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:: Saturday, May 16, 2009 ::

World of Harajuku Happiness Patrol

You may have seen the World of Harajuku Lovers Fragrance ads around on bus stops and such recently. Whenever I see these the imagery and the colour palette make me think of Burtie Basset and Dr Who's lazy unimaginative Happiness Patrol villain. Like so...










See.

Labels: Advertising, Fashion, Humour, Sci-Fi, Vison

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[via claytoncubitt - "Even in a field of flowers, at sunset, set to Donna Summer, for a perfume ad, Cunningham manages to make it creepy."]

Labels: Advertising, Art, Film, Video

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Betraying the fact that I bought a Sunday Observer a few weeks ago and circles half a dozen articles for blogging, then put it aside until now, here's a link dump I should have published a month ago.

Alex James on making cheese

Plea to save vanishing art of the pub sign
(I notice The Victoria in St Wurbergs replaced their Victoria Beckham pub sign with Vicky Pollard last month, perhaps a couple of years too late.)

Warning to advertisers on 2012 cash-in

Einstein fridge design can help global cooling
"Scientists relaunch a 1930 invention that uses no electricity and would reduce greenhouse gases"


Isle of plenty
"In the past 10 years, one Danish island has cut its carbon footprint by a staggering 140%. Now, with a simple grid of windfarms, solar panels and sheep, it's selling power to the mainland and taking calls from Shell. ... 'Shell heard about what we were doing and asked to be involved - but only on condition they ended up owning the turbines. We told them to go away. We are a nation of farmers. We believe in self-sufficiency.'"

Labels: Advertising, Art, Environment, Food, News, Physics

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Wtf is the world coming to?
And do I even need to mention how appalling that photoshop is?
Although it does look quite impressive on billboards it doesn't stand up to any scrutiny.

ghd

Labels: Advertising, Fashion

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Rave-infected vampire flick, the first new movie from Hammer in almost 30 years



Episodes begin at MySpace.com/BeyondTheRave on April 17th.
Beyond the Rave is a vampire story set in England's underground rave scene. The movie follows the last hours of freedom of local soldier Ed, who is flying out to Iraq in the morning. With the help of his best friend Necro, he spends his last night in the UK tracking down his missing girlfriend Jen, last seen partying with a bizarre group of hardcore night-time ravers led by the mysterious Melech. But as he catches up with Jen at a party, Ed discovers that Melech's crowd, who are hosting the event, are looking for more than a night of fun, and that not everyone will make it through to dawn.

Labels: Advertising, Film, Horror, myspace, Video

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Labels: Advertising, BBC, Wildlife

:: Dan 1.4.08 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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I mentioned some time ago about my love of natural, identifiable, food based scents (coconut in particular) in perfumes and my dislike of strong chemical-mix unnatural smells. Well, it looks like men may have the same irresistible food based effect on women soon (if this ad is to be believed).

'Lynx Dark Temptation
New deoderant...smells of chocolate
It's "made from" chocolate, frozen ginger, coriander, sage, black basil, pear sorbet and whipped cream...yum!'
Their quotes on 'made from', not mine.

Labels: Advertising, Food, Smell

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