“I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale, only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean I make medicine sick.”

“I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.”

“People don’t realize what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy – nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley – I was the Elvis of boxing.”

“I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin’ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.”

“A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”

-Muhammad Ali

Put in different addresses and your experience will be continually different. Watch and enjoy.

Sive attended the Athens School of Fine Arts where he studied painting.  He now works as a freelancer painting on everything from small canvases to giant walls.

His work is refreshing, street art with a fine art twist. The exaggerated shadows, depth, subject matter and overall composition show his skill level.

You can see a lot of his work on his myspace page, yes, myspace. You can also take a look over at Behance Network.

Glenn Jones is a graphic designer and illustrator from Auckland, New Zealand. The name Glennz comes from GLENN from NZ = GLENNZ, and as he states, this was his user name on Threadless.com, which is where he gathered a huge following, so why change it.

At first glance, you might think this is easy to do, but give it a try, I think you will find this extremely tough to pull off. I equate his work with Gary Larson, creator of The Far Side. simple, flat illustrations, but full of humor and wit.  Either you get it, or you don’t.

You can now see and buy his work at his site, Glennz.com.

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Ampersand is a collaborative, student-initiated news-magazine for the Kansas City Art Institute. This gorgeous cover creation and design were done by Josh Lambert & Laura Berglund.

Rocket and Walker recently had a fun project come across our desk from the New York Daily News in honor of the latest Mad Men season. As die-hard lovers of Mad Men, we couldn’t pass up the opportunity. The task: Create an ad for Sterling Cooper Draper Price’s clients. We chose the infamous Secor Laxatives. See the result here.

Brands may need to change their Twitter strategy, according to a recent study posted on Advertising Age this week. Brands are barely Twitter conversation topics, and few are paying attention.

The study was conducted by the digital agency 360i and was released on July 27.  The six-month analysis proved that only 10 percent of Twitter messages come from businesses. Only 12 percent of messages ever mention a brand and only 1 percent are part of an active conversation.

The top brands mentioned are not surprising, including Twitter, Google, YouTube, Starbucks and Facebook.

Yet, these brands are not receiving any brownie points from Twitter users with no real positive sentiment. The study found that 82 percent of the Tweets with brand mentions are neutral.

What this study shows is that brands are still not grasping how Twitter is actually used. As Advertising Age describes, 94 percent of tweets are personal in nature and 85 percent are original tweets. Very few are re-tweeting, so simply posting a promotional tweet and hoping people pass it on is not going to get brands very far.

Brands need to take advantage of the personal nature of Twitter and start creating relationships through real conversations. Rather than posting a generic message to the masses, it is essential to post starter conversation topics to a targeted group. Then, follow up with questions, input and a few thank you’s.

Jamie Bolton

Olly Moss

Albert Exergian

Hailmika