Severed Bloody Limbs Promote Quentin Tarantino Flick

Here's yet another entry in the long list of methods used to promote movies. To call attention to the DVD release of Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, Amsterdam agency New Message has placed a bunch of bloody, severed arms in front of movie theaters throughout the Netherlands. We're thinking those arms aren't going to be on the ground very long as people pick them up and take them home to freak their friends out with later.

Pizza Hut Uses Reese Witherspoon's Son For Publicity

The Superficial tips us to a story about Reese Witherspoon's four year old son, Deacon, who wants to be a pizza delivery guy when he grows up according to comments Witherspoon made to Britains's Daily Express. Without losing a beat, Pizza Hut' Chief People Officer (you've got to be kidding) rushed a letter over to Deacon which read, in part, "We recently heard that you want to be a pizza delivery driver when you grow up. How wonderful! You've got several years to go before you can join our team, but in the meantime we're sending you a few things, so that you can practice."

Along with the letter came a Pizza Hut uniform, a miniature delivery vehicle and Pizza Hut coupons. Way to glom on to the dreams and aspirations of Hollywood's tiniest, Pizza Hut. Photo courtesy of Just Jared. See the full letter there too.

nip/tuck in Hollywood Makes Bandage Removal the New Striptease

To promote season five of nip/tuck on FX, and its move from Miami to LA, Hadley Media helped orchestrate a holographic public appearance by actors Dylan Walsh and Julian McMahon in the front office window at McNamara/Troy, the LA-based plastic surgery practice.

Until November 16th, you'll be able to catch the offices and holograms in Hollywood. The sideshow spectacle includes the McNamara/Troy waiting room, a live "patient" and the unwrapping of bandages from an attractive client. Sneak peek and image gallery are available at the site.

Fans can also leave live messages on the answering service. And while you probably won't be able to buy a fake nose, there's plenty of other fake stuff to go around. (Doctors and offices, to start.)

In recent weeks, an Adrants colleague took advantage of the promotion to get one of the good doctors to leave a message on our voice mail about the, uh, "work" we ought to get done. We were bummed, mainly because we had that part done already.

Did nobody notice?

SENZ Viral Brings Umbrella on 180 MPH Skydive

If you've ever been stuck in Manhattan with the wind blowing and the rain pouring down, you know your umbrella usually breaks around the 12th minute: at the muddy street corner, while a line of taken cabs power down the street.

Broken and defeated by life, you walk a quarter mile for the rain-soaked subway ride.

To both empathize with you and save you, SENZ Umbrella uploaded a would-be viral video showing its umbrellas are tough.

And we mean tough.

Saying "sucks" to bad luck, an open umbrella is thrown out of a plane with a skydiver, only to remain intact when they both hit the ground. The spot is the elemental soul-sister to Will It Blend? -- a series of spots about a really hardy blender.

(Thanks core77 for bringing it to our attention.)

Monotonous Trade Show Booth Spiels Replaced by Tiger and Cheerleader

"They're Greeeeeeat!" Oh wait, that's "a Tiger in Your Tank!" Oh wait, that's a guy in a tiger suit next to a cheerleader standing in front of the Traffic Marketplace booth on Monday during ad:tech New York. What tigers and cheerleaders have to do with whatever it is Traffic Marketplace does, we know not. But it seems to have attracted the attention of conference goers who at least stopped and looked. That's gotta count for something.

Staged Skits the New Conference Booth Babe

Booth babes, with their sexy little outfits and bursting cleavage, are now passe. In their place comes the staged exhibit hall skit. Courtesy of No More Landing Pages, we get the babelicious heroine saved from certain death by superheroes from ineffective landing pages. A little theater to spice of exhibit hall blues. Who can complain with that?

eBay Kidnaps St. Nick. Does this Mean We Have to Bid for Presents?

Okay, this is only slightly horrifying. Watch your friends at eBay kidnap Santa.

This was part of an unbranded guerrilla campaign that went live last week.

The kidnapper's manifesto is stated at Santa Kidnap. Naturally, it's all in our best interest. (Kind of like Abu Ghraib?)

Credits: Total for digital and media work; Tequila for creative (man, we don't like most things they do, do we?); and LAVA comm for seeding.

Guinness Generates Online 'Beer ARG,' Launches Mystery Site

If the Guinness ad scavenger hunt actually sparks your curiosity, we've got news for you: Guinness Tipping, the official campaign site, has been launched, courtesy of iChameleon Group.

The plot thickens with the inclusion of dominoes and mystery numbers. There are also people in an unfiction forum calling the ad-hunt a "beer ARG" comparable to a previous Stella Artois effort which we thought was interesting but never heard about again.

Happy hunting. We're getting curious about the treasure on the other side of this rainbow.

Frozen Babies Found In Grocery Freezers, Child Abuse Prevented

If you live in France and happen to have found a baby in the frozen food section of your local grocer, fear not. This isn't the latest baby dumping stunt by a distraught teenager; it's just a home-grown campaign to promote France's national child abuse phone number, 119. Another clue this isn't one of those baby-in-a-trash-barrel things: the babies here are tiny, plastic and wrapped in bags like toys.

It's not a sanctioned campaign but a one-off from a group of people who think the cause needs greater promotion. We're not sure what we'd do if we found a frozen baby while reaching for a bag of frozen peas but we sure like the approach these guys took to call attention to the issue. Watch the video.

KFC Enlists College Kid for Dirty Work

A college kid named Will is working with KFC to promote the company's Triple Dip Strips. See the challenges on Will It Spill.

The idea is the packaging will protect eaters from spills while enabling them to dip on the go. True to form, the package doesn't hold while Will rides a mechanical bull. Did we really expect it to? Well, kind of.

"Yup ... that's a spill," Will concludes, lying facedown and observing the mess he made all over the padded floor.

This is what Tupperware is for.