ANGUS WHINES

Flip Flop Flyin'

I love Anne.  She introduces me to the best things, like Flip Flop Flyin' by Craig Robinson, where you can find brilliant things like a comparison of ball sizes, a website linking to all Craig Robinsons should they wish to be linked to, and a collection of Tic Tac boxes with Tic Tacs stuck in them. 







Genius.

Bad Dog

I love seeing the negative in advertising.





Via The Inspiration Room

Generations

Lovely wine labels showing portraits of the three generations that devote their lives to the vineyard.



Via Picocool

Yorkshire Tea

This is better.  BMB has used augmented reality and John Shuttleworth for Yorkshire Tea. Cute.





More here. Via The Glue Pot

Fireman

If only this was real.



Via Ruby Pseudo

Tea

Jesus christ.  I will no longer be drinking Tetley.



Actually, this really pisses me off too but at least I drink English Breakfast.



Why the fuck can't people make good tea ads in Australia?

Danger

Interesting recommendation from DJ Stout given the new regulations in the US which are expected to even further restrict the marketing of cigarettes, including a requirement that colorful ads and displays be replaced with black-and-white-only text.

“Our marketing advice to cigarette companies in the new heavily regulated era is to fully accept the new aggressive anti-smoking restrictions and wallow in the government’s apocalyptic health warnings. Don’t make excuses or dance around the stepped-up marketing regulations, just transform the whole cigarette pack into a three dimensional warning label.”

As much as I hate cigarettes and wish they were illegal, embracing the restrictions and making cigarettes look truly dangerous in indeed a clever approach. 




Via Darryl

Synesthesia

Excellent video on synesthesia - the condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, like the hearing of a sound producing the visualisation of a colour.



By Terri Timely via Cellar Door

Advice

Twitter bores the crap out of me most of the time.  I see the value of it for immediacy of news, or for spouting information to a captive audience (although I don't see many people spouting useful information - some, but not many).  Me, I use it as a 'permanent' connection to a small group of people of particular interest to me, but I imagine I'm boring them senseless even if they're not boring me. 

But I am intrigued by the limited number of characters, something Ad Age have used to relatively good effect - asking for career advice in 140 characters from various advertising folk.

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." 
Noah Brier

"Find what makes you so excited that there couldn't possibly be a plan B/go straight to the top and tell them so. This biz rewards the bold." 
Johanna Beyenbach

"Lose the buzzwords. Anyone can quote a book or talk about Twitter. What matters are well-formed ideas based on real insights." 
JB Osborne

Via Neil

Pitch

Turkish Airlines have invited agencies to pitch for the global digital account, asking them to solve a puzzle in order to participate.  Part of the brief are hidden on various social networking sites.  Voden are blogging about the process here.



Via Adverblog