KUALA LUMPUR – The Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) has retained TBWA-ISC as its advertising agency at a time of poor publicity for the organisation amid accusations of greenwashing.
HONG KONG – A new Admango report has revealed that advertisers have deserted Edison Chan and Gillian Chung in droves, since the onset of the scandal regarding leaked photos online.
LONDON – Malcolm Poynton was in New York on a shoot for DHL when his departure was suddenly announced to Ogilvy Advertising staff in a meeting on Friday afternoon.
Agencies have called for greater clarity from ITV over its plans as it announced a 35 per cent fall in pre-tax profits.
LONDON – Hugo Boss, the German fashion brand, is conducting a review of its estimated £40 million global media planning and buying business.
LONDON – Virgin Money has appointed Beattie McGuinness Bungay to handle its £12 million advertising account.
Another prototype spotted at the RCA work in progress show a few weeks ago in London. This week: In Memory of the Sparrow
As new wireless technologies are introduced, using various frequencies and power levels, an invisible energy is increasingly altering our habitat. There are no conclusive results from research to indicate the influence of this energy on our health or our environment, but studies have shown that sparrow populations are decreasing in areas that are affected by electromagnetic communication.
In her scenario, Cathrine Kramer portrays a day when we will walk through a park and meet with an eerie silence. All the birds have disappeared due to an increase of electromagnetic radiation in the urban environment. Inspired by the ‘foxhole radio‘. These simple radios, popular among soldiers during the World War II, need mainly electromagnetic waves as a source of energy.
The object harnesses the very force that drove birds away, and transforms it into subtle bird-like sounds, acting both as a comfort to those who want to remember the sparrows, but also as a poignant reminder that our surroundings contain a level of complexity that surpasses our senses. They are “memorial to the sparrows.”
I asked Cathrine how exactly the bird-like sound was created. “In the exhibition the bird sound was orchestrated, because to work the radio would have to be grounded and this was not possible within the exhibition space,” she explained. “However, in the future scenario I envisioned, these memorials would be mounted to trees and tuned to pick up bird sounds transmitted on an AM frequency bandwidth. The antenna would be a long wire spiraling up the tree to pick up the radio waves.”
All images courtesy of Cathrine Kramer.
Guardian: “Scientists have developed a computerised mind-reading technique which lets them accurately predict the images that people are looking at by using scanners to study brain activity.
The breakthrough by American scientists took MRI scanning equipment normally used in hospital diagnosis to observe patterns of brain activity when a subject examined a range of black and white photographs. Then a computer was able to correctly predict in nine out of 10 cases which image people were focused on. Guesswork would have been accurate only eight times in every 1,000 attempts.
The study raises the possibility in the future of the technology being harnessed to visualise scenes from a person’s dreams or memory.”
The seven months of planning for Prince Harry’s depÂloyment to Afghanistan constituted the largest media blackout ever handled by the Ministry of Defence, according to its dirÂector of news.
Marcoms giants Interpublic and WPP have posted impÂressive annual growth figures, bolstered by a robust PR market.
The Royal Family’s PR ÂhandÂlers had no influence over the media blackout for Prince Harry’s deployment to Afghanistan, PRWeek can reveal.
Gordon Brown is beefing up his comms team with the hire of a new strategic comms Âadviser and at least two digital PR experts.
As Gordon Brown makes a concerted effort to improve his standing in the media, it has emerged that his predecessor Tony Blair ‘never watched a TV news bulletin’ during the last few years of his premiership.
The MoD and the royal family have taken a major gamble with Prince Harry and the media blackout, argues Colleen Harris.
(TrendHunter.com) By now just about all of us have grown sick of sparkly gadgets… it’s the now very mainstream trend we at Trend Hunter are now simply referring to as the “Bling Bling Boring” craze.
As a final adieu to feature posts which feature nothing unique or exotic other than rhinestones, Swarovski crystals…
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(TrendHunter.com) So you like remote control toys, but are afraid to admit it because you think they’re only for boys? You’re wrong little ladies. Just look at this stunningly elegant iBird from Silverlit.
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(TrendHunter.com) This one made me roll on the floor. Village Voice columnist Michael Musto pays homage to and spoofs the now infamous New York Magazine Lindsay Lohan as Marilyn Monroe Last Sitting photo shoot. Musto’s ‘The Ultimate Re-Vamping’ was photographed by Howard Huang.
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