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Payless Kittens: Cuddliest Trip Ever
11.19.2009
09:42 pm
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Never underestimate the sales potential of kittens. Especially hypnotic, psychedelic ones. Something tells me this video is gonna get passed around.

AdFreak reports:

Martin/Williams encourages Payless customers to sleep in on Black Friday, and still get discounts via a special text coupon, in this video, which features an annoying “You’re getting sleepy” hypnotist voiceover and, oddly, dozens of snoozing kittens. “We’ve decided to turn the Black Friday tradition on its ear this year and do it in a manner that’s really fun and totally unique,” says Tom Moudry, the agency’s CEO and chief creative officer. I’m sure plenty of consumers will love the yawning kitties. Still, the clip drones on for a long 1:35, and some viewers might nod off before its conclusion. Given the run-of-the-mill stuff they sell at Payless, however, even if folks slip into catnaps and neglect to take advantage of the offer, they won’t be missing much.

(AdFreak: Nap with the Payless kitties on Black Friday)

Posted by Jason Louv
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11.19.2009
09:42 pm
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The Elton John: Hand-Painted Toilet Seat
11.19.2009
08:06 pm
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Size: each 15?

Posted by Tara McGinley
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11.19.2009
08:06 pm
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The Pop-up Book of Phobias
11.19.2009
11:46 am
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Here’s a creepy book titled The Pop-up Book of Phobias by Gary Greenberg and illustrated by Balvis Rubess. Enjoy! 

 
(via Cakehead Loves Evil)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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11.19.2009
11:46 am
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Winnebago Man: Angriest Man in the Mobile Home Industry
11.18.2009
04:10 pm
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This guy is like the Christian Bale of Winnebago sales. NSFW if you work in a rectory. GET THE F*** OUT OF HERE YOU FLIES!

Posted by Jason Louv
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11.18.2009
04:10 pm
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Puppenklinik: Odd Dolls of Famous People
11.18.2009
12:13 pm
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Pope Benedictus
 
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Lady Di
 
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From Lost At E Minor:

The latest innovation in the world of the puppet toys are the unsettling dolls of celebrities that are manufactured by the German company ?ج

Posted by Tara McGinley
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11.18.2009
12:13 pm
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WTF 8-Bit Style Video: Truckers Delight
11.18.2009
11:27 am
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Naughty WTF video from French electronic band Flairs. Ummm… Err…

Truckers Delight animated video clip directed by newcomer wunderkid J?ɬ

Posted by Tara McGinley
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11.18.2009
11:27 am
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France’s Human Hamster Hotel
11.17.2009
03:17 pm
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Freelance creative types rejoice—France has just the hotel for you!  For only 99 Euros a night, you, too, can eat grain, run on a giant wheel, and crash out on a bed of hay.

 
(via Reuters)

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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11.17.2009
03:17 pm
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DIY: Janet’s Whizbang Chicken Plucker
11.15.2009
12:02 pm
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(Warning: video is not for vegetarians or for folks who like to cuddle with chickens). Here’s an odd DIY chicken plucking machine built from Herrick Kimball’s book “Anyone Can Build A Whizbang Chicken Plucker.” Um, I think I’ll stick with my salad spinner.
 
(via Arbroath)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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11.15.2009
12:02 pm
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Chia Obama: Racist kitsch or sincere tribute to the President?
11.13.2009
07:55 pm
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Earlier this week, L.A. Times advertising columnist Dan Neil asked his readers if the controversial commemorative Chia Obama was a sincere tribute or racist scorn. Neil seems to think not and based his opinion on his measure of the man behind the product:

The staggering truth: Chia Obama is a real product, and its creator—77-year-old San Francisco ad man and Chia Pet magnate Joseph Pedott, a lifelong Republican—means it to be a sincere tribute to Obama, who he says has inherited “the biggest can of worms ever put on a president.”

“I remember the Great Depression,” Pedott says. “It wasn’t very nice.” In November, after the election, Pedott was deeply worried about Obama, the first Democrat Pedott had ever voted for. With the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the banking crisis, unemployment and more, says Pedott, “it’s almost inhuman to put all that on a president.”

Neil goes on to write:

Pedott awoke one winter night with a thought. “Is it possible to take a brand that nobody thinks seriously about and do something good for the country?” And—veteran adman that he is—he started to think about how to sell it. “Can I create a commercial that will help Obama do the things that I want done? To give Americans something to hope for, hold on to.”

These may seem unduly noble aspirations for a man who sells mossy clay figurines, but for Pedott, the Chia is no joke. “It’s the biggest asset I have,” he says.

The short version of events is as follows: Pedott commissioned several prototypes—a three-president series (Washington, Lincoln, Obama), a smiling Obama and the determined Obama, and even an Obama-and-Hillary set. In March, the Chia Obama—“It’s not a ‘pet,’ ” notes Pedott—was test-marketed at Walgreens in Chicago and Tampa and was almost immediately pulled from shelves after the stores received complaints that the Chia Obama was racist (the big green ‘fro, don’t you know). Pedott was stunned and disheartened.

“All I tried to do was something positive,” he says. “I never even thought about the hair.”

Well, he certainly sounds sincere enough to me. Why wouldn’t Neil—or anyone else for that matter—take Pedott’s word at face value? Maybe, just maybe, it’s the well-intentioned folks who claim to find racism in the Chia Obama who are seeing something that’s not even there? After all, did anyone accuse the Jerry Garcia commemorative Chia of being anti-hippie? Is the Homer Simpson Chia meant to disparage baldies?

And furthermore, no one said “boo” when Pedott released the Mr. T Chia in 2000, so what gives? Even that bastion of political correctness himself, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, was amused by the Obama Chia. Haven’t we gotten past this stuff?

Apparently the president himself was delighted (“I’ve got green hair!” he said) with the tribute when presented with a Chia Obama in May: “He’s as warm as he can be,” Pedott told Neil. “I was so damn impressed.”

Now the Obama Chia, shunned by most major retailers, is being sold on television via direct response ads and the Chia Obama website.
 


Cross posting this from Brand X

Posted by Richard Metzger
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11.13.2009
07:55 pm
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7-Up For Baby!
11.13.2009
12:40 pm
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Don Draper would have a shit-fit over this omgwhatweretheythinking 7-Up ad campaign from 1955:

By the way, Mom, when it comes to toddlers—if they like to be coaxed to drink their milk, try this: Add 7-Up to the milk in equal parts pouring the 7-Up gently into the milk. It’s a wholesome combination—and it works!

(via J-Walk Blog)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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11.13.2009
12:40 pm
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