Social-Creature

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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To all my peeps heading out to Straight Pride next week, just wanted to say… don’t forget to hydarte. Like this? Share it: Tweet

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“Deal with it. Rock’n roll.” – The Rules of Attraction, by Bret Easton Ellis While I was in New York a couple of weeks ago, it came to my attention that hipsters had managed to really piss Adbusters off. If you don’t happen to know what “hipsters” are, or if perhaps you are assuming it’s [...]

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“Companies: How to Make Millions By Switching to A Green-Colored Logo” – Headline in The Onion’s “Obligatory Green Issue” I’ve been thinking about this, the third in what’s evidently become a series of posts inspired by Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between Who We Are and What We Buy, by Rob Walker, since I read [...]

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I got an email a few days back that read: fromjustin boreta subjectif the glitch mob went screamo dateWed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:35 AM http://profile.myspace.com/brokencyde prepare yourself But I was getting ready to head out to San Francisco for the PSFK conference, (and to be perfectly honest, was kind of scared by the whole [...]

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way to put the “trend” in perspective. (and way to go on knowing your audience, flavorpill). Like this? Share it: Tweet

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