Archives for July, 2009

Youtube gives an instant voicePosted on July 22, 2009

Proving once and for all that mobile advertising executives have their heads wedged firmly up their own arses, Israeli mobile phone company Cellcom launched an ad last week that has been universally derided.

To sell more mobile phones, the ad depicts a soccer ball sailing over the Israel/Palestine wall, hitting a jeep full of Israeli [...]

Tags: dishonesty in advertising

Beautiful stop-motion from OlympusPosted on July 10, 2009

Regular readers of this blog know of my obsession with stop-motion films. Olympus have just released a really beautiful stop-motion, using 60,000 pictures, 9,600 developed prints and 1,800 shot pictures - with no digital post-production.
It’s absolutely gorgeous, and a beautiful tale of a life well lived.

I do wonder if he walked out on [...]

Tags: Cool websites, Marketing

Bill Posters gets prettyPosted on July 7, 2009

This just brightened my morning. We’ve all seen the ugly “Bill posters will be prosecuted” signs that go up on every blank surface - they are much uglier than the posters. In fact, I love how posters appear on every temporary wall, it’s the main way I find out about concerts coming to Sydney.
Happy [...]

Tags: Cool websites

Tweet every minute - new campaign from V AustraliaPosted on July 6, 2009

V Australia have just launched an interesting campaign to promote their Sydney - LA flights.
Called 4320 LA, it selects a group of 3 friends to be sent to LA for 3 days. Once there, they need to tweet every minute for 4320 tweets to win a bigger prize of an around the world ticket [...]

Tags: Marketing

Is this the state of the web?Posted on July 3, 2009

Web Design Dev magazine just released a list of who they think are the 30 most influential people in web design and it’s ruined my Saturday morning.
I understand that it’s hard to put together lists of the most talented in a very vast pool of incredibly intelligent people. But it is so disappointing to [...]

Tags: politics, women