we should do a tumblr side project

May 20, 2015 5:10 PM

MAD MEN INTEGRATED. (Warning: Tumblr, GIFs, digital strategy.)
posted by Combustible Edison Lighthouse (14 comments total)

Oh man. I should probably be bent out of shape about this, given that I have "digital strategy" in my job title, but I love it too much to do such a thing.
posted by theanalogdivide at 5:16 PM on May 20, 2015

RT if u wish Mad Men take place in modarn times. Don: Peggy meet with Facebook guys about sponsored content. Peggy: Ugh brogrammers.
posted by officer_fred at 5:34 PM on May 20, 2015

And with this, we reach both Peak Tumblr and Peak GIF.

...which reminds me (scroll ALL the way down for the incredible collaboration of Matt Bors and Nick Fury)
posted by oneswellfoop at 5:40 PM on May 20, 2015

oh god this was a little too real for me
posted by Hermione Granger at 5:42 PM on May 20, 2015 [3 favorites]

Laughing way too hard at "Apple Watch" - "Whatevs" here.
posted by Crystalinne at 5:46 PM on May 20, 2015 [4 favorites]

There's something comforting in knowing I'm at the end of my career, and will never have to utter any of those terms in any manner other than in derisIon.
posted by Thorzdad at 5:58 PM on May 20, 2015

I thought this was going to be about math.
posted by mr_roboto at 6:01 PM on May 20, 2015

Ommmm...

*ching*

...niture
posted by Artw at 6:06 PM on May 20, 2015 [4 favorites]

I thought this was going to be about math.

I thought this was going to be about diversity
posted by dinty_moore at 6:16 PM on May 20, 2015 [8 favorites]

I thought this was going to be a multiracial effort featuring angry male math teachers.
YOWZA
posted by a halcyon day at 6:40 PM on May 20, 2015 [2 favorites]

I thought this was going to be about diversity

Yeah, I was totally expecting Photoshop images of people of color inserted into scenes from Mad Men, presumably to make some sort of satirical point about the show or the 1960s or advertising or whatever. I was expecting it so much that when I saw the actual Tumblr it took me way too long to figure out what I was looking at.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 8:06 PM on May 20, 2015 [1 favorite]

Ultra Mad Men.
posted by ursus_comiter at 9:26 PM on May 20, 2015 [1 favorite]

I can certainly imagine Don Draper doing a pitch about Tumblr:

It's delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek, ベーパーウェーブ literally means "the evaporation from a transfer of energy." It's a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This aesthetic isn't retro, it's a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards... it takes us to a place where we hoped to never go again. It's not called vintage, it's called ▽▲P●RW▲▽E. It let's us travel the way a millennial travelled the web when he was a child - GIFs repeating around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know are loved.
posted by lmfsilva at 11:44 PM on May 20, 2015 [2 favorites]

*saves every GIF*

Sweet, that's me sorted for replying to my colleague's emails for the next six months.
posted by Happy Dave at 12:22 AM on May 21, 2015 [2 favorites]