Digital billboards hacked

 
(picture via Supertouchblog)
Too much work for a decent post today but that made me laugh.
Some dude (seems he is an artist) nicknamed Skullphone has hacked 10 of LA biggest digital billboards. ClearChannel is not really happy.
Check his website www.skullphone.com… Loving the balls.
See the whole story here on Supertouchblog, via Feedhere.

Miscellany of the day

Junk is an expression of a death-obsessed society, feverishly cramming with everything it can buy or steal into its insatiable maw in a frantic effort to fill an inner emptiness that fails to respond to a diet of consumer products.
George Nelson, How to see, a guide to reading our manmade environment

love and hate

Here are 2 brands that I have come to love or hate just via their advertising.
The one I have come to love is Skittles. Here’s the latest installment for their new chocolate Skittles Pinata.

Here are the old ones, always worth another watch:

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Groove Armada signs with Bacardi

 
My colleague Rob pointed me to that article this morning. Now this is very interesting:
Groove Armada has signed a deal to record and release new music through Bacardi and Bacardi events in 2008.
Working alongside Bacardi we have the chance to take the GA travelling show to new people and places, find innovative ways of getting [...]

Thank you kids

(Picture: Andrew M. Daddio for The New York Times)
If it wasn’t for their children, most marketers would be still living in the middle age of communication.
I mean, it was fine, 8 years ago, when marketers discovered why their kids was doing for hours in their bedroom: Internet: porn for the boys, MSN messenger for the girls.
But [...]

What’s everyone thinking about?

A good presentation from from Paul Isakson, via Damiano’s site Nitmesh. 

It would have been nice to be credited for originally coming up with the Crispin Bogusky story about the press release, which I got from Jason Gonsalves, but it’s a minor detail.
I think it was John Bartle who said a planner has to be generous [...]

The best creative team ever

Collaboration is the mot du jour in adland. So why is it that one of the best example of creative collaboration is 70 years old?
As the philistine I am, I just got to know about the Inklings, the literature group of friends formed by Lewis and Tolkien in Oxford in the 30s. Again, thanks the [...]

The situationist International

I had a great response from Hilly on a post about the Situationist, which I thought was much better than my original post and worth reading: 
I am actually currently writing a dissertation on the very same subject for the final semester of my degree in advertising. I think that there is a huge connection between what the [...]

Creepy Thursday

While we are on creepy things…

Where’s the limit?

It seems that in a bid to create buzz aroud movies, some production agencies have been pushing it a little bit too far.
An article from Contagious Magazine refers to 2 movies promotion.
The films had in fact been created by PPC Interactive, in an attempt to mirror the plot of UNTRACEABLE, the new cyber-thriller-chiller from Universal [...]