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This for Sean... a paper craft HAL 9000:



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Math is undeniable.

Bruce Lee = Kung fu = Awesome

Nokia = Phone

Bruce Lee + Nokia = Awesome Phone

Right? Nokia's latest viral spots:

Oh Apple, remember when you were the dumb kid?

Give Microsoft a break.

[Gizmodo]

The Hartfield Hot Dog Launcher

If I enjoyed hot dogs, besides when they're free, I'd vote Hartfield Hot Dogs for awesomest. Check out their YouTube documentary:



Destroying the spirits and t-shirts of Phillies fans everywhere (I think the last crowning achievement from the Phillies was most home-runs allowed in 2004, you know, when steroids were cool.)

Intelligent design - Paper Water Bottles

A design/brand consultant [Brand Image] came up with the above. This is a great example of where the future of this industry (advertising) is headed. Anyone that has been close enough to hear my rants about changing the world has heard me exclaim that instead of constantly worrying about creating a better advertisement, advertising agencies should help companies create a better product. Then we could spare our heads from the incessant slamming against the wall.

[Core 77]

Chicken men are all the rage

The following was one of the first commercials I saw in Japan, and I use it as an example to show how advertising here in Japan makes absolutely no sense.

The project is for a new processor by Intel.


Lyrics
Centrino, Centrino, Centrino.
The next century has come.
Centrino, Centrino, Centrino.
Now I can live freely.

...what chicken men have to do with computer processors is beyond me.

The Joy of Tech

My new favorite online comic, courtesy of All Things Digital.


What a tool.

The endless campaign

The "Priceless" campaign MasterCard has been pushing since we were kids, will NEVER end. I'll admit there have been times where I wanted it to die, but then they show one like this, and I begin to appreciate the campaign all over again...



How could you REALLY hate Peyton Manning?

lolcats

This one's for Ruff :)

Also, it's 4:40 on Friday and I've pretty much clocked out for the weekend.

Another humorous cartoon from Where's My Jetpack?

Listen up sports fans...

ESPN will get exclusive rights to the Bowl Championship Series starting in the 2011 season!! This includes the Fiesta, Orange, and Sugar Bowl as well as the Title game (the Rose Bowl is under a separate contract with ABC). This mean FULL integration of the BCS through ESPN's multiple networks and programming (including Deportes and ESPN International), radio, and digital (rights to the BCS website and simulcasting games on ESPN360.com and through Mobile TV). They are also going to have a show on Sundays to unveil each weeks rankings (yay!).

ESPN president George Bodenheimer:
"The BCS will thrive on ESPN. Our slogan is 'College Football Lives Here' and the BCS will now top college football's best regular-season and studio coverage, the sport's top awards shows, Bowl Week and other national championships all carried on our family of networks. This is a proud day for ESPN and an exceptional day for this great sport and its passionate fans."

And, for those skeptics who say "what about those of us who don't have cable?" A) go to a bar or friend's house and B) "ESPN is available in just over 98 million U.S. homes, which is 86 percent of all households with televisions, according to Nielsen. Swofford expects that number to grow by 2011. Of the people who watched the BCS title game on Fox last season, 95 percent had cable or satellite, ESPN said."

Read more - full article from ESPN.com

Because it's almost that time of year again...

Back, and better than ever!

Country

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Disco

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Charleston

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Obama understandz teh intern3ts

Obama (our president elect) has promised to deliver weekly addresses via YouTube. Above is the first of what will be a long series of updates. Awesome.

Smart Design...

Okay so I've fallen in love with prefab homes, I've been constantly redesigning my future home. Some of you may be thinking... prefab?? Double wide trailers? You got it! But instead think shipping containers mixed with concrete.









The home is 4200 sq ft, cost 500k, and is located just outside LA (Avg home price = 900k). Even better, it took just 3 weeks to build. Read more here

If you're not familiar with Inhabitat , check it out. It has definitely become a favorite next to Gizmodo and Gothamist. The reality is that clients are cutting budgets everyday and demanding maximum efficiency. We've got to think different (right apple fanboys?). I'm excited to see what happens.

Look a cool ad!

Filmed with 200 Samsung camera's they successfully created a Matrix/John Woo ballet. Doesn't quite hold a candle the old school Bravia ads but I like ingenuity behind it.



The Making of (the really cool video):




Here's the big surprise.. They did it in Europe(Grey London)! Dear American clients... wake up. kthxbye

WORST AD EVER

HATE HATE HATE IT. So much.

Why do they have to use girls to sell shave gel? This is just as bad as when they have the party in the guys nose. WTF?



Someone should be FIRED for this. Oh it's Draft FCB (thanks Sean! +1 internets for you). We all know how terrible they are at keeping clients (ie lost Wal-Mart). So yes Draft, you fail at everything but Oreo- Milks favorite cookie.

Sleeveface

This one's for you Sarah. Let's break out the records for a photoshoot.

I was reading EW and came across this small feature about Sleeveface.com. They describe themselves as such- "one or more persons obscuring or augmenting any part of their body or bodies with record sleeve(s) causing an illusion."

I instantly fell in love with these below, but as always feel free to peruse the site on your own.

Comic Relief

Jacked from Where's My Jetpack?

Guitar Hero

I was on the fence about this campaign but I think they may have won me over.



One thing is for sure... this tops the Phelps-Kobe routine.

Google oh how i <3 thee

Very cool Google gadget...

Dope wars but better...

Alright I'm excited.



Dope wars is back and on the iPhone! That's right, no need to dust off the ti-83 you can sell drugs on your iPhone. Even better, the app has GPS awareness to adjust drug prices to real market value! I bet the out-of-work Wall Street guys are going to make for some "killer" competition.

Read here: Gizmodo

Only the issues

Created by creative director - Tor Myhren from Grey NYC, the posters slice through the race issue between candidates - acknowledging that much of this campaign has predictably but stupidly been re-cast as a battle between black and white. Myhren's powerful imagery rightly implies that this is all just distraction, seeking to refocus our attention onto what really matters - the issues.

Even before the results are in, the posters have become collectors items, with New Yorkers unable to help themselves from swiping them off the streets.

- Lisa Evans
Courtesy of thecoolhunter.net

Ad Society

hey HEY hey...

I've decided to update all you lovelies on what's going on in AdSoc this year. I know most of you have probably checked out our new website:

http://grove.ufl.edu/~adsoc/index.html (Check the blog, I just posted about Wizards!)

Definitely check out the director bios and the calendar and you'll get a good idea about how this semester is going. It's been really fun so far! Minus you-know-who being an even bigger pain in the ass, everything's been running smoothly.

Ad Council is this week (and Corwin's coming to recruit for Ogilvy-yay!) We just had a huge Halloween Party at 101 downtown and made $500 off of the cover. We opened it to everyone and had over 75 non-Ad Soc members. We have a bonfire party and CFF kickoff and banquet coming up... Annnnd we're coming to NYC very soon! YAY!!!!

Miss you all and wish you woulda been here to see some of the stuff that's done down this semester that I shouldn't necessarily publicly blog post about. Check the pictures on FB. =) See some of you very soon!

In a Perfect World

Just read about this on AdAge (and I'm a little behind, so this may already be old news to some of you... But it was too good not to post)... It's some guerilla marketing for a New Zealand Web site, flossie.com, that caters to women through targeted online content. To promote the new Web site, they made a "Man Vending Machine" and put it on a real street. The kicker is that a real live man comes out of the machine when money is inserted. You have a choice of the type of man you would like (classic, romantics, foreign, etc) and even the option of "perfect" in which the company provided what we all know to be the perfect man (hint... he is not made of flesh, but does require batteries... wink wink). And, by the actual photos taken of these women with their vending machine man, it was a good purchase.

I checked the site out, and it's pretty cool... sort of a Cosmo or Elle Magazine Web site, but better. My only complaint: terrible tag line "Whatever you need, it's on us". It just doesn't flow for me...

The video, however is great, as well as the idea and execution. Watch:



Now, if only they would put one of these on the streets of NYC......

The best OoO message ever...

This is a great story...

"What happens when you ask a guy to translate something for you into a language you don't understand? This. The top part of the sign is in English, but when they emailed someone to translate that English into Welsh, the response actually said "I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated." That's right, it's an out of office message, which subsequently made it onto the road sign undetected. We hope those residents are getting used to Welsh truck drivers carrying heavy goods."

So when you ask for a translation service, make sure you run it through Google translator just to be safe.

From the Giz

Guitar Hero is my hero.

Saw this ad for Guitar Hero World Tour the other day and it sent shivers down my spine... A perfect way to introduce the new game and it's new additions (microphone and drums). Brilliant use of four big time athletes doing a rendition of that famous scene from Risky Business. And, in case you didn't know, "Old Time Rock 'n' Roll" was my favorite song when I was little. Oh, and I'm in love with A-Rod. And, now I might just be in love with Kobe Bryant, Michael Phelps, and Tony Hawk.

And, one final 'and', I love that Kobe is wearing white basketball shorts instead of boxers :)

What women want...

Terry Tate is back!

I'm sure all, if not most of you have seen this video of Katie Couric interviewing Sarah Palin:



So in turn, I looked into www.ReturnofTerryTate.com and found this video:



Who doesn't want his job?