Quite possibly my favourite brand ever. I don’t like the candy, but I love the ads. I’m not sure how that’s going to pay off for them but if it was going to rain for forty days and forty nights and I was in control of what goes in an Ark, I would definitely choose foot guy, beard guy, pinata guy and tube sock over the cadbury gorilla.
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We feel fine. Visually stunning and voyeuristic-ally engaging. Despite being a few years old now this site is still cool. It searches blogs for sentences that contain the term ‘I feel’. When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence and identifies the “feeling” expressed in that sentence. It then indexes what personal information it can find that the blogger has shared. Age, gender and location and creates a visual map of feeling that can be filtered in a number of ways.
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In March 2010 Nestle and Kit Kat in particular were in the midst of a PR nightmare when Greenpeace targetted them in a campaign against deforestation in Indonesia caused by one of Nestles palm oil suppliers. Back in March the way they handled the situation was perfect fodder for a case study in how not to respond in a crisis in social media.
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One dress design. 365 days. The goal to create a different outfit each day and to raise funds for a charity in India that schools children. What went from a small bloject in May 2009 ended up raising over US$ 95,000. These days it seems people who use the internet to raise money for small local charities are increasingly reversing the ‘think global act local’ mantra.
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To publicise the screening of the TV series the Pacific Colenso BBDO New Zealand organised a re-enactment of a dogfight with a real New Zealand Kittyhawk taking on two Japanese fighter planes over a popular Auckland beach area – including explosions.
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After exposing himself regularly on chatroulette the travelocity gnome has added another social network to his arsenal which includes a popular facebook page (55,000 fans) and a twitter account (9,000 followers). This time it’s Foursquare the location based network – seemingly the perfect way to follow a gnome who jetsets around the globe.
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Just plain weird. Guy gets tattoo of busty lady on his calf. He decides wants the boobs to look even bigger, so he gets his tattoo a set of implants. I don’t even know where to start with this. I do wonder how he’s going to feel about his lady’s hairy chest when his calf hair grows back.
Continue Reading...Latest from Faris – a collation of cool things edited into one video. Includes projection mapping, the Johnny Cash project and a robot that folds towels.
Continue Reading...Just brilliant. The google job experiment. Makes me want to buy ads for people I don’t like and put links to dodgy sites there.
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