{"id":881,"date":"2012-01-27T16:51:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T21:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/?p=881"},"modified":"2012-01-28T15:24:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T20:24:32","slug":"adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2012\/01\/adventures\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in marketing AND THE BIG CITY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cole Haan, a high-end label that sells men’s socks for $18<\/a>, is now providing footware for Urban Explorers (i.e. people who live in a city?) like myself.<\/p>\n

My friend Megan sent me this<\/a>, which appears to be a suede Cole Haan boot meant for…concerts at the Bowery Ballroom?<\/p>\n

The sketch is clearly of Bowery Ballroom, whether they got permission or not:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>OK first? They spelled “Guarantees” wrong.<\/p>\n

“That also looks cool”? If you have to point out that it’s cool, it’s probably not?<\/p>\n

“Rock a comfy boot”? Rock, get it? For a ROCK show.<\/p>\n

And really, that delicate little suede shoe what with its festive yellow laces is going to get stomped.<\/p>\n

As Megan said, “If my feet get tired at Bowery Ballroom, I usually just take a seat on the fire hydrant outside.” Which is what we did the time we thought Green Day was playing a secret show there, but it turned out the secret show was really their (heavily advertised and promoted) Madison Square Garden concert?<\/p>\n

The Cole Haan site also features an OUTER-BOROUGH ODYSSEY shoe<\/a>, “key for kicking it Brooklyn-style”!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I just don’t know how these campaigns happen. Is this what someone in Maine thinks hip and trendy New Yorkers need\/are?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cole Haan, a high-end label that sells men’s socks for $18, is now providing footware for Urban Explorers (i.e. people who live in a city?) like myself. My friend Megan sent me this, which appears to be a suede Cole Haan boot meant for…concerts at the Bowery Ballroom? The sketch is clearly of Bowery Ballroom, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}