LONDON (AdAge.com) — Coca-Cola Europe has handed a $60 million assignment to Mother, London, with instructions to create a long-running pan-European campaign promoting Coke as "the drink of the summer."
Word on the street, though it’s not yet been confirmed, is that Minneapolis based Colle + McVoy has lost Time Warner Cable Business Class.
An e-mail to C+M’s David Denham, director of strategic initiatives, was not returned…after two days. But hey, Christine Fruechte (Frook-Tee) didn’t get back to us when we inquired about her firing of Mike Fetrow, either. So we’re not surprised.
Likewise, TWC’s rep. has apparently been tracking down the details on this one for us, but has yet to provide any useful information. A simple yes or no would do! This one screams — something.
We’ll get more on this when it comes in. In the meantime, check out this sweet campaign by C+M veteran John Jarvis.
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OK, this one’s a bit of an oddity.
So, Marvel Comics is in the middle of “Secret Invasion,” a multi-part, giant cross-title event sure to Change The Face Of The Marvel Universe Forever, about the attempted takeover of Earth by a race of shape-changing aliens who have infiltrated our most trusted institutions. Not reading it personally, but following the coverage; by all accounts, it’s generally well done and well received.
io9 has an article about a TV spot for Secret Invasion, designed to generate traffic to the event’s Web site, that ran on ESPN the other night.
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I had almost decided to be disappointed with Conflux, the art and tech festival for the creative exploration of urban public space. They had left arty Brooklyn for sleek Soho, Manhattan. You know that old whig who preaches that you should stick to the good old habit no matter what? That was me. But 5 minutes into the festival convinced me that the event is as good as ever. Just different. I did miss the Brooklyn location, it works better for free explorations of the urban grid and also for performances in the street. Plus there was no possibility to do a BBQ in the street which used to be a great and pretty relevant way to wrap up the festival. Ha! And the police had to come and take down a swing which was entertaining passersby. However, the quality of the projects performed and shown at Conflux was amazing. I’ll brush over the two first days of the festival as i was still in Seoul trying unsuccessfully to overcome jetlag.
I arrived at Conflux HQ (the neat, elegant but a bit stiff Center for Architecture) to see a performance by the Apparatus for Orchestral Knitting. Laure Drogoul had invited everyone to knit and become a part of a musical knitting orchestra, based on an instrument that amplifies the sound of their knitting, mixed it and played it back live.
The techy work that really charmed me by its simplicity, poetry and melodies was Every Step by Matt Roberts.
You’re given an armband with a mounted camera and pedometer. Off you go walking outside to create your own short experimental animation. The pedometer acts as a trigger for the camera and an image of whatever is above you is taken every time a step is made. Nothing to do, just walk and the device does the rest.
Once you’re back from wherever your steps led you to, the images are transferred from the camera’s memory into a program that create a frame-by-frame animation and an accompanying soundtrack. When the program completes the animation, you get your DVD.
Bingxia Yu had installed inside the gallery a display offering Ugly New York postcards: the unsightly spaces are sometimes located right next to favorite tourists’ spots, the back of Time Square under construction, the down under of Brooklyn Bridge, the recovering Lower Manhattan in progress, etc. The project also involves a range of keychains, magnets and other tourist souvenirs which will soon be available for sale online.
As the artist wrote: We believe that ugly spaces – ugly in a sense that they will never make a perfect postcard are more valuable for city experiences.
Antti Pussinen‘s 7 Urban Silences was a surprisingly engrossing work.
Silence in urban spaces is never really devoid of the echo of receding sirens, crowd mumblings, door buzzings and other noises. 7 Urban Silences invites visitors to done headphones and mix the relative silences recorded by artists and musicians in cities as different as Paris and Dakar.
To be continued…
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Are big fancy parties a good way to get your client’s name out? I’ve been to a few of these things, as you undoubtedly have, too. But more often than not, you walk in to some dark club — the kind at which you’d normally have to drop $30 just to get past the velvet rope — and soon realize you’d rather be home drinking milk.
So you walk in to said launch party, and it’s a Tuesday. You wonder why everyone there is so old looking, wonder if you look old, too, before sidling up to the bar for a free, under-boozed, bev. You’re supposed to count to four for a double, ass!
Such was the scene last night at the Daily Lowdown launch party. TDLD is (another) Web site for dudes, and as much as I want to be excited about their launch and their site, I’m not. For starters, the site hasn’t been updated for 17 hours. Does this attest to the slow-n-go feeling I got at their party?
I don’t really think it’s TDLD’s fault that the party wasn’t to be remembered. It had all the makings for a great time — trendy looking guys and gals, free drinky-poos, tasty hors d’ oeuvres and solid music. A semi-celeb even showed up; Olivia Munn from Attack of the Show — which is basically a blog in TV form, hosted by G4.
Wonder how much she was paid for the photo-op? Trust me, Munn never would have stayed for more than 5 minutes if she wasn’t getting some decent dough.
But what’s the point of dropping a ton of cash on a fiesta if the outcome is dismal? It was frustrating to watch, although my cohort and I had some fun pointing out people we recognized. For example, SNL photog Mary Ellen Matthews was puttering around, sapping what appeared to be a Don Julio inspired tequila beverage. See what I mean, that’s how exciting it was. But hey, at least we skipped that $30 cover. Yay for free parties.
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During the Conflux weekend, Jamie O’Shea was submitting his body to polyphasic sleep, the practice of sleeping multiple times in a 24-hour period.
The artist walked around the Conflux area with his Vertical Bed in a suitcase, found himself a nice spot, anchored his prostheses above subway vents or other rigid contact points and stayed there sleeping in an upright position for 40 minute intervals several times in a day.
Concealed harnesses ensure that Jamie didn’t fall over. He also wore noise canceling headphones and double-mirrored sunglasses, padded with little cusions to keep his eyelid closed. In case of bad weather, an umbrella clips in the infrastructure for shelter.
The project is designed for the visual performance of an alternate way of occupying urban space, born partly out of fantasies of minimal need and elegant futurism, and partly out of fears of the dehumanization of space. Occupants will absorb the vertical structure of urban architecture into their bodies. The vertical sleeper is in a constant state of readiness, never succumbing to collapse. Homelessness is most often marked by the forbidden act of lying down on the sidewalk, an act that the vertical bed circumvents.
With full episodes of WB mainstays like "Golden Girls" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" as well as a handful of glossy web shorts, TheWB.com attempts to be a Hulu for the eye-rolling, gum-snapping set. But the site has ventured out into the wide world of the web without a single nugget of alluring original content.
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