Great SMM test task (featuring Wham+Slayer)

Here's one hell of test for social media marketing manager position.

Find a reason to post this mash-up song on the company's page. Yes, it is legendary Wham!\Slayer mash-up made by Bill McClintock.

You can do the following things with it:

• attempt to find parallel the song's combined content message with the company's messages;
• attempt to reflect the mood of the company at the moment with the song's content (propaganda death ensemble...) - you know - what if it was the company's theme song and so on;
• showcase your creative thinking. Mostly in terms of unconventional thinking and utilizing skills.
• Drop off the majority of candidates because this test task is ridiculous through and through.
• Drive to maximum absurdity and just ram it down because such creative test tasks are scary for many marketers as they are used to more conventional and template-driven thinking.

Found poem + some erasure pixel blur

So i was browsing discogs in search of 2000s blues albums and then i stumbled upon Entrance Band's Guy Blakeslee's solo album Ophelia Slowly. And I look at the tracklist and it struck me - there was a poem and i needed to let it out of that tracklist.

To do that - i went face pixelizer and tinkered with the tracklist screenshot. 

Now it is a combination of plain text, pixelized glyphs and some blurred timestamps and words.

MFT: Frenzal Rhomb - Not So Tough Now (1996) - parade of secret tracks

 

Frenzal Rhomb's 1996 album Not So Tough Now is not just really good punk rock album. It also has one of the greatest listings of secret tracks ever. Back in the 90s secret tracks became a commonplace and their vinyl-era mystique went away. 

So why not mock the entire concept? That's what Frenzal Rhomb did. Check it out:

Chicken Image on the Wall

 Last December we had a little trip to Chernihiv. It was great through and through. But that's not why I'm writing this post. 

The story goes - we were going through local churches and during one of the breaks - my wife was looking around and noticed something strange on one of the churches towers. Part of the wall's cover had fallen off (it was under restoration and there were numerous bits either peeled off or crumbled away). But it wasn't just a piece of the wall exposed - the exposed part of the wall had a very particular shape. It looked like a chicken.

Here's the photo:

I think this is quite fascinating piece of found art.

New Interview: Questions about Creativity (by Piotr Szreniawski)

Great news! I have been featured in the book Questions About Creativity by
Piotr Szreniawski

It is an interview about different aspects of the job. There are also some of my works featured throughout the text.

The link http://poemiks.comicgenesis.com/questionsaboutcreativity.pdf

New book: Gerry Ha Ha (Timglaset, 2020)

 

I have a new book out now - it is called Gerry Ha Ha, and it is a whole lotta ha's, and ha's to send to hell any worry, uncertainty, despair, or else - because why bother with stuff like that - we've got better things to do! Just read the page aloud, and it is all mostly gone. 

I want to thank Joakim Norling and Timglaset for making it real. Keep on keeping on!
The link - www.timglaset.com/produktsida/volodymyr-bilyk-gerry-ha-ha

Zur-En-Arrh Transmission: Heartbeat Series

So I was reading old Alien versus Predator comics and I've found this beautiful thing in one of them - Heartbeat going steady beat beat beat and then it stops.