The guys from Gizmodo have made a really funny compilation of their take on the ‘Mac vs. PC’ ads that Apple launched. This time it’s the Macs that get ridiculed. Finally. Click the images to go see the clips.
Thru AdRants
Another older but not less funnier ad is this one: “Crash Different”:
Ohter related entries on Marketing Thoughts:
Mac Ads Spoofs
New PC vs Mac Ads
Apple Cliches
My dad came to me a few days ago with a piece of newspaper. He said he kept it for me because there was an ad in it I could probably use for the blog. He was right, and I think it’s very cool of him to actually start looking for things I can use. Thanks, dad. The ad he had seen was for MobileSchool.org, and I digitalized it so I could blog it here. MobileSchool is a non-profit organisation that focuses on the improvement of life-circumstances of street children. The mobile school project is one of their projects. With the slogan “Make Street Children Count” they’re trying to grab the viewer’s attention and get people involved. As you can see, the slogan is pretty well illustrated with a blink to what Mobile School is actually accomplishing, as well as to the direct interpretation of the slogan.
Copy: “Make Street Children Count – Today, Mobile School is driving 18 mobile school carts to over 30.000 street children worldwide. Local field-workers transform these carts into big blackboards and game boards on wheels. On the curb they teach the kids in a playful fashion and learn them to write, to count and to believe in theirselves. Are you willing to help us create some more schools? 100 million street children are counting on you! Give Mobile School a push on 523-0802049-31″
Logo on the right: “www.mobileschool.org. Take the school to the street.”
Yey, this week I’ve been working on a cool project and it just went live! The past days I’ve been busy writing an ‘on the road manual’ for Frank Klemann, helped setting up a cool blog for the journey and I even drove to The Netherlands to hand over the brand new Nokia N90 and a laptop. My first real ‘consulting’ job ;) Nice. Here’s what it’s all about:
Team 67 is the team of Henry Wissing, a dentist from Eersel (The Netherlands) and Frank Klemann, Rabobank.be’s General Manager. Both enthusiasts are experienced classic car rally drivers. The car they’ll use on their way to fame is a 1972 Toyota Celica.
The Amsterdam – Beijing Classic Car Endurance Rally 2006 is going to be one of the most spectacular rallies you’ve ever seen.
From July 14th until August 13th, one hundred teams will travel a distance of 17.500 kilometers (10.874 miles) with their classic cars and old-timers. The rally kicks off at The Dam in Amsterdam and is going to span 14 countries and 2 continents, ending gracefully on the Tienanmen Square in Beijing.
Next to the personal weblog of Team67, on Typepad, RTL7 -a Dutch TV station- and the Chinese channel CCTV2 will document the rally twice every day. IdTV, a Dutch production house, will co-produce reports extensively together with UK’s North One and CCTV. A 35-member production crew will use 12 cameras and will capture the entire event using choppers and cars. Approximately 1.000.000 Dutch viewers and a few hundred million Chinese viewers will be able to keep track of the adventures of Team 67 and the other 99 teams.
Team 67 has been given a brand new Nokia N90 by i-merge and promised to document and blog their experiences. If all goes well, you –dearest reader- will be served unique pictures and video footage from within the heat of the journey. The only thing we couldn’t do (yet) was include the smell of burning rubber and hot asphalt, but we’re working on that.
Thanks to Tanguy from TheseDays for helping with the Nokia setup, thanks to Maarten from SixApart and to de designers ‘upstairs’ who’ve made the blog look really slick.
Check out the adventures of Team67 !
Here’s a funny way to generate a personal blogger’s code: answer the baker’s dozen questions on this site. Select the answer in each category that best describes you. The code will only be as accurate as you are truthful. (Skip the question to leave any quotient out of your code). The code calculates the following things:
My code:
My blogger code: B6 d++ t++ k+ s+ u- f+ i+ o e+ l- c– (decode it!)
Why this code generator?
Geeks have one. So do hairy gay men and their admirers. Isn’t it time bloggers have a code to describe themselves as well?
Advergirl pointed to some funny ads for the Buenos Aires Zoo, back in February. I totally missed these at that time, but since today is all about animals on this blog, I might as well add them now. Damn I can’t wait to do a campaign for a zoo as well. I think I’m going to ask my boss tomorrow if we can’t propose something for the Antwerp Zoo or something. Meanwhile, check out these ones:
Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Argentina.
Client: Buenos Aires Zoo
The lions have arrived at the San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park. To spread the word, a funny ad has been created by M&C Saatchi. I found it very amusing and really well done. Heheh. The idea is really thought through. I can only imagine what else was on the drawing board. Absolutely entertaining!
Copy: “On one side a small trench separates you from the lions, on the other, just a sheet of glass. The new Lion Camp. Get a taste of the real Africa. Hopefully without it tasting you.”
Agency: M&C Saatchi, Los Angeles
Client: San Diego Zoo
Large image on AdsOfTheWorld
Video ads: Scroll way down and look for “On TV” on the right side of the page.
Hilarious ads for some The Wellington Zoo in some country New Zealand, done by some cool and twisted creatives of some agency somewhere Saatchi & Saatchi, Auckland NZ(possibly the same country as the zoo is located in). Too bad I can’t fill in all the ’some’ words, but hey, that’s life. If anybody knows this, please drop a line in the comments so I can update this. Thanks for helping me out Chris!
Copy: “Celebrate Chimp Week – March 26 to April 2″
Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Auckland, New Zealand
Creative Directors: Mike O’Sullivan & Toby Talbot.
Creatives: Matty Burton, Steve Black, Toby Talbot & Dave Bowman.
Client: Wellington Zoo, NZ
via How Advertising Spoiled Me
The time where Modern Art is ‘trop cher’ for the common folks like you and me is far behind us. With this generator for Jackson Pollock look-alike art by Miltos Manetas, you can design your very own masterwork and if you press ‘print screen’ in time and paste the screen in Photoshop, you can easily have it optimized and printed to frame it and decorate your living room to create that super-modern loungy feeling. Cool.
“Who is Jackson Pollock?”
Jackson Pollock created so-called ‘drip paintings’. A very cool and surreal way to display feelings and emotions. He began painting with his (often very large) canvases on the floor, and developed what was called his “drip” (or his preferred term, “pour”) technique. He used his brushes as implements for dripping paint, and the brush never touched the canvas. Pollock’s technique of pouring and dripping paint is thought to be one of the origins of the term Action Painting.
My painting does not come from the easel. I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. I prefer to tack the unstretched canvas to the hard wall or the floor. I need the resistance of a hard surface. On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.
I continue to get further away from the usual painter’s tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.
When I am in my painting, I’m not aware of what I’m doing. It is only after a sort of ‘get acquainted’ period that I see what I have been about. I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.
Read more on Wikipedia | Create your own Pollock here | via CrossTheBreeze