Culture Buzz Artist Andy Bell calls the piece “a symbol of what happens when you let fear rule your life.”
Culture Buzz The first look at Zimmerman since being arrested and charged with 2nd-degree murder for shooting Trayvon Martin. Really the first good look at him, not a blurry video screen grab or years-old mugshot, since this whole story broke.
Culture Buzz And it appears to contradict the story that Trayvon Martin broke Zimmerman's nose and bashed his head into the sidewalk. This footage, obtained by ABC News, shows Zimmerman in the hours after he admitted to shooting Martin. He is brought into the Sanford police station for questioning and shows no visible sign of being bloodied in an altercation. UPDATE: More footage from that evening has surfaced.
Culture Buzz From his future prison inmate. Justice will be served.
Business Buzz Having people spontaneously talk about your brand on social media sites is an advertiser's dream. Unless it's because your product happened to be linked to the Trayvon Martin shooting. On Twitter, people are demanding Skittles issue a statement on this hot button issue, accusing the company of profiteering off extra publicity from the death, and even threatening boycotts.
Culture Buzz For those who haven't been closely following this tragic story, here's a primer on the awful facts surrounding the death of Trayvon Martin. There is plenty in here to warrant outrage.
Follow the simple instructions and this is quite a strange way to spend 30 seconds or so of your life! Lick the Rainbow!
The logical next step is a stop motion animation of Skittle-pixel game characters. Let's make this happen!
Business Buzz Skittles redoes their internet presence: The main page redirects to a Twitter search of the term “skittles”; the videos page points to YouTube; images link points to Flickr; friends points Facebook; products point to Wikipedia. All they need now is a blog done with Tumblr, and they'd have the complete set.