These ads are quite cute, an exiting new media. Nobody seems to have thought of advertising in the gutter before, even though we keep our minds there most of the time.

... Or have they?

It's tuesday night and the creative circle in Denmark had arranged a lecture night with Luke Sullivan, chief creative cowboy at wild Westwayne, Atlanta.

Luke is lucky, advertising is a "great job because you'll never get bored." apparently, when you're good at it you're never boring either. He bounces on to the floor and goes on a hilarious rant about "always use a lion in all of your ads." whilst flicking through a display of terrible ads containing lions on the screen behind him. "haha! look at this one!" he erupts with the audience in laughter.

Just posted on adlist a little rant. See on other mailing-lists photographers are in deep discussion on a similar topic to our 'working for crumbs' and 'paying for a casting session' threads. This thread is about a Red Bull photo competition. Since one is not allowed to quote or repost from that list, I'll pull the story in short strokes.'

Red Bull sent out invitation letters scouting sports photographers. After submitting your portfolio to Red Bull, you could be one of the four lucky winners to go an all expenses paid shoot out in Cornwall (Gah, what a crap location! Try the alps or somethin'!).

Red Bull would supply a bunch of famous athletes to be shot. (sounding nasty yet? Tehehehe).

It was bound to happen..... *hanging my head in shame*....

... OR does it?

Is this a case of dupliclaims - or are these just wet dreams of creatives?