For Ali Shahriari and Dave Irwin, advertising is a funny business. Under the name Zebra Corner, they’ve earned their stripes with a series of outrageous online parody videos, frequently zinging Chevrolet’s “Real People” commercials. Their latest work is approaching 1.6 million YouTube views since it dropped last Thursday. It features the hyper-sarcastic Irwin, aka “Mahk,”…
Ad Age “Media Guy” columnist Simon Dumenco’s media roundup for the morning of Monday, March 20:
There is, yes, some depressing news below. But there is also a dancing zebra — so there’s hope! (Or something.) Anyway, let’s get started …
1. The No. 1 story at New York magazine’s website as of this morning is this week’s cover story by Olivia Nuzzi. It’s headlined “The True First Lady of Trump’s America” on the print cover and “Kellyanne Conway Is a Star” inside the magazine and online. Here’s one choice paragraph:
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Arno
Advertising Agency:AG2 Nurun, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Creative Director:Paulo Aguiar
Art Director:Leonardo Arcoverde
Copywriter:Gustavo Miranda, Marcelo Druck
Animation:Zombie Studios
Print
Dollar Shave Club
Advertising Agency:Miami Ad School, Berlin, Germany
Creative Director:Niklas Frings-Rupp, Florian Weitzel, David Herrmann
Art Director:Alina Kadlubsky, Hunho Cho, Shanth Kothot
Illustrator:Hunho Cho
Print
Amnesty International
You can switch it off. They can’t.
Advertising Agency:Ogilvy & Mather, Frankfurt, Germany
Executive Creative Director:Felix Fenz
Creative Director:Peter Strauss
Art Director:Sergej Chursyn
Copywriter:Peter Strauss
Post Production:Joachim Becker, Ho
Management Supervisor:Michael Fucks
Account Executive:Viorel Borgovan
Art Buying:Natalie Hergenhan
Head Of Integrated Production:Oliver Kreage
Photographer:Andrew Reed Weller
CDOT provides educational classes for those who ride motorcycles, to get riders to take the class we created an outdoor campaign that used popular cyclist colloquialisms and added the benefit of said class.
Let’s talk about flowers. Flowers are living things that, to thrive, generally require a few nice things–fertile soil, sunshine, water, a friendly community of bees or other pollinators to move things along. Not all flowers are attractive and lovely, though. The corpse flower, for example, smells like rotting flesh, the better to attract its own…
You can turn a microwave into a camera and I’ll teach you how in a minute, but before I do, let me share this news item. In a recent interview with a reporter from the Bergen Record, While House counselor Kellyanne Conway was asked about surveillance. She responded: “There are many ways to surveil each other now, unfortunately. There was an article this week that talked about how you can surveil someone through their phones, certainly through their television sets, any number of different ways. And microwaves that turn into cameras, et cetera. So we know that that is just a fact of modern life.”
On its face, her statement about “microwaves that turn into cameras, et cetera” is ridiculous. It reminds me of the late Sen. Ted Stevens’ famous “Tubes” speech. I went right after “Uncle Ted” for his technofaux pas, but even then, there were bigger issues to consider. It would be exceptionally easy to jump all over Ms. Conway for her techno-faux pas. But doing so would be taking a cheap shot at an easy target while completely missing a very, very important teaching moment.
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The theme for Art Fair Tokyo this year is “Art is Alive -We approach art, art approaches us”. To bring people closer to classical arts, we decided to conduct a live performance using William Bouguereau’s masterpiece, “The Birth of Venus” . The concept is “Dress the Venus, who has been naked for 100years” This is an unprecedented art project, where the Venus, who has been naked for 100 years, will be dressed in a handmade dress, designed by Junko Koshino; a representative fashion designer of Japan. After the Venus is converted into a 3D model, the newly designed dress will be drawn on her in VR environment. AI was trained to replicate the style and touch of Bouguereau, and at the end, the dress was synthesised onto the original painting. This is an entirely new Live drawing performance, merging art, fashion and technology.
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