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Fake Presidents For Chrysler, Intel Powers Lady Gaga’s Bowie: Top 5 Ads Of The Week

Asics wants it more, Android’s PES fingerprints, and Converse’s split-screen Valentine’s Day.

Earlier this week, Intel and Lady Gaga unleashed a branded content brouhaha over the artist’s tribute to the late David Bowie at the Grammys. Some people thought airing an Intel ad tied to the performance immediately following said performance—while making perfect sense in a marketing boardroom—may have been in poor taste given Bowie’s lack of say in the matter. But bicker all you want about the timing or whether Gaga’s take on the rock legend’s greatest hits were inspired art or overcooked Vegas karaoke, this was a win for brands looking to become a part of culture.

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Converse Made Four Short Music Docs Following Unsigned Artists At Legendary Studios

The latest Rubber Tracks project pairs unknowns with stars like Mark Ronson at Abbey Road, Sunset Sound, Tuff Gong, and more.

Last year Converse announced its latest Rubber Tracks project, a new global program that offered up free recording time at 12 legendary recording studios around the world. The brand got more than 9,000 applications from up-and-coming international artists and chose a total of 84 acts, from 28 countries, to record at places like Abbey Road Studios in London, Sunset Sound in Los Angeles, and Tuff Gong in Kingston, Jamaica.

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Yes, Shia LeBeouf Is Livestreaming Himself Hanging Out In An Elevator For A Whole Day

Whoever had “livestreams” and “elevators” in the “What will Shia LeBeouf do next?” office pool just won big.

Hell, as Jean Paul-Sartre wrote, is other people. That he somehow managed to come up with the insight into the nature of humanity even before the possibility of being stuck in a livestream with Shia LeBeouf as he documented the experience in the name of performance art merely speaks to the genius of the prescient French existentialist.

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Halsey, Best Coast, Lorde, And More Speak Out For Kesha After Sony Lawsuit

A New York judge refused to grant the artist injunctive relief against Sony despite allegations of sexual assault by her producer.

It’s hard to be a woman in the music industry. That’s a lesson that gets learned over and over again—including recently, when multiple allegations against publicist Heathcliff Berru from women who’ve worked with him became public. But that story at least had a resolution with accountability—unlike the court ruling today in Kesha’s case against Sony, where the artist sought injunctive relief against the label to void or amend a recording contract that required her to either work with a producer who she says raped her, or to watch her work go unpromoted.

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Everything You Need To Know Before The Academy Awards 2016

Unless, you know, you intend to boycott it. But we’re here if you need us!

Heard any good Oscars jokes lately? Yes, we know—the lead-up to this year’s Academy Awards has once again been a minefield of bad decisions, disastrous PR, and too many iconic feet placed in should-know-better mouths. But putting all of that aside, it’s still the biggest movie event of the year, and there are still worthy films and worthy filmmakers set to be feted. Besides, whether you plan to love- or hate-watch, you’re still going to watch.

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See Plausible Fake Movie Posters Made From Random Images On Reddit

A crafty Redditor has been taking random images and turning them into eerily accurate movie posters. You’d see Ark, right?

How well do you know your movie poster cliches? There’s “Giant Floating Heads“—everyone’s seen those. “Holding Gun Whilst Looking Over Shoulder” is popular as well. And who can forget “Unlikely Partners Crooking a Thumb At Each Other Like ‘I Gotta Work With This Guy?'” These kinds of movie posters have been done to death, resurrected by parody, and then had a stake driven through their lifeless hearts. It takes a much keener eye to notice the trends endemic to more traditionally stylized posters. One crafty Redditor has such a striking command on these lesser heralded tropes, he can apparently use them to turn any image into a movie poster.

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Why Patagonia Is Taking Its Tools For Grassroots Activism To The Masses

The brand has published a new book and podcast series to take lessons from its longstanding activism conference to a wider audience.

For more than 20 years, Patagonia has hosted its Tools For Grassroots Activists Conference to train, inform, and inspire those working at the local level to influence environmental issues. Speakers like Terry Tempest Williams, Bill McKibben, Annie Leonard, and more gather to talk about what environmental activists need to attract members, publicize issues, communicate to donors, and inspire people to take action. Now the brand is taking these lessons far beyond the conference with a new book, Tools for Grassroots Activists, and podcast series featuring talks from past conferences.

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“Help Kenya Not Kanye” Has Better Charity Options Than West’s $53 Million Debt

New site wants you to choose the lives of many over The Life of Pablo, books over Boosts, famine over fashion, and more.

A little over a week ago, Kanye West announced to the world on Twitter (natch) that he was $53 million in debt. Considering he just held an album release party/fashion show at Madison Square Garden and is one of the most popular artists on the planet, this came as a bit of a shock. But West outlined in subsequent tweets that it wasn’t personal wealth he lacked, but the funding to truly reach his artistic potential. He followed that up by publicly soliciting donations from Mark Zuckerberg and other Silicon Valley moneybags. But what got advertising copywriter Gabriel Ferrer’s attention was when West suggested investing in him was a better use of money than, say, funding a school in Africa.

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Waze, “London Has Fallen,” and Morgan Freeman Want You To Be President

That’s going to be one epic, transcendent, yet warm and human left turn in 3.5 miles.

Alternate-reality marketing for movies is nothing new—but usually, the movies that get that kind of treatment are ones that have some extensive world-building involved. It makes sense to deepen the world around 10 Cloverfield Lane or to offer a look at the police case files in Gotham City in the lead-up to The Dark Knight Rises—but a proudly B-movie style action flick like London Has Fallen doesn’t usually offer fans the opportunity to live in the world of the film.

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How Costume Designer Sandy Powell Made Cate Blanchett’s Stunning “Carol” Looks

The three-time Academy Award winner talks early 1950s fashion, the importance of first impressions, and that red plaid robe.

It’s hard to take your eyes off Cate Blanchett in Carol. Not only is her performance as Carol Aird—a sophisticated 1950s socialite who falls in love with Therese Belivet, a less-worldly shop girl played by Rooney Mara—captivating, there’s also no denying the allure of her exquisite attire.

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