You’re about to be the most interesting person at your next cocktail party, client dinner, or 8 hour QBR meeting.
Welcome to Click Clique, the monthly creative culture wrap up curated by the Wpromote Creative Department.
Pop by for a quick blast of fascinating, inspiring, imaginative, and straight-up weird bits bubbling up in culture. Then go forth and dazzle your friends and colleagues with a few epic nuggets of cultural gold.
01
Junky cars and piles of trash. No, it's not your uncle's house, it's The Gambler 500.
Every year, a group of do-gooder art car weirdos assemble in Madras, OR to drive DIY-decorated, $500 junkers across public lands with one goal: PIck up the most garbage in one weekend. It's a 'race' in the same way that Burning Man is a 'convention.'
02
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I'm trying to shop.
Sephora has established "Quiet Hours" for shoppers with sensory issues. At specified times, they turn the music down, adjust their screens, and otherwise reduce the sensory stimulation that comes with the typical chaotic mall shopping experience. And who better to hype it than the stars of Love on the Spectrum.
03
And you thought Brussels only grew brussel sprouts.
Brussels' 'Flower Carpet' event celebrates art, community, and diplomacy. But mostly they celebrate the heck out of flowers, turning the Grand-Place into a massive canvas for flower-powered art. 750,000 dahlias went into this year's creation, a tribute to Japan's iconic woodblock print 'The Great Wave Off Kanagawa."
04
Art imitating life imitating your favorite TV show dragon.
Scientists have identified a new species of lizard living in the high mountain forests of western Thailand that happens to be a dead ringer for Syrax, the dragon ridden by Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen in House of the Dragon. The dragon lizard is called "Acanthosaura Syrax" and no, it doesn't have HBO so it's not as stoked as the rest of us are about the whole thing.
05
The surveillance state just found its first Influencer.
At a recent San Diego city council meeting taking public testimony about controversial Flock surveillance cameras, an amateur Darth Vader cosplayed his way to the microphone to lobby on behalf of the debatably creepy camera technology, stating that it makes it easier to 'surveil the Rebel scum as they move from playground to playground.' The fact that he didn't bring a boombox to play The Imperial March as he walked up the aisle seems like a missed opportunity.
What's the Wpromote Creative team listening to?
What's the Wpromote Creative team listening to?
A mix of songs the Wpromote creative team has in heavy rotation.
