(TrendHunter.com) Bumprz is a caseless iPhone case. While that certainly sounds nonsensical, it’s frankly the best way I can think of to describe this innovative take on the iPhone case.
Unlike a traditional…
And you will probably hate yourself for clicking through that ridiculous tease of a headline. In any event, TBWA Israel is out with a campaign that ams to get kids to love pasta. Touting Sugat’s playfully-shaped pasta, the campaign uses a military theme following the familiar “It’s a plane” approach parents use to get their little ones to eat.
Expect that Sugat pasta is so awesome, these techniques will no longer need to be deployed. And so the ads which carry the tagline, “No Need For Maneuvers,” depict a decrepit looking warehouse where all the “open wide,” “it’s a plane,” and “yummy, yummy” military-themed spoons have gone to collect dust.
The upsides and drawbacks of common work spaces have been debated in the agency world for decades. But no one can deny the cool factor of The Barbarian Group's newly designed offices—and the amazing, undulating "superdesk" that snakes through it.
Benjamin Palmer and Sophie Kelly introduce the new space in the video below. Understandably, they talk mostly about the desk. A marvel of design—created with help from architect Clive Wilkinson—it features gorgeous lines, archways and cubbies, and is topped with a single unbroken surface created by a continuous pour of resin.
The thing is unreal, and of course the perfect metaphor for a place that wants to broadcast a collaborative spirit. TBG proudly calls it "a desk that we could all share, literally—4,400 square feet of undulating, unbroken awesomeness to keep people and ideas flowing."
Check out the video below. And try not to feel too bad about your own pathetic workspace.
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(TrendHunter.com) These two super adorable animals became best friends after getting rescued from the wild in Victoria, Australia.
Having been put together in the center when they were rescued, these adorable…
McCann Oslo has just released the follow up to their popular 2012 “Grandpa’s Magic Trick” spot for Wilderoe Airlines, with the new sentimental effort, “Snowball.”
The 55-second spot documents a long-distance relationship in which a woman complains that her boyfriend doesn’t come to visit her often enough. Things seem to be going bad when he says “I thought about visiting you…” The woman seems ready to give up, and indeed hangs up the phone, when her boyfriend offers up a big surprise. Directed by Marius Holst, who was also behind “Grandpa’s Magic Trick,” “Snowball” is a serious attempt to pull at your heart strings that, in the end, lacks the magic of Holst’s previous Wilderoe work. Heartfelt but strained, “Snowball” lacks the seeming effortlessness and natural joy that made the last spot so popular. Stay tuned for credits and “Grandpa’s Magic” after the jump. continued…
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The Atlantic 10 Conference has begun an assertive campaign using the theme, “Who wants next?” to highlight its academic and athletic achievements.
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Les photographes russes et téméraires Vitaly Raskalov et Vadim Makhorov ont un jour décidé de visiter en toute simplicité un des plus hauts bâtiments du monde : la tour Shanghai, encore en construction. Des images et une vidéo qui vous donneront le vertige, dont le tout est à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
Her publisher described the new work as a “compulsively readable crime novel.”
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In case you forgot or never heard, nearly three years ago, a merry prankster left a rambling, sometimes scathing, often times amusing 17-minute-long voicemail for Big Spaceship CEO, Michael Lebowitz. At the time, it was intriguing enough that Lebowitz himself posted about it on his blog. Well, not sure if one Sam Hyde is the man behind the infamous VM, but whatever the case, the Brooklyn-based comedian and his Million Dollar Extreme crew have reposted the diatribe, which as you’ll hear is supposed to come from Lebowitz’s conscience. Though it was originally sent in 2010, the messages within, which promote Big Spaceship as “Chuck E. Cheese for people in their early 30s who wish they were in their late 20s” and a shop where folks are “programming Flash games” and “dropping bomb ass tweets,” don’t seem too dated. Whatever the reason for resurrecting the beast, it’s a decent lunchtime listen, though headphones are strongly recommended.
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(TrendHunter.com) If asked what to do with a bunch of unused shipping containers, making a student dorm out of it would probably be one of the last things on many people’s minds. Turns out when you think outside…
In early April Vice will debut a yet-unnamed food vertical with “American Idol” producer FremantleMedia. The brash digital-media company also has a food-related ad network on its menu.
Vice and FremantleMedia will jointly develop and produce “hundreds of hours of content” for the property, said Vice president Andrew Creighton. That content will skew heavily toward video but also feature articles and recipes. Vice will oversee how that content is distributed digitally, including an owned-and-operated site, a YouTube channel and eventually apps. And television production company FremantleMedia will secure deals to air its content on TV in the U.S. and internationally.
The new food site will mark Vice’s ninth vertical, once the pending Vice News goes live in “a couple weeks,” Mr. Creighton said. Originated as a print magazine in 1994, Vice has created an extensive property portfolio across traditional and digital media. Vice’s business spans the flagship Vice.com; music, tech, art, fashion, dance and mixed martial arts sites; YouTube channels; an HBO series; and most recently a digital agency.
Burberry has announced a digital innovation partnership with Chinese social network WeChat, aiming to engage its Chinese customer base and further establish itself on the growing international platform.
W+K Portland has unveiled “The Power of Hair” for Old Spice, the “newest, never-been-done-before interactive digital experience.”
The new site is an extension of W+K’s “For Hair That Gets Results” campaign promoting Old Spice’s new haircare and styling products, featuring the same anthropomorphic hair, and comes on the heels of the “Boardwalk” and “Meeting” spots Old Spice debuted late last month. Visitors to “The Power of Hair are greeted by a testimonial video with a young man extolling the virtues of Old Spice’s hair products. Predictably, this includes attention from the ladies and respect around the office. Less predictably, this includes Huey Lewis songs. “When you’ve got great hair like this, you’d be surprised by how many Huey Lewis songs it can play on the piano,” the now bald man says.
Visitors to the site are then asked to pick a Huey Lewis song, and the hair (which by now has slithered off of the guy’s head) will play them on piano, occasionally adding in some percussion. You can pick from among 29 of Lewis’ greatest hits, including “The Power of Love,” “I Want a New Drug,” “The Heart of Rock n’ Roll,” “Bad is Bad” and “Doing It All for My Baby.” It’s a pretty absurd idea (and yeah, we’re pretty sure no one has done this before), but then this is the kind of silliness we’ve come to expect from W+K’s work for Old Spice and a fitting extension of the “For Hair That Gets Results” campaign, complete with a perfect title. Give “The Power of Hair” a try above or at the site, and stick around for credits after the jump. continued…
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Evolve, a non profit gun safety organization founded by Jon Bond and his wife Rebecca, is out with its first PSA. Entitled The Bill of Rights for Dumbasses, the PSA takes a satirical look at your founding fathers reviewing the Bill of Rights.
In reviewing the second amendment, the Thomas Jefferson character says the second amendment is too long and the phrase “as long people aren’t being dumbasses about it” isn’t needed because it should be a given.
We are then shown hilarious scenes of, dumbass gun handing scenarios.
The video ends with an interesting twist. The founding fathers themselves go outside and play piñata with a rifle toting guy wearing a blindfold. Pretty dumasss, right?
So what’s the point? The founding fathers were dumbasses for leaving out the dumbass phrase? American will always be dumasses when it comes to guns? Playing piñata is awesome with a blindfolded gunman?
Of the work, Rebecca Bond says,”Safety is not a side. Gun owners and non-gun owners live with guns in this country, and we should all be able to have a collaborative conversation about how to think about gun safety. Humor can be a gateway to taking away the defensiveness that is the legacy of these discussions. We hope to put this conversation on the kitchen table and start talking about it.”
Well it certainly has started a conversation. But it’s the usual vitriolic kind with people taking sides and calling others who don’t see things their way dumbasses. At least on YouTube.
Personally, we don’t think this issue will ever be solved. Until aliens land, determine who the dumasses are — gun owners and non-gun owners alike — and vaporize them like a piñata.
One of the most-watched gubernatorial races of the year has access to consumer data that only a few years ago would not have been available for digital political advertising.
Targeted Victory, the firm that ran digital advertising for Mitt Romney’s failed 2012 presidential bid, has enhanced its ad targeting system with information such as purchase behavior and issue-based leanings. Among its many clients are GOP opposition-research group America Rising and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, the Republican running against recent Democratic darling, Texas State Senator Wendy Davis.
The fact that statewide and national election campaigns have enhanced their core political data sets with commercial data such as TV viewing information and demographic data is nothing new. However, this midterm election season we can expect more data-layering by smaller campaigns that have typically had fewer resources. Firms like Targeted Victory, which serves candidates and groups on the right, will facilitate that. The company has integrated information from DataLogix and i360 into the self-serve platform it offers clients.
Les gagnants du concours World Press Photo 2014 ont été annoncés. Le concours se concentrait cette année sur le thème des problèmes contemporains. Le grand gagnant de la sélection est John Stanmeyer avec sa photographie « Signal ». Les autres grands gagnants sont à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
Signal by John Stanmeyer.
Typhoon Survivors by Philippe Lopez.
Boston Marathon Bombing by John Tlumacki.
Final Embrace by Taslima Akhter.
Rebels Attack Government Checkpoint by Goran Tomasevic.
Massacre at Westgate Mall by Tyler Hicks.
Collapse of Rana Plaza by Rahul Talukder.
Temporary Accommodation by Alessandro Penso.
Bomb Maker in Aleppo by Moises Saman.
Moments Before the Hanging by Amir Pourmand.
Typhoon Haiyan by Chris McGrath.
Chaos in Central African Republic by William Daniels.
Gaza Blackout by Gianluca Panella.
Nicolette at the Orphanage by Maciek Nabrdalik.
Victims of Organized Crime by Christopher Vanegas.
A Portrait of Domestic Violence by Sara Naomi Lewkowicz.
War and Mental Health by Robin Hammond.
Last of the Vikings by Marcus Bleasdale.
Polo Fall by Emiliano Lasalvia.
Slalom Action by Andrzej Grygiel.
Forehand Forward by Al Bello.
Competition on Bars by Jia Guorong.
The Americas Cup : From Land, Sea & Air by Ezra Shaw.
World Swimming Sports by Quinn Rooney.
Sledding Race from Above by Jeff Pachoud.
Kite Skier on the Mountain by Anastas Tarpanov.
Free Diving with Sharks by Donald Miralle.
Nadja Casadei : Heptathlon and Cancer by Peter Holgersson.
Daily Exercise by Kunrong Chen.
A Lingerie League of their Own by Alyssa Schukar.
Kachin Fighters by Julius Schrank.
Soldier’s Funeral by Andrea Bruce.
Street Dogs by Julie McGuire.
Occupied Pleasures by Tanya Habjouqa.
Days of Night : Nights of Day by Elena Chernyshova.
Living Unnoticed by Jana Asenbrennerova.
Farewell Mandela by Markus Schreiber.
Ich Bin Waldviertel by Carla Kogelman.
Healing Bobby by Peter Van Agtmael.
Blind Indian Albino Boys by Brent Stirton.
Chiwetel Ejiofor by Nadav Kander.
Fennec Fox : A Species in Danger by Bruno D’Amicis.
A Flock of Guillemots by Markus Varesvuo.
Wolves Walking in the Desert by Shangzhen Fan.
Cougars by Steve Winter.
Toxic Beauty by Kacper Kowalski.
Bonobos : Our Unknown Cousins by Christian Ziegler.
UPDATE: We've received responses from both Survival Magazine (which is online only had says it has no print edition) and the photographer. You can read their statements at the bottom of this post.
Original item below:
How should you respond if a photographer says you're using her photo without permission? Probably not by calling her an asshole.
Kathy Shea Mormino, proprietor of the popular backyard chicken site The Chicken Chick, says that's what happened to her when she tried to get one of her photos removed from Survival Magazine's Facebook page and blog.
On her own business' Facebook page, Mormino shared a screenshot of an email she received from the magazine with the subject line "You're an asshole Kathy." The note also called her "a complete and total jerk" and threatened to come after her for up to $10,000 in legal fees. The magazine's email called her action a "false take down" and noted "we will be contacting all your sponsors."
Here's how Mormino (whose LinkedIn bio says she's also an attorney) described the situation to her 133,000 Facebook fans:
A fan alerted me yesterday that someone removed my watermark from my photo & used it without permission on their blog and Facebook page, so I sent them an email AND FB message requesting that they remove it. They ignored me & deleted my FB request, so I reported the copyright infringement to the Internet Police who took it down for them. THIS is the email I just received from Survival Magazine. What on earth is WRONG with some people?! Please feel free to let them know what you think of that.
Her supporters say they posted several incensed comments on the magazine's Facebook page, only to have all the comments removed. The page currently does not allow any "posts by others" and seems to be removing comments about the issue when they're posted to the magazine's other Facebook activity.
We reached out to both Mormino and Survival Magazine early today for comment and will update if we hear back.
UPDATE: Survival Magazine tells Adweek that Mormino never contacted them about the photo but instead complained to Facebook. One of its contributors sent the email to Mormino, the magazine claims, "not in response to any contact from her but in response to her complaining to facebook about several of our posts that had nothing to do with her chickens or her content. She was doing malicious stuff. She filed take down notices on about 10 of our posts that custom content created by us and had nothing to do with her."
The magazine also claims that the watermark was never removed from the photo, and that the photo was removed "immediately" after the magazine was notified of Mormino's Facebook post, not because she contacted the magazine.
Survival also confirms it shut down its Facebook page because of the ordeal.
UPDATE 2: Mormino reached out to Adweek late Friday to provide the following screenshots and comment. She denies Survival Magazine's portrayal of events, saying she only filed a take-down notice with Facebook for her photo and no other content.
To disprove the site's claims that "she never ever notified us, not once," Mormino provided the following screenshot of her original Facebook comment notifying them of her copyright:
Mormino also sent Adweek copies of the original email she received from Survival Magazine calling her an asshole. Here is the complete text:
For someone who raises chickens you're a complete and total jerk, you have cost us hundreds of dollars in promotions of our posts, and we will be sueing you to recoup that and legal fees which are estimated to be between 5-10k. What an asshole with nothing better to do than go around the web filing false take down notices. We will also be contacting all of your sponsors.
In addition, Mormino sent us Facebook's confirmation notice for the removal of the chicken photo, which she says it's the only content she filed a take-down request for.
After the jump, you can read Mormino's full statement:
The screenshot images in the photo collage speak for themselves. One can plainly see that I contacted Survival Magazine directly by commenting underneath my photo on their Facebook page at 2:00 pm on 2/12/14. I identified myself as the owner of the copyrighted photo and requested that they remove it from their page. Survival Magazine deleted my comment, ignoring my respectful, polite request. I filed a copyright infringement complaint with Facebook and Facebook removed the photo from Survival Magazine's FB page at 5:40pm. For Survival Magazine to claim that they took the photo down themselves, implying that their moral compass pointed in the right direction at any point in the course of these interactions, is patently false.
At 5:50pm on 2/12/14, an unidentified agent from Survival Magazine emailed me the profane response to Facebook's take-down notice seen in the photo collage above. No person at Survival Magazine has ever identified themselves as the author of that email or as the author of the reply to the Adweek article, which calls into question more than just their professionalism. For some anonymous entity at Survival Magazine to claim that I filed a "false take down notice" is sheer insanity. There is no dispute that the photo is of my chickens and my chicken coops in my backyard or that I took it and watermarked it. Further, there is no dispute that Survival Magazine used my photo on Facebook and their website without my permission.
Finally, in response to the claim that I filed "take down notices on about 10 of our posts that custom content created {sic} by us and had nothing to do with her" I categorically deny that baseless claim.
I challenge Survival Magazine to produce an iota of evidence in support of the accusation that I filed more than one Facebook copyright complaint. Facebook provides notices to the complainant and offender when removing content from a page; those notices contain the complainant's name and contact information as well as a section that requires the complainant demonstrate ownership of the challenged content. I filed one and only one complaint against Survival Magazine's Facebook page. Any accusation to the contrary is 100% fabricated. Whether my photo ever contained a watermark and whether Survival Magazine ever removed a watermark from my photo is completely irrelevant to the issue of unauthorized use of my intellectual property.
Last, this is a very clear instance of theft of intellectual property by Survival Magazine. I would have excused the unauthorized use of my photo. Their bad behavior ex post facto, however, is completely inexcusable.
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Isn't this the most romantic newspaper ad you've ever … oh, wait.
This two-part classified ad appeared on Valentine's Day in Australia's Launceston Examiner newspaper. Hopefully Jodie has a sense of humor.
Via The Blaze.
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L’agence The Barbarian Group a demandé à Clive Wilkinson Architects de concevoir un bureau avec une plus grande cohérence entre les 125 collègues. Réinventant la fonction de mobilier, Superdesk est une initiative, proposant un seul bureau géant circulant dans l’open-space, créant ainsi un environnement de travail unique.
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