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piece for peace!

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Posted by dabitch on 1. December 2001 - 18:31

Ande Foster has conceived the idea of peaceflow together with Obewong. The idea spread and brewing amoungst australian digital artists - do a piece for peace. They need work submitted before january 2002 - so go there a.s.a.p! (read MORE)

There she is again!

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Posted by dabitch on 1. December 2001 - 2:29

Fashion photographer Fabrizio Ferri's images of actress Monica Bellucci are in the center of a spat between Esquire and Italian GQ. Ferri's photographs, first taken for the February cover of
Esquire, appeared again on the November cover of Italian GQ, a rare occurrence in the competitive world of men's magazines.

Merry Molldays!

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Posted by dabitch on 30. November 2001 - 22:40

Created this little e-card that you can email to your friends. (yes - you should click "read more" now to see what on earth I'm yakkin' about.)

Spam may be the dumbest invention since telemarketing

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Posted by dabitch on 28. November 2001 - 14:59

Short note for frequent visitors, your humble (and ill, so therefore not logged on 24/7 like normal) hostess is getting way too much SPAM lately.

Seems a spambot came by and picked up all available adresses on the site and sold it off to others. Due to the avalanche of identical spams sent to important adresses such as webmaster-at-commercial-archive, webmaster-at-ad-rag.com, images-at-ad-rag.com, info-at-ad-rag.com, Adgrunts-at-ad-rag.com (the news-report list) and even must-exist adresses such as "hostmaster" and "postmaster" on several of my domains, I have had to shut these adresses down.
Now, if you wish to contact us here, submit news via the the big submit news button in the top menubar on the far right. If you wish to email images for Badland - send them to hostmaster (I'll leave you to guess which domain.. You are smarter than a bot right.)
Also, the mail all authors at once list, is now at adgrunt. No S. Cool?
I reccomend all of you who share the same problem to sign up with http://spamcop.net/ and to systematically kill each spam that arrives in your inbox - what I normally do. Don't let these fucks get away with it.

their blacklist is a godsend and worth supporting. watch out for the Koreans. woop.

Body Shop's "Ruby" Barbie doll banned from the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway

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Posted by dabitch on 27. November 2001 - 22:21

Ah, Ruby, you nipless plump anti-Barbie. It's been in every Body Shop window since 1998. First you tick off Mattel, and now you're banned from the Hong Kong rail system. Something about pubic hair & nipples. Or the distinct lack of either. (No, this isn't a banned ad per se, it's just refused from certain media venues, but the Hong Kong transit system is large enough to count for a sorta-ban).

Anti Roddick says it best;

First wink, then Big...

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Posted by dabitch on 27. November 2001 - 12:32

Big Magazine is following in the footsteps of other magazines, like wallpaper* - and opened an ad agency. Who's next? Playboy? They could do the cheap beer ads. Or maybe they do? Kidding of course - Big has some big names with them. Click the read more.

The First Boards Awards - are not the first

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Posted by dabitch on 25. November 2001 - 22:47

Boards magazine (US) is proud to present the third annual First Boards Awards, which honors emerging talent. Confusing with all these digits, the third annual first awards will be held in NYC March 2002. There, say that ten times fast.
This year's awards will honor international talent in four categories: directors, editors, animators and composers.

Taxfree coca-cola and Nestle?

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Posted by dabitch on 24. November 2001 - 18:26

Interesting to note is the large Multinationals march across the world and the advantages they might have in different markets. Did you know that Coca-Cola corporation, Crafts Food, Nestle, Unilever and other like them don't pay taxes in Denmark - despite flogging quite a lot of products in .dk?

Scam ads' place in Cannes

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Posted by bittertruth on 23. November 2001 - 21:21

Scam ads' place in Cannes
By Claudia Penteado

Scam ads have gotten out of control in Cannes. But it's not just the scam artist agencies that should take the blame. It's little surprise that things ended up like this. Let me explain: for many countries in the world „ like Brazil, Spain, Argentina, Japan, China „ from the very beginning the Cannes Festival has been essentially Anglo-Saxon. The jury has historically been made up by Americans and Europeans (usually the British). (read more of this article..)

Take me out to the lawsuit

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Posted by claymore on 21. November 2001 - 0:54

Restored 1966 Volkswagen Microbus: $25,000

Summer-long cross-continental commercial shoot and production involving dozens of baseball stadiums and a whole bunch of location setups: A million or two

Massive media placement to saturate the airwaves with your epic multi-part tale of how two young and unemployed buddies can spend a summer driving a classic vehicle around the country to attend expensive baseball games and buy a bunch of $150 jerseys with their no-limit credit cards during an economic slowdown: $30-60 million

Getting sued by the guys whose documentary film you stole the idea from: Priceless

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