http://www.hemmy.net/2007/11/30/millimetres-matter/#more-1429

it’s a cellphone ad but these bugs get hit by tiny pies. just watch it

original names have been hidden for privacy

(1:00:31 PM) guy1: the nicest spam subject ever ‘Have a great night with your girlfriend!’
(1:00:35 PM) guy1: I will try!
(1:00:45 PM) guy2: that IS nice
(1:01:51 PM) guy2:  “Spamtown wishes you and your family a VERY happy holiday. Also, you need a bigger dong.”
(1:03:05 PM) guy1: Anth*ny A. Radb*d wishes you and yours a bigger, longer, and better holiday season. I can’t believe what that girl did to that horse schlong.

http://adage.com/article?article_id=122185

Dove’s viral video attack on beauty advertising has produced a surprisingly strong and enduring blowback against Unilever from activists, newspaper op-ed writers, bloggers and videographers who see it as hypocritical coming from the same company that markets Axe.

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In an op-ed titled “A Company’s Ugly Contradiction” in The Boston Globe earlier this month, contributor Michelle Gillett said, “Viewers are struggling to make sense of how Dove can promise to educate girls on a wider definition of beauty while other Unilever ads [for Axe] exhort boys to make ‘nice girls naughty.’ … Unilever is in the business of selling products, not values, and that means we, the consumers, are being manipulated, no matter how socially responsible an ad seems.”

That blows. I actually did not know they made Axe. …. which i USE!!!! D’oh!

This is in reference to the viral video they distributed and I put on this blog:

http://aggregatemadbox.com/bloggregate/?p=44
or view it right here:

And here are previous AdAge articles on the topic:

http://aggregatemadbox.com/bloggregate/?p=82

http://aggregatemadbox.com/bloggregate/?p=148

And here is is a mashup of Dove and Axe as a video response to this news:

Spam headline. I am not sure what a Bank God Torpedo Kaleidoscope Chisel Saddle Horse is but I want one.

 http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,70131-1294365,00.html

A British teacher is facing 40 lashes in a Sudanese jail if convicted of insulting Islam’s prophet by letting children name a teddy bear Mohammed.

This is actually happening. Sorry Islam, but you’re being kind of lame. I might die for saying this. But you gotta’ cool out. I respect you guys believing whatever you want but there is NO WAY this woman was trying to disrespect you. Do you actually believe that? I might have to question your faith if you DO sentence her though.

I already question most faiths in their flawed logic. Once you select a religion you are immediately intolerant of other religions. Some religions implore you to kill people from other religions. That is NOT GOOD. In fact FUCK THAT NOISE. Seriously? You have nothing better to do? Fuck you a million times over if that’s what you choose to do with your life.

Besides, every religion has it’s gems. Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism. They’re all good. And they all imply that there is something like a god out there. If you move from subjectivity to objectivity though and do just a little exploration you will see that most of them overlap, even as far as historic events that caused a paradigm or dogma to solidify. But when you select one you exclude the others. Some insist on playing that stupid game of conversion. We’re not playing Othello here people. We’re playing life. Use religion correctly or eat a steaming bowl of dog turds is what I say.

http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20/dezignus–Find-Designs-Clipart-Vectors/

from the site:

Dezignus surf the web to give you the best design source links! Icons, brushes and shapes, tutorials and books, vector and other stuff. This site exist thanks to Google Adsence. As for me, sponsor’s sites one of the best way to find fresh links for you.

There is some cool freely download-able stuff on here. I would be cautious about using any of it for commercial purposes though.

“The creative process is centered in the mind of the artist, like Are you wanting a bi ,gger pen ,is?”

I want a very creative penis. Where might I purchase one?

http://mashable.com/2007/11/26/epa-google-earth/

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has created a Google Earth map mashup that shows air quality across the nation. Get started here. There’s even a 3-D map overlay that lets you view the level of air pollutants that are coming from specific businesses. You can see this if you tilt your map, and it’s most useful when used with 3D map renderings, complete with business buildings and all.

http://www.woostercollective.com/2007/11/filippo_minelli_hits_the_west_bank_barri.html

http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=122153

Tina Fey had just one request for the packed-to-the-walls crowd at a live performance of an upcoming episode of her NBC sitcom, “30 Rock,” last week at New York’s Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.

“Please don’t post anything about tonight’s show on any blogs or anything. Our plots are very complicated, like ‘Heroes,’” she said. There was a beat, then the real punch line: “We’ve been doing this [show] for almost two years now, and we’ve managed to keep it a secret anyway.”

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http://revision3.com

From the site:

Revision3 is the first media company that gets it, born from the Internet, on-demand generation. Unlike aggregators, mash-ups, and user-generated video sites, Revision3 is an actual TV network for the web, creating and producing its own original, broadcast quality shows.

I haven’t had time to check out all the programming on this site quite yet but I can tell you that the Diggnation programming is really compelling because it’s based on the top of the pops from digg.com

Digg.com is of course the social bookmarking site that bubbles items to the top based on peoples’ ‘diggs’

http://www.hemmy.net/2007/11/26/v-water-advertisement-animation/

Yay this is a cool animation. The bit about the double-decker bus is great. I wish I had a divine animator’s hand removing and redrawing obstacles for me.

XM is not something I currently subscribe to, but I think their ads campaigns are excellent. I just saw a new one while watching current.tv, but could not find the clip. It’s something reminiscent of a slaughterhouse, but it has normal people on a conveyor belt which moves them through a music playing machine. When they come out the other side, they have customized musical tastes and lifestyles. I think it is a commercial ad that supports the diversity of cultures. But the one I listed here also conveys that sentiment. Checkout the gold tooth at the end, ha.

XM obviously makes money by celebrating the diversity of music, but still it is something to be celebrated. What really is cool is when a new genre is invented as fusion genres inspired by existing genres. Off the top of my head I will say Ratatat is a good example of this with their fusion of hip-hip, rock, end electronic funk. Another obvious example is Led Zeppelin getting their sound from blues and rock.

It’s a shame when one genre gets ridiculed by another. I for example, like to mock the song “I Wanna Rock” by Twisted Sister because I am a jerk. Let me just pose this question: why wouldn’t he just rock instead of repeatedly exclaiming that he has inclinations of rocking? It just doesn’t make sense, people. But yeah that is bad because Twisted Sister does indeed rock – don’t base your decision on the quality of their music on that gaping hole in logic.

I am just saying that I enjoy the musicianship demonstrated by artists like Indian classical musicians including Zakir Hussein, Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Ravi Shankar, and Shiv Kumar Sharma as much as I enjoy good pop hooks & lyrics. Adult contemporary can shit themselves to death at an Oprah taping for all I care, but who knows, maybe I will enjoy that genre when I am dying or dead?

Right, anyway, rockon ad agency who did this ad.

http://www.geekalerts.com/wooden-cross-usb-memory/ 

The Wooden Cross USB Memory Strap is available at Usb.brando.

I’m going to store a PDF of the bible an some Word docs on mine

Color Scheme 2

http://www.wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html

This is a great tool for selecting color schemes. There are more options than I can describe, but just clicking around the interface you can come up with some good color combos.

Daily Color Scheme

http://beta.dailycolorscheme.com

This is a nice blog of pre-generated color schemes that you can download in the format of several popular image/photo/graphic softwares.

http://wwjbmovie.com/trailer.html

What Would Jesus Buy? follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir as they go on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse: the end of mankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt!

From producer Morgan Spurlock (SUPER SIZE ME) and director Rob VanAlkemade comes a serious docu-comedy about the commercialization of Christmas.  Bill Talen (aka Reverend Billy) was a lost idealist who hitchhiked to New York City only to find that Times Square was becoming a mall. Spurred on by the loss of his neighborhood and inspired by the sidewalk preachers around him, Bill bought a collar to match his white caterer’s jacket, bleached his hair and became the Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping. Since 1999, Reverend Billy has gone from being a lone preacher with a portable pulpit preaching on subways, to the leader of a congregation and a movement whose numbers are well into the thousands.

(images are from the fim website)
The trailer for this film is pretty good. I think it will be an entertaining documentary.

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/11/19/already-licked-iz-mine-now/

Konnie & Lace, originally uploaded by BlueFlip Art.

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http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=122089

Published: November 19, 2007 The writers strike has media buyers growing cautious about the efficacy of TV advertising in the weeks ahead and in the first quarter of 2008 — and mulling strategies for possible reallocation of marketers’ ad spending. The fourth quarter is an especially fraught time for marketers to not be able to count on TV as a reach vehicle, as many are pushing products for the holidays.