Hasta La Creative!

(TrendHunter.com) In a bid to reach out to the cool young crowd, Wal-Mart utilized the hippest names in young Hollywood to promote the Brand Ocean Pacific (Op) spring/summer 2008 line. The line will launch next month exclusively in Wal-Mart stores and its online store.

The hip marketing campaign features seven risin…

There aren’t many but there is one thing I do miss about agency life; the seemingly endless expense account that’d fund, among many other things, my travels to all sorts of industry event goodness.

How are jaded, seen-it-all Manhattan commuters reacting today when videogame icon Mario hails cabs for them in midtown to promote the launch of the Mario Kart Wii racing game? Is anyone even noticing? The rides are free, so the masses probably won’t mind. Here in Boston, where marketing stunts leave us frightened and confused, such wacky antics would spark a citywide terrorism scare. Given the payout that local communities got following the Aqua Teen fiasco, maybe Nintendo should bring the promo to Boston. The lawyers will be waiting, so Mario better be ready to leave a pretty big tip.

—Posted by David Gianatasio

In the vein of the Harvey Dent campaign site and the short lived “Joker-ized” version comes a new campaign from Warner Brothers in support of The Dark Knight the new Batman film.

Operation Slipknot, which is about corruption in the Gotham City Police Department. Apparently all the slots in the game were taken within 45 minutes of this email being sent out from Commissioner Jim Gordon.

???OK friend, you???re up to bat now. You have yourself a new assignment: Operation Slipknot.???

Another site for the Gotham Intercontinental Hotel has gone live, but the telephone number for the “concierge” has been disconnected.

I’ve been loving the way that Warner Brothers has been including hardcore fans who want in on the action without ruining the movie for those of us who don’t have the time.

LONDON – Channel 4 has appointed EMI executive Alex Donelly as head of music for 4 Radio.

(TrendHunter.com) The Green Hanger was born as a bid to resolve the ever-increasing problem of wire and plastic hangers ending up in landfills each year. When you choose Green Hanger, you are using a product that is attractive, functional and most importantly environmentally sound.

“The Green Hanger is a fully recy…

(TrendHunter.com) Jordan Guelde designed this fire fighter robot, an innovation which could help save the lives of many if it comes into production.

“This is an advanced robot designed to clear large areas of foliage from around a forest fire to help stop the flames from spreading” says Yanko Design.

Unfortunate…

LONDON – A majority of employees in the UK believe that social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace should be banned from the workplace.

(TrendHunter.com) The Pacemaker Portable DJ System is the ideal systems for those starving DJs who are on their way to making it big.

The Pacemaker lets you do a range of profession audio manipulation including “limitless mixing between two independent channels.”

The pacemaker is compatible with all popular forma…

(TrendHunter.com) Death masks have been around for a very long time. They come from the practice of making a plaster mold of a person’s face postmortem for portraits, paintings, as remembrance etc. Death masks exist of very famous people such as Abraham Lincoln, Alfred Hitchcock, the German philosopher Frederick Niet…