Thursday, 3 September 2009

Gulp! # 2

A father-of-two has come up with a way to encourage children to eat healthy meals. Mark Northeast set up a website called Funky Lunches, which features ideas for parents struggling to get healthy food into their kids' daily routine..

Gulp!

The spiral galaxy of Andromeda over a period of about three billion years as the dwarf galaxy Triangulum move away from it, then back towards it, where Triangulum will be ultimately devoured by Andromeda

WWF/WTF? (The Video)

After the WWF appeared to initially deny approving the ad, DDB Brasil and the WWF hammered out a statement posted in Portuguese on both groups' Brazilian websites Wednesday afternoon apologizing for the ad and attributing it to "the inexperience of some professionals on both sides, and not bad faith or disrespect toward American suffering."
The statement continued, "WWF-Brasil and DDB Brasil reaffirm that the ad never should have been created, approved or run. They deeply regret that this happened, and apologize to everyone who has been offended."
DDB Brasil has been the WWF's local agency in Brazil for the past three years and has won numerous creative awards for its work for the conservation group. The agency was also named Agency of the Year at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival in June for winning more Lions than any other agency.
In a separate mishap in a bad week for DDB Brasil, "Tsunami" accidentally ended up in a folder for work to be sent to journalists by the agency's public-relations department and was mistakenly sent to Ad Age sibling Creativity this week as though it were a new print ad. It was described in the e-mail as "a great campaign."
A DDB Brasil spokesperson in Sao Paulo said a video version of the ad being circulated on the internet was not done or authorized by the agency or the client. She said DDB execs first saw the video, which features slightly different copy, on the internet and don't know who created it.
@ 'Ad Age'
And now they are denying making the video and as one comment there says...
"...Because complete strangers are always picking print ads at random that ran once and duplicating the exact same art perfectly for a :30 spot. No, yeah, happens all the time."
Update:
Now the video has been removed from You Tube because of a copyright claim by DDB Brasil! Hmmm!
You can still watch it here with the news that the video was actually entered into the Cannes advertising awards!

Kennedy Memoir: Calls Chappaquiddick "Inexcusable"

Photo: Librado Romero/The New York Times
Senator Edward M. Kennedy with his wife, Joan, after testifying about the 1969 car accident in Chappaquiddick, Mass., that killed Mary Jo Kopechne.
@ 'NY Times'

Coming soon...

Blue Planet ad

Postman Pat does drugs

Gabon's new president is called Ali Bongo

Oops, that is the wrong guy.
This is him.

A Record of Life

ME NEED!!!

If anyone has or knows where to get these Ray Ban 'Gatsby' sunnies circa 1950, or something very similar please get in touch.

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No shit! Man accused of climbing into toilet pit (again!)

Gary Moody
When Gary Moody pleaded no contest to trespassing in 2005 for hiding in a pit toilet on White Mountain National Forest property in New Hampshire, a judge urged him to seek help for whatever had driven him to climb down there.

According to a new complaint, Moody didn't get the message...

@ 'Portland Press Herald'

Something very wrong with this...

...and it is not just the music!

Girlz With Guitarz # 4

Noel on Liam

"They say never work with children and animals. No one mentioned fucking morons though, did they?"