– Anastasia Goodstein is expanding her youth focused Ypulse to include networking events, a new blog aimed at parents of teens, consulting and speaking. We missed her teen insight while she was at CurrentTV and we welcome her back.
– The Art Directors Club is naming Janet Froelich, Issey Miyake, Nancy Rice, Bert Stern, Art Spiegelman, Nicholas Negroponte to its Hall of Fame.
Writing in MediaPost, Eric Sass thinks the imagery in a recent Lexus commercial featuring two cars racing through New York City is to reminiscent of 9/11. We understand the point but we just don’t see it.
– We’re not so sure an Oscar winning Hollywood director making the move back to shooting commercials is necessarily a step up but that’s the step Barbara Kopple has taken with Nonfiction Spots.
– The New York Times says in its new campaign These Times Demand the Times.
– Lebron James helps a couple white boys get down with it for MTV’s SPorts Blender.
– Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners is continuing their “Secret Decoder” campaign for Mini USA that involved a secret code mailing to owners. If you’re not an owner, Brent has the code for you here.
– Here’s the new Apple ad from TBWAChiatDay promoting the new colors for the new iPod nano.
– Altois is giving away its new Curiously FUssy tin designed by New York artists Lindsey Adelman in a drawing.
– In a video interview with CoBRANDiT, Rocketboom’s Andrew Baron reveals he can get $80K per week for a sponsorship now. Amanda who?
OK, here’s another one of those spots we were talking about before that uses celebrity sports figures to sell shoes.
– Ironic Sans thinks reverse product placement – fake movie/TV products – is the wave of the future.
– Jesus sighted on MySpace page.
– In some sort of viral movie trailer contest, Scott Rankin won for his spoof of the Tom Cruise movie Cocktail which he re-named Caaktall.
– alls-based Six Flags is having a cockroach eating contest to drum up business.
