Btw,

- Nivea Re-Africanizes.
- The Donkey Whisperer.
- The Second Amendment right to bear tyepfaces.
- iPackage.
- Liquid nitrogen ice cream.
- Happy 20th Birthday Web!

Back in my day we had dinosaurs, and we liked it.

Alternate histories created with dinosaurs. (Via.)

Throw another McFeast on the barbie.

MCFEAST???? For like a family of 12? Relax friends, it’s much smaller than that. And, the Maccas staff are very friendly down under, no? (Agency: DDB Sydney.)

(Via.)

The Kubrick girl was never really happy, was she.

Instagram schmintztagram. Awesome collection of director Stanely Kubrick’s work as a photographer in 1949 Chicago. (Via.)

What goes with Tower 1, beef or chicken?

Yep. 9/11 wines.

The Commercial Hyundai Doesn’t Want You To See!

I love emails like that. The brand bans it but somehow magically it ends up on YouTube. Yeeaaaaah. Okaaaay.

(Agency: Fitzroy.)

Burger King returns to its glorious food porn past.

Proof of what happens when you let franchisees have it their way. Welcome to a post-King world kids. Is guacamole really their problem? At least they didn’t use succulent in the copy. Enjoy!


(Agency: McGarryBowen.)

“I pledge allegiance, to the bear...”

I can see bears from my front porch right now! (Watch to the end to let that one hit home.) It’s important to get America back on track. That’s why in a land of liberty it’s also important to disable comments.

DWUIG. (Driving while under the influence of ghosts.)

Yeah, except, no in the new USDOTNHTSA Drive Sober campaign. (Man do we love our acronyms. Like jazz and complaining, one of the few original forms of art we have left.) Checkpoints might catch them but the problem is up to the point someone gets caught, nobody’s watching. Except for your friend, who’s also getting hammered.

The way they were.

Hot sexy computing fun from HP back in tha day, 1996.

Overheard internet.

Yep, they wrote it...


“Based on the many insinuations floating out there, this is what I imagine to be the other Katie's come hither, mating stance, the surefire one to get a rise out of T. Cruise.”
– -1-T-M- 


“Let me summarize the comment section of this and all the other threads in this site so you won't have to bother reading. --- Goodby is a hack. WK hacks, little agencies hacks. Award winning agencies are hacks, whoever we're talking about is a cokehead and a dick. This is ripped off from somewhere. You're all unemployed hacks in your mom's basement. YOU, yes YOU reading this, are a hack too. All work sucks except what I do, but you'll never know 'cause you don't know who I am. I do Cannes winning work 24 hrs a day, but Cannes is a hack fest, except when I win. --- What else? Someone else not mentioned in my previous paragraph is also a hack. Except me. --- That pretty much sums it up. ”
– Notahack


“The super liberal in me wants to put his teeth against the curb and stomp on the back of his head. But the super super liberal in me wants to defend his right to say asinine crap without fear of reprisal from super liberals like myself.”
– EmilyStutters

Btw,

- Abercrombie tells Jersey Shore to suck it.
- Madlanta.
- Pray!
- Filmed in 110% Color-O-Vision!
- Make your pet catastic!
- Light Bladder Leakage is the new...
- FLASHMOB FREEZE TAG!
- Zombie training exercise.

“Vote Ron – Because a 1,000 yard stare is a good thing.”

A touch of the crazy is about the only thing missing from this epic trailer for his presidential campaign. He does have a little touch of the something goin on there. Like that uncle who’s always off on his working on his latest invention. Maybe that’s what we need. Not a Bachman crazy per se, but something that hints at him *maybe* going off if you pushed him too far. He hits all the right notes in this spot though. Voted against everything you hated, is the only guy who can beat Obama (althogh I question whether candidates need to hit that point so hard), and it’s got flags. Yeah, I’d vote for him. The crazy bastard.

Discounted America.

Forgot lost America, Aaron Draplin returns in The World’s Longest Yard Sale. For a few days in early August, people trek close to 700 miles through the U.S. 127 corridor to sort through other people’s junk.* Everything in it is pure America: Aaron, our inalienable right to haggle, forgotten memorabilia and junk from someone’s basement, not to mention one of our last remaining art forms: Proclaiming stuff in the context of “The World’s (insert adjective and event).” That my friends, IS America.

*I was supposed to go this year. I didn’t. My excuse is also America: I was too busy working to attend.

The tablet of tomorrow, today!

Er, then! Actually, 1994. This Information Design Lab/Knight-Ridder clip shows a pretty accurate depiction of what tablets are today. 17 years in the past! Amazing! Take THAT Steve Jobs! Pa-POW!

“Steve Jobs & all the dirty lying Apple fanboys can wish all you want that Apple & Steve Jobs invented the TABLET. Disgusting liars.”

Thank you astrologyzone, thank you.

(Via.)

Will this song die?

Only in my dreams. Debbie. Deborah. The song sucked then, it sucks now. Next up: Kajagoogoo. (These Old Navy jeans are too fly fly.)

Give-A-Sh*t (NSFW.)

And they say the world has run out of causes to give a shit about. Give-A-Shit is a new low in low-hanging wordplay/literal wtfness running rampant through adland. Nikki Reed does her part – time for you to do yours.

(Agency: TVF.)

AdVerve 77: The Self-Interested Entertainment Purge

Play the show now.

We breach hot social music solutions: Spotify, GrooveShark and Songify. Then it's a hard turn into licensing and piracy, dipping into the Netflix price hike, the true cost of content (if any) and Kevin Smith's latest (and last) directorial oeuvre (no more Chasing Amy for you). Angela squeezes in helpful facts about advertising to monkeys (sex and celebrity still sell) and lets loose on the unique qualities of ants. Bill wiggles in a vivid reflection on Tarantino and his Inglourious Basterds catharsis. It's an AdVerve ride like no other! Did we mention the hot eyepatch talk?

(Also, don't forget to ping Angela and force her to watch Big Lebowski.)

Link derbyshake:

- “When Advertising to Monkeys, Sex May Sell, Too”
- @WeArePrimates
- Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber (READ THIS SHIT)
- Kevin Smith and Wayne Gretsky
- Kevin Smith and Prince

E-COM will save us.

Best of all, E-COM will deliver two pages of “converted” email – in two days. That’s United States Postal Service All-Pro awesome. (Via.)

You’ve got app.

AOL as app. If this new AOL iPad app called Editions is that intuitive, maybe AOL should just become one instead of buying stuff all the time.

(Agency: Heat.)