Archive for January, 2008

I’m a big Chris Jordan fan..

Some guerilla advertising: pics of decapitated persons on different ads and some examples of counteradvertising

Tata’s People’s Car to be unveiled on the 10th. 2 500$ for a car. that’s… cheap.

“… a dashboard that features little more than a speedometer, fuel gauge, and oil light. The car will lack basics such as reclining seats, a radio, and power steering, and will have a 650cc engine that puts out at most 70 horsepower. […] Tata will use basic shock absorbers up front, but the rear suspension design dates back decades.”

Some newspapers also reported that the car will lack brakes, a horn (which is a MUST in India), mirrors, windows, a steering wheel…

Is religion and the belief in god(s) an evolutionary adaptation? Freaking interesting to anybody interested in religion, atheism, evolution, psychology, sociology, etc… I have about 3 more books to read… Atheism 1, God 0.

“Maybe it took less mental work […] to hold belief in God in one’s mind. Maybe, in fact, belief was the default position for the human mind, something that took no cognitive effort at all

This guy made an annual report on his life. It is well-designed, and damn funny to read. Great stuff to apply at an ad agency, I guess.

A 1960 sky diving from. 102 800 feet. that’s like, way too high?
the video
the wikipedia entry
crazy fucker.

big big boum.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Maybe fueled by Bansky operation with Paris Hilton cds last year, it seems that reverse-shoplifting, i.e. “shopdropping involves surreptitiously putting things in stores, rather than illegally taking them out” is a now a trend.

Top 10 scientific discoveries of 2007 (by Wired), with some awesome headlines like “Scientists Clone Rhesus Monkey to Produce Stem Cells”.

Snorting a Brain Chemical Could Replace Sleep. Great. I mean, coffee wasn’t working anymore for me neither.

I love those installation/ads where the consumers/participants change the actual ad. Here, they are stopping hunger and aids.

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