The Brands Vampires Love, GE’s New Take on Stats, Painting a New Yorker Cover With an iPhone App and Other Work


In this week's Creativity Top 5, HBO partners with marketers and Gawker Media for the season premier of "True Blood"; Wieden & Kennedy and Stacy Wall's Imperial Woodpecker make LeBron and Kobe puppets for Nike Basketball; TBWA/Frederick, Chile, and Pedigree re-create the horrors of a dog shelter; GE and Ben Fry transform health statistics into interactive graphics; and Jorge Colombo paints a New Yorker cover with an iPhone app.

Microsoft’s Bing Is a Search Portal, not a Decision Engine


I've spent the last few days trying out Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, and it's much better categorized as a "search portal." The idea of a search engine is to get you where you want to go fast, based on the queries you enter. The idea of a portal is to give you all the content you need so you don't have to go anywhere else. Bing is a hybrid, a search portal that lets you keep searching and refining your query without ever leaving the site until you absolutely have to.

The Beatles: Rock Band | Trailer

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Apesar de eu falar sempre sobre o assunto por aqui, esse não é um blog de games. Mas eu tenho um bom motivo para postar o trailer de “The Beatles: Rock Band”, revelado hoje na conferência da Microsoft na E3: é bonito para cacete, estilo cartunesco, como serão os gráficos do jogo, e um trabalho bacana de motion.

A apresentação incluiu as presenças de Paul McCartney e Ringo Starr, que gostaram e elogiaram suas versões virtuais. Para fazer qualquer beattlemaníaco colar o cérebro no teto, que já tem o que fazer no dia 9.9.09.

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Um site de agência feito no YouTube. Simples assim.

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Microsoft’s bing Trashed Before It Even Launches

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Be sure to catch Adrants windbag Steve Hall on the most recent Beancast where Microsoft’s new search engine, bing, is given the “seriously does anyone think Microsoft will get it right this time” treatment, social media hype gets a lashing and, once again, the viability of in-game advertising is discussed.

Not All Social Experiments Have to Be on Twitter. Or Facebook. Or Online.

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Ben Muller sent us word of I Got an Envelope, a social art project where people leave empty self-addressed envelopes in random places.

Time Out donates archive material to Museum of London

LONDON – Time Out has donated 41 years of content to the Museum of London to create a digital archive of London life.

‘That’s Not a Vegetable, That’s a Starch.’

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Gerber shocks parents into submission: In “Really?” parents on the street discover that the “vegetable” consumed most by the average rosy-faced US toddler is … wait for it …

Mullen Heads For Bright Lights, Big City

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Today, Mullen is celebrating its relocation to Boston

It’s Not Abuse If It’s Consensual. Waivers, Too? Better Still

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For client G4, Hal Riney took a little man-on-man BDSM fun and turned it into skin-crawly bruise-based animation.

It’s Not Abuse If It’s Consensual. Waivers? Better Still

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For client G4, Hal Riney took a little man-on-man BDSM fun and turned it into skin-crawly bruise-based animation.

Relationship Duet Albums – Scarlett Johansson Pete Yorn’s “Break Up” (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Even though she’s happily married, actress/singer Scarlett Johansson is releasing a relationship duet album entitled “Break Up,” this coming Fall.

Scarlett Johansson’s singing partner in the the nine-song…

Huge beatbox performance by Beardyman

High Art Graffiti – Canada’s Montreal is a Serious Hotbed For Deviant Art (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Montreal is known for its history, fashion and artsy culture. Graffiti may not be the most socially acceptable form of artistic expression, but many in Montreal are putting their creative juices into art…

Peugeot Gets Groove-y on Beautiful Day

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Ooo. How retro. How…dare we say…surprising?

Saatchi Saatchi UK Site Hacked. OK, Not Really

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Asa Bailey is up to his stunts again.

Print Media Hits Bottom of Obama Tank, Keeps Digging

The American Society of Magazine Editors has expanded its annual cover contest to include a whole category for covers featuring Barack Obama.

DraftFCB downsizes in China

BEIJING – DraftFCB is scaling back its operation in Beijing, following the movement of key clients Haier IT and Kraft out of the capital.

Your 9 to 5 is Noble. And After, There Will Be Beer!

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You, little dish-fitter. You bring us … Pets Do the Funniest Things. In HD!”

Bravo Freshens Up for Next Season


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — In the last four years, Bravo has carved out an instantly identifiable on-air brand, complete with an oft-repeated tagline ("Watch What Happens"), signature blue talk-box logo and a knack for blog-able reality competition shows and docu-soaps. So Bravo is unveiling a new on-air look and a new tagline, "By Bravo," on June 23, to be unveiled tonight at a New York screening of the network's latest reality drama, "NYC Prep."