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(TrendHunter.com) The PizzaKobra lamp, winner of a RedDot Design Award for 2008, had been appropriately delivered to RedDot in a pizza box. Designed by London-based Ron Arad, the high-tech spiral shaped lamp lays ‘dormant’…

Alright folks. Mediabistro has gone ahead and done actually something worthy of an online media company. They’ve made it easy to comment. Hoorah! It’s only 2008. Sheesh.

All you gotta do is click on the “login” on the comments link at the bottom of a post. A window will ask you to login or register. First time users should (natch) click register and put in an email address and select a password.

If you don’t plan on commenting ever again, then go ahead and make up an email address. If you do, fill out your dummy account’s email addy, so you keep me track and have conversations, blah, blah, blah.

I’ve had a few hard headed haters of the MB comment system give it a go. They all seem quite pleased. They even left comments! Hot damn!

So, I ask you… please give it a try? Say anything! Say something! We miss you guys. It’s so much less fun without the comments.

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(TrendHunter.com) Are you an actor? Do you want a new iPhone from Apple? Are you looking for some extra beer money?

When a wireless operator in Poland, named ‘Orange,’ launched the iPhone, they hired paid actors to stand…

The people over at Feelthedream.org have organized an event of massive proportion to commemorate the 45th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech this Thursday, August 28th. It’s all a benefit promoting the efforts of Amnesty International, but in a significantly more subtle fashion than we usually see from Amnesty.

FeelTheDream is asking DJs/promoters/party organizers to incorporate the iconic speech into a climactic moment during a set on Thursday night (or over the upcoming weekend) to remember and promote the words of Dr. King. A simple idea that brings a bit of global unity to the table to promote positive social change. And it’s simple enough to facilitate. Check out the Feel The Dream website for more info.

And take a look below at Fingers Inc. (Larry Heard)’s classic dance mix that Feel The Dream is using as their primary promo track.

Doctor Rose is a freelance photographer/designer/writer based out of Portland, OR. He regularly shares his Northwest-biased musings on the advertising and marketing world at Talent Zoo’s Beyond Madison Avenue.Questions/comments/solicitations can be directed to daviddoctorrose@gmail.com

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(TrendHunter.com) Leave it to the Russians to deliver my favorite clothing ad of 2008 so far. Granted, the models in the new Sela commercial are without clothes most of the time. They are either getting dressed, or their…

Have you guys been over to Glassdoor.com, a site that allows people to post their salaries anonymously? After reading a quote from the website’s founder, Robert Hohman, in the Sunday business section of the Times, I decided to check it out. Lo and behold! Advertising salaries galore! Keep in mind that the site does take into account locality, so its best to consider the average of each number rather than individual entries.

Avenue A and Digitas, the two big behemoth interactive agencies, have been heavily covered. Let’s start with the Razorfish, yes? Thirty employees have entered their data into Glassdoor including Creative Directors all the way down to the nuts and bolts Information Architects. The average salary of a CD at Avenue A? Drum roll, please… $132,500. A Senior Copy Writer? From this loose and fast data, the average looks to be $95,500.

Over at Digitas, where 47 people have entered their salaries, a VP Group Creative Director is averaged out at $174,250.

DraftFCB also has some bodies talking cash. Ten people have bothered to report on the shop’s paying practices. An account executive is making somewhere around $49K.

Agencies such as JWT, Leo Burnett, BBDO, Schematic, AKQA are listed, but don’t have enough entries to determine averages. So what are you waiting for? Go over there and fill out some data. Consider it a service to your fellow brothers and sisters in the ad trenches who are currently negotiating raises and bonus structures.

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Our spies are working to confirm that the state of Michigan has lost yet another account. That is, JWT Detroit may have been dumped by Dominos &#151 the agency had only been handling the pizza maker’s field marketing operations.

JWT became Dominos AoR back in 2002. However, the business went up for review in June of last year, as we reported. Later that year, in September, AdWeek reported that Crispin won the biz in a review over Martin and GSD&M Idea City.

No word yet on where the business is going, if it has gone anywhere at all.

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(TrendHunter.com) I love the work of British photographer Steve Scholfield and how he captures his subjects. I am most excited about his latest project which focuses on Star Trek And Star Wars Fans Dressed Up As Characters…

We’re told that Campbell Ewald may deliver the aforementioned layoffs this week instead of last, because they only perform such atrocities at the end of a pay period. And though it isn’t our intention to scare people, we wouldn’t feel right about it if they did happen, and we had kept the information to ourselves.

As it is, we’re told that the agency is losing people left and right. With the first round of layoffs from a few weeks ago, addies are jumping ship before they can get let go. As such, the Alltel account, which just started to recover following Jeff Scott‘s departure could once again be in jeopardy.

And with only Chevy being handled properly, insecurity about the agency’s future is rampant. This isn’t to say the shop could shut down, rather it would have to have a smoke and possibly a glass of scotch before making anymore decisions. Chill out people, the shit still has some time before it hits the fan…or the fountain.

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