Hasta La Creative!

Starbucks is closing its door from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. this evening for a little bit of continuing education for its baristas.

(TrendHunter.com) We have seen some solar charging docks before, but they did not come cheap. For $33 you can now have a features-packed digital kit that keeps your mobile phone, media player and all your gadget juices flowing, while you are enjoying your day outdoors (away from technology and all).

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Perhaps it’s application fatigue. Perhaps it’s incessant friend request. Perhaps it’s social media overload but according to Hitwise, traffic to Facebook is down 27 percent for the week ending February 23 from a high during the holidays.

LONDON – Omnicom media agency M2M and Naked Communications have won the £5m media account for Icelandic bank Kaupthing Group, which plans to roll out in the UK.

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Agency: DDB Melbourne, Australia
Executive Creative Director: Michael Faudet
Art Directors / Copywriters: Michael Davey, John Akritidis

The frightening thing about TDA’s ad for Hillel Colorado’s Holocaust Awareness Week is the degree to which its premise is not a fiction. Millions of people do refuse to believe that the Holocaust took place. How many school kids today view The Diary of Anne Frank as a work of imagination, rather than a Jewish girl’s tragic true account of hiding from the Nazis with her family during World War II? Maybe one day, books telling of the American Revolution, the U.S. Civil War, the conflict in Korea, the Cold War, Vietnam, scores of mass exterminations throughout history and even human triumphs like the lunar landings and the fact that the Earth circles the sun will be viewed as fictions. Denying a single truth is the first step toward denying them all.

—Posted by David Gianatasio

Since William L. Petersen‘s birthday wasn’t too long ago, here’s a 1985 teaser/trailer for To Live and Die in L.A., a movie that reminded a lot of people of what Miami Vice would have been if it was good. Also notable are Willem Dafoe as the smooth counterfeiter, back before his face looked like something off a totem pole, and the Wang Chung soundtrack that tethers this movie to its decade of origin. Thankfully, the trailer itself is too epileptic to expose how dated the movie is. Still, enjoy it, and maybe next year they’ll give us that car chase in reverse.

—Posted by David Kiefaber

(TrendHunter.com) A German man got himself in trouble with the law after flexing his artistic skills in an “art” form being referred to as glacier graffiti.

Jan Philip Scharbert was vacationing in New Zealand when he took decided to tag the ice face of Franz Josef Glacier with graffiti. The 28 year old used regular…

LONDON – Tropicana is rolling out a £5m marketing campaign to back the launch of Tropicana Spirit, a carbonated fruit drink available in a range of flavours.

Can ad-funded customer magazines pay their way?