links for 2008-08-18

  • Thus the company shunned celebrity endorsements — Kid Rock had been interested — and devoted its budget instead to murketing, sponsoring a series of unlikely gatherings across the country. Like 'some kind of small-scale National Endowment for the Arts for young American outsider culture,' Pabst paid the bills at bike messenger contests, skateboarder movie screenings, and art and indie publishing get-togethers. …
  • It's all about proximity, vicinity and shouting distance…
    (tags: location local)