Hasta La Creative!

LONDON – The Kia Motors Corporation has called a review of the £85 million pan-European advertising account for its C’eed hatchback model.

SHANGHAI – ZenithOptimedia has added significant new business in China from Dopod Mobile and Shanghai Mobile.

GlaxoSmithKline has called in agency support to revive four of its ‘iconic’ consumer brands.

The Red Consultancy has rec­ruited tech stalwart David Vindel to head up a new B2B tech division.

• Rhizome – Brody Condon – Performance Modification (Naumann)
  10 performers outfitted in medival/space/fantasy armor re-create Bruce Nauman’s 1973 work "Tony Sinking into the Floor, Face Up and Face Down". Performed in slow motion and combined with movements based on computer game death animations, this piece is acc
• Monochrom: Campfire At Will – Boing Boing TV
  monochrom teach us how to "hack the urban context" with campfires, wiener schnitzel, beer, and an elderly Austrian gentleman who speaks LOL. In the second segment of today’s episode, someone constructs a campfire, complete with beer bottles and half-cooke

Last week New York City unveiled its first automatic pay toilet. For $0.25 and at a limit of 15 minutes per use, you could hit a streetside loo that automatically self-cleans. The effort to promote the APTs (as they’re…

I've sent all 85 of my reality-show application videos VH1's way, because the net's dating competitions boast a unique perk: namely, the possibility of rubbing shoulders with and/or contracting genital warts from a K-minus-list celebrity. Indeed, VH1's "Celebreality" shows are simultaneously the most reprehensible and wildly entertaining programming on cable TV. They're also massively addictive: Touch down in the middle of an "I Love New York 2" marathon and next thing you know, four hours have flown by, all the while "Their Eyes Were Watching God" sits unread in your bookshelf.

Turn off the sun.

Advertising Agency: Grey Stockholm, Sweden
Art Director: Daniel Backman
Copywriter: Marcus Nystrom
Creative Director: Martin Stadhammar
Final Art: Sara Bellafesta, Richard Landérus, Andy Chong

We’ll be at JP Wine Bar on Friday starting at 7:30 for the second KC likemind . If you were able to join us for the November likemind, you probably remember the nametags, buttons and the first $25 of coffee that was kindly provided by Anomly.  We’ll have all that stuff this time too. And, just like the many other likemind events around the world,  we’ll have a global question to discuss.

See you Friday.

Condos in the ultra luxurious Chicago Spire went on sale recently. The condos are not for the faint-hearted because the sky high structure has sky high prices too. At 2000 feet, the building is the highest residential housing in the world. Prices range from $750,000 to $15 million, putting the Windy…