Kettle chips boast sexy smarts and commerce entertainment

Advertising Agency: Bulldozer, Sydney, Australia
Executive Creative Director: Andy McKeon
Art Director / Copywriter: Andy McKeon
Agency Producer: Wendy Gillies
Account manager: Nik Witcombe, Caroline McLaughlin
Production Company: Prodigy Films
Director: Tim Bullock
Clients: Matt Jenkins, Paul Tredennick, Karl Lucas

Cop out for Art Directors?

This is an interesting little piece of recently developed digital imaging software. PhotoSketch turns the most juvenile of sketches (labels encouraged) into fully photoshoped digital comps.

PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage from tao chen on Vimeo.

Product Placement: In or Out?

This is an exerpt from an article written by Alex Gulland of OgilvyEntertainment, about product placement becoming a valuable practice vs. the old school rantings of Andy Burnham.

Burnham’s prudish Victorian approach had the dangerous possibility of forcing us into a world where every product on television has to look ‘Vanilla’ so as not to offend or influence the viewers’ delicate sensibilities.

Oh, I feel I am going all Charlotte Bronte now!

Mr. Burnham was quoted as saying ‘As a viewer, I don’t want to feel the script has been written by the commercial marketing director”–Yikes! What strange world does Mr Burnham inhabit? A world where commercial directors can actually write scripts?

A couple of things that Mr. Burnham failed to take into consideration is that brands are part of everyday life, therefore audiences expect to see them in television shows.

Read the rest of the article here.

Lego Letters

Designed by Paul Henry Masson

"Helvetwitca"

Ciao! Ciao! Michele Angelo

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Summer's over folks

Doritoes Guru contest winner

So a few months back, you may recall me going on and on about the Doritoes Guru contest. Well our video got entered pretty late and we only ended up having something like two days to collect votes (out of the month that the contest ran), so needless to say it was unlikely we would win. Either way, they finally announced the winner—here it is.

Cruel and unusual Poodle torture...

I have always pitied the Poodles of the world. The excessive grooming, the embarrassing hair styles, and the occasional hot pink dye job... but this takes it to a whole new level. I wonder what Ingrid Newkirk thinks...

Shopping may lead to blood loss, black eyes, limb removal...

Some things really are incedible...

Someone experiments with the superior interactivity of the PC game Crysis, and gets some pretty amazing visuals.

Head shots with a little relief...

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"Greg Gutfeld can suck my Canadian Dick."

I know I'm a little late on the bandwagon to post this, but it was the rebuttals that made me do it at all! So if you've already seen the original FOX News piece, scroll down to see This Hour Has 22 Minutes and Tom Green responses.

The art of sheep.

Pets for breakfast, free handcuffs, finger food, and custom reality.

Foreshadowing?



Special offer... look closely!



In case of... arthritis?



Copy: "You eat what you touch."

Don't walk on train tracks, sell on them!

Maeklong Market on the Train Tracks

This day on Youtube...

This video makes me feel dirty...
(skip ahead to when he starts singing)


Where would the world be without stupid politicians?


Obama to join the Special Olympics?


Prehistoric sexual predator.

Facebook vs. Twitter

Here are a couple of great articles written about the current "War on Social Networking."

One...
Two!

HELP ME WIIIIINNNN BIG MONEY!!

Help me and heather win an ad contest!

Vote here.

Pink Dolphin?!?!

Yes this is real. Read it here...

Lets talk about you and me, lets talk about advertising!

Vanilla Ice is back, and he is sorry! Sorry for his bad hair, bad music, bad dancing, and bad pants! Its about time isn't it?



See more of the Virgin Mobile campaign here.

We are constantly told that more often then not, the solution is right in front of us... and it is. In this case, our WiFi connection. A German travel company used an airports WiFi connection for passengers to advertise their current travel deals. They did this by naming each network as a current deal, ie. "Ibiza from 19,99 Euro". Then once connected they are immediately routed to the website of the agency. Brilliant? Check it here.



Here is another example of solutions in interesting places:


And this is just adorable!

Want to be a Mermaid?

Chop of your legs and call Weta (the special effects company that did the Lord of the Rings and King Kong). They've got you covered!

Why I love the Oscars!

Alright its time for a personal moment...








...and scene.

Who is scarier, a rapist or an athiest?

The following is an excerpt from a speech on the subject of being an atheist. The speech was made about a year ago by Editor-in-Chief of The Onion Scott Dikkers, for the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

So, I saw this U. of Minn. survey that came out a while back. Perhaps you saw it as well. It asked Americans, who do you trust? And they broke it down into categories: Do you trust a Christian? Most said yes. In fact, Christians were at the top of the list. Do you trust a black person? A Muslim? A homosexual? etc.

The group that came out at the very bottom of the list — and I’m talking about below terrorists, below sexual predators, below the guy who skins babies alive and wears the skin as a mask and then dances in the moonlight while gargling the blood of his infant victim — after that guy, was atheists.

…

We are the single-most reviled group of people in the country. Maybe the world. By far.

What we have to ask ourselves is, what can we learn from the terrorists and the serial killers? Well, for starters we need to find out who does their PR. We’ve got to ask the racists and the rapists, what’s your secret? Child molesters, how did you get to be America’s sweetheart? Show us how it’s done. Maybe we could move up a notch or two if you’d share with us some of your winning people skills.

First of all it’s the name. Atheist. It’s a cold and prickly word, like Recidivist. Rapist. Terrorist. Anal cyst. It’s a terrible word. Agnostic is no better. It sounds clinical. It’s two letters off from diagnostic. "I’m sorry to have to tell you, Mr. Johnson, we got the results back from your agnostic, and we’re going to have to amputate your testicles."

Here is the full speech...

Chimpanzee rampage!

This is a video/audio clip of a 911 call made in Connecticut a few weeks ago. The call was made by a woman when her pet Chimp brutally attacked her 55-year-old friend, ripping at her face and body.
Needless to say, I wont be adopting a pet monkey any time soon...

Superbowl 09'

NBC banned this ad from airing during the game, like the prude Americans that they are...


The moments when we screamed at the tv...

The craziest fans on earth...

Top it off with the ads.

The most useless thing you will hear today.

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown's ringtone...




Why is this significant? It isn't, but apparently its newsworthy.

Scientology defined: petroleum jelly, and Bart Simpson.

Tom Cruise is no longer the big name on the Scientology scene. Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, is making headlines this week in regards to her Scientology "activism". Apparently now she is using her famous voice to make robo-calls for a Hollywood Scientology event. (original article here)

Anyone else just get an overwhelming urge to watch Family Guy EVERY DAY for the rest of your life?

Also on the Scientology scene is a new Youtube video of a man protesting the Manhattan site...

Apparently the camera man has been arrested as an accessory... "The man who videotaped a petroleum jelly-covered protester on a rampage inside a Scientology center in Manhattan was arrested Tuesday for helping with the crime, police said."(Daily News)

Once upon a time...

Today, I was told that I should have a blog by a respected fellow student, Mr. Jordan Cohen (his blog). As a result... well, here it is. My blog.

So, I start off with something that has disturbed me deeply, and is something that I think everyone should see and be equally disturbed by...

I am sure that many of you already know about the case of Caylee Anthony (if not you can read about the entire case on Wikipedia). On Tuesday an American company put a halt on the release of a product "celebrating" Caylee's life, called the "Caylee Sunshine doll". Sound pretty good?
Check it out for yourself...




Here is the website for the doll...