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HONG KONG – The South China Morning Post is set to go private, following an unconditional bid from majority shareholder Kerry Media, a branch of Malaysian tycoon Robert Kuok’s Kerry Group.

SHANGHAI – Carrefour China has handed its digital account to Euro RSCG 4D after a four-way competitive pitch involving Agenda and two local digital agencies.

JAKARTA – State-owned petrochemical giant Pertamina has invited agencies to pitch for a US$15 million above- and below-the-line campaign to encourage Indonesians to switch from kerosene to liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).

COLOMBO – Sri Lanka Tourism has handed its integrated advertising business to Phoenix O&M following a multi-agency review, as the country struggles to boost visitor numbers amid a backdrop of dwindling budgets and civil war.

• Museum Het Valkhof – Koen Vanmechelen – ‘Het appèl van de kip’
  Overzicht van het opmerkelijke ‘Cosmopolitan Chicken Project’ dat de kern van zijn werk vormt. Hiermee heeft hij de afgelopen jaren in de kunstwereld naam gemaakt. In dit project kruist de kunstenaar kippen van typisch nationale rassen met elkaar. Zijn id
• Open Eye Gallery | Current exhibition, Out of Body
  Photographs and moving image works that explore, manipulate and reflect upon the human body. The exhibition looks at the relationship between biological and photographic time, contrasting the continuous cycles of human life with the still photographic ins
• Liverpool Art and Culture: I Weigh as Much as £1.5mill in £20 Notes!
• Geoffrey Macnab: Is Errol Morris’s new film, Standard Operating Procedure, too soft on US army abuses? | Features | guardian.co.uk Film
  Errol Morris, director of The Fog of War, is a fearless documentary- maker. But is his new film too soft on US army abuses?
• YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES :: NewMuseum.org
  yes! yes! yes! yes!
• The question: How many people have four kidneys? | Society | The Guardian
  Duplex kidneys occur in 1% of the population. Kidneys are not the only organs that can appear more often than they should.
• Visual Art Can Boost Advertisting, Study Says – ARTINFO.com
  "a relatively unfamiliar artwork can compete with a famous celebrity in conveying a luxury appeal," and "the general connotations of art matter". Researchers said this points to art as a powerful marketing tool.
• Overview: Guerra De La Paz: Green Zone | Daneyal Mahmood Gallery
• YouTube – Jonathan Meese – kopenhagenTV
  i don’t understand a shit but i’ve recently developed an extreme interest for that artist
• DSC02096 on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
  alla Drogheria
• Cinema’s sweet-eating policy sucks? – Yahoo! Movies UK
  A postman was thrown out of his local cinema when he was caught eating his own supply of sweets rather than those on sale in the foyer.
• Matthew Fuller » Jussi Parikka interview, on ‘Digital Contagions’
  Jussi Parrika is author of the book ‘Digital Contagions, a media archaeology of computer viruses’, a speculative meditation on the nature of viruses and their part in contemporary technocultures.
• Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories – More Bugs Stickers: First action shots
  Sticker action to complain to Microsoft. (via neural)
• … piece 0 plastic – rssart.cc – art feeds via RSS
  "we hope to attract more artists, who want to explore with us this form of publishing their work."
• plsj tumblelog – This is an Argentinian ornate horned frog.
  amazing frog
• The city that never sleeps … nor stops talking – MIT News Office
  What does the telecommunications traffic flowing in and out of New York City reveal about the city that never sleeps?

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I’m glad The Escape Pod sent me the March issue of Fast Company. It’s nice to leaf through and see innovative companies celebrated for their contributions. It was also a terrific media buy for The Escape Pod.

Google and Apple top the list, but the magazine names New York anti-agency, Anomaly, the 24th most innovative company in the world.

image courtesy of Chet Gulland

So what makes Anomaly a Fast Comany darling? The fact that these guys truly own their talent.

The message they’re sending via their 21st century compensation model is as clear as it is cocky. Normal ad people are happy to make a percentage or a fee, but Anomaly, not so much. They claim their ideas are capable of moving one’s business to another level; ergo, a mere fee will not suffice as payment for marketing service rendered. We must be partners, they say. That they can and do say this, means Anomaly has muscle–and that’s not an attribute native to the ad clan.

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