Belgium, Japan and Brazil Beer Flag Ads.
Created for the Sunset Tap and Grill by Arnold Worldwide, Boston, MA Makes me think a little differently about flags… and beer really. Are there any other flags that you can think of that might fit this campaign?

Posted: March 28th, 2008 under Advertising/Marketing.
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Coldplay’s “The Scientist” is an amazing song, but have you ever seen the video? This has got to be one of my favorites of all time. Beautifully shot and brilliant. It sends chills up my spine, check it out.

Posted: March 25th, 2008 under Music.
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OOOh la la. My friend Monica showed this to me and I died laughing. We’re not exactly sure where it came from, and I’d love to give credit to the photographer so if you know who it is, post it. Well after I picked myself up I had to put it up here. My buddy Andy, who it was sent to for its photography merits, (no really,) said he loves peeps, but now he’s going to feel a little dirtier when he eats them. Peeps with paties and dollars in their G-Strings will do that to ya. Happy Easter Everybody!

Posted: March 21st, 2008 under Photography.
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I saw this and cracked up. Love the Muppets? Love pretending you’re Irish? Love the song, “Danny Boy,” but can’t quite remember all the words? Marvelous. Why not combine all of these in a festive way? Enjoy the Leprechaun Brothers (The Swedish Chef, Animal, and Beaker) trying their hand at performing Danny Boy.

Posted: March 17th, 2008 under General.
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Posted: March 17th, 2008 under Advertising/Marketing.
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I love this commercial. Guinness has made this commercial, called “Tipping Point” with such worldly charm to it, and I think it could play anywhere. It’s as universal as the beer. Sorry to get your mind thinking about beer already, but it is St. Patties day. Maybe you should just choke down that reuben, get out of work early, and go for a pint. Chances are, I’m already there.

Posted: March 17th, 2008 under Advertising/Marketing.
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Take a look at this Orwellian adventure. These two guys are using the increasingly popular street view in Google Maps. Think the government or Google is getting too close to you? Or perhaps the Googlement? Damn, and I just started using the google calendar. Well I guess it’s back to under the stairs for me.

Posted: March 14th, 2008 under Everyday Life.
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This Taylor Guitars Ad campaign showcases their quality guitars in very strange settings. As a bridge support, a skyscraper or collected in a jar with butterflies and other beautiful things. The feeling I get from these ads is calm, peaceful and the colors are smooth and surreal. I think these ads could be blown up and released as framed art, (if they are not already.) The way the guitars are made the center piece of the ad, woven into the scenes they’re placed really draws my eyes right to them. It’s hard to look away and see the rest of the ad, I’m just stuck going ga ga at the Taylor’s beauty. (If you play guitar you’ll know what I’m talking about.) The headlines are small but powerful in these pieces, “Two Worlds. One Link Between Them.,” “Big Sound for a Big World,” and “Pure Sound Captured,” really help these Taylor ads seem bigger than life, like their sound.

Posted: March 11th, 2008 under Music, Advertising/Marketing.
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Y&R and director Garth Davis Created “Burst,” a commercial for Schweppes soda company. It was shot with Phototron cameras, which shoot up to 10,000 frames per second and make an instantaneous action, seem like a feature film. It’s really quite interesting how something that is so ordinary, at least in childhood anyway, becomes completely different in this context. Breaking a water balloon, something all of us have done, but showing it in a way that makes you stop and marvel at it. And this is a soda commercial? A little different feeling than being endorsed by a celeb, or anything that I remember seeing. The music and slow motion make this spot much more dramatic and beautiful, and inherently more adult. But is that such a bad thing?

Posted: March 6th, 2008 under Advertising/Marketing.
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Who could resist?

Posted: March 5th, 2008 under Advertising/Marketing.
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