Ten countries spend a load of money on recreation. I wish they had defined what exactly they mean by recreation – travel, entertainment or making your neighbor miserable with endless lawsuits?
Five countries seems to value clothes more than anything else. Jerks.
Two countries are stuffing their houses with useless junk. Jerks again.
Brazil, as I expected, is [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Is that what people are really doing with their money?
Posted in Uncategorized on December 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Bad Ass Santa
Posted in Random sightings, tagged bad ass santa, soldier santa on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
New York Times goes passive aggressive on its war on Christmas, featuring armed and dangerous Santa in the land of Sunnis and Shias. I am sure the good-natured Iraqi people showed appreciation for this Humvee riding, torturing killing machine version of Santa.
So yeah, today is Christmas indeed and hence remember the neediest. Be sure to [...]
Bag a blonde to stop slave trade
Posted in Random sightings, cynical pov, lighter side, rants, tagged Amnesty International Germany on December 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Must you indulge in scam ads too, Amnesty? Apparently, the German arm of Amnesty International is very concerned about slave trade. So concerned that they did this in an airport, you know, to stop slave owners from picking up their slaves.
Extra points for sending a photographer to document the guy who was documenting this.
Via
Interesting image from the International Horse Show
Posted in lighter side, tagged Camilla Parker Bowles, Duchess of Cornwall, International Horse Show London on December 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The sweetest thing about having a blog with no purpose is I can post pictures like this. The Duchess sure likes to horse around.
The best advert of the year.
Posted in cool stuff, creative stuff, in-depth interesting stuff, tagged pantene violin commercial, thailand on December 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hands down, this is the best advert I have seen in ‘08. The team that created it understands new media doesn’t do :30 or :59 seconds and if you can weave a compelling story and not be overtly offensive by throwing your brand name every frame, you will create something beautiful.
I [...]
Diamond on a string
Posted in cool stuff, creative stuff, tagged diamond advertising, the richards group, zales love rocks string on December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Advertising diamonds is a strange thing – the advertiser doesn’t actually convince the actual buyer, but the ultimate recipient. I am yet to come across a category like this.
The Zales Love Rocks is one of the best I have seen in its category.
Agency: The Richards Group. Click HERE for full credits.
The Red Cross Puddle Man
Posted in cool stuff, tagged Puddle Man, Red Cross, Red Cross Argentina on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While I’d never get tired of PETA’s naked ladies advertising strategy (the best!) and I also would not really warm up too much towards flier distributors – this idea for Red Cross Argentina is very cool indeed.
Click here to see ANOTHER PHOTO. Via.
Calvin Snow Art
Posted in cool stuff, lighter side, tagged Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes, Calvin Snow Art on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bill Watterson’s take on the world never ceases to amaze me. This is the latest Calvin Snow Art meme at Buzz Feed.
Click on the strip below and it becomes ginormous. There really is no better way to spend 10 minutes.
One of my personal favorite is below:
Image of the moment
Posted in images, tagged image of the moment on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
And in the absolute world…
Posted in cynical pov, tagged Absolut advertising, billboard on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This billboard won’t make any sense, since, if everyone knows the winning numbers, everyone will buy the same ticket and no one will be absolutely or absolutly happy about it.
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Sea Rescue tops as the most pressing issue facing South Africa.
Posted in cool stuff, creative stuff, tagged National Sea Rescue Institute, Ogilvy Cape Town South Africa on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m kidding.
Usually when agencies get clients with names like National Sea Rescue Institute a light bulb goes on the heads of the creative department. AWARDS. And a chance to do weird shit and call it creative. *here is looking at you Brazilians!*
Surprisingly, Ogilvy Cape Town has gone the other way and created this simple and [...]
WTF BK?
Posted in Random sightings, cynical pov, lighter side, tagged Burger King, whopper virgins on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Burger King has done some superb stuff with it’s King mascot and the whopper freak-out videos were priceless in terms of marketing excellence. So I was eagerly looking forward to their latest effort, which will be fully released later this week. But the preview of it leaves me just confused.
The premise is this – BK [...]
Banksy — now in your computer screen.
Posted in Random sightings, cool stuff, creative stuff, tagged Banksy on December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
His Manifesto…
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle.
Then I realised God doesn’t work that way, so I stole
one and prayed for forgiveness. – Emo Philips
Click on the image or HERE.
