Billy Mays pallbearers honor the man in blue
« BBH ready for British Wimbledon champion | Main Although Michael Jackson's upcoming funeral will surely be a feeding frenzy for photographers, it'll be hard to beat this photo op from today's burial ceremony for TV pitchman Billy Mays. With their khakis and rolled-up long-sleeve blue shirts, the pallbearers gave a fitting homage to the Read more...
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Geodesic Dome Mosaic
...made from some 3600 thumbnails
I need a free host with FTP, lots of storage space and bandwidth to put up the the html page (and files) for this (about 40mb total)
when you mouseover each thumbnail you can see a normal size image of the photo used (click for ... Read more...
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It’s Great to be a Guy
...in New York City ...in Manhattan ...in the summer
New York Times: Audio Slide Show: On the Street | Pencil Skirts
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BBH ready for British Wimbledon champion
« Too much animal passion in U.K. liqueur ad | Main Robinsons drinks and BBH London made a decent bet with this commercial, which has been airing during Wimbledon coverage in the U.K. over the past fortnight. It dreams of the moment when a British player will once again win the prestigious London tennis tournament. ( Read more...
Technorati favorites: R. Richard Hobbs , Jul 2, 12:58pm
Too much animal passion in U.K. liqueur ad
« Gold's Gym can't look at your nasty cankles | Main Color me aghast that alcohol is sold with implied promises of sexual conquest in this day and age. Britain's Ad Standards Authority recently banned this Wild Africa Cream liqueur ad after receiving complaints that it "linked drinking to seduction and sexual success Read more...
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Gold's Gym can't look at your nasty cankles
« Modernista! auctions dozen beer-ad scripts | Main | Too much animal passion in U.K. liqueur ad » Gold's Gym and McKinney are making war on "cankles," a slang term for how an overweight person's calves don't narrow at the ankle. Gold's is ramping up efforts to warn consumers about this aesthetic affliction ( Read more...
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Modernista! auctions dozen beer-ad scripts
« New York finally gets its pro-atheist bus ads | Main | Gold's Gym can't look at your nasty cankles » With the Palm Pre spots long finished and Hummer not exactly doing a ton of ads these days, Modernista! has some time for self-promotions. The agency spent this week auctioning off a 12-pack of beer-commercial Read more...
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New York finally gets its pro-atheist bus ads
« Robots: Switch them on, and they just do it | Main | Modernista! auctions dozen beer-ad scripts » Oh Lord, not the atheists again. Inspired by similar marketing efforts in London, Washington, D.C., and South Carolina, atheists in New York City are taking it to the streets with ads on MTA buses that say things like, Read more...
Technorati favorites: R. Richard Hobbs , Jul 2, 7:28am
Robots: Switch them on, and they just do it
« Evil children can't wait to get to McDonald's | Main | New York finally gets its pro-atheist bus ads » Big Lazy Robot Visual Effects created this "spec commercial inspired by Nike." Whatever that means. I guess nobody's got paying clients these days. Now, I'm no fan of robots, but this is one impressive vignette Read more...
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Roundup : Twitterslurp, Tweetboard, Twitlogo, Dial2Do, Tweexchange
Twitterslurp - a drop.io API app that creates a keyword Twitter stream, with a list of users and stats for your website, see an example at the Personal Democracy Forum created by the Bivings group . Tweetboard - showcase a Twitter stream in your blog. The owner and visitors to your site populate this stream by tweeting in the text box Read more...
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Evil children can't wait to get to McDonald's
« Drive safely in spite of the bloody billboards | Main | Robots: Switch them on, and they just do it » DDB Stockholm remains king of the weird McDonald's commercials with new spot above, in which the prototypical childhood car-trip question takes on a sinister aspect. "Not there yet? Stop at McDonald's! Read more...
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Drive safely in spite of the bloody billboards
« Isn't it just wonderful to wake up Canadian? | Main | Evil children can't wait to get to McDonald's » What were we saying last week about New Zealand safe-driving campaigns? Oh yes, that they're insane. Here, the Papakura District Council resorts to "bloodvertising" to slow motorists down during the rainy season Read more...
Technorati favorites: R. Richard Hobbs , Jul 1, 2:12pm
Isn't it just wonderful to wake up Canadian?
« HowStuffWorks not too concerned with why | Main Happy Canada Day to our northerly inclined readers. To celebrate, here's an ad that the Canadian government put together this spring to alert non-Canadians that one day (April 17, actually), they might wake up Canadian, too. It's a stirring commercial Read more...
Technorati favorites: R. Richard Hobbs , Jul 1, 12:50pm
HowStuffWorks not too concerned with why
« Westwood College jazzes up career training | Main | Isn't it just wonderful to wake up Canadian? » Who: HowStuffWorks.com and ad agency Preston Kelly. What: A new ad in which a convertible falls from an airplane and four foolhardy skydivers then parachute out of the car. Where: Hopefully above a sparsely populated area Read more...
Technorati favorites: R. Richard Hobbs , Jul 1, 10:52am
Westwood College jazzes up career training
« Taxi PSA captures nightmare of Parkinson's | Main | HowStuffWorks not too concerned with why » These ads from Cactus for Westwood College aren't your typical continuing-education spots. The backgrounds constantly change while the protagonists remain in the middle of the screen—a technique the agency calls a "visual metaphor" Read more...
Technorati favorites: R. Richard Hobbs , Jul 1, 9:39am
Taxi PSA captures nightmare of Parkinson's
« CP+B site becomes 'giant digital fishing net' | Main | Westwood College jazzes up career training » The problem with most PSAs about medical conditions is that they rarely convey what it would actually be like for the viewer to struggle with the afflictions they portray. No such problem here, Read more...
Technorati favorites: R. Richard Hobbs , Jul 1, 9:06am
CP+B site becomes 'giant digital fishing net'
« Air New Zealand also does long-form nudity | Main | Taxi PSA captures nightmare of Parkinson's » Crispin Porter + Bogusky is the latest agency to revamp its Web site with an eye toward aggregating content and letting others around the Web tell its story. The site, now in beta, collects videos, Tweets, Read more...
Technorati favorites: R. Richard Hobbs , Jun 30, 2:44pm
Air New Zealand also does long-form nudity
« Hardee's commercials dig even deeper hole | Main | CP+B site becomes 'giant digital fishing net' » Last month, we posted the 45-second Air New Zealand spot that shows the carrier's employees naked, with painted-on uniforms, to emphasize that they have "Nothing to hide" (at least in terms of hidden fares) Read more...
Technorati favorites: R. Richard Hobbs , Jun 30, 1:20pm
Hardee's commercials dig even deeper hole
« Don't gut fish, or women, while they're alive | Main | Air New Zealand also does long-form nudity » We already wrote about Hardee's new Biscuit Holes ads, where the words "hole" and "balls" get repeated a lot, but missed this particular spot, where people just come out and say "A-hole" over and over Read more...
Technorati favorites: R. Richard Hobbs , Jun 30, 1:02pm
Don't gut fish, or women, while they're alive
« Dopey mammoths stump for San Diego Zoo | Main | Hardee's commercials dig even deeper hole » Dutch non-profit Animals Awake takes a page from PETA's playbook in this disturbing spot by getting festish model/Playboy Playmate/sexy vegetarian Ancilla Tilia to strip naked. But then the ad gets, well, Dutch, Read more...
Technorati favorites: R. Richard Hobbs , Jun 30, 11:18am
Dopey mammoths stump for San Diego Zoo
« Illinois lawyers using Lincoln, Obama in ads | Main | Don't gut fish, or women, while they're alive » Two not-so-smart mammoths hit just the right notes in these humorous ads by M&C Saatchi for the San Diego Zoo's "Elephant Odyssey" exhibit, a production "12,000 years in the making." In the spot above, Read more...
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360icon - Fullscreen Panoramas of Rural and Urban Decay
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360icon - Fullscreen Panoramas of Rural and Urban Decay
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Murro and Barrett, always on the same page
« Pringles banner ad worth a few dozen clicks | Main Director Noam Murro of Biscuit Filmworks and creative director Jamie Barrett of Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, who have worked together a lot, held a seminar in Cannes titled "The Creative Relationship Between Agency And Director." According to the seminar overview, " Read more...
Technorati favorites: R. Richard Hobbs , Jun 29, 2:03pm
Pringles banner ad worth a few dozen clicks
« Fiat makes green pitch via crash-test panda | Main | Murro and Barrett, always on the same page » I've long been of the opinion that creating banner ads should be punishable by stoning. But this Pringles ad from Bridge Worldwide in Cincinnati doesn't suck. If nothing else, I appreciate that it isn't flashing horrible circus colors and Read more...
Technorati favorites: R. Richard Hobbs , Jun 29, 9:28am
Fiat makes green pitch via crash-test panda
« What are colives, and should you eat them? | Main | Pringles banner ad worth a few dozen clicks » I'm kind of surprised this (literally) panda-bashing Fiat ad from Marcel Paris hasn't sparked any significant outrage yet. Quite the opposite: It won a gold Lion at Cannes. If they wanted to demonstrate a truly low impact on the Read more...
Technorati favorites: R. Richard Hobbs , Jun 29, 9:16am
What are colives, and should you eat them?
« Audi does not want your stinking foreign oil | Main | Fiat makes green pitch via crash-test panda » The bar for wacky cow ads has been raised foolishly high of late. From Wieden + Kennedy's purified Cravendale cow (certified not racist!) to Draftfcb's talking-teat Oreo temptation, we've feasted on some bloody breakthroughs in Read more...
Technorati favorites: R. Richard Hobbs , Jun 29, 9:00am
Iconic TV pitchman Billy Mays is dead at 50
« Meat-child ad wows Wrath of Cannes judges | Main He was the man with no inside voice, the man who seemed to be on every late-night cable channel at once, the man who comprehensively convinced us we don't need a cabinet full of cleaners. And now, sadly, infomercial icon Billy Mays is dead. Details were scarce Sunday, Read more...
Technorati favorites: R. Richard Hobbs , Jun 28, 3:23pm
Pine Meadow Lake Christmas Tree
Pine Meadow Lake Christmas Tree (manufactured)
Pine Meadow Lake, Harriman State Park, NY (with apologies to the Big Pine Tree)
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rrhobbs.org, Jun 27, 5:23am
Meat-child ad wows Wrath of Cannes judges
« Scientology will repair your awful rotten life | Main At Cannes, you win awards by surviving round after round of rigorous judging and proving your unparalleled skill in the persuasive arts. At Wrath of Cannes, the anti-Cannes festival held Thursday night in Brooklyn, you win by inserting a giant piece of steak into Read more...
Technorati favorites: R. Richard Hobbs , Jun 26, 2:56pm
Michael Jackson In NYC
If you were outside last night you likely heard some Michael Jackson tunes blasting in homage to the late King of Pop. MTV even took a break from their reality programming to play his classic videos all night, and fans gathered at the Apollo Theater for an impromptu memorial ( Read more...
Technorati favorites: R. Richard Hobbs , Jun 26, 1:40pm
Pencil This In
We're bringing Pencil This In to you earlier with our new newsletter, GothamList. Sign up below for the daily scoop on concerts, readings, performances, and other events, which will arrive in your inbox first thing every morning Monday through Friday. You can get today's newsletter when you sign up . EMAIL (required) Read more...
Technorati favorites: R. Richard Hobbs , Jun 26, 1:40pm
Flash Fire Injures Three Workers, Halogen Lamp Blamed
A freaky flash fire in a mechanical room of a building on the Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital campus left a maintenance worker with burns over 70 percent of his body this morning. A little before 10 a.m. workers were cleaning a domestic hot water tank in a 22nd-floor room, when, suddenly, there was "a little bit of an explosion and a flash fire," Read more...
Technorati favorites: R. Richard Hobbs , Jun 26, 1:40pm
Paper Thinks McCarren Pool Parties Are Still On
Welcome to last summer amNewYork ! The McCarren Park Pool parties and concerts aren't happening anymore. There was this whole long, drawn out thing about it when the series ended to make way for a $50 million makeover, at the end of which it will be a pool again . There were meetings and debates about it and stuff Read more...
Technorati favorites: R. Richard Hobbs , Jun 26, 1:39pm
Free Beach WiFi Here, In Time To Ruin Workaholic Vacations
Officials in Babylon have announced that the town will become the first on the Atlantic seaboard to offer free WiFi at beaches, parks and pools. The Suffolk County town will be opening four separate internet cafes at its various beaches over the next few weeks, the first one debuting this weekend at Overlook Beach Read more...
Technorati favorites: R. Richard Hobbs , Jun 26, 1:19pm
Early Addition
Photograph of Topher and Hannah the cats watching humans by empty cages collective on Flickr . From the Gothamist Newsmap : A foot pursuit at E 178st & Grand Concourse in the Bronx, a serious trauma at Park Ave & E 46th St and a shooting at Richmond Terrace on Staten Island. Today is the last day of school for public Read more...
Technorati favorites: R. Richard Hobbs , Jun 26, 1:02pm
Vox Pop's Stolen Statue of Liberty Crisis Enters Day Five!
Tom Martinez Early Monday morning someone stole a 200 pound replica of the Statue of Liberty that was bolted outside progressive cafe and bookstore Vox Pop in Ditmas Park, and now the Daily News has picked up the story . It's a nice bit of press for the troubled establishment, which has weathered severe financial storms in recent Read more...
Technorati favorites: R. Richard Hobbs , Jun 26, 12:46pm
Watch Out For Thunderstorms
brooklyn dock storm sundown by Several seconds on Flickr The King of Pop is gone but the rainy weather is threatening to be here forever. What looked earlier in the week to be a change toward drier weather has completely collapsed. Memories of yesterday afternoon's few short hours of beautiful sunshine will have to pull us through the next Read more...
Technorati favorites: R. Richard Hobbs , Jun 26, 12:31pm
2009-2010 School Year Starts One Day Later
After school principals howled over a new deal between the city and teachers union that allowed teachers to return to school on the same day as students , the city has announced that the 2009-2010 will start on September 9 (a Wednesday), instead of September 8, the Tuesday after Labor Day. The school year will also end a day later Read more...
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DieHard 140-Watt Power Inverter with Built-in USB Port
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