We started listing the 30 most trafficked stories on MarkLives in 2012 yesterday and today we hit the top 20. The 10 best-read stories will be published Wednesday. Any guesses ? Tweet them to @marklives!
20 Justin Bieber in a penis suit just another day in the office for ZANews
I’m trying to figure out what the two, ahem, balls attached to the front of the fluffy pink bunny suit could possibly indicate.
“Oh – that was for our Halloween edition. It’s a penis and we put Justin Bieber in it,” says a voice from somewhere to my right.
I’m in the costume room of the only in show in SA that would feature a giant penis sporting the Bieber’s face on air – or as the ZANews website puts it ” the only news show more ghastly than the SABC.” It’s ZANews producer Thierry Cassuto and his teams’ literal take on the boy-man as an over-exposed sex symbol.
19 MarkLives refused media accreditation to The Loerie Award shows (again)
MarkLives (or to be more precise, me) have been refused media accreditation to the award shows of the 2012 Loerie Awards.
Lebogang Mohaule, Media Assistant at The Loerie Awards, confirmed that no accreditation to the two main award events would be forthcoming. Mohaule offered a single seminar pass for the rather grandiosely named International Seminar of Creativity taking place on Friday 21 September at Cape Town’s City Hall instead. I would also have access to “online press kits & official image gallery.”
Mohaule claims the Loeries “are following the same accreditation process used by the Cannes Lion Festival of Creativity” in which accreditation “is not based on the type of media you represent, rather [on] the planned media coverage.”
18 A collaborative approach to architecture
by Nashid Nabian and Carlo Ratti (a speaker at the 2012 Design Indaba) of MIT SENSEable City Lab The 1965 exhibition Architecture Without Architects, shown at the Museum of Modern Art, and the accompanying book Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-pedigreed Architecture by Bernard Rudofsky, provided a unique view into what Rudofsky defined as “communal vernacular,” “anonymous,” “spontaneous,” “indigenous,” “rural,” “non-formal,” “non-classified,” or “non-pedigreed” architecture.
The focus of the exhibition was on architecture created by anonymous, untutored builders who used their good sense to handle practical problems in a synergetic relationship with the environment, implicitly criticizing the narrow orthodoxy of a discipline preoccupied with “architectural nobility” and the work of individual masters.
The message of the exhibit and the accompanying publication was that the philosophy and know-how of these builders, and their understanding of the potential and the limits of architecture, present an enormous, untapped source of inspiration. In architectures without architects, the inhabited environments are inspired and directly shaped by their inhabitants.
17 Top 10 of 2012: Magazine covers we love
I love countdowns! Best of this. Worst of that. Richest people. Newsmakers of the Year. Car of the Year. List it and I’ll read that article. So I’m especially thrilled to present to you a countdown of the Top 10 South African covers for 2012 as selected by Mediaslut.
16 Chad and Bert le Clos opens Virgin Active’s 100th club
The headline should have read CHAD SHIRTLESS.
Virgin Active has opened its 100th club in Balfour Park Mall Gauteng. We thought the T-shirts for Olympic medallist Chad le Clos and his dad (and social media phenom) Bert was spot on.
15 Capitec’s marketing team on the Capitec way
Members of Capitec’s marketing team on the Capitec way
Pieter Marais – Head of Marketing
“In a recent brand discussion Gus Silber said about Capitec Bank “they are not like other banks”. This statement says more about the other banks than what it says about Capitec Bank. The same goes for marketing. In my thinking about the Capitec Bank brand I apply the motto – don’t think like other marketers. There are many marketing offers coming through one’s inbox and marketing articles and seminars preach more of the same. Our success lies in cutting through the clutter. We are however fortunate to work on a brand that allows free thinking outside the banking category box.”
14 Naspers to benefit from Facebook IPO
In Internet circles, the world as we know it is the one in which social media dominates most of our online activity, and every business is told it must be part of it. Yet no one knows what it’s really worth, how to work it to maximum advantage or how important it will be in a few years’ time.
In 2012, some of that uncertainty will be dispelled by one single event. It will be the year of Facebook being listed on the stock market, in what the Americans call an Initial Public offering, or IPO.
13 Magazine covers we love (this week)! March 29
MarkLives.com runs a regular slot featuring the best local and international magazine covers every week. We recognise well thought out, powerful and interesting (and hopefully all three in one) magazine covers and celebrate the mix of pragmatism, creativity and personal taste that created each of them.
12 Magazine covers we love (this week)! Feb 24
MarkLives.com runs a regular slot featuring the best local and international magazine covers every week. We recognise well thought out, powerful and interesting (and hopefully all three in one) magazine covers and celebrate the mix of pragmatism, creativity and personal taste that created each of them.
11 Rocket Internet enters SA market with Zando, numerous ecommerce plays
Zando, a new online fashion ecommerce play funded by Germany-based Rocket Internet, launched three months ago and is literally aiming to rocket through the online retail market to be in the same league like services such as Kalahari.net and Takelot.com.
The offices in the Black River Park office complex in Cape Town seem threadbare but are bustling with people – they number well over a 100 Eugen Petersenalready, according to Eugen Petersen, MD and co-founder at Zando.
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