(TrendHunter.com) This amazing image is a recreation of Leonardo DaVinci’s “Last Supper” that features Star Wars characters. What’s even more amazing is that the image is actually 69,550 frames from all six Star Wars movies. I’m not sure how much “artistry” is involved in the actual creation of pieces like this. I th…
To celebrate Easter, JerryTime, that goofy video series we discovered years ago, has put together a new video called Triumph of the Peeps.
Paul Johnson, writing for Ad Age’s Small Agency Diary makes a good point about interactive capabilities at traditional shops.
There are a lot of ad agencies talking a mean game and touting their capabilities in pitches. To paraphrase the head of a web-development firm (after I plied him with a few cocktails), 90% of the small agencies out there chasing interactive business have one guy on staff who knows anything, and if they’re lucky maybe a Flash developer. According to my buddy, they’re subcontracting all their development work to him, and he’s growing at 50%. And the word from my friends on the client side is that every agency knocking on their doors can show you at least one respectable interactive program. Just don’t scratch too deep.
Isn’t that the history of our business revealed anew?
We always have the capabilities to answer any client problem, whether we do or not. For, no one’s going miss out on that incremental income. We’ll figure it out back at the shop, we say to each other in the taxi to the airport.
Ebert & Gerbert tapped Colle + McVoy — less its agency than its partner in crime — to help blow out the candles on its 20th anniversary.
Ashton Kutcher (aka Mr. Demi Moore) is featured in an artistic futuristic cover and spread in the new VMan (spring/summer 2008) where he plays a robot being repaired. The “I’M NOT REAL” photo shoot was done by famous photographer Mario Testino,
The concept of the shoot was Ashton’s, “I had a visio…
Let’s pick up one of Danny G.’s favorite topics this morning—privacy, or violations thereof.
According to The New York Times, a data miner called Phorm, has created a tool that can track every single online action of a given consumer, based on data from that person’s Internet service provider.
Phorm is right now trying to negotiate deals with telephone and cable companies, like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast, that provide broadband service to millions. Phorm’s pitch to these companies is that its software can give them a new stream of revenue from advertising.
Is it hard to imagine a day when people stop using the net due to these hideous invasions? Or is that notion insane, and these concerns the tiny province of civil libertarians?
Ad Age's two-day Digital Marketing Conference wrapped yesterday afternoon and I've now recovered enough to pull together all the non-Ad Age coverage that I've been following over the past couple days. Most of it's good, thought-provoking observations — I'm treating it all as great audience feedback that I'll use for planning future Ad Age Digital events. Got more? Pass it along.
(TrendHunter.com) Great news for those who depend on their mobile phone for photography. Samsung has just unveiled the world’s slimmest 8MP CMOS measuring a tiny 28mm × 15.3mm × 8.5mm. The semiconductor module which will go into mass production in Q3/4 this year was designed especially for mobile phones and it will…
LONDON – Easter eggs appear to be latest victim of the credit crunch, with sales slowing significantly compared to recent years.
(TrendHunter.com) Ashton Kutcher (aka Mr. Demi Moore) is featured in an artistic futuristic cover and spread in the new VMan (spring/summer 2008) where he plays a robot being repaired. The “I’M NOT REAL” photo shoot was done by famous photographer Mario Testino,
The concept of the shoot was Ashton’s, “I had a visio…
LONDON – Marks & Spencer is to place ‘Cruelty Free’ logos on most of its household cleaning and beauty products.
This series of warnings for Spanish travelers abroad takes a true international approach, showing delinquent silhouettes imprisoned behind each country’s flag, cleverly altered (or defaced, depending on your view) to resemble prison bars. Central and South America are represented, as is Denmark, which has become Pleasure Island for certain kinds of tourists. But what it’s really nice to see is a unifying global message: Do drugs in your own damn country. By JWT Spain. Via Osocio.
—Posted by David Kiefaber
LONDON – Five is to rename its digital channel Five Life as part of a project to refresh the branding of all its channels.
LONDON – Channel Five is to rename Five Life, its digital channel, as part of a project that will see all of its channels undergo a branding refresh.
LONDON – Butlers Chocolates, the Irish luxury chocolatier, is launching in the UK, with a network of stores offering luxury chocolate and coffee products.
LONDON – Butler’s Chocolates, the Irish luxury chocolatier, is launching in the UK, with a network of stores offering luxury chocolate-and-coffee products.
Thank you for purchasing the Acme Deluxe Social Media Starter Kit*! You now have everything you’ll need to get connected, stay in touch and look super-cool in the exciting world of social media:
1) Photos of Mark Zuckerberg and Sarah Lacy. Upload them to your Facebook and MySpace pages in place of your own headshots. It’s a cool inside joke that will never get old!
2) Photo of Warner Bros. cartoon star Tweety Bird. “I tawt I taw a Twitter feed!†Say it five times fast!
3) Pre-paid video UltraSlimPhone for wireless networking. Yes, it’s a Hello Kitty model and the number key is broken, but your new Facebook friends don’t have to know that!
4) An impressive resume for LinkedIn. You’re a CMO—good for you!
5) Copy of Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People to ensure maximum poke-age.
6) Cutting-edge emoticons. 🙂 = happy! 🙁 = sad! :((()))! = I’m a simmering cauldron of mixed emotions so buzz off!
7) One friend to network with. His name’s Mike. He’s originally from Portland, Ore., and he likes pizza.
8) Booklet of Domino’s Pizza coupons. (See No. 7.)
9) One widget. Also named Mike. We think it’s a clock. Cool.
10) One movie clip for video sharing. It’s Owen Wilson as Drillbit Taylor. (We could have given you Adam Sandler, so don’t complain.)
* “A life†is not included and must be purchased separately. Coming Soon: the Acme Deluxe Get a Life Kit, just $39.95!
—Posted by David Gianatasio
LONDON – Marco Bertozzi, the head of digital at ZenithOptimedia, is leaving the agency to take a senior role at the recruitment advertising company TMP Worldwide.
On the internet, people might now know that you’re a dog but they sure as hell know that you are an idiot.
The owners of asdf get all sorts of sign-up passwords and crazy emails because people are in the habit of filling in forms with a quick lefthanded typing of asdf atsign asdf dot com because those letters are so neatly arranged right there on the keyboard. So the owners of asdf.com shut down that amusing email. Shame.
On the same train of thought, someone else has registered DONOTREPLY.com and guess what, people reply anyway, so now they publish everything they get. They told you not to reply! So companies like Merryl Lynch are emailing out possibly sensitive information to their customers, and said customers reply – leaving this guy to post everything he gets on his weblog. Yardville National Bank is also this insecure with their information, and would ya believe it so is the The Department of Homeland Security. Holy shit. You know that I’m *kicking* myself for not registering that domain right now.
As for all of you that sign up here with ddddddd@yahoo or asdf@gmail – the email addy you use to sign up here with will receive the password to get in here. So stop trying to be clever, if you have no password you can’t get in smartass. Which reminds me, I need to write a module that automatically deletes accounts created with bouncing email addies, there’s at least ten a day. Yeah I know, silly isn’t it?
Turn your phone off during the flight.
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Art Director / Illustrator: Mo Shono
Copywriter: Luke Fox
Photographer: Mark Mawson
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