...to remember when he was THE biggest star in the world. …
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...to remember when he was THE biggest star in the world. …
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By David Burn
Zach Galifianakis, Tim and Eric in Absolut Zach (Part One) from Zach Galifianakis The New York Times Sunday Magazine ran a feature on comedian Zach Galifianakis a couple weeks ago. In the piece, author John Wray mentions the Absolut Vodka "ads" Galifianakis did. The resulting three sketches, made in collaboration with the absurdist comedy duo Tim and Eric (of "Awesome Show, Great Job!" part of the Cartoon Network's …
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By David Burn
In the spot above, Dr. Dre teases a song called "Shit Popped Off," from his long-awaited album Detox, currently slated for a late 2009 release on Aftermath/Interscope. Dre's last release, Dr. Dre 2001 was in 1999, which gives added meaning to the concept of slow. [via Billboard] …
By David Burn
With Lux Shampoo, Unilever is striving to make beauty available to all women. To achieve their mission, the global packaged goods concern is turning to the star power of Catherine Zeta-Jones in a Hollywood-like production. According to Brand Republic, the short, "Alchemist," was created by JWT from an original screenplay by Jeffrey Caine, who also wrote the screenplay for James Bond film "GoldenEye" and thriller …
By David Burn
Like other famous white girls from the British Isles, Aimeé Ann Duffy is a retro soul singer whose songs take one to another place and time. What place and time the above advert represents is hard to say. Could be 1972, could be tomorrow. Maybe that's the point. Self-discovery is eternal and Diet Coke is there for you whatever phase you're presently experiencing. [via Jack and Tom] …
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By David Burn
Cotton Inc. is reintroducing a song from 1989, "The Fabric of Our Lives," that served through the 1990s as a jingle in commercials for clothing and home furnishings made from cotton. The jingle comes back this week in a campaign from DDB/New York. To make sure the cotton jingle "is relevant to a new audience," said Cassandra Anderson, creative director at DDB, it is being performed by contemporary musicians like …
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By David Burn
I remember the first spec ad I ever had designed by a professional. It was for Banana Republic and the headline read, "Clothes for the Urban Jungle." It looked good, but it didn't work hard enough as an ad. According to Ad Age, The Gap-owned brand is still working that basic theme, but they're adding music to the mix in effort to "project metropolitan diversity with a mix of rock, pop-folk, classical and jazz …
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