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agencyspy: that last photo was courtesy the world's best party photog, @socialmedium
agencyspy: The schmuck behind the feed http://bit.ly/60aYWw
agencyspy: Can't stop listening. http://bit.ly/uehVz
You Need a Couch? Dis Guy's Got it Fa Youz
Forgetting to turn the caps lock off, Jerks in Your Area has another amusing post from this guy:
YO THIS SHIT IS THE BOMB IST A FUCKING DOPE ASS MATTRISS N THIS SHIT IS MAD COMTFORABLE!I BET DIS SHIT LIEK 2 G'S AT SLEPY'S OR SOME SHIT BUT YO SINCE I FOUND IT BHNED THE PIGGLY WIGGLY IM JUS SLEEING IT FOR LIKE 12 BONEZ. I JUS GOT TO GET DAT CHEEZ T GET MY BLUNT ON YA HEARD!
N YO THIS MOTHERFUCKR IS FULL SIZED SO FUCK THAT TWIN SIZE SHTI!!!
Hair gel, the club Hunka Bunka (kid above for reference) and terrible grammar seem to be a plus.
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agencyspy: @katrinalimbaugh apparently it's really expensive to send one pint of ice cream from SF to NYC. So we may never know:(
agencyspy: @wiseg1rly your portfolio site is fun fun fun. http://bit.ly/1XkpJ5 #mustfindguacamole
Farfar Co-Founder Joins Mother NY
Mother NY appointed Farfar alum Nicke Bergstrom as creative director. Bergstrom--who co-founded Swedish firm Farfar in 2000 and won a Cannes Lion Grand Prix in the process--will report to ECDs Linus Karlsson and Paul Malmstrom and will serve with CDs Michael Ian Kaye and Tom Webster.
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agencyspy: Kiran: Internet cafes are strange. it's like you're in the breakfast club with internet access. #lollicat
agencyspy: Is Advertising Irrelevant? http://bit.ly/7ohLBv
agencyspy: Um, Google toilet paper http://bit.ly/76aaEg
agencyspy: The Wii is now holier than thou. http://bit.ly/7bqYEc
Google Takes Care of Your Bum
If you're Apple, Microsoft, etc., you might want to take advantage of pooing on this Google-branded toilet paper. While the Mountain Valley, CA giant hasn't said anything, Engadget offers a slogan that seems lost in translation: "Very long, soft, smooth. Of high vacuum, because you always!"
Via HuffPo
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agencyspy: @socialmedium you should tell @mediapost to buy justanonlineminute.com....it justanonlinemakessense
agencyspy: @ericanardello sweet! we're glad we get you excited. that, in turn, makes us excited. #thatcameoutwrong
Is Advertising Irrelevant?
Gitamba Saila-Ngita asks "Is Advertising Irrelevant?" in a post on his posterous, above a quote from Tim Manners' book, "Relevance: making stuff that matters". We'll be the first to admit that this quote is taken out of context, so the point of this post is not to lay it on Manners, rather discuss the proposition as a means to clarify where the business is currently sitting. Philosophy, sorta.
"...Advertising is no longer relevant and therefor no longer accountable because, in the overwhelming majority of cases, it does not help anyone solve any problems or live a happier life. It is simply an annoyance. Instead of addressing the question of how to make themselves relevant to consumers, advertisers tend to go in the opposite direction, which is to dream up new ways to disrupt our lives with their irrelevant messages." Anyway, communication is an ongoing process with a lot of noise and even more differentiation, to the point that it's often difficult to discern ads from news from phone calls. But that doesn't really matter because at the end of the day we only pay attention to the messages that a) move us or b) we have to pay attention to because it's our job or detrimental to our lives some how.So how does advertising fit in and in what ways, if any, is it still relevant. This is your chance to anonymously defend what you do. But pretend your name is on the answer — and let's see what you're made of.
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Friday's Illegal Ad: The Lord Doth Gameth
Lord help us, it's like the Wii but only holier. A new (faux) ad for some organization called Mass We Pray lets loose with some family fun in the name of crucifix-wielding, pew-sitting, rollicking good time. It's for a game called Dante's Inferno, but can't we just go back to Scrabble?
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agencyspy: this is interesting - an agency is cutting off their employees' web usage - certain sites. http://bit.ly/2OU4wA
Agency Takes Restrictive Approach to Employees' Web Usage
As of today, a certain shop has restricted employees' use of the inter Webs by blocking a few sites that require high volumes of bandwidth. The move is being pushed as a money saving strategy that in reality probably will do just that, despite leaving employees without access to content that is arguable valuable to their work.
We're told employees of this shop's offices can say goodbye to: YouTube, BBC, iPlayer, Spotify, Channel4, SkyPlayer and Google Videos — each of which will eat bandwidth like a whale sucking krill.
First off, let's not worry about which shop is doing this. The question I'd like to pose is: does having access to these sites improve your ability to know what's happening out there or does it make it harder to do your work? Probably both, but let's pick a side, shall we?
Update: The agency just got back to us and informs that they're not blocked as of right now.
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Friday Photo: Bend It Like Khadija
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(Courtesy The Empty Quarter, Dubai)
'Tis the season for Paris Photo, where 102 galleries and publishers from 23 countries are taking part in the world's leading photography fair. This year's fair, which runs through Sunday at the Carrousel du Louvre, spotlights Arab and Iranian photography with a three-part project curated by Catherine David. Among the first orders of business was the announcement of the winner of the BMW - Paris Photo Prize for contemporary photography, a $15,000 award given annually to an artist whose work best embodies a given theme. The 2009 theme, tied to BMW France's ad campaign, was "When was the last time you experienced something for the first time?"
The winner is Karijn Kakebeeke, a Dutch photographer who is represented by Dubai gallery The Empty Quarter. Kakebeeke, 35, is known for photojournalistic images like "Khadija's Dream" (2006, pictured above), her prizewinning work that records the moment when a girl named Khadija first played with a soccer ball. Today Khadija is a member of Afghanistan's first female soccer team. For Matthias Harder, curator at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin and a member of the 2009 BMW - Paris Photo Prize jury, the image shows "a glimpse of happiness," he said in a statement. "Kakebeeke's genre scene convinced the jury owing to the controversial nature of the topic chosen and its relevance to the given theme."
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