Hasta La Creative!

Growing up in India I remember a time before television where advertisements on the radio and those shown before the Bollywood movies in theatres were very exciting. In the 70’s and 80’s, India was mesmerized by ads like the Liril Soap girl.

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In an effort to challenge American Apparel’s assertion the people in their sexually charged ads are ordinary people, Trent University student Jes Sachse, who suffers from a genetic disorder called Freeman-Sheldon syndrome, will appear on posters in Toronto transit stations
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Want to know what the not too distant future will look like? Watch this video. It’s sort of like Idiocracy meets Times Square on steroids.

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“A lot of these “facts” are classic examples of how to lie with statistics.”
“Brilliant collection of stats, the evidence seems to be compelling. Top sound track to so many thanks to you and Fat Boy Slim for an uplifting five minutes:)”

Speaking of MySpace, the hot mess at left was recently rejected by the social networking site for being too sexually explicit.

– Need a date? Mad Men need not apply. – KFC wants you to Go f…ry yourself. – More real fake designer bag bargains. – Naked Netflix….

Ben Muller sent us word of I Got an Envelope, a social art project where people leave empty self-addressed envelopes in random places.

During the ad:tech San Francisco Keynote Roundtable “Innovate or Die! Great Brands in the Age of Disruption,” Nielsen Online EVP of Digital Strategic Services led a panel which focused on the need for brands to innovate as they move forward.

Musicians Squeak E. Clean and DJ Zegon joined forces under the name NASA (North America/South America) to release their first album, The Spirit of Apollo.

Filmmaker Joel Christian McEwan is in the process of developing ‘American Dream’, a documentary film which will examine America’s obsession with material possessions and the corporate culture that fuels and profits from that obsession.