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Anthony Michaels of San Diego is bummed. He thought his classmates were trying to reconnect with him. That’s what the emails from Classmates.com said.

Michaels paid for a premium membership at Classmates.com but he now claims the firm was just fishing for business, and that there were no old friends from school on the other side of the transaction.

Sad, for sure. But also illegal, according to Michaels’ lawyer, Brian Kabateck. Michaels, who is seeking class-action status for his complaint, alleges misrepresentation, negligence, fraudulent concealment and violations of California’s business code.

[via Online Media Daily]

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Time Magazine's annual "Person of the Year" debate revolved around the expected subject: the nation's — and arguably the world's — most decisively prominent story of the last 10 months.

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I’ve got one question – why, why, why are the girls so fricking dumb? In the spot above, they are selling rugby shirts. Note to Honeyshed: it would be nice to focus more on the clothes and less on the girls performing extraneous tasks, like, um, counting money.

Girl one: “For all of you who don’t know what rugby is…”

Girl two: “Seriously. I don’t know what it is.”

And then, she goes on to example what rugby is. In detail. Like she’s talking to infants. Why is everything funneled through their boyfriends? The pink jeans? The lingerie episode where they have a fully clothed guy being all solicitous, while the girls stand around in their bras? Jesus. This is not for women in anyway shape or form. Just get rid of the ladies channel. Like now. You’re embarrassing yourselves.

I feel sick. Way to alienate women dudes. Way to fucking go. What a waste of a great concept.

More: WSJ Names 50 Women to Watch in 2008

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Now that GM has asked everyone and their mother to contact lawmakers and urge them to support a federal bailout for the failing automaker, we thought it’d be a good time to ask you what you think will happen to the ad agencies that provide their marketing materials.

Chrysler is currently using a few entities to handle its brands: Jeep, belongs to San Francisco agency Cutwater. The shop also uses BBDO Detroit, which has already seen its share of cutbacks due to Chrysler’s financial woes. GM is buried deep within Campbell Ewald and a few other shops here and there (Mullen) and Ford is still with JWT.

Use the handy-dandy poll to tell us what you think will happen.

What will happen to the big 3’s agencies?
( surveys)

More: “Mullen Gets Some GM Love“

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(TrendHunter.com) It is an old myth, but here are ten pieces of proof that destroy the James Bond-related myth that if someone is dipped entirely in paint, they will die of asphyxiation because their skin wouldn’t be able…

Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan wrote today about an ad campaign slated to run in Washington D.C. which asks, “why believe in a god?” then states, “just be good for goodness sake”. Accompanying the copy is a picture of a black man with long hair who sports a Santa costume (glasses included). He looks at the camera with shoulders shrugged as snow flakes fall around him.

No comment.

Click continued to see another ad from the campaign”, which is sponsored by The American Humanist Association and apparently cost a whopping $40k.

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(TrendHunter.com) These impressive 3-D photo sculptures are the work of talented Canadian artist, Susy Oliveira.

Oliveira crafts her photographic sculptures out of photos and foam to create unique, three-dimensional works…

Here’s a cool collection of what appears to be a Dior campiagn or, perhaps, the making of one.

Amazing performance by round-type shaver.

Advertising Agency: Daehong Communications, Seoul, South Korea
Art Director: Kim Junghwa
Copywriter: Lee Kikwan
Photographer: Lucy Pringle
Published: March 2008

(TrendHunter.com) These science fiction inspired images certainly look like they could have been taken 60 years from now. The ‘21st Century Raquel’ fashion shoot was photographed by Karl Lagerfeld for “V” Magazine, and…