Not Ohio related but…
I wasn't going to post this until next week but as Craig at the Huffington Post has popped the news early, and since yours truly helped make this happen by getting him in some contacts within IKEA to start the ball rolling, I'll put this up too.
NEW YORK - Mark Malkoff, a filmmaker and comedian whose video "171 Starbucks" documented his visits to all of the coffee chain's Manhattan stores in a single day, will live in an IKEA store in Paramus, N.J., for an entire week starting Monday, Jan. 7."My apartment has to be fumigated and I need to move out for several days," said Malkoff, 31. "All of my friends have tiny studio apartments. Hotels in the city are too expensive. My apartment is 80 percent IKEA products anyway. Moving into an IKEA store makes sense."
Miraculously, IKEA has agreed to let Malkoff live in its Paramus store for the week. Each night, Malkoff will post a video recap of his day at MarkLivesInIKEA.com, which will be up beginning Jan. 7.
"This isn't a commercial for IKEA," Malkoff said. "They are not paying me to do this. To me, it made sense for my living circumstance and I thought it would make an interesting video. IKEA is giving me 100 percent creative control of the video content, which is pretty amazing."
It is! I was happy to help! I'll be on the site everyday!
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Thanks!
Craig
craig@craigslist.org
You’re THAT Craig?
Yikes, my geek cred just lowered by twenty points not knowing your last name until now.
Jen
OHIKEA
dude… my couch, my sold car, and my contract job with Mead all thank you. LOL DUDE. If you were local, I’d let you crash here! Free wifi ya know… LOL
Jen you just lost 10 coolness demerits but you gained 50 for pulling my butt out of a coding fire last night.
Here’s the AP coverage of this…
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=5868134&ch=4226726&src=news