Egypt Tried to Block Broadcast of CBS Interview With President Sisi

CBS said President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi acknowledged that his military cooperated with Israel, and refused a request by Egypt to stop the broadcast.

Passar mais tempo em frente à tela não afeta tanto assim o bem estar da criança, afirma estudo

Já faz alguns bons anos que nos acostumamos com a noção de que a exposição dos nossos olhos à multiplicidade de telas à nossa volta pode causar alguns bons danos físicos aos nossos globos oculares. Mantendo-se o hábito de passar mais da metade do dia no combo celular, computador e TV como grande parte da …

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Controle por voz da Comcast acha que você está sendo mal educado ao fazer uma busca por Dick Van Dyke

A humanidade encontra todo dia novas formas de promover avanços na tecnologia para facilitar nossas vidas, mas tropeços constantemente tem que acontecer para possibilitar esta evolução a passos largos. A melhor parte, porém, é quando um novo produto chega ao mercado e ele funciona em todos os sentidos, com a exceção de um pequeno equívoco …

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Mamilos 178 – Jornalismo

Mamileiros e mamiletes, feliz ano novo! O Mamilos em janeiro está de férias (até a Ju e a Cris precisam de um descanso de vez em quando, né!), mas pra não deixar vocês sozinhos nestas semanas de descanso estamos resgatando e relançando alguns de nossos episódios favoritos do passado pra manter aquecidos seus corações! Esta …

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Audi will push electric vehicles in Super Bowl ad


Audi is coming back to the Super Bowl after sitting out last year. The luxury auto brand will use a 60-second spot in the second quarter to spotlight its electric vehicle ambitions.

Agency-of-record Venables Bell & Partners will handle the ad. No creative details were released. Audi is making the pricey media buy as it prepares to launch three battery electric vehicles in the next three years, starting with the Audi e-tron SUV. It has begun taking reservations for the vehicle, which has a $74,800 starting price.

Electric vehicles remain a niche market today, but Audi projects that nearly 30 percent of its U.S. customers will go electric by 2025.

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Watch the newest ads on TV from Lexus, Jeep, David's Bridal and more


Every weekday we bring you the Ad Age/iSpot Hot Spots, new TV commercials tracked by iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company with attention and conversion analytics from more than eight million smart TVs. The ads here ran on national TV for the first time yesterday.

A few highlights: Jeep has a really specific idea of what makes a “nice winter day.” Lexus says the new UX was “crafted for a new era of progress.” And David’s Bridal offers its own take on the familiar wedding tradition/saying that goes “Something old, something new, something borrowed…”

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Agency Brief: Ten resolutions for 2019


It’s the fourth day of the new year. New York’s salad joints have transformed into hellholes overcrowded with resolution-abiding Manhattanites. Gym-goers are fighting over stationary bikes.

But resolutions aren’t just about physical fitness. I talked to agency folks and came away with 10 ways they plan to be a little bit better this year, and not in the calorie-counting way.

Here’s what they said:

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Suruchi Goda Masala: The Royal Feast

This is an advertisement for a brand of spice which is commonly used in the western part of India. It is a blend of many spices.

As most of you may know, India is a hot pot of cultures and cuisines and tastes with people, languages and food changing with every passing kilometer. Even in a state like Maharashtra, which is one of the largest states in India, each and every city has a different spice mix.

The USP of this spice blend was that no matter what you cook, you only need to add this ‘single’ spice blend to make it tasty. So whether you cook different things for different members of the family, you can use this spice for each recipe without adding anything else.

So, we, at Boing, decided to stay away from the usual cooking and hassled mother and went a bit into our history, and into the Royal kitchens at the time of the Mahabharata (the Royal Indian Epic).

In our story, Draupadi, the queen with 5 husbands is complaining that she has a hard time while cooking because each of her husbands wants to eat something different. Her aunt-in-law, Gandhaari, mother to over 100 kids (who has blindfolded herself because her husband is also blind) reveals to her that she uses Suruchi Goda Masala for her cooking. She doesn’t need anything other spice, making cooking much less of a hassle.

We created this commercial in a typical Indian Folk song and dance format of Laavani (a folk song style from the West Indian state of Maharashtra). We enjoyed writing and making this commercial and we certainly home you feel the same.

Video of Suruchi Goda Masala

BP: Bright Ideas

BP Outdoor Ad - Bright Ideas
BP Outdoor Ad - Bright Ideas

To attract people to join BP, we took over a series of UK-based backlit adshel sites in locations where our target market work, live and commute from.

Then we turned the power off.

We didn’t need it.

Instead, our ads were printed using glow-in-the-dark phosphorescent inks. Through the day the phosphors in the ink energize themselves by absorbing natural light. Then, at night, they slowly release that stored energy – emiting a glow and eliminating any need for other energy forms. It’s an approach that turned a recruitment message into a demonstration of BP’s innovative thinking. Creating something visually striking and attracting people who are prepared to explore unlikely options to come up with brilliant ideas.

Pelastakaa Lapset: Be Safe Online

As one main message of BeSafeOnline campaign, Save the Children Finland wish to remind that the laptop webcam should be covered when it is not being used. Webcams can be covered for instance with a sticker or a specific self-adhesive webcam cover.

Video of Pelastakaa Lapset – Be safe online

Base Camp X: The Woodsman

The story begins on what appears to be a hermit waking up in the woods from a really long sleep. He staggers around groggily, plunging himself into a nearby pond. This begins his rebirth as it were. The musical score builds throughout as he bursts out of the water. He then proceeds to shave off the beard with a Base Camp X axe.

Hair flying everywhere, he transforms himself into a clean-cut businessman ready to take on the rigors of the world outside of the forest.
Of course his cellphone buzzes, revealing over 10,000 new messages…just like the rest of us after a great weekend escaping reality.

Video of Base Camp X The Woodsman

Letgo: It's Better To Sell Things That Are Not Useful, 1

Letgo Print Ad -  It's Better To Sell Things That Are Not Useful, 1

Campaign to advertise the sales site let go.

Letgo: It's Better To Sell Things That Are Not Useful, 2

Letgo Print Ad -  It's Better To Sell Things That Are Not Useful, 2

Campaign to advertise the sales site let go.

Letgo: It's Better To Sell Things That Are Not Useful, 3

Letgo Print Ad -  It's Better To Sell Things That Are Not Useful, 3

Campaign to advertise the sales site let go.

The True Cost of Steroids

The True Cost of Steroids

Awareness campaign directed at veterinarians who prescribe steroids for canine allergic itch, which results in troubling side effects such as excessive thirst and urination.

Tattoo. Art on the skin

A rite of passage, a sign of transgression, a symbol of youth and rebellion or simply an expressive language for contemporary artists.


Manu Brabo, A member of Mara Salvatrucha is seen after this arrest during an anti gang raid in Soyapango, a few km from San Salvador, El Salvador, May 2015


Ceremonial mask, Dayak, Borneo XIXth century. Courtesy MuCiv, Roma

TATTOO. L’arte sulla pelle / TATTOO. Art on the Skin, a show that opened a few weeks ago at the MAO, the Museum of Oriental Art in Turin, explores the cultural, social and artistic dimensions of tattoos.

The exhibition is a joy to visit. Not only does it present artifacts and information related to tattoos in Japan, Pacific Ocean and in the South East of Asia throughout history but it also makes them enter into a dialogue with bikers, Russian and Italian criminals, skinheads, Hollywood movies and Delvoye’s tattooed pigs.

I’ve blogged about tattoo in culture numerous times already so i’ll just take the lazy road and leave you with lots of links and images and very few texts:


Olive Ann Oatman, September 7, 1837

Olive Oatman was probably the first occidental woman who was exhibited in public for her tattoos. Her parents were killed in 1851, when she was fourteen, by a Native American tribe who later sold her and her sister to the Mohave people. The Mohave people tattooed both of the girls to welcome them and help them integrate better in their society. After several years with the Mohave, she returned to white society.


Ross Sinclair, The Real Life Portraits, Duff House #5, 2000

Ross Sinclair initiated his Real Life project in 1994 when he had the words ‘Real Life’ tattooed across his back. Since then it has grown into a 20-plus year performance project, taking form in a wide range of exhibitions, mediums and publication contexts.


Mary Coble, Untitled (Blood Script Portfolio), 2008

Mary Coble had 80 insulting words tattooed without ink in front of a live audience over the course of two days. Blood impressions on paper were made of each word to generate a set of unique paintings.


Dr Lakra, Untitled (Pin Up Girl), 2011


Robert Doisneau, Concours du plus beau tatouage, quartier Mouffetard, octobre 1950 © Atelier Doisneau


Robert Doisneau, Concours du plus beau tatouage, quartier Mouffetard, octobre 1950 © Atelier Doisneau

Sorry for the poor quality of the photo below. I took it with my phone while visiting the show. I couldn’t find a better quality of image online but still wanted to mention the work of Nico Mingozzi. I love what he does.


Nico Mingozzi, Senza titolo, 2015


Santiago Sierra, 250 cm Line Tattooed on Paid People, 1999


Letizia Battaglia, A member of the Mafia with a Christ tattoo, murdered by his colleagues, Palermo, 1982


Sergei Vasiliev, from his series of photographs of Russian Criminal Tattoos, shot between 1989 and 1993 in prisons and reform settlements across Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Tagil, Perm and St. Petersburg


Anonymous, Carlo Pandini, early XXth century, The Museum of Criminal Anthropology “Cesare Lombroso” in Turin

Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso believed that criminals could be distinguished from noncriminals by physical anomalies. The “born criminal” could be anatomically identified by such features as a sloping forehead, asymmetry of the face, prognathism, bloodshot eyes, excessive length of arms and other “physical stigmata.” Moreover, for Lombroso, criminal appearance was not just inherited, it could also be judged through superficial features like body tattoos. Several objects and drawings from the archives of the Museum of Criminal Anthropology “Cesare Lombroso” in Turin illustrated the kind of links his theory made between tattoos and criminality.


Anonymous, Ciro Bonacoro, Giovanni Marigo, Angelo Quaglini, Giuseppe Avondo, second half of the 19th century. The Museum of Criminal Anthropology “Cesare Lombroso” in Turin


Anonymous, Giovanni Mullè, second half of the 19th century. The Museum of Criminal Anthropology “Cesare Lombroso” in Turin


Plinio Martelli, Souvenir D’Afrique, 1974-2001. Courtesy Collezione Castello di Rivara Museo d’Arte contemporanea

Plinio Martelli added colours to images he found in judicial archives. The photos show people who had mythical creatures, scenes of violence, or esoteric, erotic or religious symbols tattooed on their skin.


Filip Leu, Back with tattooed carp, 2003. Courtesy Filip Leu


Tattoo by Horiyoshi III Sensei. Horiyoshi III Sensei – Horiyoshi III Souryou – Kazuyoshi Nakano. Son and only apprentice of Horiyoshi III Sensei, Singapore, June 2018 © Zozios


Andrew Shaylor, Blaine te Rito, Maori woodcarver, New Zealand, circa 2008


Chief Paul Paoura Tuhaere of the Orekie (Maori, New Zealand), second half of the XIXth century


Valie Export, Tattoo II, 1972


Rod Steiger in a scene from the movie The Illustrated Man, 1969


Felice Beato, Japanese Porter, late 1800s


View of the exhibition TATTOO. L’arte sulla pelle / TATTOO. Art on the Skin at MAO, the Museo d’Arte Orientale in Turin


View of the exhibition TATTOO. L’arte sulla pelle / TATTOO. Art on the Skin at MAO, the Museo d’Arte Orientale in Turin

TATTOO. L’arte sulla pelle / TATTOO. Art on the Skin was curated by Alessandra Castellani. The exhibition remains open at the MAO, the Museo d’Arte Orientale in Turin until 3 March 2019.

Previously: Book review – Japanese Tattoos: History * Culture * Design, Tattooists, tattooed, Russian Criminal Tattoo portraits, Dr Lakra at Kurimanzutto in Mexico City, etc.

Watch the newest ads on TV from Lexus, Jeep, David's Bridal and more


Every weekday we bring you the Ad Age/iSpot Hot Spots, new TV commercials tracked by iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company with attention and conversion analytics from more than eight million smart TVs. The ads here ran on national TV for the first time yesterday.

A few highlights: Jeep has a really specific idea of what makes a “nice winter day.” Lexus says the new UX was “crafted for a new era of progress.” And David’s Bridal offers its own take on the familiar wedding tradition/saying that goes “Something old, something new, something borrowed…”

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Twitter and the College Football Playoff Huddled Up for National Championship Weekend

Roll Tide or Tiger Rag? Twitter has got you covered either way for Monday’s College Football Playoff National Championship game Monday night at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. David Herman of Twitter’s sports partnerships team said the social network works closely with the CFP committee and college football’s top teams throughout the season, adding,…

Audi Will Showcase Its E-tron Models With an ‘Electric’ 60-Second Super Bowl Spot

Mark off another car brand advertising during the Super Bowl this year. Audi announced today that it will run a 60-second spot during the second quarter of the game, airing on Feb. 3 on CBS. This will be the auto brand’s 10th time in the Big Game. The ad, which will once again be created…