retro-the-best....: Apr 6, 2011

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Retro: Kimmer

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 03:19 PM PDT

Rob Thomas

Hey I just found this video today. Daryl Hall is doing a live video show from his house and it is awesome! Rob singing with Daryl Hall is just perfect! At least to alot of us girls out here!

Of course I have had a mad crush on Daryl Hall beginning in 1975 and for Rob Thomas since he sang "Smooth" with Carlos Santana. I love Matchbox 20 too but "Smooth" just killed the competition on the billboard lineup. Great tune! Rob Thomas wrote "Smooth" too...

"Smooth" won three Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. It spent a record-breaking ten consecutive weeks at the top of the VSpot Top 20 Countdown, a record that held up until the Dixie Chicks broke it in 2006. According to Billboard's Hottest Hot 100 Hits by Fred Bronson, this is the number-one song of The Nineties (2003).

Rob Thomas wrote this song for his wife, Marisol Thomas. The pair married in 1999, after meeting backstage in 1998. Of Puerto Rican origin, she was the inspiration behind lines such as, "My muñequita, my Spanish Harlem Mona Lisa" Thomas stated in interviews that the phrase "Spanish Harlem Mona Lisa" was inspired by the 1972 Elton John song "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters", which includes references to the 1961 Ben E. King song "Spanish Harlem".

On Billboard magazine's rankings of the top songs of the first fifty years of the Hot 100 singles chart, "Smooth" was ranked as the number-two song overall with "The Twist" at number 1.

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THANK YOU FOR 3 YEARS! - Today's newsletter is sentimental and nostalgic for a number of reasons... First off, it's my birthday! More importantly, my birthday marks the 3rd year anniversary from the day I 'retired' from my innovation job to work full time on TrendHunter.com. With the support of readers and Trend Report customers like you, I was able to build a team of people dedicated to building our Trend Hunter community.

THE PATHWAY - Over the last three years, our dedicated readers, like you, have found inspiration and driven new people to our site. Traffic has grown from 1,000,000 views per month, to over 40,000,000... In fact, we are just weeks away from reaching half a BILLION total views. Together, we've built a community of 200,000 twitter followers (to multiple accounts), 40,000 Facebook fans and 60,000 subscribers to this newsletter. In short, I am VERY THANKFUL that so many of you have become as passionate about Trend Hunter, and our goal to help showcase innovative ideas from around the world.

SEEING IMPACT - Today, I am writing this update from Pakistan, more than 10,000 miles from our Toronto office. I'm here for two days of workshops and keynotes to help inspire business leaders not only about innovation, but also on how to reinvent Pakistan for 2015. I've been touched by how appreciative people have been for this sort of work. Pakistan has often been labeled as the world's 'most dangerous' country in magazines like the Economist.

Having said that, there is a vibrant culture and innovative leaders like you who are SO PASSIONATE about their country, and wanting to find ways to inspire their people and showcase the creativity that thrives behind the walls of negative media press. For example, in 2009, Trend Hunter covered "Anti-Terrorist Fashion", the first ever Pakistan Fashion week. The fashion show brought together 30 designers who wanted to counteract the negative press associated with their country by celebrating its colourful couture. It's ideas like this that the business leaders of Pakistan want to celebrate... and it is ideas like this that TrendHunter.com facilitates around the world.

SOCIALBUSINESS.ORG - This is also a great time to announce our official co-launch of SocialBusiness.org. Crowd fueled by the Trend Hunter community, SocialBusiness.org is dedicateed to "ideas, businesses and people who are creating positive social change." the venture is led by my former boss, Stephen King, and edited by Tiana Ried, a former Trend Hunter intern. I'd encourage you to check out some of the ventures on SocialBusiness.org, and PLEASE follow them on TWITTER and on FACEBOOK. By celebrating innovation that create positive social change, we can change the world.

Q2 TREND REPORTS - We'll dive into this a bit more next week, but we JUST launched our Q2 2011 Trend Report update, which includes 85 more pages of PRO Trends and the latest trend research. We are investing a lot more into our PRO Trend business, where we filter through all the noise and look for clusters of opportunity. Learn more at TrendHunter.com/TrendReport

Enjoy!

Jeremy Gutsche, Chief Trend Hunter (@jeremygutsche)

P.S. If you're wanting to track me down, here's my innovation keynote schedule:

Apr 7 - Pakistan
Apr 14 - Montreal
Apr 20 - Ottawa
Apr 26 - Boston
May 2 - Tucson
May 3 - Straftord

May 3 - Toronto
May 4 - Boston
May 11 - Toronto
May 16 - Jasper
May 18 - Los Angeles
Jul 27 - Saskatoon

Aug 2 - Carlsbard
Oct 6 - Stockholm
Oct 11 - Palm Desert
Oct 26 - Orlando
Jan 26 - Louisville

More details HERE.

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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Retro: Kimmer

Retro: Kimmer

3 years of Trend Hunter, SocialBusiness.org, Q2 Trend Reports and MORE!

1. 57 Fantastic Film Posters

2. 56 Gleeful Greeting Cards

3. 86 Brew Branding Innovations

4. Trippy Origami Fashion

5. Prejudice Parody Maps

6. Unattractive Fashion Blogs

1. 61 Innovations in Printing

2. 51 Creative Food-Coolers

3. 73 Steamy Showers

4. Three-Way Flip Phones

5. 25 Fighter Jet Innovations

6. Lumberific iPhone Cases

7. Infrared Gamer Photography

8. Stealthy Strap-on Smartphones

9. Luxe iPod Nano Watches

1. Flexing Feline Photography

2. 18 Awesome Animal Portraits

3. 42 Frisky Forest Fashion Editorials

4. Mascara-Stained Snapshots

5. Skulltastic Pop Cultural Figures

6. Vibrant Pop Art Photoshoots

7. Anti-Gravity Furniture

8. Billboard Graffiti Art

9. Impaled Architecture

1. Suspended Sports Campaigns

2. Wordless Logos

3. Peelable Booze Bottles

4. Literal Book Ads

5. 100 Disney Spin-Offs

6. Facebook Appreciation Ads

7. Utopian Fashion Videos

8. Romantic Beach Commercials

9. Brilliant Custom-Branded Goods

1. Hipster Shoreline Shoots

2. Real-Life Vampires

3. Bond Girl Photography

4. Epicene Editorials

5. 69 Perfect Plaid Fashions

6. Remixed 80s Movie Posters

7. Flora & Fauna Fashiontography

8. Gloomy Glamour Editorials

9. Two-Toned Movie Prints

1. Emission-Free Two-Wheelers

2. Eco Domed Abodes

3. Grandpa-Inspired Cycles

4. 45 Speedy Electric Rides

5. Cardboard Bed Sets

6. Retro Recycled Artworks

1. Luxe Metallic Frocks

2. Architectural Shoulder Pads

3. Neoteric Craft Fashion

4. Speedy Family Sedans

5. Upscale Border Town Restaurants

6. Clustered Bubble Lamps

7. Futuristic Fashion Films

8. Ritzy Low Rides

9. Baroque Sci-fi Fashion

1. Bold Neon Pumps

2. Couture Hotel Scenes

3. Retro 70s Editorials

4. Leather Harness Fashions

5. Creatively Quiet Captures

6. Blurred Bohemian Editorials

7. Soft Summer Styles

8. Platform Heel Extensions

9. Crystalline Editorials

1. 27 Charitable T-Shirts

2. 91 Fantastic Facebook Features

3. 50 Geeky Fashion Items

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2. Innovation Keynote by Jeremy Gutsche

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