Apr
08
Jay Leno Was Good for Ratings (and Ad Age)
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I don’t understand why NBC is so anxious to show Jay Leno the door. Late night is about the only thing working for the network.
Apr
08
Submerged Model Editorials – Flora Borsi’s Grim Photos Displays a Captivating Darkness (GALLERY)
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(TrendHunter.com) Suffering for the sake of accomplishing a task is commonplace in this world, and this ‘Asphyxia’ photo series by Hungary-based photographer and graphic designer Flora Borsi is just one…
Apr
08
‘Mad Men’ Premiere Recap: Blue Hawaii
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It begins in an emergency. An urgent point-of-view shot shows an unfamiliar face performing CPR on an unknown patient acting as our eyes. We hear the thumping chest compressions and the screams of a familiar voice.
Have the smokes, the Old Fashioneds and the soul-hardening stress of a life spent lying finally caught up with Don Draper? Don’s death has been foreshadowed any number of times, but this seems far too soon to remove the hard-living anti-hero at the center of “Mad Men.” There are two seasons to go.
The abrupt change in setting to Hawaii should be a clear indication that Don is still very much in this world, but the gorgeous, languorous 10-minute sequence that opens the show’s sixth season is still too dreamy to ground anything. Don’s beach read is Dante’s “Inferno,” but maybe that’s the wrong flavor of afterlife. Perhaps it’s “Paradiso” we are in. Contributing to the unreal feel is Don’s silence as a rather pleasurable business trip plays out around him. Neither pot, nor poi, nor poking pulls any words from Don’s lips. It is only a late-night encounter with a drunk, pre-nuptial serviceman, whose idea of bar chat is musing on what a 50-caliber machine gun can do to a water buffalo, that fully brings us into the reality of December 1967.
Apr
08
Link by Link: Bubble or No, Virtual Bitcoins Show Real Worth
Posted in: UncategorizedThe bitcoin, a virtual currency created in 2009, has achieved a billion-dollar milestone that has turned the relatively obscure online means of exchange into a media sensation.
Apr
08
Outside Group Starts Spending to Block Quinn
Posted in: UncategorizedA coalition of left-leaning labor unions and Democratic activists who say they are not backing any one candidate had pledged over $1 million to defeat Christine C. Quinn, a front-runner.
Apr
08
Oakley: Bubba’s hover
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Oakley teamed up with Thinkmodo to create an innovative viral video campaign for Oakley’s new spokes person, pro golfer Bubba Watson.
Advertising Agency: Thinkmodo, New York, USA
Creative Directors / Directors / Producers: Michael Krivicka, James Percelay
Camera: Matthew Cady
Published: April 2013
Apr
08
Eye on Ratings, ABC Peers Into the Disney Toy Chest
Posted in: UncategorizedABC had always stood apart from the Disney way, but recently the network has floated a few pilots on concepts drawn from its powerful parent’s library.
Apr
08
Luigi Bormioli: Perfect
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Advertising Agency: TIWI, Italy
Published: April 2013
Apr
08
Sponsors Now Pay for Online Articles, Not Just Ads
Posted in: UncategorizedThe strategy of advertisers sponsoring or producing content that looks much like traditional editorial content has become increasingly common as publishers try to create more sources of revenue.
Apr
07
Corpo
Posted in: UncategorizedAnti-capitaLIST: Part 3.
JOHN GOTO
How can we resist the nightmare of global capitalism and the lifestyle it demands? How can we jam the dominant logic of consumerism, imperial war, an abused Third World, and an ember planet? While no doubt daunting, we offer a guide in three parts. Each third targets a different site where capital rears its Achilles heel, where creative forms of resistance take shape and reveal new ways to live.
Under the headings, PSYCHO, ECO and CORPO this list proceeds apace in the twilight of postindustrial capital. We don’t have time as a luxury anymore; in fact, we’re living the end times. So as you use, combine, or complement the following guidelines to counter the system, act now, act fast.
Part III: CORPO
To carve a niche beyond the corporate horizon
Discover alternative ways of life
Engaging in alternative lifestyles and systems of exchange denaturalizes our consumerist ways. What if we implemented local currencies, instituted collectives, imagined redistribution? For inspiration, consider the Heritage
Foundation’s joke of a list—the Index of Economic Freedom—which ranks the countries friendliest to global capital. The countries considered “repressed” allow us to look for points of resistance. Venezuela, occupying the bottom, is a good place to start emulating.
Re-appropriate technology
Power cuts two ways—it constrains and enables. This is why we can use the artifacts of consumer culture (MacBooks and mobile devices) as means to attack the system that begets them.
But tech stuff can be stashed at your local library too—not necessarily the Apple store. Technology is even putting pen to paper (what better way to write a manifesto?)
Check the label
Where is your food coming from, what qualifies as food, and what sprouts nearby? Question the origin of food, and if you have a green thumb, grow your own.
Debt? What debt?
According to the Strike Debt campaign: YOU ARE NOT A LOAN. Got mounting letters due to student, credit card, or hospital debt? Some activists say to chuck ‘em in the sewer! Enough people doing this will cause the system to crack. Its heartless logic will wither.
Read on: Part 1 and Part 2 of the AnticapitaLIST.
Read more on Adbusters.org
Apr
07
Breaking Bread With the Rev. Matt Malone: Jesuit Editor in N.Y. Is Intrigued by Politics and Motivated by Love
Posted in: UncategorizedThe Rev. Matt Malone, editor of the Jesuit weekly America, argues that some of the world’s problems can be solved only through “radical love and forgiveness.”
Apr
07
Flesh-Covered Furniture Sculptures – Jessica Harrison Covers Household Objects with Human Flesh (GALLERY)
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(TrendHunter.com) These furniture sculptures by Jessica Harrison are slightly disturbing. It’s funny how skin can look so good on a body and yet, look incredibly eerie on anything else.
Jessica has taken…
Apr
07
The Media Equation: Roger Ebert’s Legacy as a Relentless Empire-Builder
Posted in: UncategorizedA big part of what Roger Ebert left behind was a remarkable template for how a lone journalist can become something much more.
Apr
07
Advertising: Gift With Purchase With a Cause From Clarins, Macy’s and Feed Project
Posted in: UncategorizedWhen shoppers buy two Clarins items at Macy’s, Clarins will donate $1 to an antihunger group, the equivalent of paying for 10 school meals.
Apr
07
Big-Haired 70s-Inspired Photoshoots – The Grazia Germany April 2013 Editorial Stars Elena Ivanova (GALLERY)
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(TrendHunter.com) Model Elena Ivanova channels her inner retro bombshell for the Grazia Germany April 2013 editorial. Clad in vibrant bellbottoms, fringed miniskirts and lacy dresses, she toggles between disco…
Apr
07
M.T.A. Ad Space Becomes Platform for Mideast Politics
Posted in: UncategorizedThough M.T.A. ads have often attracted — and actively courted — controversy, they have also provided the authority with an unlikely revenue source.
Apr
07
Lego: Storybuilder
Posted in: UncategorizedAdvertising Ageny: Miami Ad School, New York, USA
Art Direction: Dejan Jovanovic
Copywriter: Helena Heras
Motion Design: Rafael Perez
Sound Design: Adam Primack
Voice Over: Richard Spiegel
3D Design: Manuel Mero
Special Effects: German Leal
Instructor: Ina Ernesti
Apr
07
Converse: Shoes are boring
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“Shoes are boring wear sneakers.”
Advertising Agency: Anomaly, New York, USA
Chief Creative Officer: Mike Byrne
Executive Creative Director: Ian Toombs, Sheena Brady
Art Director: Roy Torres
Copywriter: Nick Terzis
Account Director: Jill Ong
Agency Producer: Sarah Manna
Photographers: Magdalena Wosinska, Dan Monick
Account manager: Lauren Bozarth
Apr
07
Jong Hwa Chinese Restaurant: Dragon
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Extra hot noodle.
Advertising Agency: BigBang Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Creative Director: Ahmet Erdo?an
Art Director: Emrah E?ki
Copywriter: Murat ??men
Apr
07
Jong Hwa Chinese Restaurant: Chinese
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“Pure Chinese.”
Advertising Agency: BigBang Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Creative Director: Ahmet Erdo?an
Art Director: Emrah E?ki
Copywriter: Murat ??men
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