Via advertising-hints tweets (here & he got it from groundswellblog), I found a call to stencil with mud. Yes, Mud. There's even a blog dedicated to it :Mudstencils - where you can pick up tips on how to create the best mud.
Once I fought the urge to scream "damn hippies" I soon realized this is the ultimate media for Wisk worldwide. Dirt is good! Keep your eyes peeled for a mud stencil ad near you soon.
I have no idea what Agency Spy were really searching on, and they'll probably never admit what the extra words were was but they found Poledancing on a Bike when looking for bikes for sale on Craigslist. Whoha!
They saved the image from the ad, yep, that's a woman pole dancing, on a bike.
Who invented this? Why does the service cost $200?
Is this to spice up those boring nights of cruising up and down the city strip with an open container? What does the guy who drives the bike get paid? How do you stick dollars down her garter? How soon will Sloggi jump on this idea to sell their latest string underwear? (No, I haven't quite forgiven them yet for making me turn my back on my favorite knickers brand, after all their terrible terrible ads.)
Michael Jackson was mourned Cannes Lions style the day after his untimely demise - at the Gutter Bar of course - & FinchFactor has the photo proof of it. Was that guy psychic or what?
The ad that Mark Duffy Copyranter calls "the worst he's ever seen in more than 17 years of industry experience" makes it to Fox news. "It's outlandish," he said. "They obviously didn’t hire a top-notch food photographer." - yeah, haha, that food shot is gross. In fact the whole ad "blows" (taramta!) Trying the McDonald's route of loving it too much / I'd hit it, way over there in Singapore might now backfire on Burger King USA since the ad itself is being debated all over the web. Consensus: It's tacky as hell.
Straight back from Cannes - I had literally just walked in the door - when I, Angela Natividad of MarketingVox who also had been in Cannes, and always awesome Bill Green of make the logo bigger joined each other for a healthy dose of Cannes gossip in Bob Knorp's Beancast. My 3-year old had picked me up at the airport, and managed to explain the entire story plot of Coraline to me in a spell bounding way waving her arms which much exitment. I raised my eyebrows at her dad when she even recited dialogue (in Swedish), wondering what language she had watched it in, and he mouthed back "No, seriously, she's watched it in English." I told her about the boxes and Nike shoes that had won this award 'in the place where mommy was all week', and she got really exited about it. Weiden+Kennedy, you have just gained your youngest fan.
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I'm hella distracted - so here are links to elsewhere where fun can be found.
This is why we love veer - Kern In Space. Must be said with piiigs in spaaaace tone. Warning: will steal your entire afternoon.
The consumerist illustrates what happens when you are a jerk to the copywriter. Do not mess with people who handle the mighty pen!
Marco Brambilla has created the most awesome elevator ride to hell - or heaven if you are going up. Apparently, a dancing Michael Jackson is part of heaven.... If you think this is cool here on the web, imagine seeing it in the real 3D that they did. I tried calling a booking a room at The Standard Hotel, New York, but they said they didn't take "stock options" as payment, darn.
round off with a little serious edge. Some clients are saving money in all the wrong places. See IdeasonIdeas - Sweatpants forever?
The funny part is that for as price-obsessed as this particular client was, they didn’t seem to have much of a reason for being so. From what I could gather, their offices are spread amongst a couple of floors in what appeared to be a Class A building, and that certainly isn’t inexpensive. Additionally, I believe their staff to number in between fifty and a hundred members, and no one appeared to be financially burdened. So why did a budget that wouldn’t have even matched a month’s rent seem more terrifying to them than one of those chainsaw-wielding murderers so common in eighties horror flicks?
There's only three hours left on the 24DP - Director Auction. Will a commercial shot by Dominic Lahiff, with pre-pro, production, post, deliverables and original music included really only go for $5,000? Really? *raids piggy-bank!*
Remember when a couple of nutty creatives from Farfar got drunk and buried their Cannes Lions award in the sand promptly losing it? Well, that was a hoax, and Caff called it by saying the guy was "full of the excrement of el toro." It was simply fun viral, perhaps even serving as a recruitment campaign for Farfar now. Nobody has responded to it as far as we know.... Until now (dum dum DUM).
An Israeli creative team, Jossi and Roy, have Foundlion.com. They hope to have a shot in one of the best online agencies in the world. Props for the opening line "We were sober and it was worth it. "
This morning Pelle Wessman a.k.a Voxpelli on twitter, a web developer at Good Old in Malmö spotted tweets about a new hashtag-website that looked a lot like his. Voxpelli & peterrosdahl built svpt.nu that follows the hashtag #svpt (svenskar på twitter = Swedes on twitter) a friday night when they had the flu and nothing better to do, and now tweeter.se does the exact same thing, but following the hashtag #swtw (presumably "swedes on twitter").
Ensina on twitter is the man behind tweeter.se and he is by his own account following some bad legal advice "we haven't broken any laws - we follow American laws, not European (according to legal council)" - ah, but you have - and we saw you do it too. Because if you compare the source code, line by line, it's nearly identical.
I phoned Voxpelli and asked him about this site: "I had no idea about the place until Jardenberg tweeted me about it. I had nothing to do with it." he says and when I bring up that they have no copyright notice on their svpt.nu page he says "as far as I know, that's not a legal requirement and hasn't been for a long time. Like since the eighties. ....when that guy was born?" This is correct - a copyright notice hasn't been required since April 1, 1989 in the states.
After many tweets from lots of #svpt all pointing out the non-kosher handling of code directly to Ensina and giving him correct information on copyright in the USA he has tried to pour oil on the waves by adding "after a concept by svpt.nu" but since that didn't help at all, only adding to the confusion on who created the site and whether Voxpelli had approved this incarnation, Ensina has now tweeted "we will take it down around 17:00 hrs today". Tweeter.se has died, long live the hashtag #svpt.nu.
Update someone with too much time on their hands has created thingshitlerdid, a.k.a Joe Ripoff twitter account and keeps tweeting messages to ensina and hastag #swtw. Real mature.
Update #2 Thank you @hugowett for saving the source code comparison here so that we can still compare the two sites after tweeter.se is gone.
In todays fast paced world of embedding possibilities, link economy, and dual nature of the youtube site (are they approved videos or copyright infringing videos uploaded by random fans? You never know! It's like a box of chocolates!) one can understand that some people get a little confused. This however, is a laugh a minute.
A country radio station in Tennessee, WTNQ-FM, received a cease-and-desist letter from an A.P. vice president of affiliate relations for posting videos from the A.P.’s official Youtube channel on its Website.
You cannot make this stuff up. Forget for a moment that WTNQ is itself an A.P. affiliate and that the A.P. shouldn’t be harassing its own members. Apparently, nobody told the A.P. executive that the august news organization even has a YouTube channel which the A.P. itself controls...
Here's a piece of free advice for the A.P. - you can turn off the embedding function if you don't like it.
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