Entries Tagged as 'irony'

Monday, June 29th, 2009

The Right to Empathy

Oh boy.
This is not typically the kind of stuff I write about here, but it is something I feel quite strongly about, and, if nothing else, it makes for a case study in cross-cultural communication — not to mention some interesting neuroscience.
Last week, as the New York Times reported, French President Nicolas Sarkozy addressed the [...]

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Your Lifestyle Is An Alternate Reality Game

I had already joined the Circus scene when, in early 2006, I was consulting at Wong Doody and heard about a clothing company client they were working with called Edoc Laundry. The clothes had an intriguing concept: there were secret codes in the garments, which, if deciphered, would reveal clues to a mystery story. The wearers of Edoc [...]

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

greed is good. sex is easy. youth is forever.

Just saw the trailer for the latest Bret Easton Ellis adaptation: The Informers – Check it (if you’re seeing this in a reader, click HERE to see the video).

Ellis is one of my favorite writers. There’s a lot of people out there who enjoy his writing in a disturbingly literal way (particularly the people who [...]

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Cope-ing Mechanism

Adam Freeland’s got a new video (below) for a new track (Undercontrol) off a new album (Cope) with a new band (Freeland). Check it out.
And Relax. Nothing is under control:

Plus, check out the accompanying site: unitedwecope.com, which offers a forum for coping with modern life’s tricky dilemmas, such as:
I want to buy Fair Trade, but [...]

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Google bless you!

Just a quick post to let you know our new Google overlords must have officially arrived, according to this ad:

Taking over from the exiting party which has heretofore been responsible for bestowing the bless-age, and to whom all unanswered questions had previously been directed, the new ephemeral, universal, entity that apparently has $5,000-a-month jobs for [...]

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

that’s how you get it on

A few months ago I’d written a post called How Not To Use Condoms, about the misstep of  Trojan’s “Evolve” campaign.
Here, then, is Durex’s take on how to advertise condoms, courtesy of Fitzgerald & Co:

And I’d actually been planning a more substantial entry to be the first post of 2009, but when I came [...]

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

how not to use condoms

I know the Trojan “Evolve” Campaign has been going on for a while now, but just recently something occurred to me that I hadn’t quite realized about it before.
The campaign started out last June, with the premiere of a commercial featuring women being hit on by a bar full of anthropomorphized pigs. It’s only when [...]

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

lame ad. great mashup.

This is tripping me out. I was just going to write a quick post about how terrifically lame I think the outdoor ads for The Day The Earth Stood Still are. It’s basically just a stock-photo image of the Earth’s curvature, against a black outer-space backdrop, with big, block-y, white letters that read: “THEY’RE HERE. [...]

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

the next stage in the evolution of alternative marketing

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Friday, August 22nd, 2008

that thing in the desert

To all my peeps heading out to Straight Pride next week, just wanted to say… don’t forget to hydarte.

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