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Economic downturn is the tedious and frightening mantra of our waking life – every newspaper and newscast bears another report of financial collapse or failure or closure, and personal portfolios are in tatters.
Books and articles are resurfacing to describe how to "make due and mend" or other such dreary advice first heard in dire periods of the Depression and war. Television talk shows are demonstrating how a family can live for a week without spending a cent, or how to make a meal stretch til it squeaks. But surely there must be a way to maintain some level of, well, the way we're used to living?
There is indeed a way to do it. Think French.
French women are notoriously stylish and yet are also known, paradoxically it seems, also for tiny capsule wardrobes that leave room to spare in their small, antique armoires. They live in small but smart apartments among furniture handed down for generations. They eat well and never gain an ounce. They live well, seemingly with very little. How?
French women are notoriously stylish and yet are also known, paradoxically it seems, also for tiny capsule wardrobes that leave room to spare in their small, antique armoires. They live in small but smart apartments among furniture handed down for generations. They eat well and never gain an ounce. They live well, seemingly with very little. How?
"Conspicuous consumption is not a French trait," says Mireille Guiliano, author of French Women Don't Get Fat and an expert on the mysteries of the French psyche. When it comes to fashion, she says "French women have always practiced recession dressing", carefully and thoughtfully choosing one or two perfect pieces rather than taking the scatter-shop method many of the rest of us do.
"A French woman has a good classic jacket that she might wear with perfect pants and on Saturday with leggings she found for $29.99. She is savvy, her eye is trained to see how things will work in her wardrobe and how she can change the look with a scarf or a belt or a necklace."
But in all things, from eating to consuming goods, Guiliano maintains it's all about thinking it through, carefully selecting what is best physically and spiritually. And, adhering to the rule of "simplicity in all things."
"Most of us make life too complicated…. The more stuff you have the more stressful it is," says Guiliano.
American by birth and French by marriage and passion, Debra Ollivier, author of Entre Nous – A Woman's Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl says the French have an innate way of living stylishly, gracefully and relatively inexpensively because she lives from the inside out, nurturing an intellectual life as strenuously as others might work on gathering the latest gilded gizmo or shiny status item.
In terms of fashion, "their philosophy is all about finding a look that reflects who they are, rather than going for whatever "look" is being hawked by fashionistas." When it comes to entertaining, a French woman might choose one delicious dish made of seasonal (and therefore less expensive) ingredients rather than a lavish spread; no multitudes of appetizers but rather a simple bowl of olives. She might stay in with a good book rather than go out for bottle service at the latest hot spot.
"I think a lot of it has to do, believe it or not, with cultivating an inner life. French women are not only very self-possessed, but they have an entirely different concept of sexuality/sensuality than we Americans do," says Ollivier.
While the French are the way they are by dint of generations of sturdy example, training and osmosis, the essential theory isn't so hard to embrace. Think of it as a detox of sorts. Think before you buy, think before you eat, take pleasure in small but perfect things, like a few pretty flowers or a glass of decent wine. Slow down. The economy is out of your control, but living well is the best revenge.
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It's hard to get critique on artwork sometimes, particularly flash. I posted on Newgrounds for help, and only got 4-5 comments that weren't really detailed.
Here is something I'm working on. I think I'll fix some of the sounds later and make them louder or quieter. Sorry for the large size, but I haven't yet optimized it, and it's very detailed.
It's mostly experimental, and I made it because I think people found my previous flashes too slow and lacking in action.
It's a WIP because I haven't colored in all of the frames or drawn in all of them yet.
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wow its awesome, like the colors also and the fight scene too with the music, but the fight scene i think could use a little more movement into it, am not sure how to explain this to ya since am new to this stuff.
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The wonderful thing about perfection is that it doesn't exist. My quest for perfection isn't about perfection itself, but rather the joy and struggle of trying to attain it.
It is in my character to be different than others and to choose paths based on what I want. I play classical guitar in a world where rock guitar prevails... I lift heavy weights and run in a world where people sit on their asses and do nothing all day. It is also in my character to want to be better than everyone else in a sense that average people lead average lives with average paychecks. I want to be better than the average person so I stick out. Average people accomplish average feats. I do not wish to be "just another" weightlifter or guitarist. It has always been my goal to do the best I can at what ever I set my mind to, this is where you guys come in.
I have decided to give powerlifting a try. Aesthetically I don't want to be huge even if its all muscle, I just dont have a desire for that. I do want to be bigger than I am now and possibly leaner. Wonderful thing about PLers is that you can be small but strong as ****.
I dont know squat (pun intended ) about powerlifting. All I know is that all the focus is on squat bench and deadlift. The totals of the 3 determine the winner (I think).
As for a routine, Westside was recommended. But a routine is worthless without the trade powerlifting techniques. I would really like someone to personally teach me how to lift but that doesnt seem like a possibility at the moment.
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I never said he would. You are the one you claimed that Toney couldn't hurt Eubank
He wouldn't hurt Eubank
How? By using a case of Evander fighting a predictable Tyson who was throwing single shots at a time?
Strawman argument
You said you need a speed advantage to counter, I said you didn't with an example, now you're backpeddling
You obviously have
watched that fight
Good one
Maybe I was watching another fight where Hopkins was throwing right hand
then clinching
You obviously have
watched that fight
I find it strange when people go out of their way to claim certain things. I have never felt any need to highlight my martial arts background here. In fact I would say it was quite irrelevant. Either what I say makes sense or it does not
What's your martial arts background? Not a wind up, I'm interested, I used to do a little bit of martial arts years ago,
Hell no
Benn tended to load up on his punches
You think Toney was faster than Benn??
What are you talking about? I named the Collins and Calzaghe fights as examples where Eubank's footwork was sloppy.
How is that relevant? Toney is not similar to Collins or Calzaghe at all
Do you think walking into the ring carrying excess fat hinders you or helps you?
Toney carried excess fat as a SMW, at LHW he didn't have to cut that extra 7 pounds
McCallum was not a big hitter at mw. I'm sure quite a few tough limited natural mw's would of been able to go the distance with him. Doesn't mean they were anywhere near as good as him.
I'm sure Tiberi could of gone the distance with McCallum. If he could take Toney's punches then he could take Mccallum's
Collins pushed Mccallum and gave him a hard fight.
Please stop boxrecingReggie Johnson clearly won that fight. You would now that if you actually
zzz.... I never said Collins won, I said it was a close fight, which it was. You know it was a close fight, so why be disingenuous?
Griffin would of out-boxed him.
The fact that they made their pro debuts at different weight classes is irrelevant here, especially with Griffin being such a small lhw.
Griffin's prime was at LHW, Eubank's between MW-SMW. If they were the same size, I'd say it's a close fight.
The only people I have ever come across who claim that tend to be
Toney haters.
Like the judges? Perhaps the commentators who scored it to Thadzi, or several fans on boxing boards who also scored it to Thadzi. Google it and look around, don't get upset and defensive and accuse everyone of being a Toney hater
You are the one who brought up Toney's losses to Thadzi and Tiberi
Dave Tiberi was not a club fighter either. A club fighter would be someone like Dan Schommer
My bad, tell me more about the great Dave Tiberi please
A solid win for Griffin. Jones deserved to get dqed
Maybe and maybe not.
Here we go again
your post
Eubank was at his best at mw as well
Are you blind? Toney called Eubank out when they were at SMW - watch the video in the OP. IF they were to fight, it would have been at SMW.
Eubank was done as a world class fighter after the Watson I fight. He refused to train properly and by the time of the Schommer fight he was only training
one week
before fights. It's the reason he struggled with almost everyone at smw
Compare their performances against Thornton. Toney toyed with Thornton and carried him to the end of the fight. Eubank struggled and should of lost that fight
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"With a fairly important meeting on the horizon, I started to try on different outfits, lacking any real direction or plan. "Is this too formal? Is that too out there? Is this dress too short?... As I arrived at work, my stress level only increased as I saw my male creative partner and other male co-workers having a "brodown" with the new boss as they entered the meeting room—a room I was suppose to already be inside. I just stood there—paralyzed by the fact that I was not only late, but unprepared. And my sweater was inside out."
Matilda Kahl's piece for Harper's Bazaar was the first article on wearing a self-imposed daily outfit that hasn't left me wanting to tear our my hair. (See: Stuart Heritage in The Guardian's How to be as successful as Obama and Zuckerberg: wear the same clothes every day. It may work for the President but how would that work for Michelle Obama?)
I like Kahl's piece because I agree. Uniforms can be powerful. I love Janelle Monae's commitment to her black and white style and have long expressed admiration for the architecture professors of the world who look chic in daily black. Her feeling of panic at getting dressed is one I have felt many times and I, too, have a standard look that I put on no matter the situation when I'm unsure- dark jeans, a button down shirt, and some oversized necklace.
Kahl and Heritage agree that thinking about exactly what to wear takes up amount of time and brain space, sometimes distracting from other things that need to get done. Heritage however frames it as time that the busy men he profiles just can't be bothered to take. That taking the time to think about clothes is trivial or a waste. What Kahl gets, perhaps better than most given her job as Creative Director, is that no matter what we wear we send a signal. Zuckerberg does it in his hoodie, and it's a signal that works for him both because of who he is and what his surroundings are. It would not work for President Obama for the same reasons. (And when Zuckerberg met Obama? He wore a tie.) Kahl saves herself time now by wearing a uniform, but it only works because she thought through a work outfit that would always be appropriate.
Me? I'm not giving up a rainbow of colors (okay, yes, mostly blue and green and sometimes red.) But I get it. Now excuse me, I've got to throw on a button down and get to work.
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"It's a mistake to think the consumer cares as much about your brand as you do. They may spend 2 seconds of their day thinking about you, so you have to nail it in the fewest words possible, and be relentlessly consistent."
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014
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Sad it's all over? No, I'm not talking about the holidays. I'm talking about the end of Serial. While Jay may have finally stepped forward to give his account, our Thursdays are missing the most popular podcast of time, brought to you by MailChimp.
I loved Serial as a fan of podcasts, and while I initially cringed every time I heard "MailKimp," the marketing geek inside me was fascinated by their lucky break. They actually managed to become part of the story of Serial.
But just how did MailChimp's 19 second ad get to be "the official sponsor of engrossing teenage murder sagas everywhere?" (@JeffLoveless.) Here's a little case study I wrote up.
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I loved Serial as a fan of podcasts, and while I initially cringed every time I heard "MailKimp," the marketing geek inside me was fascinated by their lucky break. They actually managed to become part of the story of Serial.
But just how did MailChimp's 19 second ad get to be "the official sponsor of engrossing teenage murder sagas everywhere?" (@JeffLoveless.) Here's a little case study I wrote up.
*I actually created the graphic in early December before the finale so the numbers are already out of date.
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Thursday, November 6, 2014
not lovin' it
I'm not a McDonald's fan, so maybe I'm in the minority, but I think this butts up against something that should be avoided in advertising- saying what you don't want people to think.
McDonald's knows they face a myriad of criticisms- charges that they are causing a childhood obesity epidemic, Super Size Me, being the focus of the fast food workers unionization movement, pink slime, and the list goes on. So should McDonald's encourage loving over hating? Or does it just feel like Mickey D is asking people to not hate them?
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Tuesday, November 4, 2014
design, explained by donuts
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Monday, October 27, 2014
making things
Grad school. Three semesters in with one to go. I had been warned there would be a lull, or rather, a huge dip in motivation in this third semester. It's true. I've found it incredibly hard to be motivated to get my work done and at times, hard to be creative at all.
Making things has been extremely limited during my program, but it's hit an all time high. I get caught in a cycle of having school work to do so I put off creative activities (or social activities or exercise activities,) but then I procrastinate on actually doing the school work so I have no time later to do the creative activities. After three months, I finally got my act together and spent a fantastic few hours making new earrings for Concept 47. And I semi-blogged here this weekend (really just a little read more repost.)
It felt great.
So the question is, how do I do this more?
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Sunday, October 26, 2014
read more: the better-writen bio that could be mine
"I struggle often to justify my love of aesthetics. I love to rearrange furniture and choose lipstick shades and curate art collections and have amassed more than enough statement jewelry over the years, and I sometimes treat these gifts as if they're burdens. I sometimes wish I could trade these passions for something more "worthwhile" – whatever that means – and then I realize how ridiculous that sounds. Gifts are gifts. Passions are passions. We don't choose them; they arrive, packaged in cardboard. They're often bubble-wrapped, I think, and sometimes I use that same bubble wrap to suffocate them. Lately I've been working really hard not to do that, and instead, to pop the wrap a bit at a time with a new challenge (pop) or project (pop) or pursuit (pop pop pop)."
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Winner! I doubled the chilli, used spring onion, a handful of coriander and coconut milk instead of cream. Loved it.
this was lovely i marinaded chicken breast steaks. going toi try the on prawns aswell. yummo will make again
After I marinated the chicken for 4 hours I placed them in the oven (with sauce) and baked for approx 1 hour. Everyone absolutely loved it and wanted the recipe.
Made this for a BBq and served with an Asian Salad, it was delicious. Will definately make again. I also used spring onions instead of shallots.
This is a very nice chicken marinade and I love that it is a bit more exotic than other marinade recipes. I used spring onion by mistake the first time, but it tasted nice and gave it a beautiful green colour so I did it again the second time i made it (for a crowd). Reccommend trying this.
Cooked this last night as part of a Thai dinner for 12 people and everyone loved it. I used chicken thigh fillets and marinated them in a baking dish. I then cooked it in the oven (uncovered to let it brown). The sauce was delicious.
I used chicken thigh cutlets. I was a bit worried about the amount of fish sauce at first because the marinade smelled quite strongly of it, but once it was cooked it was mild and delicious. I'll definitely make it again, but next time I'll bbq it rather than do it in a pan on the stovetop. I served it with the coconut rice recipe from here and asian greens and it made a lovely winter meal.
Made this for a neighbourhood BBQ and everybody enjoyed it. Made a good change from snags and chops.
This chicken dish was delicious! Was easy to prepare, I used skinless chic thighs and did the trick on the bbq with the baking paper. This will be a keeper in our recipe book.
Had this for lunch today, top receipe, added 1/2 teaspoon cumin & 1/2 teaspoon of chilli paste. Marinated overnight ,flavour was superb and chicken so moist and tender. Used skinless chicken thighs and reduced fat coconut cream. Great satay flavour without the peanuts . Will make again at our next BBQ.
Very tasty! I will definitely make this again but will use thigh cutlets as it's easier to tell when they are cooked
Really lovely if you prefer a mild taste. The chargrilled taste makes this recipe! I would suggest adding a little chili & cumin if you prefer a bit more flavour :)
This was jolly yummy! Everybody loved it. DD and boyfriend made chicken burgers with leftovers. Had problem with marinade/skin sticking to BBQ but solved issue with cooking on baking paper (thx 2 forum) A firm fave now.
SOOOOO good! I didn't have a food processor so I just mixed all ingrediants up & chucked over chicken to marinate- still turned out fab! But looking forward to trying this again with a processor.
Loved it!!!! My husband made this one and it was so delicious. We will definately make again. :)
Delicious and easy. Used chicken thigh fillets as easier to serve and eat. The aroma is fabulous.
Great Summer BBQ recipe. Easy and tasty.
Super easy and super delicious!! I'd cut down the fish sauce but otherwise this was really tasty. It smelt so good on the bbq.
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BEIRUT: This fall's parliamentary election has been canceled altogether, according to former Interior Minister Ziad Baroud, over the Cabinet's failure to sign the decree calling on the electorate to take part in the polls.
"The failure to issue a decree to call for the electoral committees by officials, before the legal, binding day, has led to the cancellation of the scheduled election," Baroud said Tuesday in a statement aimed at clarifying the controversy over the decree.
"Unfortunately, this dangerous negligence cannot be amended now unless [lawmakers] amend the election law itself," he added. "The purpose behind [the failure] could be to impose a status quo and once again extend Parliament's mandate in an illegal manner."
The Cabinet failed to meet the legal deadline to publish a decree calling on the electorate to vote in parliamentary polls scheduled for Nov. 16. The decree should have been published before Monday, 90 days before the election.
Lawmakers have been in talks over the possibility of extending Parliament's mandate for the second time in less than two years, citing security concerns. The presidential vacuum also throws the election into doubt, as the head of state must appoint a new prime minister and Cabinet after parliamentary elections.
Baroud explained that calling on the electorate to take part in the polls was effectively the means by which the Cabinet scheduled parliamentary elections.
"The Constitution stipulates that the election should be held on a single day, a Sunday, and the last Sunday before Parliament's mandate expires is Nov. 16, which means that the election can no longer be held on that day in light of the 90-day rule," he wrote.
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Gerri Lamb, PhD, RN, FAAN, has spent most of her 30-year career engrossed in an issue-care coordination-that only recently began to gain center stage under health reform. "I've worked with people with many chronic illnesses and lots of social problems, and I've watched the difficulties they have navigating our healthcare system," says Lamb. "I've always thought we could do better."
Despite her years of hands-on experience, Lamb was thrown for a loop when her own mother became ill, and she was thrust into the caregiver role. "It was one of the most difficult experiences I have ever had," she says.
One occasion stands out: A physician wanted to hospitalize Lamb's mother, but her mother was convinced that if she went into the hospital, she wouldn't come out. So Lamb did her best to keep her mother at home. "I'm in Arizona, she's in Florida, and I'm working long distance to orchestrate home care, oxygen … the works. There were all sorts of scheduling snafus and miscommunication. The doctor's office sent in the referral for home care, and then closed for the day. It ended up taking 36 hours to get home care. Meanwhile my mother-who is very high risk for a frightening and expensive hospitalization-is kept waiting."
While disheartening, Lamb's experience with her mother led to an epiphany: "My greatest passion now is patient-centered care coordination, and shifting our measurement to look at what's important to patients and families. There's a huge gap between what we currently measure and what was important to me as a daughter trying to coordinate my mother's care."
Lamb started out as a home care nurse in lower Manhattan helping patients and families coordinate needed services. She went on to lead seminal research into care coordination, including a 1990s Medicare demonstration project that tested a fully capitated model for community-based care coordination. Most recently, Lamb has been working with the National Quality Forum on performance measures around care coordination. She is also project codirector for INTERACT, a program that is helping reduce hospital admissions from skilled nursing facilities.
Throughout her career, Lamb has kept circling back to the same theme: "Much of care coordination is difficult to articulate," she says. For instance, in a study funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Lamb and her research team developed a tool to measure how hospital nurses coordinate care. "We found that nurses spend an extensive amount of time engaged in a wide range of coordination activities. But when we asked the nurses whether they thought anyone knows what they do to coordinate care, almost all of them said 'no.'"
Care coordination is very hard work, says Lamb. "Connecting the different parts of the healthcare system and making those parts work together is really tough and takes a lot of skill."
Following the dictum "you can only manage what you measure," Lamb believes that an important step in improving care coordination is to come up with more patient-centered metrics. Most of the current measures are condition-specific or provider- or facility-centered-and fail to consider how patients move across care settings.
"We measure whether a patient has a discharge plan or has a physician appointment set up. But we don't examine whether there is an integrated plan of care across the various providers-which is one of the hallmarks of good care coordination. We don't have strong measures for that, and yet that was what I cared about with my mother."
Lamb is committed to improving care coordination for patients and their families. Her research program at Arizona State University, which involves colleagues from many other disciplines, is aimed at making this happen.
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Alexey Lyapunov and Lena Erlich are People Too, a pair of Russian illustrators who have taken paper sculpture as their medium of choice, and made it entirely their own. Their deceptively delicate and very intricate creations for Amnesty International's Fan the Flame campaign, which are fashioned entirely from white paper. Depicting acts of violence and brutality with a quiet poignancy that is hard to match is any other medium, the detailed sculptures all the more impressive for their impermanence. Their portfolio is full to the brim with incredible paper sculpture of the more colourful and naive variety, much of which looks more like it has been crafted with clay than with several sheets of humble A4.
I can't remember who turned me onto the Brilliant Ads Twitter feed last year but a thousand thank yous to whoever it was. It describes itself as: "The most creative, unique, remarkable and powerful advertisements, signs and marketing-related things from around the world," and that pretty much sums it up nicely. What I really like about it is the scope; from DIY shop signs to big brands' most innovative offerings from all over the world (and some historical gems as well), it's a great way to get a daily hit of creative inspiration away from the mainstream and increasingly same-same advertising resources. They've just done a top 100 countdown of 2013 and safe to say it included some absolute pearlers; here's some of our favourites…
Did you know that if your home lacks a fireplace – and that can be a real problem at this festive time of year – then you can get a realistic-looking film of one courtesy of online video platform Netflix? You didn't did you? No you're right it's a bit weird, but the Netflix chaps have embraced this absurdity with this terrifically tongue-in-cheek trailer for said fireplace. Over-the-top voice-over? Check! Silly quotes that make little sense? Check! An inflated sense of its own importance? Check! Clearly these guys see a lot of trailers, which allows them to lampoon the genre with consummate skill. Well played Netflix, well played indeed.
Sometimes the best way to challenge injustice and inequality is through humour, an idea that Mother London have again explored in their new project. Horrified by the treatment of the LGBT community in Russia, where homosexuality has been classed as a mental illness since 1999, Mother have worked with The Kaleidoscope Trust charity to create something silly that has a serious point to make. To Russia With Love is a limited edition set of hand-painted Russian dolls but in place of bonneted matrons, the sets feature prominent British LGBT figures, namely Sir Elton John, George Michael, Stephen Fry, Graham Norton and Tom Daley (presumably a late addition). The dolls are being auctioned off on eBay to raise funds for the charity and sets are being delivered to both The Kremlin and the Russian Embassy in London.
Corporate calendars tend to be as dull as post-Christmas-lunch-washing-up dishwater but super-hip US hotel chain The Standard have produced an exception to prove the rule. Under the direction of Erik Kessels and photographer Thomas Mailaender, their 2014 calendar takes inspiration from the strangest letters, suggestions or complaints they've received from guests. Starting points include, "My girlfriend and I spent lots of money at the bar and on room service. Any compensation would be greatly appreciated," and the terrifically odd, "I lost my kush. Where's my kush?"
Forgive us for two things this afternoon. Firstly for shamelessly nicking this off The Fox is Black and secondly for posting something that was made back in 2008. Yep, that's right. This utterly perfect promo for Kubrick Season on Channel 4 was created back when the Hollywood writers strike and the sudden death of much-loved actor Heath Ledger was taking effect on the film industry. Nevertheless, popular agency 4Creative took it upon themselves to make a minute-long paean to Kubrick's infamous The Shining by shooting a fictional, one-take, behind-the-scenes film. Really though, has any promo ever come anywhere near being this good? I doubt it.
Whether we admit or not, jealousy plays a not insignificant role in the creative industries. In fact D&AD is honest enough to address this head on; when it comes to choosing pencil-winning work judges are asked to consider whether the entry stokes their creative envy and make them wish they'd done that piece.
It's fair to say that Christmas marketing campaigns are – on the overwhelming whole – pretty cheesy. Kudos then to Daniel Fisher and Richard Brim of adam&eveDBB who managed to persuade Harvey Nichols to subvert the spirit of the season with their Sorry, I Spent It On Myself range. It constitutes a series of rubbish presents (think a bag of gravel or some toothpicks) with an explanatory apology that the giver had splurged their Christmas cash on the person who really matters at this time of year – themselves.
Oh Volvo Trucks where have you been all my life?! From impinging very little on my cultural compass until a few short months ago, the Swedish manufacturer has dazzled and delighted us with a series of funny, unexpected and powerfully communicative adverts over recent weeks. Back in September we sung the praises of a spot which saw the company's president perched precariously on a truck suspended over Gothenburg harbour and now they've topped that with the help of the Muscles from Brussels.
BOOM! That's the sound of Sainsbury's smashing their competition out of the park in the Christmas department. They've enlisted Oscar-winning, Last King of Scotland director Kevin McDonald to make a 50 minute long film celebrating the honest joys of the festive season. By using real people in real families as the cast and shot in a home-video style, this film genuinely stirs up joy and excitement in your belly. Also, this film isn't sugar coating Christmas by making everyone good-looking and eating expensive canapés, and there's no weepy cover of an 80s song to get stuck in your head for the next two weeks. Big plus. Judging by the trailer (which made me cry even though I PROMISED MYSELF I would not) this is going to be a true celebration of British christmas, and an absolute corker of a festive film.
Last year D&AD broke new ground by releasing this behind-the-scenes video of the judges' discussion around which work should be awarded the coveted Black Pencils. This year they've done it again and it remains an interesting insight into one of the industry's most respected prizes.
Love it or hate it, it's been nigh on impossible to escape John Lewis's new Christmas ad over the past few days. The pressure was on Adam&Eve/DDB to follow up their much-talked-about offerings from the past couple of years, and early indications suggest that whatever the cynics may say, the public have been charmed anew. But regardless of whether The Bear & The Hare makes you feel nicely festive or a bit nauseous, this "making of" is really interesting. Elliot Dear and Yves Geleyn of Blinkink/Hornet were the duo charged with bringing the ideas to life and you get a nice sense of the painstaking stop-motion process they went through over a period of several months. The song will be stuck in your head all day though.
Get your eyeballs comfortable in their little red, gooey sockets and strap them in safely because Sony are back and they've brought out the big guns. By big guns we're actually referring to 8 million flowers that were used in the production of this stunning advert for their new camera which boasts an 8 million pixel display. In true Sony fashion the flowers are taken and dumped over a beautiful landscape, put into slow-mo and soundtracked by a man with a guitar who may or may not have been dumped by his girlfriend only minutes before recording the track. Regardless, this is a stunning advert for a gadget that could otherwise easily be advertised in a pretty drab way. Hoorah!
We've already seen Google's predictive search function used in a charming creative way this year but now that same technology has been harnessed to socio-political ends, with blisteringly powerful results.
This year has been great for car adverts, we've had hilarious examples in the shape of dancing chickens Mercedes-Benz and the death-defying company president for Volvo. To complete the corporate hat-trick, we are pleased to present Ron Burgundy's series of adverts for the Dodge Durango, whatever that is, in which he does what he does best: says mundane things and makes them hilarious. Watch him argue with a mute horse, attack ballroom dancers and rant about glove boxes in this seemingly endless series of mini ads that will make your day you worthless idiot. Oh I'm sorry, I didn't see you had a child with you.
It's no massive surprise that this video has had 13 million views (and counting) in just two days, because this is how to pull-off a publicity stunt. Ahead of the release of the upcoming Carrie film, a New York coffee shop was tricked out with moving tables and jumping books, filled with actors and a stuntman and then opened as normal. What unfolds is freaky, funny and very, very well-executed; proof that if a trick's worth doing, it's worth doing right. Also check out the terrified young woman still intent on filming the goings-on on her phone; a great comment on our social-media-obsessed culture. A tip of the hat to all involved here.
Just when you thought Paul Smith couldn't get any cooler, here's the new advert promoting his A/W 13 underwear collection. Just having hunky but kindly men flaunting their crotch at a camera clearly wasn't enough for director Sébastien Montaz-Rosset, and so off they went to the mountains with two (still hunky) flat liners, Antoine Moineville and Tancrède Melet.
Hey gang, you know how I'm always going on about how brilliant insurance companies' PR stunts are? Ok fine I don't but that's because there's never been one worth mentioning… until now! The clever clogs at M&C Saatchi Milano came up with this astonishing stunt for Europ Assist IT's Protect Your Life campaign, getting people to rethink how well covered they are by gate-crashing a submarine into the middle of a Milan street.
Alright, alright, we're all totally "over" ads that feature cute animals doing hilarious things. Definitely. 100%. Oh wait, no we're not! This is hilarious. Creative directors Lucasz Brzozowsk and Robert Herter from Stuttgart agency Jung von Matt have mustered up the guts to make a car advert that doesn't actually feature a car, a beautiful woman or a swooping shot of a road somewhere near Montenegro. Instead they've opted to choreograph a dance for some chickens set to a simply smashing Diana Ross song. No more needs to be said, get your headphones in, you're about to see chickens in a whole new and glorious light.
KesselsKramer have been handling the promotional material for Amsterdam's Hans Brinker Budget Hotel for over a decade now; in fact they were one of the agency's first clients. The hotel prides itself on being one of the city's plainest, dirtiest and budget-est available, offering no more than the bare minimum to their guests. That means broken showers, doors that don't close and bunk beds without ladders according to TripAdvisor. Nice!
This isn't the first time we've seen a clever take-off of the breathless tone and linguistic dexterity so beloved by big technology brands (these spots for Mintacular gum and Somersby Cider both spring to mind) but this new work by JWT for KitKat stands out for a couple of reasons.
If you you have that weird tummy-flipping thing when it comes to heights, I suggest you skip over this video, but for the rest of you, read on. To demonstrate just how hardy the Volvo truck towing hook is, the Swedish car giant followed the whole maxim of show rather than tell. And lo they suspended a 15 tonne Volvo Truck 20 metres above the water in Gothenburg harbour, and to ratchet up the tension they plonked Claes Nilsson, the company's actual president (and coincidentally the man with the coolest accent on Planet Earth) on top of the truck's cab. It's the first teaser in a campaign (which also includes the buttock-clenching video about ground clearance below) which promises a series of similarly daring stunts.
It's not the first time a technology ad has been parodied brilliantly but College Humor's latest spoof, Every Tech Commercial has got the tone of modern technology advertising down to an absolute tee. It's scripted to perfection, timed with skill and absolutely nails the way 'family friendly' communications companies like to patronise us in their online and television promotions. Take note Apple, IBM and Vodafone, College Humor have got your number. Might be time to modify the template a little.
Never one to follow the crowd that Miuccia Prada. On first watch, Real Fantasies, a short produced with long-term collaborator AMO to advertise the Fall Winter 2013 collection, looks like nothing short of a bad dream about a dystopian society which has been thrown into a time-warp and then emerged the other side only to be cut into tiny pieces and stuck back together again. What's more, it's oddly transfixing. The disjointed music, two-dimensionality and surrealist influence all come together with an absurd kind of harmony which shows the collection in its absolute best light.
Well this is an utterly tremendous blog and one of the most genuinely interesting creative resources we've come across for some time. It's all very well young practitioners comparing their work against advertising's great and good, but surely it's far more relevant to see what some of the industry's top names were producing when they were studying? That's exactly what Before They Were Famous does, an initiative launched by a creative team at the Beattie McGuinness Bungay agency. They contacted a host of well-known figures both from within their company and without and asked them to submit their student portfolios to demonstrate how their creative thinking first started to develop.
When we interviewed him a couple of months back Ryan Hopkinson alluded to an (at that stage top secret) project he was working on with Sony, and now we can all enjoy the fruits of those labours. It's no surprise to see something so impressive coming from a creative we are well used to being wowed by, but this new work sees him push his practice in a captivating new direction. Collaborating with Hirsch & Mann and featuring Christopher Raeburn's S/S 14 collection, Ryan used 100 Sony Experia Z smartphones to create a spiral catwalk sculpture for his piece which "crosses the boundaries of art, fashion and technology exploring the process of photography and film creation utilising custom software, bespoke apps and a wireless control system."
Can we please give a round of applause for Michael Birch who, after years of having the piss taken out of his early social networking site and puberty wagon Bebo, is back with maybe the best comeback video we've ever seen. The fact that the actual founder is narrating the video in person is so old school and perfect and the fact that they've taken something so genuinely hilarious – and possibly the only positive thing that Bebo harvested – and used it to make them appear cool again is so perfect it gives me goosebumps. Unfortunately it's so good that after watching this you may find yourself immediately signing back up to Bebo, back on the puberty wagon. But don't worry, I've saved you a space next to me and it's going to be a sweet, sweet ride.
This week, assistant editor Liv Siddall asks why there were so many complaints over the new Marmite advert when it is, essentially, just a good advert. What do you think? Love it or hate it? Comments welcome.
Do you have a sticky pot of Marmite in your cupboard that hasn't been opened since 1982? Personally I get through a jar a week so I couldn't entirely relate to this new advert, but it's very funny nonetheless. Marmite have launched a new campaign based around the fact that 1 in 10 Brits admit they "haven't opened their jar in three months" and have created a series of videos that will hopefully eradicate this kind of ludicrous behaviour. In this Animal Rescue-esque ad, a team of experts invade suburban homes and rescue the poor little jars of neglected Marmite to give them caring new families. As well as the main advert above, there are lots of spin-off stories you'll find on YouTube, including this Interview with a Shocked Neighbour. Lovely.
This very smart set of posters was created by the Aesop agency for an event in London last weekend which saw a corner of Soho turned into Little Italy for a couple of days. Sponsored by Birra Moretti, Italy Live included cooking demonstrations and even a live satellite link-up with the San Gimignano Piazza in Tuscany, and Aesop produced this striking set of visuals to help inform visitors and spread the brand message across the weekend. We like.
This feisty little girl's just started surfing the crimson wave of puberty at her summer camp. Luckily for her, she's the first girl at camp to get her period, so she becomes something of a coach, nay dictator, among her naive peers as they all start their periods too. "For these campers, I was their Joan of Arc…I'm Joan, and their vaj is the Arc…"
The contribution of plastic bags to my emotional development has been limited at best. Oh, sure, I got a bit misty-eyed about that one blowing around the empty street in American Beauty (who didn't?) but other than that they've been a largely pragmatic part of my life… until now. Back in 2005, creative agency Mother launched a range of Uncarriable Bags adorned with embarrassing motifs and they've just launched a second range "to make people think about plastic bags in 2013."
Last autumn we sung the praises of Sam Hofman – pointing in particular to his eclectic personal work – but as with most photographers, Sam's portfolio is a mixture of these kinds of projects with commissioned work. Recently Sam collaborated with food stylist Iain Graham (who worked on this great shoot for The Gourmand) and set designer Linnea Apelqvistto to create this series for Ted Baker's Tasetfully Ted campaign. What I really like about this is that while it's got a recognisably commercial aesthetic, there's also a sense of fun running throughout; a combination which raises this above your run-of-the-mill advertising shoot.
Move aside Carly Rae Jepsen, the Brummy grandfathers of heavy metal are back in town and they've got a devastatingly effective ad campaign in tow that tears right through the heart of modern music and puts Ozzy, Tony, and Geezer back in the limelight they left 35 years ago. For their latest album, 13, Black Sabbath have employed McCann Copenhagen to dig through generations of fly posters back to their infamous logotype used in their heyday (before Ozzy got fired). The result looks like the rediscovery of some pristine vintage posters underneath layers of pop-song detritus which, for my money, makes this one of the best billboard campaigns in a long, long while.
I've railed before about "science's" disappointing tardiness in providing robots to cater to our every whim, but I will generously forgive our egghead chums if they keep doing things like this. For their new spot promoting the European Golf Tour, Saatchi & Saatchi London decided to test Rory McIlroy's skills against a robot on a driving range. So far so good. But where this spot really soars is in the personality of the robot – he's a snidey wind-up merchant with a great line in put-downs and folksy sayings. There's also a nice element of Rory not quite knowing what's going to happen next, which adds a certain authenticity to the slightly surreal proceedings. This is the latest in Saatchi's Every Shot Imaginable series; a consistently interesting and super-playful way of promoting the tour which has previously featured players driving golfballs into a boat and the clay pigeon golf shot. Nice.
Ever wondered what pigs eat? Or what they do when they hang out together? Or if they dream? Well the answer to this conundrum is…apples! And they snuffle into each others bellies, and yes, they dream a lot. In fact, they're really just huge snuffly pink balls of niceness, as Compassion in World Farming, or CIWF, are trying to prove with their latest campaign to reduce cruelty to farm animals and encourage people to eat free range.
Every once in a while an ad campaign comes along which manages to convey a really powerful message in a beautifully simple way. That certainly applies to this project by Publicis Singapore for the country's Samaritans and their suicide prevention work. Under the strap line "The signs are there if you read them, " creative director Erik Vervroegen and his team created this series of graffitied ambigrams which read either as simple platitudes or desperate cries for help depending which way round you read them. At a time when the usual debates around the annual ad junket to Cannes are in full flow, it's nice to be reminded of the potentially life-changing – in this case life-saving – power of a great idea.
Last night the great and good of the advertising and design industries assembled in London for the D&AD Awards, with all eyes on who would walk away with the coveted Black Pencils. McCann Erickson Melbourne was the big winner for their utterly charming Dumb Ways To Die metro safety animation which won five yellow pencils – art direction, earned media campaigns, digital advertising, TV and cinema advertising and writing for film as well as one of four Black Pencils.
If your Twitter feed's anything like mine, last night it would have been dominated with breathless reactions to Apple's iOS7 launch. That's not to say it was all positive; Apple's way of talking about its products can split opinion and we've previously posted two very good spoofs in the form of this cider promo and this chewing gum spot.
New signage popping up all over National Trust properties across the east of England is making a mockery of the stuffy reputation of country houses. Nature's Playground, the new campaign by The Click Design Consultants, sees a series of nine brightly-coloured notices dotted about the grounds, which are designed to encourage exactly the behaviour which they initially seem to inhibit. Resembling restrictions and warning notices, the signs actually encourage tree-hugging, flower-sniffing, photo-snapping and general fun, undermining the conservative reputation of informative notices. Not so stuffy now, eh?


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First it was Bengals.com writer Hobson, now it's Boomer and Collinsworth who all say Blaine Gabbert is the guy the Bengals will pick in the 1st rd one week from today. Boomer also slams the organization here. What did the Bengals ever do to Boomer anyway?
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