Interactive Firm Demonstrates Abilities With Bunny Surgery Game

Apparently, this is what web design firms do during down time. Seemingly for our amusement and, in the process, to demonstrate their stellar design skills, 10mg interactive has offered up a stuffed bunny who needs surgery. With defibrillator, razor, scalpel and other surgery tools, those inclined can zap the bunny, cut him open and play with his intestines. Fun, huh? We're definitely calling these guys for our next project!

British Airways Cabin Game Offers Chance to Sample Luxury

Wow. We just might have to start liking Agency.com and put that whole Subway deal behind us. But, maybe not since the Subway video-creating Agency.com is not the same as the London-based Agency.com that created this new work for British Airways' new Club World Cabin. While lushly displaying all the first class cabin's accouterments, visitors can play a game in which the cabin's features are explored while searching for a pair of airline tickets which, if found, enter one in a drawing. The drawing's winner receives two tickets in the Club World Cabin from London to New York and a stay at the Intercontinental Barclay Hotel. We entered. Twice.

Blake Hamster Brings Deliciously Dark Eco-Fare to E-tail Mix

Mashing up the green movement, artistic collaboration and esoteric naming devices (consider Gnarls Barley), all of which are really hot among organic smoothie-sucking elite, Blake Hamster comes at us with manifesto in hand, burning down traditional e-tail norms and whatnot.

And while we're not sure what's happening in the picture at left (a rape? A drug transaction? An arm's-length grope?), we crazy-dig their eco-sexy overpriced fare.

Plus they come at a good time considering duds have finally surpassed electronics, revenue-wise, over the Internet.

Silverjet Caters to Needs of Lesbian Mile High Club

It's understandable women don't want to sit on a toilet seat covered with piss launched by men who can't aim properly so it makes sense an airline would eventually provide bathrooms for women only. That's exactly what Silverjet has done but it also leads us to believe they cater to only to lesbian mile high club members. Where's a poor straight girl to go?

Bruce Campbell Old Spice Ad Mocks Axe

Hearing this rendition of Duran Duran's Hungry Like the Wolf as played by Bruce Campbell smarmy lounge act-style for Old Spice's Ahoy Body Spray makes the eighties seem like an era much more distant than the actual 20-25 years that have past would suggest. Surrounded by a bevy of beauties in front of a fire, Campbell, recently seen in an equally smarmy role in Spiderman 3, offers up his rendition of the Duran Duran hit which the girls seem to love. Or maybe it's the Old Spice Ahoy Body Spray they like as indicated by their Axe-style attraction to the man as he plays...or pretends to play. At one point during Campbell's serenade, his hands completely leave the keyboard while the smarm continues to ooze from the grand piano.

This campaign very wittily separates itself from Axe while, at the same time, mocks Axe's man-magnet approach to selling body spray. Even the Hungry Like the Wolf lyrics play into the joke. This is Campbell's second outing for Old Spice and it works. His first involved sitting around a fireplace dispensing advice with the same smarm displayed in the second outing.

This recent work was created by Wieden + Kennedy and directed by The Perlorian Brothers.

Seven Steps to Better Creative Offered

American Copywriter's Tug McTighe has some supremely wonderful advice for those working in creative. It's supremely wonderful because it's rooted in common sense rather than the stereotypical egomaniacal lunacy we so love to pin on creatives from time to time. It's not so much that this advice is new but everyone can use a refresher course from time to time. Tug says creatives should bail on concept, copy or layout that's been revised more than three times. By then, it's time to start over. Don't come up with a kick ass concept before you've immersed yourself in research. Or at least let the AE do it for you and summarize.

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Even Grown Ups Can Flirt Via Text Messaging

Have you ever noticed that parents have this strange language they use when they talk to each other while in front of their children? From spelling words out to creating entirely new words to using odd hand signals and facial expressions in order to keep their kids in the dark about the conversation, it appears an entire language has been developed just for this situation. It seems Optimus has made use of this phenomenon to promote its text messaging. Check out the spot here. Watch well because the place it's hosted, Wi-FiTV appears to let an individual view only once before requiring registration...which, of course, you could do but who wants to deal with lengthy forms?

One of Our Own Wins 'Survivor'

We Twittered this (yes, we are one of "those" people) last night but it deserves wider recognition. We, as an industry can be proud LA-based Muse Communications Senior Account Executive Earl Cole won Survivor last night with a shut out victory. Not only did everyone on the jury vote for Cole, the man's name was never written down by anyone during any tribal council.

While we were rooting for Yau-man because he played game so ingeniously, we're happy level-headed Earl got the vote. Dreamz did his own style of manipulation but that wasn't enough to distance himself from the car winner curse. Cassandra. Well, there isn't much to say about her.

Congrats Earl.

Chevy's Aveo Lives Large Again, Travels to Hollywood

As a follow up to their Livin' Large in Aveo, Chevy is doing the "this car's so awesome you could live in it" thing again. Chevy is sending Eric Schackne and Filup Molina on a cross-country quest for so-called stardom. The two will travel from Gainesville, Florida to Hollywood, California continue to to see if they can make it big in movie land. Along the way they'll document the people they meet, the experiences they have and the "performances" they deliver in comedy clubs and with improv troupes in cities along their route. Eesh. That oughtta be good. If you aren't lucky enough to be one of their stops on their week-long road trip, the whole thing's being chronicled with videos and a blog.

No one really wants to live in a car but a road trip is a right of passage and we're liking Chevy a lot for helping these two dudes fulfill this important life chapter. We think more automakers should get in on the game too. After all, there ain't much money in the pockets immediately after college.

Our Peeping Tom Shakes Awake, Courtesy of Peep

While one member of the Adrants team thinks it's just "some retro oddity," the rest of us (meaning me) are pretty infatuated with this sultry Peep campaign which marks its 21st annual Fashion Cares AIDS benefit in Toronto.

Check out the video, a veritable voyeur's fairy tale in BDSM costume. Sort of reminds us of that PSP white-on-black (and vice-versa! Don't kill us) effort except without the console tacked on.