Neil Armstrong: 1930-2012

Com a morte de Neil Armstrong, aos 82 anos, no último sábado, o jornalismo abusou do recurso visual de bandeira a meio mastro. Agora, um anúncio do Denver Museum of Nature & Science traz a imagem para a publicidade.

A intervenção acontece na famosa foto tirada pelo próprio Armstrong, quando Buzz Aldrin hasteia a bandeira dos EUA na Lua.

Independente das cores da bandeira, Neil Armstrong sempre deixou clara a conquista como sendo da humanidade, abrindo o futuro para o nosso pálido ponto azul.

Criação da Carmichael Lynch.

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Virgin Trains takes legal action over FirstGroup victory

Virgin Trains has started court proceedings over the Department for Transport’s recent decision to award the West Coast Main Line franchise to FirstGroup.

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Why Social Marketing Will Deliver Positive ROI for Your Brand

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If you are an agency or a brand trying to decide whether or not social media marketing is worth the investment, consider these numbers from recent studies of social media users:

  • 78% are directly influenced by branded posts when making purchases
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Goofs Get Goofy For Little Caesars $5 Hot-N-Ready Pepperoni Pizza

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Barton F. Graf 9000 is out with new work for Little Caesars that’s in keeping with both the brand’s and the agency’s penchant for witty goofiness. Promoting the establishment’s $5 Hot-n-Ready pepperoni pizzas, two commercials center on just how goofy goofy people can get over a goofy little pepperoni special.

We like to call it nut ball intelligence. Yea, that works.


Friends Life to end Twenty20 cricket sponsorship

Friends Life, the insurance group, is giving up its title sponsorship of cricket’s Twenty20 county format when its four-year deal ends next year, ahead of a general review of the county game by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).

Water Wigs

Tim Tadder est un photographe qui a eu l’idée de proposer à des hommes de les immortaliser au moment de l’explosion de ballons remplis d’eau près de leur visage. Cette série d’images fortement colorées appelée « Water Wigs » donne l’impression que ces derniers se coiffent de perruques d’eau.

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13 Fierce Jan Welters Photoshoots – From Androgynous Punk Pictorials to Demonic Stare Editorials

(TrendHunter.com) From obscured shadowy editorials to darkly piercing pictorials, these fierce Jan Welters photoshoots are haute, agressive and stand out. Jan Welters is a Dutch born photographer whose passion for…

Former Ogilvy Creative Director Russ Alben Dies


Advertising executive and copywriter Russ Alben, credited with the Timex tagline "Takes a licking and keeps on ticking" and Good & Plenty's Choo Choo Charlie jingle, died Aug. 26 in Los Angeles.

Forget Family; News Anchors Take Star Turns in Obama, Romney Ads


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Baby Breakfast Costumes – TheCostumeCafe Egg with Bacon Ensemble is Adorable (GALLERY)

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Desenho realista: Carta de baralho

Na sua série de desafios de realismo, o ilustrador Mark Crilley desenha uma carta de baralho rasgada em quatro partes.

O resultado é incrível. É claro que já vimos dezenas de exemplos de pinturas e ilustrações ultra-realistas por aí, mas o trabalho ao vivo é outra coisa.

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Avis Drops ‘We Try Harder’ For ‘It’s Your Space’

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While we won’t likely know for a year or so, Avis’ tagline shift from “We Try Harder” to “It’s Your Space” will either go down as the biggest ad flop in history or the crucial change the brand needed to pull itself back to the number two spot (Recently, it slipped to third behing Hertz and Enterprise).

The tagline, “We Try Harder” was created in 1962 by DDB. And it worked, pulling Avis out of a decade-long slump and into a position of profit.

After you view these new ads, created by Leo Burnett under the watchful eye of (relatively) newly installed Avis CMO Jeannine Haas, you will certainly not be as excited as Avis was fifty years ago when “We Try Harder” helped resurrect the brand.

Sadly, the ads (well two out of the three) follow the now standard approach of portraying businessmen (and they are all men in these ads) as buffoons who just can’t wait to get down with their wanna be hipster, fist-bumping bad selves.

If these are what Avis customers are like, we certainly don’t want to be in their space.


Falta muito pra Joss Stone chegar?

Anote na agenda: Joss Stone vem fazer 5 shows aqui no Brasil, em novembro.

Dez anos de carreira. 6 álbuns no currículo. Uma voz que, lá em 2003, ninguém conseguia acreditar que saía de uma inglesa, adolescente e loura. Um disco de estreia que capturava o espírito dos clássicos albuns de soul dos anos 60 e 70, desde a sonoridade até a arte da capa. Onze milhões de discos vendidos até agora e uma ousadia muito bem-vinda para uma artista (que poderia muito bem ter só ficado no conforto de regravações de standards seguras, mas que graças a Deus não se acomoda) que tenta dar suas próprias caras em sua arte, como em Introducing Joss Stone e Mind, Body and Soul.

Mind, Body and Soul foi seu segundo disco. Foi o trabalho que fez dela a britânica mais jovem a atingir o primeiro lugar das paradas inglesas antes do lançamento de um CD. De fato, Mind, Body and Soul foi uma pérola que mantinha o conceito vintage de seu primeiro álbum, mas que apresentou também o lado compositor de Joss. Das 14 faixas, pelo menos 12 tinham sua assinatura. Aclamado por crítica e público, o disco conquistou status de platina em vários países do mundo, e elevou Joss Stone a um novo patamar de respeito e expectativas dentro do show business.

Do jeito que eu falo, parece até que eu faço parte do fã-clube. Na verdade, não. Mas, sim, admiro muito essa menina pelas escolhas que ela fez na carreira e pelo bom gosto que ela tem. Em tempos de pop tão raso e descartável, é uma bênção haver uma cantora jovem que faz música com tanta profundidade e bom gosto.

Em The Soul Sessions Vol.2, Joss volta às origens de sua estreia e homenageia mais uma vez alguns clássicos da soul music.

A grande dificuldade de um projeto como esse é justamente a de trazer frescor à canções já regravadas por tantas e tantas pessoas anteriormente.

Se regravar um clássico já é uma responsabilidade por si só, regravar um clássico e dar um toque pessoal e novo para ele é um feito ainda mais louvável.

O mais legal do disco é perceber que ela revitaliza esses clássicos com sua pegada moderna, mas nunca altera a proposta original da música. Um bom exemplo é High Roads – na qual se permitiu uma desconstrução aos moldes de Fell In Love With a Boy, música do White Stripes que ganhou uma versão genial no primeiro Soul Sessions – onde ela mostra que é deste século, sim, sem deixar de soar clássica. A performance é impressionante.

Joss vem ao Brasil agora no fim do ano para divulgar seu novo trabalho.

Mesmo para quem não é super fã, eu recomendo ir ao show, só pela aula de profissionalismo e musicalidade.

Dá gosto de ver músicos do mais alto calibre, que minuciosamente encaixam cada nota de um jeito milimétrico nas músicas, macacos-velhos que são profissionais inigualáveis em seu ofício, se divertindo como se fossem adolescentes, fazendo um som de causar inveja em 11 entre 10 músicos iniciantes e deixando a diva à vontade para deslumbrar o publico com sua voz poderosa e seu charme.

Estarei lá.



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The Future of Ad Tech? Look at What’s Happened to Financial Markets


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18 Again Makes Women Feel Like A Virgin

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A campaign from Mumbai-based pharmaceutical company Ultratech for 18 Again cream, which promises to tighten a woman’s vagina making here “feel like a virgin again,” is causing a bit of controversy. On the one hand, it’s said to empower women making them feel youthful. On the other hand, its said the product reinforces the fact premarital sex is still seen as taboo and the patriarchal viewpoint that all men want a virgin on their wedding night.

Partially favoring the product, gynecologist Dr. Mahinda Watsa said, “Being a virgin is still prized, and I don’t think attitudes will change in this century. Women write to me and say, what do I do? I’ve had sex with other people but how do I convince people that I’m a virgin?”

Speaking out against the product, National Federation of Indian Women spokesperson Annie Raja said, “This kind of cream is utter nonsense and could give some women an inferiority complex.”

The ad, itself, is quite goofy and is filled with every sentiment you’d expect in a situation like this; a happy husband (because, of course, all men desire an “untarnished” virgin) and disapproving parants (because, of course, all older people are sticklers for tradition and cultural mores.)


16 Touch-Friendly Timepieces – From GPS Golf Gadgets to Customizable Digital Chronographs (TOPLIST)

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Flying Hovercraft

L’entreprise Aerofex a pensé et réalisé ce concept assez incroyable de Hovercraft. Fortement inspiré par l’univers de Star Wars et son Lance Speeder, la compagnie américaine nous propose de découvrir ce Flying Speeder Bike en images et en vidéo. Un rendu incroyable à découvrir dans la suite.

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‘Obama’s America’ to Add Theaters After Exceeding Forecasts


The Dinesh D'Souza documentary outdrew new releases "Premium Rush," from Sony, and "Hit & Run," from Open Road Films.

Mind the System, Find the Gap

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Our society is governed by all sorts of systems and structures that organise and steer life. No system, however, whether political, judicial, economical, socio-cultural or spatial, can comprise life in its entirety. Every system has gaps, leaks and ambiguities.

The artists in the exhibition Mind the System, Find the Gap seek out these gaps. They set forth from this intermediate position to unveil, circumvent or criticise ruling systems and structures continue