wonderland couture

ok this is hands down my favorite fashion editorial ever. (i first discovered it in an old magazine in the mas photostudio, and promptly stole the entire editorial. i plan to frame these pictures in my office someday.) it was published in the pages of the december 2003 issue of vogue and was shot by annie leibovitz. alice in wonderland is one of my favorite stories/disney movies and i feel like the fantastic ambiance in the book is perfectly and creatively captured in this series.

it features couture dresses by everyone from donatella versaci, karl lagerfield and dior to chanel and marc jacobs. the cool part is that it actually features the designers as other characters in the book; i.e. the queen of hearts, cheshire cat, mock turtle, tweedle dee, tweedle dum and so on.

i think i would enjoy art directing for a fashion magazine later on in my career.

mac vs pc vs south park

here's a great little spot i found. you know you're a great campaign when you are copied by south park. well, it wasn't exactly trey parker and matt stone, but some other dude that used this south park studio to make the characters. i had to of course make myself a south park character (decked out for oktoberfest, no less).
here's the spot:

and my character:

of course i think the original mac/pc spots by tbwa are genius as well.

2001 superbowl spot

for some reason when i watched the tea partay video on youtube, this one popped up on the side of recommended videos to watch. i remember this one debuting during the superbowl in 2001. yea, remember when britney spears pretty much ruled the world and was not insane/bald/commando/married/divorced/with two kids?
the commercial pretty much sums up the late 90's, early 00's i think. no real concept. just a huge production with whoever the most popular celebrity is at the time endorsing the product. i'm sure if bbdo new york didn't spend their entire budget on britney, they would have done sequels with nsync and christina aguilera. and, at 90 seconds during the superbowl i bet the airtime cost nearly as much as the production.

tea time

kay this video is a little old but it's still one of my favorites! i think it's especially funny to me because i worked at a country club and a lot of new england preps went to my university, and this video is so accurate haha. i had a very bad experience with smirnoff in college, so i don't think i would ever drink the raw tea that it's promoting, but you never know.
they made a second video to promote the green tea spoofing west coast rap but as usual sequels are hardly ever better than the original. when i went to the website when this campaign was still going on, there wasn't much to it and i was a little disappointed. still, i give props to bbh new york.

whale watcher-outers

yes! another great animal welfare campaign that doesn't involve pictures/videos of dead/dying animals. it's a campaign by republic of everyone (sydney) for ifaw to stop whaling in japan.

its called project 551 because according to their statistics, this year the japanese government killed 551 whales in the southern ocean whale sanctuary. these print ads are from this month and involved a dozen photographers and 26 'familiar faces.' i guess some of these people are supposed to be famous, but i don't recognize any of them.

simply interactive and in my opinion, effective. and of course a signature hand gesture of some sort always helps a campaign out.

i went ahead and took my picture and added it to their flickr site (partially because photobooth is so convenient.) when i uploaded my picture, they already had 553 submissions. apparently all the photos are going to be put in a book and given to the rudd government at the end of the campaign (kevin rudd is the prime minister of australia). is it just me, or wouldn't it be more effective to give it to the japanese government?

check out the website and add a picture too!



gah, my hands really are big.
and now that i really look at these pictures, there's a few inconsistencies. the first girl, wearing fur? the asian guy, with dead fish? i'm pretty sure the fur industry and commercial fishing industry do not promote animal welfare. whales must be the most important because they are the biggest, and most endangered.

"the world's finest automotive novelty testicles"

wow. this is the best website i have ever seen. really.
please thoroughly explore this site.

it just gets better and better...LOL

these ads have de-volved

ok i absolutely hate these ads. first of all, it's not that creative. the evolution thing has been done so, so many times. and, i don't think its a good idea to call your potential customers fat whales, pigs and cows. what is wrong with these people at propaganda in bucharest, romania?