Sayliss to head VivaKi UK

LONDON – Publicis has handed the reins of its UK VivaKi media unit to Adrian Sayliss, the chief operating officer of Zenith-Optimedia Worldwide.

Aged Animals to Sell Salad – Florette’s Meat-Free Campaign

This Florette salad campaign features animals with an aged appearance, designed to promote the brand’s meat-free “Sealed Gourmet Salads” with the message that animals who desire to live a long life would…

Ad Network Tries Money-Back Guarantee

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — How tough is it getting in the online ad market? Undertone Networks, which only works with so-called premium online publishers, is offering to refund advertisers up to $50,000 if an ad ends up on a site that it shouldn't.

Sexy Robot Entertainers – Korean EveR1 and R2 (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Another female android story…

Aptly named after the first woman on earth, these robots are called EveR-1 and 2 after Eve and R (short for Robot.) The EveR-1 was created to entertain and educate, as pictured…

If only inflight entertainement included internet

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I am going to be offline during the 20+ hours of a trip to Brazil for the arte.mov festival (btw any tips on exhibition to do see in Belo Horizonte and Sao Paulo are more than welcome), i’m going to miss the broadband and wonder why no one has fine tuned teletransportation yet. In the meantime, please, do me a favour and broadsurf for me:

Art Fag City reported the cancellation of the Chelsea Art Museum’s exhibition, Dialectics of Terror, and uploaded online the PDF of the catalog of a show that would have been fascinating.

Remember i mentioned the gorgeous catalog of the exhibition Nowhere/Now/Here in the interview i recently did with El Ultimo Grito? The LABoral people have decided to make it available for everyone to download. Scroll down this page and open the PDF. Because they are so generous (or maybe mad?) they distribute another of their latest catalog, Homo Ludens Ludens. Once again, scroll down and enjoy 557 pages about game art, play and contemporary culture.

Let me take you back to the ’60s with the catalog of the exhibition Cybernetic Serendipity. Yes, madam!

Talking of which, María Fernández wrote an essay on Gordon Pask: Cybernetic Polymath. That’s one of the many texts you can read on new media art magazine a minima.

John Frazer‘s 1995 book An Evolutionary Architecture can also be yours in a PDF format. The volume traces the experiments in computational architecture going back to the 1960’s.

For those of you who haven’t downloaded it yet, here’s a link to the PDF of ‘The Internet of Things. A critique of ambient technology and the all-seeing network of RFID’ by Rob van Kranenburg.

I recently found out that Tate has uploaded on you tube dozens of videos of artist interviews, exhibition tours and other contemporary art niceties.

iCI has some charming interviews of artists you might like: Nina Katchadourian, Jim Campbell, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Trevor Paglen, etc. They call it Inside the Studio.

I think that’s it for today. See you on the other side of the world!

Fancy Headless Figurines – Yinka Shonibare’s Faceless Art (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) When I was an art student, I always struggled to get the mouth to look right. It didn’t matter if it was oil, water color, pastels or pencil. When it came to the mouth, I was never satisfied. Like da Vinci…

Utah’s Snow Isn’t This Flaky

There’s more at Utah.travel.

Rent A Supermodel Yogi – Cameron Alborizan As Your Guru (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) OK, so I have strange taste in men and don’t find this man at all attractive, but I am strange, so normal ladies out there, this one is for you.

Former supermodel Cameron Alborizan swapped the catwalk…

Kanye West, DJ Benzi & Plain Pat: Sky High

I knew about this coming out soon, but it was homie MWM who pointed out in his blog to this site with the whole mixtape as just one big track.

Also, if you’d like, you can download the full album.

Been a big fan of Kanye for quite some time now, and this mixtape takes his music to a whole new and refreshing danceable level.

Definite party-maker when played in a club.

Get your dance on!.

Recession Retreats – Top 10 Places to Escape The Credit Crunch (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If a recession (or depression) really is on the way, where are the best places to hide without feeling the crunch? If you’re worried about forgoing your funds, you are far from alone, but there are things…

Insect-Inspired Pod Racers – The One-Man Scarab (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Here’s a concept vehicle from the mind of David Miguel Moreira Gonçalves. It has four wheels and a capsule to house a single passenger who will lean and twist to steer, all the while being provided with…

Holiday Jinglevertising – The Gap ‘Merry Mix Carols’

Always seeking to capture the imagination (and, of course, your shopping dollar) The Gap is no stranger to innovative advertising. Just in time for the holidays, their Merry Mix Carols, Tis the Season…

Flogos: Foam Clouds Shaped Like Logos

Via our reader Flummox comes the word of Flogos, a company that makes machines that make clouds shaped like corporate logos. The clouds are made from “proprietary surfactant (soap) based foam formulations and lighter-than-air gases such as helium.” Some videos to illustrate: Nintendo’s Kirby (below) and a bunch of other samples (on Flogos’ site).

Dr. Pepper Owes You a Can of Soda

Remember how in March Dr. Pepper promised everyone in the States a can of Dr. Pepper if Guns’n’Roses released its “Chinese Democracy” album in 2008? Well, guess what, the album is coming out on Thursday, and now it’s time to pay up. To its credit, Dr. Pepper is doing just that.

Bisexual Dating Shows – Ikki Twins In MTV’s ‘A Double Shot at Love’ (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Step back Tila Tequila: here come the Ikki Twins! MTV welcomes the self-proclaimed ‘world’s hottest twins’ in their new reality show ‘A Double Shot at Love.’

The show is a spin-off of the ever popular…

Dramatic Weather Lamps – The RainLight (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Charles Kalpakian’s RainLight is perfect for anyone who relishes in inclement weather; its design looks just like the cartoon rain cloud that used to follow Charlie Brown around.

The neon tubes that…

A Widget and Smart PR Make ‘Closed’ Rijksmuseum a Popular Attraction


Blogger Mark Aink describes how Jan-Willem Sieburgh helped the Amsterdam's legendary Rijksmuseum break attendance records despite the fact that much of the museum is closed for renovation.

Real Furbys – Live Pygmy Tarsier Found After 85 Years (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Widely believed to have been extinct, the pygmy tarsier, one of the world’s smallest and rarest primates, has been found on a mountain-top on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Until now, scientists had…

Retro Breakfast Exhibits – The Online Sugar Frosted Cereal Museum (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) At first glance at these images, you might think “same old, same old, Flickr poor collection.” However, you would be wrong. I feel that the rather peculiar online sugary cereal museum in fact reveals so…

Floral Fairy Lights – Frangipani, Cherry & Orchid Lighting (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I have spent the better part of an hour trying to decide which one of these floral light strings to buy. They are all so beautiful, I simply had to feature them… and maybe readers will help me decide.…