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?