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…this is the other

admin — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 04:44:17 +0000

#ego, #selfserving

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The Brick Thief – Lego Film

admin — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 03:55:36 +0000

Love the story. Especially the ending.

This is a great “ad.”

Make Google Get You A Job

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 22:58:35 +0000

Cle-ver. I Like It.

Double Like It ’cause it was so cheap.

Flaming On The Internet

admin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:53:52 +0000

Oh boo. You thought this was going to be something entirely different than it is.

StruckAxiom came up with an interesting way to pull in Facebook and webpages into a framework that allows you to mess with them. This interesting piece of newness (to me at least) was created to help promote the film “How To Train Your Dragon.”

via Digital Buzz Blog

Pretty On The Inside, Ugly On The Outside

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:05:30 +0000

How can they POSSIBLY have made such a crap, 80s-style, corporate/industrial film for this totally fucking amazing technology? It’s so bad – I don’t think this Claytronics technology is for real.

Seriously. Who did this? They should have their nose rubbed in it like a bad dog.

Hitler Likes My Friend Jeff The Best

admin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:42:36 +0000

My wonderfully angsty and body-bodacious friend Jeff Greenspan ignored all of our advice and left R/GA for BBDO.

And he did it his way….

Jeff’s goodbye to r/ga

I thought I was tired of the Hitler meme…but I loved it, Jeff.

Best of luck for continued success and I hope BBDO appreciates your pecs as much as Hitler and I do.

Why Is Advertising Always Better In Britain?

admin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:58:50 +0000

Come on! Can you imagine Safeway or Kroger’s or Whole Foods doing something like this? I love it. If this was going on at my local Vons or Trader Joe’s, I would run around the store looking for the specials and taking the time to read them. Outstanding idea.

Sesame Street Takes On Madmen

admin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:57:17 +0000

I’m sure there’s a few agencies out there who would feel at home including this in their Employee Orientation handbook.

Love that Sesame Street is throwing around words like “sycophants.”

They Understand Me

admin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:17:32 +0000

You work in an industry of creative endeavor – and you’ve pretty much signed away any idea of personal space and personal time. Unless you have kids. Having kids can possibly mean that you’re nurturing the next generation’s leaders of humanity – but to me it means you have a free pass to get out of the office at a reasonable time. You have the unassailable right to go to a soccer game rather than put in another 11 hours on a Saturday. I’m not saying its wrong. I’m just saying – my empty womb means that I’m sometime holding an empty bag. My need to get a haircut, will never hold up in the court of “I need to go home now.”

So please let me introduce to you a product that will buy you a little space. A little time to breathe. A chance for a mani/pedi and some time to do laundry so you don’t have to show up to work in a bridesmaid’s dress. (I’m two days away myself.)

The Office Kid. Evidence of a fake kid in a kit. Your a la carte kit can include a framed photo, artwork, a doctor’s note (perfect for emergency “me” time in the middle of the week, middle of the day) and a few other options.

It’s working for me. If I keep up with the M&Ms, I can convincingly pull off the pregnancy part too.

And yes, as you would suspect, the heroes behind this idea are, as they put it, “advertising drones.”

Phillips takes on the world

admin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:22:18 +0000

In the spirit of “Will It Blend” – which I’m not sure ever got its due as a genius online sponsored “program” with its product as a bad-ass hero – Phillips/Tribal DDB has unleashed a new online campaign pitting their products against anything that anyone can dream of called Phillips Vs.

The campaign is running almost exclusively on Twitter.

Nice idea. Here’s one of the executions Tribal created to get the ball rolling. I like the energy they bring to the set-up. But the joyousness of everyone hugging at the end as though they’ve landed on Jupiter kills the fun for me. Stinks of insincerity. I’m sure they’ll temper it down as they produce more.

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