Truth In Advertising
Got to love Hulu’s choice of tags for the “Seaver-Fever” segment on NBC’s Today Show.
Amy asked
Is this the only living room in America where husbands are saying they want to do obscene things to Flo in front of their wives?
Gordon Lish: Collected Fictions
For those who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like.
(Via @orbooks | http://ORBooks.com)
hand models
From a compendium of hand models — who they are, what they are famous for — the faces behind the hands:
During a photo shoot in 1983, Elizabeth Barbour says she “tilted her hand in such a way” that the photographers captured the perfect shot of her hand grazing a glass. The shot was the basis for the redesign of the Palmolive soap label, which is still around to this day. She was paid $650 for the shoot and calls the experience “one of the funniest things I’ve ever done.”
Two of the models talk about hand cream and constant gloves.
hunger, thirst, happy anticipation
In the never ending quest to sell, ad men are researching the impact of sound.
To figure out what most appeals to our ear, Lindstrom wired up his volunteers, then played them recordings of dozens of familiar sounds, from McDonald’s ubiquitous “I’m Lovin’ It” jingle to birds chirping and cigarettes being lit. The sound that blew the doors off all the rest–both in terms of interest and positive feelings–was a baby giggling. The other high-ranking sounds were less primal but still powerful. The hum of a vibrating cell phone was Lindstrom’s second-place finisher. Others that followed were an ATM dispensing cash, a steak sizzling on a grill and a soda being popped and poured.
The down side:
The Microsoft start-up sound has taken on similarly negative associations, because people so often hear it when they’re rebooting after their computer has crashed.
Live
Tiger Woods apology video feed.
this picture makes me unspeakably angry
Irrational, I know. I think it might be preemptive irritation.
This Was Charming
And one of the few Super Bowl ads deserving of accolades, I think:
(via)
Amy just said (in response to a Dove for men commercial)
Dude, if you let me in that shower with you, I will fight your dryness.
Dear clusterflock
What will be your epitaph?
the Google trike
The pictures were taken late last summer using the ‘Google trike’ – a three wheeled bike with a Street View camera mounted on it, suited to collecting images in places not easily accessible by car.
dear clusterflock
What happened to gum commercials?
from the dissent
While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.
We Make Prints
We Make Prints From Your Digitalsmmnhrhuf is how it looked to me.
I spend too much time blissing out in the Wal-Mart parking lot.
real or fake?
An SLS AMG driven upside down? Regardless, listen to that fucking engine!
Audi Diesel Suicide Commercial
You won’t be seeing this ad on American TV any time soon.
Long Horn Meat
Christmas Memory: bb guns
One Christmas, my brother and I got Daisy bb guns. We wanted them bad. We couldn’t wait to shoot them, but it was mid-winter in Rockford. Daddy set us up a stack of boxes packed with newspaper in the basement with a target stapled to the side. It wasn’t long before we bored of straight shootin’ and opted up for tricks. We went upstairs, stole Mom’s hand-mirror off her vanity, and commenced fancy-shootin’ backwards Annie Oakley style. My brother’s first shot riccocheted off the blocks of the basement wall and hit my brother in the back of his head. Didn’t hurt him. Didn’t break the skin. But how he howled. It stung! We could have put an eye out!
I invite all clusterflockers/readers near and far to tell us a Christmas story over the next few days. It would be the best gift we could give each other.
O What A Year
One year of Oprah’s magazine all layered together.
(found here, via gree)
Maison Hermès Window Display
Based on a window display he first presented in 2004, the japanese designer tokujin yoshioka has now restructured it using a japanese actress currently being presented at Maison Hermès, japan. the installation will run from now until january 19th, 2010.
‘on designing a window-display of Maison Hermès, I intended to express people’s daily ‘movements’ with a suspicion of humor. there are moments when I perceive a hidden presence of a person in the movements born naturally in daily life. I created a design where one can perceive someone behind the scarves as if life were being breathed into them. the window is designed with an image of woman projected on to a monitor. the scarf softly sways
in the air in response to the woman’s blow. ‘ – TY
(Via designboom)
Give it a ponder…
James Lipton — spokesman for teen culture?
Holiday Jewelry Commercials in Need of New Copy
Diamond Dick opens the little box; she shows the weakness he likes and reaches for him, leading with the puppies he bought for her last year–and the recession is over.
Captions?
project runway
The Big Board
WATCH THIS SPACE.
***Update***
the Father of the $5 Footlong
The story behind the five, five dollar, five dollar foot-long.
In September 2007, Steve Sager, a Subway development agent who oversaw about 225 franchises across South Florida, heard about the success of Frankel’s $5 deal. He decided to try it in a troubled Fort Lauderdale outlet on Commercial Boulevard, a gritty thoroughfare dotted with strip malls. On the first day of the promotion, the store nearly ran out of bread and meat. Sales doubled.