The “hot” topic around here these days is the emo trend. The debate (tv, blogs etc.) started with an unfortunate news about a 12 year old little girl which I refuse to further detail here.

I discovered “emos” the beginning of last year. I saw a little 11 year old girl’s profile and then her friends’ profiles … I was amazed and instantly picked up the phone and called my little sister (she was 16 then):

“Hey you”

“Hey”

“Are you emo?”

“LOL. Emos are loosers. The kids around here are starting to be emo, but not us.”

“So you know what an emo is! Wait a minute! Kids?? You’re a kid!”

“Of course I know… Kids as in 10-14 yrs old. I don’t agree with the bisexual part. I do like Tokio Hotel though. I think the twins are cute”

Pfew!

That’s how I got to google Tokio Hotel and thought the twins were a girl and a boy. They were both boys…

Then I started talking to all my friends with little bros and sisters and they started calling all their siblings. It was good. No harm done upon our loved ones Now, everyone is wondering what is an emo and how one ends up an emo… it’s been going on for years!!! Only now you notice??

I’m not gonna start talking about how I was at 12-13 years old.

All I’m sayin is that if my future kid comes home with a lock of hair all over his face I’ll give him a good reason to cover his face! Want depression? I’ll show you depression! … before you go and do smth like this .

It was all over the news and internet these last few days: CNA, National Audiovisual Council of Romania, banned the airing of the below social TV spot on the grounds of it being “anti-social” and tied to the election campaign nowadays in Romania. 

I chose to share it with you because I simply love it: the idea, the execution and most of all THE SOUNDTRACK!

The spot includes clear-cut references to communism through

• the music chosen,
• the image of Romania’s last communist leader, Ceausescu and
• the representation of the masses bowing in front of the leader.  

The shocking part is when all Romanian presidents since Ceausescu are showed, Iliescu, Constantinescu and Basescu, culminating with the end statement :

“Coose your masters carefully”

Remarkable is also the fact the the movie is made completely in-house by the TV station that aired the campaign, Antena3.

I know that usually TV station internalise most or all marketing activities. This is just another example of good work from a good marketing team.

Long time no see Holidays and religious celebrations will do that to you.

I love blogging but, unfortunately, my blog will be relatively on the stand still for another little while until I get my affairs in order with higher authorities.

Being such a stressful busy period in my life, I will make deedeecus.com my oasis of serenity How? By sharing with you in brief remarkable things I find around me.

Simply stuff worth sharing.
And a few words which anyone can find the time to read and like.

Note: I am not abandoning the marketing side of deedeecus.com. It may just be a little outshined by remarkable encounterings.

In this note, I discovered the company Remarkable ! They are creating recycled products focusing on design and quality, since 1996. They create products with history, things with a previous life and maybe an after-life as well.

Source.

LATER EDIT:  found something  someone “remarkable” in .ro also right here.

In the last few months there’s been an avalanche of websites in .ro dedicated to women, from portals to online shops and blogs. Too much information! all over the web.

Based on the principles “why the hell not?” and “if you want something done right do it yourself” I brainwashed a fashion victim girlfriend of mine and started our very own little GIRL PROJECT: thatsHOT.ro.

We’re hoping to launch in the next couple of months. It’s gonna be basically a wordpress based website aka blog which… you know what? I’ll tell you later all about it. All I hope is that a busy, cool , webloving girl will love to spend a few minutes a day on thatsHOT’s site or feed .

In the mean time, I would appreciate any comments on the logo draft below. The positive ones you can also address directly to the author (Thank you again crime partner!) and the negative ones just hit me and I’ll filter them a little before forwarding them :P . Pahomi, any evil thoughts please ? :D 

I’ve mentioned Zazazoo before, a Romanian one day-one product shop online dedicated to women. I’ve been keeping an eye on this store and regulary checking their products via RSS.

These days I’ve been looking for a present for a girlfriend of mine and Zazazoo came instantly to mind in search of some cute, special , maybe even ON SALE , little girlie thinghie. Opened my Reader and surprisingly Zazazoo’s feed wasn’t updated since March 8… what the @#!$% ?

Headed to the site. Still no products, but an “invitation” to join their 1 million pieces puzzle… i juuust wanted to buy something. I see the “Zazazoo Shop” button and finally got to the products…

They were UPDATED!!! I subscribed to their RSS feed AGAIN and apparently I’ve been missing out on a lot of stuff since March 8 … daahhh! No “daily dose of shopping for me” as states their slogan. Now what happened? Why didn’t my feed update? can I buy something from the archive?

I don’t know if there was any mention of this on their blog because I don’t want to subscribe to their blog… I just want the products!

Ergo, my question: was this a mistake from their part or is it just me?

These days I’ve been getting caught up in anything BUT what I’m supposed to… I’ve been focusing on personal silly net projects (soon to be revealed) when work should be top priority and hanging on the web instead of the multiple schools I’ve recklessly entered. Something like this:

It’s like I’m trying to get a break in the middle of the class. In this note I wanted to share, in case you didn’t hear of it, the genius webcomic that is xkcd. I’ve been following the comic for quite some time now and finally I’ve selected some of the latest episodes which are top of my list to give you a clue on what xkcd is about : “romance, sarcasm, math and language” [computer language that is].

xkcd is sometimes better than any funny youtube video. more on xkcd here and here. Just take a peek at the following…

Is it ok to say out loud that I don’t understand some of the episodes ? (the above I do! but all of the people who mentioned the comic seem to get them all!)… I get them in my own way