Sur une musique de Tom Quick, “Flying People in New York City” est une vidéo créant l’illusion d’hommes volant dans New-York alors que ce sont en réalité des engins télécommandés avec l’apparence humaine. Une astuce visuelle réussie utilisée pour Chronicles.
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Video of Cyrus Mehri at the press conference the other day. “They are an industry where favoritism rules the day and merit is cast aside.”
This impending lawsuit is one to keep your eye on. “In the the coming weeks, the NAACP will ask advertisers to pressure the holding company agencies they employ to fundamentally change their approach to hiring, retaining and promoting black staffers” according to Adweek.
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Due to popular request, the Sexiest Ad Man contest has been extended. All you late voters and all you late contestants (who are firing off emails to generate a win) will now have until Monday EOD. Find out more about the 10 contestants and place your vote here. The winner will get mucho bragging rights and a round of drinks on AgencySpy.
Good luck to all you fellas!
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How could we forget our Second Annual Sexiest Man In Advertising competition? Last year’s winner was Geoff Edwards formerly of T.A.G. After much debate, please find our 11 entrants for 2009. Who will be the winner? You decide. The polls close Friday EOD. Oh, and gentlemen – do vote. Real men are not afraid to say, “Hell, that’s a good looking guy.” It’s 2008 for heaven’s sake. Ladies? Please. Enjoy.
Real world advertising guys do it better. Believe.
1. Mike Fetrow – VP Creative Director at Space 150; More Info
2. Scott Witt – Creative Director of Digital Media at Droga5; More Info
3. Derek Lo – Creative at Anomaly; More Info
4. David Bryant – Interactive Creative Director Digital, StrawberryFrog; More Info
5. Dana Satterwhite – Freelance, Creative Director; More Info
6. Kyle Nolan – Multimedia Art Director, On Ideas; More Info
7. Steve Red – Co-founder, Red Tettemer; More Info
8. Christian Jackson – Copywriter at Arnold; More Info
9. Fernando Sosa – Creative Director at la comunidad; More Info
10. Mike Sukle – Founder, Sukle; More Info
11. Raafi Rivero – Co-founder of Desedo; More Info
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A new social networking site for anyone who’s been laid off, or fired, aptly named ThankYouForFiringMe has just popped onto our radar. Who says social networking is dead?
We figure this site’s creator could have saved a lot of time by creating a Facebook or MySpace group, but then that wouldn’t be very original now would it? The site isn’t advertising-specific, but nonetheless it’s a community (about 70 folks so far) of similarly-fated folks who can, presumably, drown their sorrows together. Collective gulps of whiskey may now commence.
The site’s founder writes in the mission statement:
“I learned two things (after being fired):
1. I was not my job, my business card or my paycheck
2. I can survive anything… with laughter.”
Sounds nice, right? Check it out.
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Alan Holliday, one of the co-founders of advertising agency Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos, has died. Holliday, who was 72, died of pulmonary failure this week according to the Boston Globe, which has a two-page obituary that is worth reading.
“He had this sort of wry demeanor and was this little bundle of energy,” said Tobe Berkovitz, associate dean at BU’s College of Communication. “There was just a joie de vivre; there’s no other way to describe it. My typical view of Alan was of him scampering down the hall with an armload of advertising story boards. Here would be Alan, who was not a tall guy, with these giant story boards, heading off to class.”
R.I.P
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strong>Tina Dupuy over at fishbowlla e-mailed us to make sure we knew about ASSME and their t-shirts. See photo.
The “American Society of Shitcanned Media Elites, is according to their website, ‘a support organization for newly downsized members of the magazine, newspaper, book publishing, advertising, TV and web industries. Through time-tested methods (alcohol, social interaction), we seek to sustain and inspire this beleaguered professional subclass’.”
Learn about ASSME, here.
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Who says there’s no life after advertising? One ad man left the ad game, forged a new path and is now using his powers of selling to spread the word of God. Sounds unlikely, no? But truth is always stranger than fiction and that most certainly applies to the tale of Father Bob. Camuso that is.
Camuso was once one of us. An ad (wo)man. He cut his teeth working at Ogilvy in New York as an art director and later went on to found his own agency in Seattle, Asher and Camuso Advertising. For twenty years he lived the life of an ad exec – pitching, drinking, staying up till only god only knows when, drinking some more – until he heard the good word.
“At 40, he wasn’t married. He was hanging around with priests.” No. I did not make that up just to be a snarky shit. It’s in his press release, which highlights his radio program, “Conversations with Father Bob.”
Father Bob’s ex-partner, Larry Asher, has said that: “”Advertising is this kind of glamorous field, life in the fast lane, hard-drinking, hard-living. Bob was no goody two-shoes. So I think some people couldn’t put it together, but if you knew Bob, it totally made sense.”
Isn’t it just nice to know that some folks come out of advertising and take a totally different path? For all of those who have been laid off recently… Okay. Maybe you won’t go join a seminary, but perhaps there’s a whole different life just waiting for you right outside your resumes door. Father Bob has said, “Looking back, I can say this is what I was meant to do, 100 percent.” Doesn’t that sound like a nice thing to feel? Damn. Damn this recession.
If you’re a devout Catholic or merely curious, Father Bob will be making his first appearance on CatholicTV’s talk show “This is the Day” on today.
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In advertising, people are always the highest cost because, frankly, there isn’t much else to shed. Sell a few Macs, cut out early on the odd 10-year lease, drop 4th qtr. bonuses — none of it adds up to the high costs of paying people. That’s why The Observer’s report that WPP will cut jobs wherever people account for more than 60 percent of internal costs is no surprise.
And, although the concrete beneath this story hasn’t fully set, it’s not hard to imagine why WPP is making these kinds of reductions. You cogs cost a lot to keep turning, what with your health insurance(s) and your Monday morning bagels, so naturally you’ve gotta go.
OK let’s be fair for a second, we proletariat are pricey pieces. But what about those high level executives who take in…you know…75 times as much as the rest of us? Can’t we just divide their salaries by 2 and redistribute? It’s the age old story: the community sacrifices one child each year to keep the gods happy — except in this case the child is a highly paid advertising executive who could probably afford to cut back on the Manolos.
Yeah, it would throw a wrench in “those” folks’ machinery. Sundays at the club would turn into just Sundays, and Friday nights won’t be the same without that second bottle of Veuve — but maybe those kids at the top will sleep better knowing their sacrifice means Bill Account Coordinator can keep sending his kid to school (perk: with shoes on). Ahh, idealism.
Yes yes, exaggeration, and we know this kind of thing will never happen. Contracts and capitalism prevent redistribution of this type (and who knows, maybe it is happening somewhere out there…so please, tell us), but it’s a notion that will surely stick in the minds of those addies who vacate their offices and drive slowly home in their half-paid off cars and wonder, “what now?”
We wonder the same, even as we type this post. So share your thoughts, woes, concerns, joys, below.
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