Get Cookin’ with these Breaking Bad Parodies! By Ilan Adler Breaking Bad is arguably one of the greatest TV shows of the last 30 years. We were absolutely enthralled by it, and watched each episode as soon as it came out. Recently a whole bunch of fantastic Breaking Bad parodies have been hitting the Web, and we thought it would be cool to highlight four of them. These absolutely blew us
For the Putchka’s Second Birthday By Shalhevet Reinman-Adler My daughter just turned two this past week, and I wanted to surprise her with a cake that she will get excited over. She absolutely loves elephants, especially a book called “I Dream of an Elephant”, by Ami Rubinger. This book is full of fun and colorful elephants, in all sorts of funny situations. I decided that I would make her a Elephant
And waste your marketing budget By Ilan Adler Groupon is a big company. In fact while writing this post I looked up their market cap, which now sits at $4.71 billion. Yes, billion with a B. So why are they messing up their Adwords ads? How can they possibly expect us to take them seriously when they have ads like this, on a search for “monogram necklace”: So they expect people
The Sad Truth About The #2 Search Engine By Ilan Adler Many words have been written about the number two search engine, Bing. Bing was Microsoft’s third effort rebranding its search engine, and getting its hands on all the search advertising money that Google was raking in. With Internet Explorer then powering a large percentage of the browsers, and an already popular domain MSN, Microsoft thought that it could waltz in, throw
Was Shalhevet’s T-Shirt Design Copied? A few weeks ago I got a message from a close friend of mine, who works at the merchandise and online store for Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. In this message was a link to Real Madrid’s Instagram account, where club legend Raul, was featured wearing a cool T-shirt. Incidentally this really cool T-shirt was really similar to the T-shirts that Shalhevet designed for Maccabi Tel
Tragedy Strikes Nepal Again By Ilan Adler 10/25/14 Update: Another tragedy has struck Nepal, as a bus veered off the road and killed 14 people. This is the same bus route that I wrote about in my 2006 Nepal Bus Trip – Blast from the Past. Nepal has long been one of my favorite places in the world, and a look through the photo section of Putchka.com, can warrant how
Kids, Listen to him! By Ilan Adler David Choe is a renowned graffiti/street artist, probably best known in the mainstream as the millionaire Facebook painter. As the story goes, Choe was contacted by Sean Parker to paint a mural at Facebook HQ. After talking to Parker and Zuckerberg, Choe was on board with the idea of receiving stock in lieu of cash payment for his work. This stock is now
Street Art in St. Louis We took this photo on a sidewalk in St. Louis’ Cherokee Street, one of the newest hip neighborhoods there. It features some cool shops, a really cool print press shop called Firecracker Press, and food for those into it. We spotted some of these cool pieces walking around the neighborhood.
Casey Neistat, YouTube Hero and fascinating storyteller By Ilan Adler Me and Shalhevet have been following Casey Neistat’s YouTube videos for quite some time now. Besides the fact that he is now well established and get generous amounts of budget money to do practically whatever he wants, he still has his own unique and personal touch on the films that he makes. I really think that we can learn a lot
I’m now in my final trimester of pregnancy with our second baby girl. So I was looking at some videos and saw this one. It was so true and was made in such a good way that I felt I had to post it. Enjoy! Handle With Care from ticktockrobot on Vimeo.