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This is really quite useless, but of course I think it's competely fascinating. (oh how I love useless factoids.)
Some scientist out there decided to render images of flowers to represent how insects actually see them via UV light.

NY is full or super heroes

Maybe not heroes, but definitely super.
Yesterday, I was forwarded this site. And while many of you may not actually live in NY, you should still be able to enjoy the mainstream appreciation of the weirdness that exists here.

Check out this site.the most powerful man in the universe

And by the way. My very own DM spotted He-Man at Union Square today and has sent in his photo. Hopefully he will be posting soon. I'm so proud.

Freedom

After much consideration I have decided to spread my wings. I gave notice to Franklin Street that I am going to be exploring other opportunities. But I'm really just going to take a few months off. If anyone knows anyone or hears of any positions in DC, say around October, please shoot me an email at glenn224@hotmail.com.

Dammit, I wish I still had my RV! I could be truckin.

Hope to see you all soon.

Chocolate Rain

I think I've shown many of you this. But for those of you who haven't seen it, enjoy its awesomeness.

Quests

Sounds like your friend is on a quest:

I think you're all fucked in the head. We're ten hours from the fucking fun park, and you wanna bail out! Well, I'll tell you something, this is no longer a vacation . . . it's a quest! It's a quest for fun! I'm gonna have fun, and you're gonna have fun! We're all gonna have so much fucking fun we'll need plastic surgery to remove our Goddamn smiles! You'll be whistling Zip-a-dee-doo-da out of your assholes! I've got to be crazy! I'm on a pilgrimage to see a moose! Praise Marty Moose!

I say good luck. If she wants a shot out in SF, lemme know.

a shot in the dark, maybe.

Hey guys! I'm wondering - does anybody in NYC know if there are spots for undergraduate interns in their creative department? I don't know how agencies work usually re:undergrad interns. Here is a snippet from the email I got from my friend Anna Kate:

My friend and co-intern, Matt Koulermos (mattkoulermos.com) and I are on the look out for an internship for the academic year. Any suggestions? I know most agencies (including Naked, probably) do not do an official Fall intern program. But we're happy to work for free (free! = academic credit) and we come as a team (AD and CW, once or twice a week - we're thinking Fridays). So, basically, we want to offer our youthful, trendy insights (and wear great shoes) to some awesome ad shop, weekly. For free. Did I mention that we want to work for free?

You'll notice that Matt there has a website up already --- I've set my personal deadline to catch up to 1998 and get my website up next week. Until then, my selling point is the working-for-free thing. And I fetch a mean Starbucks latte.

I met Anna Kate through my blog and have hung out with her a couple of times; she has so much enthusiasm and hunger to learn and create things. She's really wonderful... I can't speak for her friend because I don't know him, but she would be an excellent (UNPAID!) addition to any New York shop. All she wants right now is to learn and get different perspectives. She's a copywriting intern at McCann right now - she got the position over some rising portfolio-school-kids. Let me know if we can help Anna Kate!

Hope everyone is well. Favorite part of the summer? (:

Disney Launching 2 Colognes For Pre-Teen Latin Boys

Does anyone think that 4 years old is too young to wear cologne?
Article starts out like this:

Smells Like Profit: Disney Eyes Pre-Teen Fragrance Market

NEW YORK -- Forget the smell of sweat, grass and dirt. Disney Consumer Products wants young boys smelling their best. Disney is rolling out Pirates of the Caribbean- and Buzz Lightyear-branded fragrances targeting boys ages 4-11 in Latin communities. The products, which will retail between $9.95 and $19.95, will reach retail shelves by September in time for the holiday season. "Our strategy is to go after the Hispanic population in the U.S," said Johanna Mooney, director of food, health and beauty at Disney Consumer Products, Burbank, Calif. "The market is driven by gift-giving, so we will target moms and grandmothers—the primary gift-givers." ..."I think it's a fabulous idea by Disney," she said. "The products will sell well. U.S. males are slower to get into the men's fragrance arena than European, Latin and South American men. There is an untapped market with huge potential here." - Rochelle Bloom, president of the Fragrance Foundation, New York.

Read the article here.

I can barely contain myself.

I'm taking the day off next Friday for the opening (I'm not kidding) if anyone wants to join me here in New York.

Well, we get a bunch of summer Fridays to take off, so I'm not really taking the day "off," just using one of my days...

(just thought some clarification was in order, I mean, I'm not completely stupid.)

But now that I think about it, a movie of this magnitude does kind of warrant a day off. Think about it...

Here's a funny thing spotted in this great city.

Yahoo for Friday!

The world's tallest man shakes hands with the man hoping to be officially declared the shortest by the Guinness Book of Records.

Meathead

link

Chris Farley lives.

For some reason i can't get a title in here. Anyway, Flight of the Chonchords. Ya'll dig? I'm still undecided but I'm thinking yay.

17 days left...

This makes me happy.

Rough noise pick-up, but worth watching.
Found it a bit back when I couldn't get their other song "Trains to Brazil" out of my head... MONDAY.

Seattle-based artist Chris Jordan had an insight! It was hard for people to really absorb the meaning of large scale facts, like 426,000 cell phones are retired each day. So he decided to create art that visually represented some of the most unbelievable statistics about our consumption habits as a society. The result is a fascinating exhibition -- not sure how many pieces -- that according to the artist must be seen in person to get the concept. It is on display until the end of the month at the Von Lintel Gallery in NYC. If anyone finds out if it is traveling anywhere, I would love to hear about it if the West Coast is involved.

Check it out at http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php

Ethan Haas was right.

Let me start this off by saying, unfortunately I have yet to see the new Transformers Movie. During the trailer, however, there appears quite the teaser. It eventually points to a website just put up http://www.ethanhaaswasright.com/
Why the hell does this matter? It's the beginning of what can only be the latest and greatest Alternative Reality Game.
ARG's are the most exciting thing to evolve our industry in years. Years and years. Talk all you want about open dialogue,user-generated, new media and holistic branding campaigns. ARG's amalgamate all of those concepts and breathes life into it. Often they create whole ancillary worlds of interactivity that organically grow out of the original. Anyway. Solve the puzzles and sign up. It took me a bit for the first few, and then I fully went in search of the cheat for the last.
No, we didn't do it here- to me it has the feeling of Cloudmakers. Maybe Mekanism?

Interwebular chronicle hacking

http://jetblue.com/about/ourcompany/flightlog/index.html

4th

Hope it begins with a cold beer, keeps going after too much BBQ, crests as you watch fireworks boom, and ends will all your fingers still attached.

Tuesday

Poor little guy.

TOM

http://www.simpsonsmovie.com/main.html

Cool.

LINK

Monday

-sannah kvist

Check this website out

Aftertoomany.com

The videos are pretty shocking!

It was done by Grey in San Fran...definitely had a planner involved!

I miss all you guys and gals and wish the best to you all:)

The wind.

The wind's job.

give a man a pig and he'll eat for a day

give a boy a gun and he'll eat for a year.

mmmm bacon

Hey. This is neat.

A designer that works here sent me this.
They're made by one of his friends.

hoodies!

DAN DEACON - CRYSTAL CAT

Like fireworks in your brain.

Madison Square Park

You better be there Kumar!

love it.

"Well then, goodaye mate!"

I swear I have better things to do...

...I just coudn't pass this up.

that's one hell of a snack

And Ed's too!

Meet Ande!

We found her abandoned about two weeks ago and I have decided to keep her.

She's good for my heart!

They Call Me...Mixed Mediums

AT AT THE PLAYGROUND

Old School Shorts?

Anyone seen the ad on the reverse side of the back cover of the May 21 Sports Illustrated?
Check it.

Bay to Breakers

Total lunacy. It's like a walking costume party/race/Mardi Gras. Seven miles across the whole of San Francisco. Everyone arrives (that are drinking in the race, as opposed to running in it) around 7am at the start. Then you follow the closed course thru downtown, up thru some neighborhoods, and finally down into Golden Gate park. Very hard to describe. Very awesome to go.

Beware: Peter Cottontail

Sarcastic animals crack me up

These ads for the Toronto Zoo made my day.

See two more at:
http://www.adverbox.com/toronto-zoo/

where is my placenta?

yummy viewing experience.

awesome!

America rocks!

Memories from last years planning conference

Adcenter on NPR

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10169159

Re:Inflatible Titanic

Hey Norm...If you were a hotdog, would ya eat yerself?

Will Ferrell - Harry Caray Weekend Update

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It's Friday. So, why not.

Meanwhile....

According to Fast Company jobs that will become extinct by 2016 include bloggers, ad creatives, auto mechanics, US high-tech jobs and Indian call centre operators.

Indian calls centre operators have the same relevance level as ad creatives.
Happy Friday.

Ford turns luxury cars into Fords.

First Ford acquires Jaguar and turns their X-type into a glorified Mercury.

Then they acquire Land Rover whose new LR2 looks like an Explorer.

What gives?