MetaFilter posts tagged with pepsiblue

Glass-bottled, cane-sugared, bubbly little gulps of happiness.

Bookhouse — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:32:41 -0800

A short documentary on John Nese: Soda pop obsessive. His store Galco's in Los Angeles sells more than two-hundred kinds of soda pop, particularly favoring small-label, glass-bottled and cane-sweetened fare. Yay. If you don't live in Los Angeles, you can order rare sodas from John (including the delicious Mr. Q Cumber) here. Thanks to Thin Lizzy for alerting me to this

Mountain Blew Your Own Adventure

defenestration — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:45:38 -0800

Do Your Own Adventure with Sue Teller: Customizing Your Kicks & Making Mash-Ups. [Warning: Extremely Obvious Product Placement.] A bit elderly-say-the-darndest-things with viral ad written all over it, but I still chuckled. "I'm going to do a little design that I came up with when I was in the bathroom."

SuperBa-a-a-a-a-a-ahd

maryh — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:34:27 -0800

Extreme Shepherding! X-Treme Art!! YEAAAAH!!1! (SLYT )

Pissed forth by gods!

Silky Slim — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:49:48 -0800

And you thought Pepsi's redesign was just crappy. Well no. According to this ridiculous internal document (6MB, PDF), apparently leaked from their ad agency, the sugar-water's rebranding was 5,000 years in the making, and molded by the same elemental forces that shape the very cosmos.
Warning: Hilariously meaningless corporate drivel inside. [via]

Muppetize Me!

wendell — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:27:45 -0800

F.A.O. Schwartz (doesn't everybody think of that first when they hear the name?) has come up with a Design Your Own Muppet Workshop (with appropriate video intro). Limited design options (they're the "Whatnot" Muppet extras, no identifiable characters) and a $90 pricetag for a custom-made Mup, but the design process is still fun (and better than their previous Design Your Own Tutu).

Malted battery acid

KokuRyu — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:16:54 -0800

Pepsi White Pepsi White, a "cola-yogurt" drink, has been launched by Pepsi as a limited edition beverage, according to Japan Marketing News. The drink went on sale in Japan this week, and was distributed by Suntory. The label design, clothed on a transparent bottle, is predominantly white and looks fit for the festive market. The Japan Marketing News article suggests that "a deeper, more memorable flavour" would have been more appropriate taking into consideration the time of year and the traditional spike in the consumption of sweet products. Via

Filter for president! It's a mildly amusing prank that's also a viral ad!

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:08:32 -0800

Hey Meta,

Just saw a news report that you were on. Cool! Here is the link.

Best,

gnfti

sonic interpretations

madamjujujive — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:29:04 -0800

"What is the sound of color? We asked that question of 5 musicians. We assigned each musician a different color. They wrote 5 tracks. We gave the colors and tracks that inspired them to 5 directors." The Sound of Color contains the songs and videos that were created. The site and free downloads are only available through March 15. (Via Carolina Vigna-Marú) Disclaimer: This is also the color of pepsi blue. The project is sponsored by Gap: "Gap is crossing the line between being an advertiser and a patron of the arts," Brown says. "There’s no gratuitous khakis flying around the videos." Even so, one can’t help but wonder whether critics suspicious of the brand's sponsorship will pan the tracks regardless of their caliber. The artists aren’t sweating. "From our perspective, we just want as many people as possible to hear and feel our music," says the Raveonettes' Sune RoseWagner. "And since most radio/TV stations are too lame to play it, we need alternative outlets." More on the campaign in Advertising Age - "The artists were given almost complete creative control by Gap and Rehab; there were a few mandatory constraints -- no political endorsements, no obscenity, etc., but other than that the artists were allowed to create whatever they wanted to. And in the end the rights to the tracks revert back to the artists; they can use those tracks however they want. Gap has no right or license to use the works in a commercial way." More on the musicians Jimmy Tamborello Marié Digby Swizz Beatz The Blakes The Ravonettes

Brown is the New White

Stynxno — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:33:02 -0800

B is for Beaner. ironic t shirts are cross cultural. [via tex[t]-mex]

Who spends 4 days peeling eggs?

blue_beetle — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:05:29 -0800

Waitless.org: a Sprint marketing site, with a lot of useful time saving tips.

Bloomin' tea!

Ogre Lawless — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:50:14 -0800

[PepsiBlue] Tired of your tea -- you know -- just lying there? Maybe you'd be interested in blooming tea...

Focus! FOCUS!

Smart Dalek — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 04:34:34 -0800

Temple of Zoom. Adding a twist on Flash-based stick figure games and physics-oriented platformers like N-Game, comes Matsushita/Panasonic's followup to Toshiba's "Tobby" line of promotional games. Collect dots Pac-Man (Java) style, in addition to powerups resembling digital viewfinder icons. Jump atop camera lenses which double as elevators, while dodging the occasional Red-Eye sensor. Your "prize", should you choose to accept it, is a ~~bottle of soda pop~~ coupon for the new Lumix camera. via

Eraserhead re-release includes CGI KFC bucket

geoff. — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:24:49 -0800

David Lynch on product placement. Full interview here.

Whatever it is, it’s better in the wind.

Smart Dalek — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 06:13:41 -0800

40 years ago, the Vicious Cycles motorcycle club assaulted a construction worker before taking to the road. Fortunately, filmmakers Chuck Menville (father of voice artist Scott Menville) and Len Janson were on hand to film the gang's misdeeds. Menville and Janson's picture would ultimately become part of a trilogy, with Blaze Glory and Sargent Swell of the Mounties produced wit similar eye-catching style. Decades later, the filmmakers' work would be echoed in another tale of conflict, in addition to a product-themed homage to more recent hipster subculture.

“I’m so sorry to disturb you sir, but it appears to be morning. Very inconvenient, I agree. I believe it is the rotation of the earth that is to blame, Sir.”

goodnewsfortheinsane — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:28:16 -0800

Always wanted to wake up with Stephen Fry? Now you can, with the - in itself quite interesting - VOCO Clock.

Dead Sodas

luftmensch — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:04:23 -0800

Pepsi Blue, et al. Dead soda visited by X-Entertainment, purveyors of much 80s-90s nostalgia. Previously.

Hyper-Achiever with No Direction and Tendency to Overcomplicate Situations Syndrome? ?

disclaimer — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 20:48:35 -0800

Clearification Microsoft is launching a viral marketing campaign for Vista. It's only half done - it wraps up in January. Demetri Martin stars in a series of webisodes about his "rare condition". The best part of the campaign are the idle ramblings of Demetri on the main page. The campaign consists of an rss feed, a podcast, and the webisodes.

i'm lovin' it!

meech — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:11:43 -0800

Earn $10 from home! Simply write about McDonalds for your blog. [via Public Address]

They read the alt-weeklies so you don't have to

whir — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:30:54 -0800

SonicLiving is a website which tracks live events (mostly shows) in your home town, and can read in tracks from your last.fm or pandora account to notify you of interesting shows coming up in your area, as long as your area is one of the currently-limited areas they cover. (vide intra)

Perpetual Kid!

Ogre Lawless — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:09:01 -0800

~~PepsiBlue!~~ PerpetualKid! Get your consumer on! Linked to by some guys, I started digging around the treasure trove that is PerpetualKid. Sure, they've got a lot of that Spencer's Gifts type crap but its more fun than that. Trebuchet? Meat pencil toppers? Chew by numbers? I'm sure you'll have seen some of these products before but others, maybe not so much. Bonus links: gummy steak, strawberry-flavored "bacon" (also gummy), and ring⁸ bananaphone.

This dish is being eaten hot.

docgonzo — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:16:00 -0800

Hell hath no fury, etc. etc.

I pooted

ijoshua — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:37:03 -0800

I pooted. Enigmatic billboard advertisements, apparently promoting a Cartoon Network show, Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends seen in several major cities.

You say "Pepsi Blue" like that's a BAD thing...

naomi — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:16:24 -0800

The staff of The Impulsive Buy are not experts, but they do like to try anything that has any of the following words on the product: new, improved, new and improved, better tasting, recon ditioned , less fat, fat-free, best-selling, less calories, reduced for quick sale, limited edition, free toy, 50% off, or now with Olestra!

Meow Meow Meow Meow [ad infinitum]

milquetoast — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 16:23:03 -0800

Ten contestants. Ten days. They all grew up in shelters -- but one of them will claw his or her way to the top. It's the Meow Mix House, where ten cats will vie to become Meow Mix's Feline Vice President of Research and Development. (And, win or lose, they will all be adopted by families.) The webcams. [ article || via ]

"A Scanner Darkly" Remix contest

Tlogmer — Sun, 21 May 2006 03:02:01 -0800

The top entry* (turn up the volume) in the Scanner Darkly remix contest is already better than the (turn it back down) official trailer.