(TrendHunter.com) Soft, romantic and utterly relaxed, the Fashion Gone Rogue ‘Dreaming in Color’ online editorial does feel like something out of a dream. Model and blogger Alba Galocha lounges around…
Tom Finkel, the editor of a St. Louis paper, is arriving after a tumultuous period at the weekly.
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The journalist, Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev, had accused local authorities of persecuting and kidnapping Muslims and was shot to death while driving his car.
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It was probably just a matter of time before Whit Hiler and Michael Dubin worked together. Hiler—the ass-kicking Kentucky adman, flier-making crazy person and mastermind of Beardvertising—has lured Dubin's Dollar Shave Club right into his sneaky trap. Yes, Dollar Shave Club, known for its own wacky marketing, has signed up for a Beardvertising program, in which 25 hairy dudes across the country will soon have tiny Dollar Shave Club billboards clipped to their beards. "We're excited to be building our business of beardlessness with these badass, bushy Beardboards," Dubin says in a statement. Hiler tells AdFreak: "For brands interested in joining A&W Restaurants and Dollar Shave Club in some hot and hairy 'Beardvertising' action, we've got over 1,400 eager guys ready and willing to place little advertisements in their epic beards." More photos below.
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Meredith Vieira, former host on “The View” and “Today,” will begin her syndicated show in fall 2014 for NBCUniversal.
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Maxim magazine, the bawdy men’s title that went up for sale in March, is fetching some bids of about $20 million, less than a 10th of the price its owners paid six years ago, according to people familiar with its finances.
Maxim publisher Alpha Media Group, controlled by creditor Cerberus Capital Management, is expected to lose between $3 million and $5 million this year, according to the people, who asked not to be named because the matter is confidential.
The magazine’s owners are seeing yearly revenue declines as Maxim, once a leading men’s title, contends with an industrywide downturn in marketing dollars. Advertisers and readers have shifted their attentions toward digital venues, where ad rates are cheaper and the content largely free.
The Interpublic Group of Companies has long sought a United States hub for Lowe. Its new plan is to enlist the firm Campbell Ewald.
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From Adbusters #108: The Epic Human Journey: Part 2, Summer
Stephen Harper has made it his singular mission to wiggle Canada out from underneath the cozy wing of its belligerent older brother and transform it into a ripped young hotshot, ready to fight, fuck and sow its wild oats in the fertile grounds of any boogie monster willing to fight like a man. Libya. Syria. Military rearmament. Kyoto and desertification treaties. Scientists. Tar sands. Damn right. Tearing shit up is the measure of a nation on the rise.
When the phone rings in the Prime Minister’s office today it’s no longer some whiney third-world leader from a nowhere country begging for charity, or an off-brand NGO bitching about endangered animals that nobody cares about. Instead, it’s a Putin, or a Xi Jinping, or a mining CEO, or a financial bigwig from Bay Street, or a weapons contractor, or an energy consortium – people who matter – ready to talk about austerity, expansion and the new Canadian way of life.
That new way of life is the long-needed remedy for a people sickened by the bellicose ease of peacekeeping, national healthcare, environmentalism, universal education, United Nations propaganda, social equity and other forms of geopolitical hand-holding. It consists of a heavy dose of muscle and confidence, combined with the willingness to stick to pseudo-principles, strong-and-wrong, right-or-fight, and a mouth frothing disdain toward the liberal elite privilege of nuance and sober second thought.
Canadians are simple, honest folk, so the story goes, and the big words coming out of the big mouths living in the posh suburbs of Anglophone Montreal and Toronto’s gated communities represent progress about as much as internet teenage suicide. Canada is conservative, has always been conservative, and our wealth and reputation are the fruit of conservatism. So drink some Molson beer for Christ’s sake and get with the program. Canada exists because Canada kicks ass.
But every now and then an international event happens that stirs the pot of the dueling Canadas, like the Boston Marathon bombings, which reignited the North-America-under-siege fear that has fuelled the cowboy politics here for more than a decade. Harper was appalled by the attack, as most empathetic beings were. Tragic. Yes. Shocking. Yes. Senseless. Yes. But his outrage extended beyond these obvious reasons.
While Harper was in London (attending the Thatcher funeral and global-conservative-circle-jerk-after-party) his young adversary, the new head of the national Liberal party, Justin Trudeau, son of former PM, Pierre Trudeau, suggested publicly that we take a moment to consider the root causes of such violent acts.
Harper was livid.
He couldn’t contain himself, nor tolerate any thought of the soft-bellied Canada trying to squirm its way into the public mind.
“When you see this type of violent act, you do not sit around trying to rationalize it or make excuses for it or figure out its root causes. You condemn it categorically, and to the extent you can deal with the perpetrators, you deal with them as harshly as possible.”
Trudeau’s approach, so dangerously close to the thinking that kept Canada out of the Coalition of the Willing in Iraq, touched the central Harperland nerve. The world is a macrocosm of the street. You either fight or get your ass kicked.
After all we have done for Canada – for the world – how dare he resurrect the pale and skinny Canadian weakling.
La designer américaine Danielle Evans associe son savoir-faire avec des matériaux naturels comme le thé, les épices, la farine ou encore le café, pour créer une série typographique étonnante. Un travail fait-main dont le rendu est d’une précision gourmande. Un beau projet à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
HBO said the film’s two directors have had exclusive access to the legal team that successfully argued the case against California’s Proposition 8.
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(TrendHunter.com) Thomas Babeau’s latest editorial for REVS Magazine showcases both his incredible fashion photography skills, as well as several sleek evening wear designs.
Starring the dark and brooding…
Meredith Vieira is following the example set by fellow “Today” alum Katie Couric and starting a syndicated daytime talk show set to arrive in fall 2014.
“The Meredith Vieira Show” will be produced and distributed by NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution and taped in New York on a set that resembles Ms. Vieira’s own home, the company said Tuesday.
Ms. Vieira, host of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” for more than a decade and co-host of “The View” from 1997 to 2006, stepped down as host of NBC’s “Today” in January 2011. Her warm, lengthy on-air sendoff foreshadowed how sharply her absence would be felt — and made the forced exit of her successor, Ann Curry, look mean by comparison.
If the deal happens, the fast-growing movie financing and production company behind “Man of Steel” and “The Hangover” franchise would leave Warner Brothers.
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Duval Guillaume Modem is certainly kicking things up a notch when it comes to prank campaigns. The agency, which is known for stunt work for Carlsberg and TNT, introduces a new, creep-tastic campaign for Febelfin, a governmental oversight organization for financial companies.
In the campaign, a man takes over another guy’s life, using a Mission Impossible-style mask, a phishing email, and a phone call. Eventually, he makes hotel reservations, buys a stunningly expensive musical instrument, and posts photos online of himself, masquerading as the victim. The message: Be safe online.
While the tactics used in the campaign might seem especially horrifying to users in the U.S., truth is that laws around shocking people tend to be a little less tight abroad, especially in continental Europe. Kris Hoet, managing partner and head of digital at Duval Guillaume, told Creativity during an earlier story that some of the things his agency pulls off, such as this 007 stunt for Coke, just wouldn’t be possible Stateside.
(TrendHunter.com) The Summer 2013 campaign for luxury eyewear designer Rims & Goggles is one of the most simplistic and chic photo shoots of the season. Featuring everything from blazers to vests to maxi dresses,…
Vai ser duro ter de esperar até setembro de 2014 para assistir na íntegra de The Boxtrolls, o novo projeto do estúdio Laika. Agora, os criadores de Coraline e Paranorman estão trabalhando em uma nova história, desta vez sobre um órfão que é criado por criaturas pouco convencionais, os boxtrolls. Um dia, entretanto, ele é obrigado a sair do mundo subterrâneo – e fora da caixa – para salvar a cidade de um tenebroso vilão.
A julgar pelo trailer lançado recentemente, vai ser mais uma bela animação. Para acompanhar as novidades até lá, vale dar uma olhada no site oficial, aqui.
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(TrendHunter.com) As apartment units are getting smaller and interior decors are getting more minimalist in style, contemporary children’s furniture is also becoming extremely modern. Today’s babies are…
Often times I like to use what I call the “alien test” when reviewing advertising. What’s the “alien test” you ask? Well just imagine if an alien race decided to come check us out and, while orbiting the planet and listening ion on our activities, they found this thing called YouTube. And on this thing called YouTube they found this MySpace promotional video (released last month) in which the likes of Pharell, Ciara and Mac Miller cavort with a bunch of hipsters.
Just what would these aliens think while watching these people jump around like buffoons and break stuff while listening to noise that appears to have been designed to poke holes in the ear drum?
Yea. They’d quickly move on to the next planet. Whether or not humans decide to stop by a take a look at MySpace of move on to the next thing is unclear at this point. The music-focused social network recently boasted 31 million unique site visitors in the 14 days following its recent re-launch.
Capitalizing on the crowds at a weekend Festival in Toronto, Lowe Roche, working with the Fuzz Bar Wax Team, created a street stunt that had a guy walking around with wax strips affixed to his body. Anyone could grab a strip and rip it off the guy (ouch!) thereby giving the guy a full body wax job. Each of the strips was coupon for 25% off a wax.
Each strip also featured a cartoon face pain indicator that corresponded with the pain of having the particular body part (on which the strip was placed) waxed. Funny phrases like “We’ll take the monkey off your back” and “You’ll walk a little differently” accompanied the tagline “So good, it hurts.”
Personally, we prefer how an intern of ours used stickies to get herself a job.
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