Continuing on my previous blog post about marketing hair products, I get down to the root of my disgust over the amalgam of such descriptors.
Remind me to shoot the next person who comes up with ideas for shampoo sales. Here's a pitch if you want to win me over. SHAMPOO - GETS HAIR CLEAN. DOESN'T SMELL LIKE SHIT! That's really all I want. Apparently, others disagree, because Amazon is actually selling the following:
[I could only make it through the first 15 pages out of 9000 shampoos before wanting to slit my wrists and pour Jojoba Coconut Keylime Pie Ice Cream Shampoo over them.]
- Kiss My Face Whenever Shampoo for Frequent Use
- Alterna Caviar Seasilk Moisture Shampoo
- Bed Head Self Absorbed Shampoo
- Paul Mitchell Lavender Mint Moisturizing Shampoo & Conditioner
- Aubrey Organics - Honeysuckle Rose Shampoo
- American Crew Refreshing Shampoo, Citrus Mint
- Bumble and Bumble Sunday Shampoo
- Dove Shampoo, Cool Moisture, Cucumber & Green Tea Scent
- Bumble and Bumble Creme de Coco Shampoo
- Kerastase Nutritive Bain Oleo-Relax Smoothing Shampoo for Dry and Rebellious Hair
- Bumble and Bumble Shampoo, Seaweed
- Head & Shoulders Hair Endurance for Men Pyrithione Zinc Dandruff Shampoo plus Conditioner
- Canus Li'l Goat's Milk Body Wash/ Tearless Shampoo
- DHS Tar Shampoo
- Tigi Bed Head Superstar Sulfate-free Shampoo
- Brazilian Blowout Acai Anti-Frizz Shampoo
- JASON Natural Cosmetics Dandruff Relief Shampoo, Rosemary, Neem & Tea Tree
- Fairy Tales Rosemary Repel Shampoo
- Avalon Organics Moisturizing Shampoo, Awapuhi Mango
- Aveda Rosemary Mint Shampoo
- Herbal Escapes Kiwi Lime Squeeze Clarifying Shampoo
- Nature's Gate Organics Shampoo, Chamomile & Lemon Verbena
- DEVA by Deva Concepts: CURL NO POO CONDITIONING CLEANSER
- WEN Sweet Almond Mint Cleansing Conditioner
- Suave Naturals Shampoo, Fresh Mountain Strawberry
- Lily of the Desert Aloe 80 Organics Shampoo, Daily, Aloe, Lemon & Rosemary
- Burt's Bees Super Shiny Grapefruit & Sugar Beet Shampoo
- Burt's Bees Pomegranate & Soy Shampoo
- Klorane Gentle Dry Shampoo with Oat Milk Non-Aerosol Spray
- Tigi Rockaholic Dirty Secret Dry Shampoo
- Rusk Sensories Purify Cucurbita & Tea Tree Oil Deep Cleansing Shampoo
- Klorane Extra Gentle Dry Shampoo with Oat Extract
- Nutrine Garlic Shampoo
- PHYTO Phytoprogenium Intelligent Shampoo
- Psssssst Instant Spray Shampoo
- Tigi Bed Head Brunette Goddess Shampoo
I would have commented on some of the above, but I believe the list speaks for itself. Now I have to go tame my rebellious hair.
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Revisiting the my evolution away from books and the serendipity of bandwidth.
via vimeo.com
After watching this video of light transforming the facade of this building, I am reminded of a few things, while rethinking a few others:
1) How cool Las Vegas looks when landing at night.
2) The potential for bringing artistic vision to the concrete jungle.
3) The term "urban makeover".
4) That, like any projection system, a stark white wall would work best.
5) That companies will start to build stark white walls.
6) That instead of video screens on top of buildings dominating a cityscape ala Philip K. Dick's dreams, the buildings themselves will be screens.
7) That "This wall brought to you by Coca-Cola" or "Honda" is not too far in our future.
8) That this is Honda technology.
9) That no matter how cynical numbers 5-8 sound, this is really cool.
I am waxing educational on this week's Search Engine podcast on TVO.org. The host, Jesse Brown spoke with another Ontario teacher a couple of weeks ago about all of the benefits of smartphones in the classroom. I audio commented a more cautionary tale, and thus the episode was born.
Most excellently the podcast is offered under a Creative Commons license and, thus, I alternately serve it up here at lovehatethings.
Thanks to Jesse for being such a gracious podhost.
If you can give up one syndicated sit-com tonight and devote 18 commercial-free minutes to an empassioned Lawrence Lessig speaking on the ethics and left/right politics of "openness" as it relates to creativity.
That it is another fine example of a TED talk goes without saying, but it's nice to see the fervor that Lessig devoted to copyright alone has started to transcend other realms as well.
Be thankful for the localized TEDx talks around the world, because, quite frankly, the original TED conference itself, with it's auditorium of millionaires, doesn't seem too open to me.
image courtesy www.sweettaterblog.com
With news that the KFC Double-Down sandwich is about to invade Canada - and I'm not even ready to call it a sandwich without bread - get your best fear-mongering guilt shields ready if you're prone to trying such things.
couresy vimeo.com and www.nicouthe.de
This beautiful animation on the devolution of the world's economy through the life cycle of a newspaper press has become my re-watch of the weekend. A stark visual metaphor about the global financial crisis seemingly spawned by an Economist headline from a couple of years ago: WORLD ON THE EDGE.
Examining the role of media in perpetuating self-fulfilling prophecy, one wonders if news networks ever came on the air and said: "Meteor about to hit the earth in a week - Humanity Finished", would such a proclamation spawn the end of society as we know it WITHOUT a meteor actually existing.
Reflections on the power of media and the importance of keeping it in the hands of the people and never out of reach.
And I don't have much to say except to ask this: why the hell am I getting better download speeds over wi-fi in my end-of-wing hotel room than I get via cable at home. I call your attention to number beside the small, green circle checkmark at the bottom of the above picture. That's right 1.1MB PER SECOND!
Apologies to bandwidth conservators, but I'm taking this opportunity to download this past year's SXSW free music packages to my laptop.
Something's rotten in the state of my ISP. Can I just move in here?
Bereft of a topic for tonight's podcast, I happened upon a US-funded, Canadian copyright mercenary group at www.cmpda.ca and was astounded by their suggested list for where Canadians could watch legal content online.
I laughed. I cried. I got fellow DyscultureD podcast mate Andrew Currie online to express shared vitriol over the presumption of such a group to claim they protect creativity and somehow enhance artistic risk-taking.
A long effort to be sure, but I hope you enjoy it.
Some Creative Commons songs courtesy Jamendo behind the discussion:
- Trafic de Blues - Time to Funk
- Dieter Werner - Axiom of Going By
- Revolution Void - Invisible Walls
- Fhernando - Sexed Up!
- Diablo Swing Orchestra - Heroines