shall we post? do we post? would it hurt to post? sometimes it feels that way. i never blog anymore but there is something in me that longs to post...more. let's post, please. i think i need it. we are 8 weeks away from our year anniversary. the moment we all left. unreal but beautiful. let us post to remain friends. :)

The Definition of Douchebag

Hi all,

Don't know if anyone still checks back here, but thought I'd post a link to Bob Garfield's analysis of last night's Super Bowl ads.

I've never seen such a smarmy, self-righteous analysis in my life. He's like the focus group participant from hell, someone so convinced of his own superiority and intelligence that he fails to realize that he's not actually doing his job or contributing anything resembling an idea. He doesn't so much critique the ads as critique the idea of advertising. It's disgraceful that this guy even has a job doing this. I know that we heard a lot from Boyko about his "Chaos Scenario" piece (which was kind of garbage as well), so I thought this might be of interest, or at least good for a judgey laugh or two.

My personal favorites from last night were Tide's "Talking Stain" and Coke's "Balloons" while my least favorites were Dell's "Let's Further Trivialize the Red Campaign" and GMC's "Let's Try To Convince People That 21 MPG Is Really Awesome and Environmentally Friendly."

Thoughts and opinions?

Adcen... I mean Brandcenter pics.

Nien Liu (CS 08) has just told me that they toured the inside of the new building and he took pictures .

Just thought Y'all might wanna see the new ad, I mean brandcen.... ummmm let's just say VCU?

Happy Holidays.

December a bad month?

Or is there some kind of numerical data out there that shows that blogging by and large is down in the month of December? Though one would think it'd be up because folks are frantically making online purchases and are actively participating in our consumerist society- for the holiday 'season' and then blogging about their experiences so that others might not have dreadful experiences or make crappy gift purchases. Or perhaps they are more below the boards and make recommendations about stores that rip you off being great because they were ripped off and nobody warned them- or because their in cahoots with those operating the shitty store, their ex-con brother in law- or ya know maybe something like that.

Just wondering cause the last entry was back in November.

Cheers.

Hi

So, how about an update on everyone?

Say What?!!!!!!!

Arnold creatives, Roger Baldacci & Lawson Clarke with their take on focus groups. Pretty interesting.

For the love of ad placement

Sometimes we need to get a clue.

"Celebrity" experience

Hi friends,

I hope you're all doing well. The other day Becca was sitting in the leasing office of our apartment complex in L.A. getting a few things ironed out when in walks everyone's favorite goofy-haired pseudo-celeb, Sanjaya! He wanted to put in an application to live there. But they turned him down because his dog is too big.

Some of you will appreciate this more than others, I'm sure.

Onslaught

From Evolution to Onslaught

OMG, WTF BBDO!

From the New York Times:

Brooklyn has given the advertising industry prominent executives like Jerry Della Femina, Philip B. Dusenberry of BBDO, Michael I. Roth of the Interpublic Group of Companies and John D. Wren of the Omnicom Group. Now, the industry is hoping to return the favor.

At a news conference this morning at Borough Hall, representatives of the industry who included Mr. Roth joined with Marty Markowitz, the Brooklyn borough president, to announce plans for a high school in Brooklyn that would be dedicated to advertising and media studies.

The goal is for the school, if approved by the Department of Education, to open to an estimated 400 students in September 2008.

The proposal for the school was previously disclosed in articles in The Daily News. The plans are being described as the advertising industry begins today a weeklong series of events, panels and seminars in New York known as Advertising Week 2007.

High School Drama + Adcenter Drama = HOLY CRAP!!

Sure it looks good...

... but I really don't think it gets you to your destination much faster in NY traffic.

Senator Chambers Sues God

No joke!
Think He will show up on his court day?

Dubai Dubai Doo

From Breitbart: The Burj Dubai tower is now the world's tallest free-standing structure.

Yay, Ayasha!!

MySpace TV

Quarterlife is coming.

A show about a group of twentysomethings coming of age in the digital generation. And a social network about what it means to be creative, to pursue a passion, to make a difference in the world -- or just to find a place in it.

From Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, creators of "My So-Called Life," quarterlife is the first Internet series that could just as easily be a film or a television show - it's smart, funny, emotional...real.

It premieres on MySpace November 11th, and on quarterlife.com November 12th.

www.quarterlife.com

Brand Gap

The Brand Gap

From: coolstuff, 6 months ago





How to bridge the distance between business strategy and design

Genius or nonsense?

Theories...

Our favorite North Korean friends Jenny and Mike created this for a film festival.



Is it wrong that I feel like we should be in school? I miss everyone.

ROCK OUT...

I was out at Fisherman's Wharf this weekend and ran into some interesting characters. This being the greatest I've seen in some time. If a dog will wear glasses - who knows what is next. So cute! Maybe next on the roster is a GoDaddy tattoo.

Window shopping

Ralph Lauren debuts 'window shopping' touch screen

Hmmm...

I spyed something... thought y'all might wanna see it.



I don't think it's final but it's probably a possibility.

photo update

Hey, hope everyones doin great. I've been keepin up with my photography during the past month and I created a new photoblog/website. I' ve been dying to this since a long time, and it is finally here. Keep a tab on my photographs here, I promise to update this regularly. And yea, feel free to drop a line if you like, it has a comments section too :) Bear with me as I build this from scratch, you might see a few old photographs too.

A Visual Document - 

http://www.avisualdocument.com/

Cheers!

Damn-the-man

All-Bran deals with dropping a load

You have to commend them for having a sense of humor.



I first thought, don't share this, but then realized the strategy was downright dirty. haha

Intel is feeling sorry

In a recent out cry, Intel had this to say about the controversy over the ad I posted a couple days ago:


Intel's intent of our ad titled "Multiply Computing Performance and Maximize the Power of Your Employees" was to convey the performance capabilities of our processors through the visual metaphor of a sprinter. We have used the visual of sprinters in the past successfully.

Unfortunately, our execution did not deliver our intended message and in fact proved to be insensitive and insulting. Upon recognizing this, we attempted to pull the ad from all publications but, unfortunately, we failed on one last media placement.

We are sorry and are working hard to make sure this doesn't happen again.

Nancy Bhagat Vice President, Director of Integrated Marketing

I hope that last media placement wasn't in Vibe Magazine...

StumbleUpon

Has anyone checked out StumbleUpon? It's channel surfing the net. A bit of a visual del.icio.us but not quite as organized yet. You install a toolbar into your browser and surf away....

Racist!

Did you guys see this ad from Intel?

Jesus. Which agency has Intel? For their sake, I hope this was done in-house.
I mean this is just as bad as those Black vs. White Sony PSP billboards.
Remember those?


here's a link to the full size ad in case you need to explain to your creatives what NOT to do...

Mighty distasteful.

Comments?

Miss. Harley Davidson

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