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Dinosaurs Attack Billboards For Creation Museum

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We love this new billboard campaign for Petersburg, Kentucky-based Creation Museum, a "70,000 square foot museum brings the pages of the Bible to life." This particular campaign appears to promote the museum's Dinosaur Den.

Interestingly, and unlike many other museums, the Creation Museum touts the idea of natural selection versus evolution and downplays the "molecules-to-man" line of Darwinian thinking. Or at least that's how we interpret it.

The billboard campaign itself is perfect. After all, what do you think a dinosaur would do if a billboard got in its way?

by Steve Hall    Jul-16-09    
Topic: Outdoor



Jayde Nicole Dons Lettuce Bikini For PETA

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PETA grabbed Playmate of the Year Jayde Nicole for their latest Go Veg effort. In celebration of National Veggie Dog Day (only PETA can come up with this stuff), Nicole, along with another lettuce-clad hottie, gave out free veggie dogs outside Capitol Hill yesterday.

Hmm. We've seen this lettuce bikini thing before. Wonder who created the idea first. Oh and before you all go slinging agency names around like a sandbox full of kids fighting over a plastic shovel and screaming, "mine! mine! mine!", we're quite sure old-school cavewomen - or maybe even Eve, herself - can lay claim to the invention before anyone had an inkling of the word "advertising".

Sadly, Obama Girl didn't make an appearance with the Giuliani Girls for an all out catfight.

by Steve Hall    Jul-16-09    
Topic: Cause, Guerilla, Racy



Scarlett Johansson Replaces Penelope Cruz As Mango Spokesmodel

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Scarlett Johansson, whose chest Woody Allen simply cannot stop staring at, has landed a new spokesmodel gig for fashion label Mango. She follows Penelope Cruz and is featured in a new ad campaign.

Images from the campaign are here.

by Steve Hall    Jul-16-09    
Topic: Brands, Campaigns, Celebrity



Arquette Bars Hunger, Folly in Fayetteville, Kid Eats Dog Crap

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- David Arquette and Snickers have teamed up to help Feeding America with "Bar Hunger."

- Yea so there's this whole thing going on about some spots Republik created for Fayetteville. Apparently some feel they are unpatriotic. You deciede. Watch them here and here.

- Oh please. BingTweets. Oh wait. That's not half bad.

- Airing 15 years ago for Staples, The Most Wonderful Time of the Year commercial will launch the 2009 Back to School season tomorrow, July 15.

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by Steve Hall    Jul-15-09    
Topic: Cause, Commercials, Strange



Keyboard Cat Recruited For Silly Infomercial

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OK so it's not like the whole informercial spoof genre hasn't been done to death but this outing from TextWise enlists Keyboard Cat and who doesn't love Keyboard Cat? There's all kind of talk about a document's "semantic DNA" and using an entire document to find another document. It's all way over our head but the woman in the ad is cute so we're all over it.

by Steve Hall    Jul-15-09    
Topic: Commercials, Good



Roadkill Detective Explains Benefits of Job

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Kinda lame until the end but it's only one minute long so it's sort of worth the wait. Not sure what PETA would have to say about animal treatment in this video but Westwood College doesn't seem to have a problem. All they want is for people in less desirable careers to realize a little education can help a person land their ideal job. But this "roadkill detective" seems to be quite smitten right where he is.

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by Steve Hall    Jul-15-09    
Topic: Campaigns, Good, Strange, Video



Newsflash! Cannes Gold Lions Not Gold!

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Not that we didn't know this already but someone went to the effort to prove it anyway. Boondoggle took their five "gold" Lions to several goldsmiths to see just how gold they really are. The findings? According to one goldsmith, a Gold Lion is just "a bad piece of blunt casting." No goldsmith found any worth to the statues.

Anyway, Boondoggle is very happy and proud to have won five "yellow copper Lions."

by Steve Hall    Jul-15-09    
Topic: Industry Events, Video



Cause Group Launches Twitter For Sh-tters

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Why anyone hasn't thought of this witty little word play is beyond us but non-profit Wherever the Need, with help from Skadaddle Media, is having fun with it. The effort aims to call attention to the importance of sanitation and to raise money to build eco-sanitation toilets for third world countries.

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by Steve Hall    Jul-15-09    
Topic: Cause, Good, Social, Strange



Lopilato Gets Fruity, Gen Y Explained (Again), Bogusky Talks Social

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- Random hot ad of the day with Argentinian actress, singer and model Luisana Lopilato

- All you ever wanted to know about Gen Y and why they're not victims of a coddled upbringing but victims of a poor economy.

- Check out this Huffington Post interview with Alex Bogusky during which he talks about the long term economic impact of social media on traditional media.

- Sounding quite a bit more blabble-mouthed than his "Beuller? Bueller?" days, Ben Stein is featured in a new commercial for online credit service FreeScore.

by Steve Hall    Jul-14-09    
Topic: Celebrity, Research, Social



Celebrities Hold Hands Up For Nelson Mandela Day

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OK, fine. A Nelson Mandela Day in New York on July 18th can't really be a bad thing, right? After all, the dude did a lot in his lifetime to help a lot of people. Why not celebrate him? But why do we need a video with celebrities holding their hands up for two minutes as some almost Simon and Garfunkel-sounding dude whines about how wonderful the world would be if people just helped make peace on earth with their own two hands.

Oh wait, this is all a good thing, right? Sorry, let's start over.

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by Steve Hall    Jul-14-09    
Topic: Cause, Celebrity, Video



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