Finding 10 - Austen Allred

Very opaque stockings

Find It #10-Darby Miller

DEBT LIMIT - A GUIDE TO AMERICAN FEDERAL DEBT MADE EASY.

I think this is brilliant and hilarious!!!

Finding - Mckay Robertson - Paper Is Not Dead!

you know a commercial is good when you can watch it in another language and it still makes you laugh.

Finding 10 - Brittany Funk

I love this ad from Leo Burnett, Paris. Very clever.

Finding #10-Michelle Monson

http://youtu.be/N1B5sKa4G3k


This is the new wheat thins commercial and it is clever and so FUNNY!!!!  I LOVE IT!!!!

Find it 10 - Marcus Christensen Ranch Doritos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=koAGOyJ28dM



I never really liked Taco Bell commercials, but I've always thought Doritos were hilarious and well done.

To me, this one is GOLD

Find it #10-Allie Rae Treharne

For those of you who haven't heard of "Contemporist", I thought I'd share:

http://www.contemporist.com/

It's a cool blog that highlights different contemporary interior design and architecture from around the world.

Here's an example of one of it's posts:

Finding #10- Brooke Holt

Here's an article about who invented the smiley face. Intrigued me cause I never thought of it. Obviously there had to be someone who thought of it and introduced this classic doodle into pop culture. It was pretty creative. Simple, but creative.

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2013/03/who-really-invented-the-smiley-face/

Find It #10-Darby Miller

Just like the copy and idea of this one.

Finding #10 April Baker

Photos of dancers with long exposures.

http://invertediris.tumblr.com/post/45295865965

Find 10 - Ashley Boehme

Finding #10- Brittan Weber

You should watch this...it has a great twist that I did not expect at all. Really smart.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJw6DDmEmCY

FInding 10 - Kevin Johnson

So I'm not sure if this entirely counts as a finding, but over the weekend some friends and I discovered that One Direction's "What Makes You Beautiful"  uses the exact same chords as "Stacy's Mom" by Fountains of Wayne.  So we found that interesting bit of creative info, and subsequently recorded a mashup version of it on our Saturday afternoon.  Not super high-quality, but it is a finding thing in a way, right?  And if nothing else, the very end is basically humans screaming like goats screaming like humans.

Finding 10 Evan Coles

CHEAAA

Finding #10-Kim Pratt

In honor of us talking about alternative advertising last week, I found this cool ad. 

Sad, but definitely eye catching that will resonate for a while with the audience.

Find it #10-Allie Rae Treharne

For those of you who like catching people's eyes with words, here is a fun little blog I stumbled on today that is based around graphic design and typography. Enjoy!


http://chic-type.com/blog/

Finding #10

These are really simple, but I thought they were creative and eye catching.

Rut #7

For some reason my posts usually get drafted and not posted.  I'm sure I'm doing something wrong.  Enjoy.

Last summer I lived in DC, and then I also served my mission in Detroit and Toronto so I had a lot of opportunity to ride public transportation.  I usually rode the bus, but in D.C. I rode the rails quite a bit.  I will say; however, that the frontrunner is like a bajillion times nicer than any of those!  Seriously so nice!  As I was riding the front runner and thinking back to my previous public transportation experiences I was contemplating the difference between public and private transportation.  The thing that I realized that I liked the most was watching people.  When I'm driving, I dont get the opportunity to just look around and watch people. On the bus, when you are stopping on every street, you get the opportunity to see all sorts of people around town.  Some of the funniest experiences I had my whole mission happened on the bus, and if I was in a car I wouldnt have had those memorable experiences.

Finding 10 - Austen Allred

Freaking beautiful.

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Finding #10 -- Jacqueline Usterud

Just found this. Talk about alternative ad that is really clever! Love this, and this makes me proud to be Swedish! (In case someone did not know: IKEA is Swedish, and no it does not actually mean anything, it is an acronym). Super creative!

Find #9- Brittan Weber

This is a great alternative ad....

hopefully this doesn't put a stop to people's ideas for anti-smoking haha but I thought it was interesting...

I love older advertisements. The copy is usually longer but i actually end up reading it all because the writing is captivating and clever.

These were just funny.....

Rut #7- Brittan Weber

                This was a hard assignment for me to do....Utah lacks public transportation. This week I have had to drive to Draper three days in a row....no public transportation goes near there. So I spent a lot of time in my car and didn't find time to go ride the bus or train to somewhere I didn't need to go. But, I decided to change up my transportation by walking to work, its a 25 minute walk which really is not bad but I usually drive. It was really pleasant to see things I don't usually get to see, and instead of putting my earphones in my ears and listened to the sounds around me. It was a refreshing change of scenery and a nice way to get some extra fresh air.

                As for public transportation, I usually love it in cities/places where it actually exists and takes you where you need to go. When I have visited New York City in the past the subway was my favorite place because I encountered the most interesting things and people. Also, I lived in Madrid for a semester abroad and relied heavily on public transportation, the train rides to the city became my favorite time to just relax, think and look out the window. Recently, I was in San Francisco and got to take the cable car a couple of times to go down to the pier. They should install cable cars in Provo! hahah That would be hilarious and I would be more inclined to use the public transportation. 

Finding #9-Michelle Monson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iz0gPW0i1E

My uncle lives in Chicago and knows the guy who came up with the Mayhem commercials idea.  The guy works for Leo Burnett, he is now a VP or something high up there right now and of course he is mormon.  I'm thinking he graduated from BYU?  But they are funny commercials!!!  This one is my favorite one.  It makes sense that he is Mormon and it starts out with Adam and Eve.   :)

Finding #9- Brooke Holt

I wish I could tell what's going on in this picture, but either way it definitely captured my attention and probably anyone else who was on the freeway!

Find 9 - Ashley Boehme

Amanda Palmer heads the band "Amanda Palmer and the Great Theft Orchestra."  (I haven't listened to them much, but their stuff seems pretty risque—just a warning.)  Anyways, Palmer recently presented a TED talk, "The Art of Asking," that suggests some really cool ideas.   I think it runs about fourteen minutes—you guys should check it out.  

As an aside, Palmer exemplifies someone who shuns "ruts" and constantly does new things.  If you listen, imagine what it would be like to couch hop as much as she does.  What a fun way to live!

Find it 9 Evan Coles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pp7nDmb5K4&feature=player_embedded

Finding #9 April Baker

When I was a Sophomore in high school I took a class trip to NYC. As part of the trip we saw Wicked on Broadway and, like a good little LDS girl, I fell in love with it (You have to love Wicked and The Princess Bride right?). While I haven't seen the show more than once, I've listened to the music probably too much since then (in my defense though, the city I'm from is only an hour outside of Seattle aka "The Emerald City," so it would get stuck in my head whenever I'd go there). A Disney animator recently made a brief sketch of what an animated version might be like. I think it looks pretty cool and hopefully, if it gets made it turns out well.

http://vimeo.com/19733014

Finding #9 - Austen Allred

Sometimes all it takes is a good headline.

Rut # 7 - Austen Allred

Most of the past four years of my life have been spent in places where public transport was really the only option (eastern Ukraine, Bulgaria, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Suzhou and San Francisco). I've taken buses, trains, bullet trains, magnetic levitation trains, trolley buses, tramvais, marshutkas, dragon boats and "bike trailers" (where a half dozen people get pulled by a bicycle).

I have to say that while Utah is making some big steps with frontrunner we've got a long way to go. It's clean and it's nice, but requiring exact change for buses, especially at such arbitrary rates? Not even Ukraine required me to do that, and Ukraine is like stepping into the 1970s.

I love public transport though. It definitely is more stressful, but you feel a lot closer to the people with whom you ride, and now that I look at it probably 3 of the top 10 experiences I've ever had have been on public transport.

Find it #9 Allie Rae Treharne

Okay I just posted my find it #8 but I guess we're already on 9? I'm confused.

Anyway, guys, the kid who played the rapping Indian mathelete in Mean Girls is now a calligraphy professional. And he's amazing. Here's his blog, check it:

http://lettersinink.com/

I love fancy lettering. I don't know why.

Find it #8 Allie Rae Treharne

Some cool pictures of small-town Americana in the 40's that used to be black and white but have been touched up and colored. Very cool.

http://extras.denverpost.com/archive/captured.asp

Rut #7 UTA Allie Rae Treharne

For Rut #7 (slightly late, I apologize), I took the front runner up to SLC.

I grew up in Tokyo where it's easier to take the subway instead of driving to the next neighborhood and there are subway outlets on literally every block. Tokyo public transportation is also very clean, quiet, and relatively safe. I was given a rude awakening when I rode American transportation for the first time when I was 14 in Boston--I had never seen trains so old or dirty. Or smelly.

However, I have been hearing such good things about the frontrunner and I decided I needed to quell my prejudices about American trains and just go.

It IS nice!

I need to remember that option again next time I go to SLC--being a city girl, I really do prefer public transportation over driving some of the time. I've heard the frontrunner has been relatively successful amongst Utahns, and I'm really anxious to see what other kind of investments Utah will make concerning public transportation. I personally believe that well-maintained public transportation is always a great idea that leads to a cleaner, more organized city.

Plus, we definitely need it more than most other people, considering how polluted our air is, due in part to everyone driving everywhere in nasty gas-guzzlers. 

Finding #9 -- Jacqueline Usterud

This type of alternative advertising speaks for itself. Cool.

Find It #9-Darby Miller

I just think this is an awesome photo idea

Finding #9 - Brittany Funk

This makes me laugh

Finding 9 - Mckay Robertson - Urban Camping

This is an awesome way to camp! Somebody built these really cool little shelters using re-purposed concrete pipes in a park in Ottensheim, Austria.  Each has electricity and an access code so you can safely store your stuff while you stay there.  It even comes with blankets and pillows.  Its free to reserve, you can stay for a maximum 3 days and when you leave you pay whatever you can afford or whatever you want.  Pretty cool idea I think.  Heres a link to the website if you wanna check it out. http://www.dasparkhotel.net/

Finding 9 Marcus Christensen

Ohhhhhhh, I get it!

Rut7 - Marcus Christensen

Sorry, Blogger has been acting weird for me, (I don't know about anyone else) so sorry this is late.



On Friday, I went to go visit a good friend who lives in Murray. I took the Provo "Frontrunner" down over by the new Provo Temple.

It was a good experience and reminded me of other times I've gone on subways and buses elsewhere.

I went with 2 other friends and we all had a great time. It was fun to "people-watch" and see how people reacted. Some brought little families who were giddy and excited to be on a "twain!" while others seemed like it was nothing special.

I noticed how with the public transportation differed greatly from major cities. I've ridden subways in New York, DC, and London (there they're called "tubes") and this was nicer for a couple reasons.

1) it was obviously outside and not underground

2) it didn't smell like sulphur or stink at all

3) people seemed to be more cheerful and talkative. 

Finding 9 - Kevin Johnson

So I found this article about this guy named Dominic Episcopo who uses meat to make his art.  I think it's neat for him to use such a random and different medium to make art.  Unfortunately, it probably goes rancid after awhile.  Hopefully none of you are hardcore vegans or PETA activists.  The article about him that shows more of his work is here:  http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2013/02/this-artist-uses-meat-as-his-medium/?utm_source=smithsoniantravandcult&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=201302-travel

rut 7 UTA - Ashley Boehme

I took the Frontrunner to get to my parents house over the weekend.  Here are some things I learned:

1.  The Frontrunner's nice b/c there are tables, outlets, and wireless.  You can use the internet while you're traveling.

2.  The second story tends to wave back and forth a bit.  Not recommended for those with motion sickness.

3.  It's ridiculously easy to miss your stop.  When we pulled into my station I thought I got ready really fast, but basically, you have to be waiting by the door as the train is stopping or you'll miss it.  

4.  There's no better place to people watch than on public transportation.  I listened to this music student talking to his buddy.  My favorite convo went like this:  "Man, I walk into a room, I somehow pick out the craziest chick in there.  It sucks."    

Rut #7- Brooke Holt

Public transportation. Uh the word alone just creeps me out. Do you or do you not just imagine dirty human beings on a bus? I don't know if that's wrong or mean of me to say, but I'm telling the truth. So ya I was not thrilled to do this assignment.

Over the summer I lived in NYC and rode the subway everywhere, but the subway is how everyone gets around. Once in a while I would see a scary homeless man humming a tune much too loud to himself, which made everyone suspicious he was drunk or you'd see I plump black lady in cheetah spandex with attitude on her face like she was gonna kick your butt. I'd also play a game where I tried to guess which girl on the subway was a designer. They don't wear anything trendy and usually black head to toe, but they have a distinct style and usually eccentric jewelry that you can tell they wear everyday, like a necklace with a feather. A group of homeless men would bring a boom box (so 90's right?) and break dance for tips. I knew I became a New Yorker halfway through the summer when I had seen it so many times before I wasn't even tempted to look up, especially because I was sick of being harassed for cash.

Anyways, back to now. Ya I tried diligently to ride the bus in Provo, but the transportation gods were not helping me out. So the UTA site sucks, but I figured it out and saw that the easiest route for me to take had a stop 5 blocks away. Except the next time it came was either 5 minutes or 30 minutes... really, I am way to impatient and I didn't want to look stupid waiting for a bus, so I thought ya I can make it. Well, I sped walked as fast as I could and thought yes I'm totally gonna make it I was only 25 feet away.... until I saw the bus drive by. I thought it was coming from the east, but really it was coming from the south, so I was on the wrong side of the street. Woot woot. I watched it go by and it reminded me of 8th grade when I took the bus to school and I would be so scared if I missed it cause my mom would get mad. At least for me it was only Saturday, so I made a plan for Monday to try it again.

Monday I tried. I walked halfway to the same bus stop, until I realized I was a dime short and didn't have enough money to ride the bus. So I turned around as a failure.

Moral of the story: I consider myself a New Yorker, but I can't even figure out public transportation in a city that's 100x smaller. Maybe it's just that this city is too small for me. I don't know, but I'm ready for summer and normal public transportation, if you can ever consider anything in NYC normal.

Finding #24 - Steven Stucki - Warby Parker

They send you 5 lenses, you have X number of days to try them on and send back all, or just the ones you don't want. You go over the 5 days, cha ching, they make a lot of flow off you. Plus, I guarantee they sell a lot of lenses by allowing people to try them on and fall in love with them. Very smart, Mr. Parker.

Rut #13 - Steven Stucki - Public Trans.

Dear me. Are we already to Rut #13?? Nope, we're not. Regardless, this Rut activity was a wonderful thing. Public transportation was all the rave in the 20's and 30's and now it's finally coming back into style. I don't really think what I just said was true, but I am SO glad that Utah is finally starting to see public transportation as the real deal and only way the state and SLC in specific can grow grow grow. I started my journey on the Bus from the main portal up by the university mall. I must say, the group of people hanging around at the stop didn't seem to have much direction but everyone on the bus, unlike me, knew exactly where they were headed and why. I felt like young mothers were common on the bus, and older men. Not really sure why. My short bus ride taught me a few different things. The bus can get you lots of places, but you still have to use your feet a lot. Sometimes the bus can only get you within a mile or more of your destination. That's a big bummer if you're dead, or don't have legs. But seriously, you have to walk a lot to really get anywhere on the bus. And it also took me about 2 hrs to do my round trip, a drive that would normally have taken me 20 minutes. This is almost certainly due to my inferior understanding of the UTA system. I also learned that I hate UTA's website. It looks pretty at first, but then when you try and delve in to the schedule, maps, etc. it just gets loco. The people who use the buses and other public transportation are genius. Not weirdos like everyone thinks. Well, some are weird, but I've definitely seen a lot weirder people behind the wheel of their own car and that just really doesn't sit well with me. I think there should be some kind of motivation to help people use public transportation more, oh yeah there is one...common sense.

thanks,
steven

rut #7 - Brittany Funk

So I took a ride on UTA TRAX from Murray (where my sister and her husband live) to City Creek. I haven't used public transportation in a LONG time. The last time I used it regularly was when I lived in Singapore and we would use the MRT (it's basically an above ground subway). When we moved back to the states, we moved to a TINY town in Ohio...therefore, no public transportation existed. I was honestly scared to ride TRAX. I didn't know who would be on the train or if it would be super crowded and uncomfortable. It ended up being a pretty pleasant experience. I was with my sister, brother in law, and niece so I think that made it less intimidating. We met a few older ladies who were obsessed with my little niece. I don't blame them, she is adorable. We also talked to a couple of guys who were from some European country ( I can't remember which one, oops). They were here in Utah to ski and were riding to Temple Square. It was interesting to talk to them because they took a special (and expensive) trip to see things that seem so ordinary to me. I think public transportation is cool because it gives you an opportunity to get out of your little bubble. Maybe it is a little uncomfortable to talk to strangers and maybe you are a little too close for comfort, but I think it ends up being a good thing. I feel like I became a little less judgmental and it was cool to hear other people's stories. Overall, a cool experience that I would totally do again!

Quin Public TranZport

I forgot about this until a few hours ago so I ran out to a bus stop and got on the bus. I rode around Provo for a while and it blew my mind seeing Provo from the inside of a bus. Normally I am used to seeing big cities from the inside of public transportation, not Provo. Public transportation is super practical. I should use it more instead of driving around my F450 Diesel truck with a lift kit that sprays out black smoke and contributes heavily to the inversion layer here in the valley. ...Just kidding, I don't drive a truck. Anyway, riding around got me in a cool mood that ends right here typing this blog post and listening to Motzart with my two plants. Mozart is suppose to help plants grow better.

Rut #7-Darby Miller

Riding UTA was an interesting. I got stuck in between some people with a lot of B.O.! Yuck! You meet some interesting people on the bus depending on where you are going. Going up to campus is not super interesting, mostly just your regular BYU students. But if you venture out of that, it can get quite interesting. I met a man who was in a wheelchair, he had majored in dance, but then a few years after he got in a sledding accident and was paralyzed from the waist down. Really sad story.

Anyway, it was an interesting experience for sure!

rut #7-Michelle Monson

I took the bus to Walmart.   And it was very hard to get my groceries back on the bus.  I realized how grateful I am for my car.  And it was very embarrassing to have my groceries with me on a bus, especially when the bus started picking up students and more students.  I felt like those people they show on the 80's church movies who have single kids and are on the bus with their kids and all their groceries.  They look miserable and that is how I felt, absolutely miserable!!  I have rode transportation like this before in Chicago, places in California, and Portland...I also used to take the bus to school the year before my mission....I thought I would step out of my rut even more and do my grocery shopping using the most common transportation of the public, the UTA bus.  It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.......

Rut #7 -- Jacqueline Usterud

I have taken some pretty interesting bus rides in my life, this was not necessarily one worth remembering. Nothing special happened on the bus, nor did I see anything out of the ordinary other than some hobos pushing carts that were taller than they were. I do like eavesdropping on teenagers conversations on the bus. This particular one was about getting bellybutton piercings despite their mothers dislike.
My most interesting bus ride ever was the first one I had when I attended BYU-Hawaii. The bus driver stopped at Turtle Bay (a resort 15 minutes away form the BYU-H campus) and took a 20 minute nap. This is Hawaii in its essence. People do what they want, on their time schedule. Therefore, I am very appreciative of people and buses that stay true to their time schedule.

Rut #7 Kim Pratt

Riding the Provo bus was very interesting! Between feeling like I was going to be kidnapped, to feeling like my engagement ring and cell phone were going to be pulled out of my hands at any moment, it was overall a fun experience. I've actually experienced public transportation many times in some pretty sketchy areas (Queens, Compton, Oakland etc) For the record the bus in Provo was the sketchiest experience of all. It could be because there were only two other people on the bus, two of which were likely homeless by the looks of things. Both were staring a hole through my body as if I immediately wronged them by just being in the bus with them. It was cool to see Provo through a bus window, higher up than everyone else. It was an interesting perspective that I haven't seen. Though I probably will avoid the bus at all costs in the future, I'm glad that I did it just to say I did.

Finding #8 April Baker

I think somewhere in this crazy mess of finding I missed posting, but I'm not sure. To be safe though I'll just throw one up here, I mean another finding can't hurt right?

Sorry I can't just post the picture on here but I guess it's just not going to work that way. This is a series of posters that are visual tributes to scientists. The posters use what they are most famous for in the spelling of their names. I think it's pretty cool.


http://bhagatkapil.tumblr.com/post/44212949164/science-day-in-india-posting-whole-series-of

Rut #7 April Baker

While I've certainly spent plenty of time on the school bus in my younger years and I've even braved the Greyhound a few times to get home, I've only ridden the public bus a handful of times and never by myself, so I have to admit that I was a little hesitant to do so. In general if I have the time I prefer to walk, and on the bus for some reason I feel like I'm more likely to get lost, or end up somewhere I don't want to be. Or maybe it's just that if I do get lost, I'll be farther away than if I had been walking. I don't know.

Anyway, I don't have too much of an adventure to report. I took the bus after class today around 10 from campus to the University Mall. I didn't have any trouble really, just paid with cash and found a seat. It was kind of early so there wern't a whole lot of people, so I didn't meet anyone interesting (which is certainly not the case for when I rode Greyhound. If you ever want a real adventure give it a shot sometime). I got off at the mall, bought some yarn from Michael's,  resisted the urge to buy anything else, (even though I was right next to a farmer's market, a Starbucks, a Barns and Nobel and a Japanese restaurant), and then I just got back on the bus and got off at the stop near my apartment.

So yeah, not too exciting. But, it does prove that I can get somewhere via bus without getting hopelessly lost and the more I use it the less intimidating it seems. Also, I learned that it really isn't worth it to buy a monthly bus pass. Unless you ride the bus 26 times a month or transfer more than once a day it's cheaper to just pay the daily fee.

Finding #9

Its a MONDAY!

I just recently discovered Olan Rogers on YouTube. He is HILARIOUS! And this isn't even one if his funniest videos.  I am pretty sure his most quotable video is Lions Blaze . Check out his channel. It is like the best!

Finding 8

I thought this was kind of clever placement

Rut 6

I realized my post never loaded.

Rut 7 - Ridin' da bus

So I have never before taken public transportation in Provo.  I quickly learned that taking public transportation in the US is very different than in Brasil.  Since I had no knowledge of how the bus worked, I decided to just walk to a bus stop and get on the bus and see where it would take me.  I permanently borrowed a bus token from a friend and walked to a stop on University Avenue.  And then I waited.  I was there for literally 40 minutes.  Turns out the bus only runs half as often on Saturdays.  I got plenty of stares from people driving by, they probably either assumed I was a hobo (not quite correct), or just some idiot that didn't know the bus schedule (correct).  A rich looking fellow in a convertible randomly waved at me, maybe as his good deed of the day.  Thankfully the weather was pleasant so it felt nice being outside.  Finally after 40 minutes the bus came!  I didn't have to wave it down for it to stop, which was odd for me.  There were only two girls on the bus, and no one else got on during the entire ride.  Since the bus was empty, I could very clearly hear their conversation about some drama they have going on in their lives, and also how they are not big fans of Divine Comedy.  I got off the bus by the Gold's Gym and walked the rest of the way home.  During my walk home I passed a really ghetto looking house that had a very nice looking exercise bike sitting in its front yard.  I learned from this that public transportation in the US is not used nearly as much as it is in Brasil, and the ride was a lot calmer and less chaotic.  Also it's gotta be hard if you have to base the way you get around on the bus schedule.  I felt grateful for having a car to get to where I need.