phpbbx/viewtopic.php?t=20265&sid=f23daf9eac511945a7971825d9ec181b