May your holiday season be blog-free, eggnog-heavy, and full of joy. In the meantime, enjoy this clip of Arnold Schwarzenegger punching a reindeer in the snout.
Monthly Archive: December 2011
Dec
23
Go read this thing I wrote
Stiumlant – a creative inspiration site created by Strategy – has a weekly “Friday Frandoms” thing. They scour the web to serve you, the spark-hungry creative person, with a heaping dose of Internet time-wasters. I wrote this week’s submission. You can read it here. [Spoiler Alert] You will see: A paper mache woman Deer shaped …
Dec
23
Holiday roundup
I’ve been too busy drinking egg nog and hanging holly leaves to waste time on christmas ads, but perhaps it’s time to look at a few of the festive spots floating around ad land… Apple The ghost of Steve Jobs and co. do an excellent job or ruining the magic of Christmas in their latest …
Dec
22
Dumb animals can’t get a job
Is there anything funnier than animals doing human things? You bet your scarred dolphin nose there isn’t! I’ve said it once, twice, three times, AND I’ll say it again: your ad will be a home run if it features animals doing human things. This print series for the San Francisco Zoo makes a poignant argument: …
Dec
20
Trippy chalk drawing
Peter Westerink and Remko Van Schaik
Dec
19
Granny Innuendo
Q: How do you stimulate a stale mollasses market? A: Slut-ify grandmas! New Brunswick-based Crosby’s Fancy Molasses has created a series of print and web videos that put some sexually suggestive baking statements into the mouths of innocent apron-wearing grandmothers. The ads, appropriately titled, focus on: Grandma’s Country Pie Grandma’s Spicy Ginger Cookie Grandma’s Brownie …
Dec
16
Frequently updated German news
Client is Stern, a German news site or magazine or whatever. Headline reads, “Updated every second.” I like. Agency: Kolle Rebbe, Hamburg, Germany CDs: Ingo Mueller, Sven Klohk, Jens Theil Copywriter: Sascha Petersen AD: Alexander Schmid
Dec
15
Follow Your Footsteps
You know when you’re walking aimlessly through a desert oasis and you totes have no idea where you’re heading? Not anymore! Cause the Samsung Galaxy Xcover is here! And it’s got a GPS! WOOOOOOOOOOOO! In my not so humble opinion, flaunting GPS capabilities as your key selling feature is so 2009. Lame. I thought China …
Dec
14
Ballin in the favelas
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Topography. So hot right now. Client is Brazilian sports manufacturer Penalty. Line reads, “Passion Rules.” As far as concepts go, this seems to be the sure thing, go-to template du jour. Just take an overhead satellite or map view, finesse a visual gag into the landscape, …
Dec
12
Don’t Do Art
It’s every parent’s worst nightmare: you raise a bright, capable, and intellectually stimulated young person and then, all of a sudden, they start saying shit like, “Calligraphy is fascinating!” or, “Graphite pencils would be a great stocking stuffer!”. If you have any sense, you put them up for teenage adoption. If you’re weak, you feign …