'Friday Funk'

Big Brother, er, um, Google… sends their vehicles all over the world to capture images of our fair planet in an effort to provide a great visual map for it’s users. We look forward to sites like StreetViewFunny where people share all sorts of hilarious and interesting Google Street View shots from around the world. [...]

Assuming most of you are familiar with Twitter and know how popular it has become since its inception. According to Nielsen Online, from February 2008 to February 2009, there was a 1382% increase in its popularity.  During a conference with over 10,000 Twitter fans, or as well like to call them “digital sheep”,  Zug, the [...]

Over the past five years, products such as Axe and Tag have advertised deodorant body sprays almost exclusively to young males.  Meanwhile “traditional” roll-on deodorants like Right Guard and Old Spice have continued to target older, white males.  In this ad campaign, Old Spice has broken with tradition, aiming to find new customers among young [...]

If you’re lucky enough to live in a city that has an IKEA store, then you may have taken a trip inside their massive building and viewed the showrooms chock full of stylish furniture and accessories. I’ll be the first to admit that Cincinnati got a little better the day the IKEA opened. And yes, [...]

Have you ever heard of the game “telephone”? What happens is the first player whispers a phrase or sentence to the next player. Each player then whispers what that player believes he or she heard to the next. The last player shares the statement to the group. As you can imagine, large amount of errors [...]

Our Friday Funk today comes with a message. Sometimes it takes a little silliness to get people’s attention. “General” Larry Platt proved that with his viral hit “Pants On the Ground” in the American Idol audition recently. Haven’t seen it yet? Well, check it out…

Digital billboards are new and funky. So is the ability to market your products via “lenses” on Squidoo.com. But what we think is REALLY funky this week are “old-school” ways to convey an idea that today…raise eyebrows. Here are two examples of low-tech, creative self-expression we’ve been fascinated by all week: Case 1: Jason Sadler [...]

Today’s Friday Funk features Jared Allen, talking about his mullet – it’s not just a haircut, it’s a lifestyle – and will send you laughing into the weekend. You’ll be quoting this thing until Monday for sure. And when he body slams the Lion’s quarterback in this weekend’s game, you can say “dang, this guy [...]

It’s almost Halloween and the Upright gang wants to wish you a Happy Halloween in classic Friday Funk style. Halloween falls on a Saturday this year, and many of us are looking forward to an exciting night full of candy-fueled shenanigans and an extra hour of party-time (don’t forget to turn your clocks back an [...]

Normally our Friday Funk is light hearted and fun, but this Friday we’d like to share something with a little more purpose. On October 1st, to help kick off the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we posted a blog on a project that we’re happy to donate our time on to help raise money for [...]