Chris Baker / Copywriter, Creative Director, Whatever Sun, 15 Sep 2024 19:29:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 NYT — The Voter Suppression Trail /projects/the-voter-suppression-trail/ Thu, 24 Aug 2017 11:10:24 +0000 /?p=3201 The New York Times' first 8-bit arcade game, made for their Op-doc platform. Nominated for an Emmy Award in Outstanding New Approaches: Arts, Lifestyle and Culture.

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]]> Non-fungible Olive Gardens /projects/non-fungible-olive-gardens/ Sun, 30 Jan 2022 23:03:44 +0000 /?p=4349 A viral NFT project that took all 880 Olive Gardens out of the meatspace and into the metaverse. wyhyf!

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Non-Fungible Olive Gardens is the future of fast casual dining tokenization!

For too long, ownership of Olive Garden franchises has been dominated by the capricious whims of the fiat system. That’s why we’re enabling anyone to trustlessly mint a nonfungible token representing 1 of 880 real Olive Garden franchises in the United States.

Our goal was to bootstrap a community of Olive Garden enthusiasts, which is why the franchise mint price was tethered to the reasonable cost of a Tour Of Italy entree ($19.99, as of Dec 20, 2021). All 880 tokens sold out within 12 hours after release.

 


 

The Discord was pretty funny. People started saying “buongiorno” every morning, and one channel had some authentic Italian music playing.

 

Ultimately the project ended up with a DMCA takedown from Darden Enterprises and subsequent delisting from OpenSea. But the memories and the unlimited breadsticks remain.

 

Darden’s white-shoe buzzkills and our reply.

 
 

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]]> TD Ameritrade – Tiktoks /projects/td-ameritrade-tiktoks/ Wed, 16 Feb 2022 13:36:10 +0000 /?p=4406 Some pretty silly Tiktoks for the large financial entity known as TD Ameritrade. Made with friends at Havas and Studio Sabia.

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]]> Promptjects /projects/promptjects/ Mon, 17 Apr 2023 12:27:40 +0000 /?p=5800 Real life stuff rendered out by Midjourney, Coming soon.

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]]> Deep State /projects/deep-state/ Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:36:23 +0000 /?p=5925 Want one? hmu

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]]> RIPmyNFT /projects/ripmynft/ Fri, 14 Oct 2022 02:04:18 +0000 /?p=4665 The NFT market has been extra spooky this year. Trading volumes have tanked, leaving us saddled with the ghastly remains of abandoned jpegs that might not turn into shares of private islands after all.

In the flesh-bound world, there is a savior in situations like these. When Blockbusters are boarded up and Circuit Cities sell their shelving, the merciful reaper of Spirit Halloween appears to resurrect their rotting corpses into costume carnivals that brighten the dusky firmament of fallen strip malls.

So we’re bringing their macabre miracle to the blockchain. Give us a dead NFT—we’ll burn it—and give you a new version that’s been graced by Spirit Halloween. It’s free, and all you have to lose is a token that gave up the ghost months ago anyway.

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]]> Human Record Player /projects/human-record-player/ Thu, 29 Sep 2022 16:26:47 +0000 /?p=4505 Weezer hit up my favorite creative partner—Brian Moore—to help them release their new single “Records.” So we made a site that makes it so that the only way to listen to the track is to spin yourself around in a circle. Like a human record. Scan that little QR code to try it out.

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]]> TD Ameritrade – Education /projects/td-ameritrade-education/ Mon, 17 Oct 2022 21:50:19 +0000 /?p=4924 Doni and Nick, this came out good if you're reading this.

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]]> Oikos Cryceps /projects/oikos-cryceps/ Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:47:24 +0000 /?p=4015 I thought it would be cool to do a supercut of all the draftees letting the waterworks flow after getting that draft call. Made with friends at Lightning Orchard.

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]]> OscarHub /projects/oscarhub/ Sat, 29 Apr 2023 17:48:09 +0000 /?p=5620 Normally you'd see celebs deepfaked into porn. I thought the opposite would be funny. Just playing around with Deep Fake github shit.

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