Tarantino Japanders, Fashion FlaskWalks, Interns Beg

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And now that fashion brands are involved, we’ve relabeled the flashmob FlashWalk.

Planet Hollywood Will Make You ‘Phamous’ in Vegas

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Oh how we love a good flash mob.

Gatescapes: Urban Beautification, or Just a Cleaner Graf?

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Place-based marketing? Yikes. Something that would be at home in the Dept. of Ad Creep, Mediacy, Inc. has found a way to cover up the graf found on the gajillion corrugated gates around cities using some type of specialty vinyl.

Long Way to Go For a Cup of Joe

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Coffee brand Douwe Egberts wants you talking more over coffee, because, well, coffee equals conversation. BUT DON’T TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT. From agency Duval Guillaume, Brussels in the house:

Colonel Sandrs Goes to the UN, Sigourney Snakes, Bond Bombs

And, yea, there was that whole KFC Colonel Sanders thing at the UN.

Improv Everywhere Grocery Store Musical Pimps Trident Gum

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OK. We’ve gotta admit. We love the work Improv Everywhere does for brands.

Where the Hell is Matt…Uh…Oops…Coke?

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Joe Jaffe’s Crayon is behind a new program for Coke called Expedition 206.

Bearing Change for Obama, Brammo Bikes from Detroit to DC

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With help from Crispin Porter + Bogusky (featuring built-in tweetage from @bogusky hisself!), two intrepid messengers from Brammo are on a mission to present President Obama with the most energy-efficient electric vehicle in America: the Brammo Enertia powercycle.

It’s Raining Noodles!

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OK so dumping thousands of ping pong balls from an airplane for a dorm complex party while in college isn’t exactly the same as this but there are some similarities.

Get The Lotion and The Deur, It’s Domino’s

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Agency Indie out of the Netherlands did a series of outdoor placements using a door as central meeting place for Domino’s deliveries. Mmmm. Sand and pepperoni. GET SOME. KInd of a cool idea though to bring the campaign’s idea of delivery to life this way.

Thriller Flashmob Does Trafalgar on MJ’s 51st

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All the fun coordinated playtime stuff happens on Trafalgar Square. It gets Beatles karaoke (courtesy of T-Mobile!), it gets turfed, and on Saturday it hosted the largest-ever flashmob to dance to Thriller in tandem.

Scribble Your Dreams of Transport Improvement, Streetside!

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Instead of imposing changes that everyone inevitably just complains about later, the Chicago Transportation Authority decided to poll city inhabitants to find out how they’d improve the public transport service.

Westin Touts Sleep Over Sex in Times Square

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Not sure what this says about us but a recent survey found 51% of us would rather have a good night’s sleep than great sex.

Good Thing He Didn’t Have Herpes.

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According to the background, this pimple climbing wall in Israel which I will now lovingly call Mt. Zitmore, is supposed to get teen boys thinking about Clearex in a unique way.

Streets Attacked by Red, Green, Yellow Dancers

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So how do you promote a dance festival?

Levi’s Goes Forth, Toilet Taunts, Nissan Fails, Paddy Power Sexifies

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We really like this America-themed Levi’s commercial, part of a recently launched Wieden + Kennedy-created campaign for the brand.

The Economist Gets Cocky with the Bulls

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The Economist brought its dry, mischievous humour and trademark red to Dallas, TX for three days. Fake bulls — labeled “Real Estate,” “401(k)” and “Stock Market,” respectively — were propped up in the middle of an inflatable arena.

Imagine That: A Treasure-Stuffed Bag You Don’t Have to Nick.

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Handbag designer Rachel Nasvik promotes fresh wares with an urban Quest for ladies that lust for free stuff.

Ingenious Drunken Hijinks Fail to Amuse in Light of Day

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On behalf of the UK Home Office, John Luke Roberts wanders city streets in broad daylight, trying to get people to do things they only do drunk and in the safety of darkness: piss in the street, spew vom over friends and abuse strange girls with traffic cones.

Don’t Just Talk to Them; Bring Them Aboard.

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Based on the premise that people are more likely to watch a play if they know somebody in it, agency Happy Soldiers added a new scene Spirithouse Theatre Company’s play, “Vigil” — which requires additional actors, from the given community, every time the play is performed.