Shingy's Book of Nonsense Prophecies

David Shing has the kind of gig that can only exist mid-bubble, when dinosaur corporations chase Snapchat into extinction. He pulls down six figures as AOL's "Digital Prophet." He hallucinates about the future and executives receive his wisdom like hair spikes are a barometer for intelligence. These are the kind of prophecies you get from a coddled cartoon character.http://valleywag.gawker.com/shingy-just-sp...

Everyone's favorite corporate muppet was the focus of a brief profile in this week's New Yorker. In it, we learned Shingy moonlights as an interior decorator for CEO Tim Armstrong (he "rebooted" his office by replacing Armstrong's desk with a circle of chairs) and his erect hairdoo is "easy" to maintain. But he also has some bold takes on the future of digital marketing.

On creative design:

The New Yorker learned that Shingy and has the creative vision of an out-of-work Threadless t-shirt designerand AOL's bosses are impressed:

Next, Shingy stopped by the office of Erika Nardini, the chief marketing officer of AOL Advertising, and handed her an iPad Mini. "Wanted to show you a little brain fart I had on the plane," he said. It was a cartoon he had drawn of a bear wearing zebra-print pants and a shirt covered in ones and zeros.

"Love it, love it, love it," Nardini said. "I'm thinking of the bears more as a metaphor."

"A thousand per cent," Shingy said.

Nardini went on to describe Shingy as her "muse" while The Shingster poked around on his phone and smiled along.

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