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Breast cancer is a very serious subject. Almost 40,000 women in North America die from it each year. Many lives could be saved if women would take the time to check themselves and catch early warning signs, but unfortunately, many of these young women have become complacent. Rethink Breast Cancer, a Canadian breast cancer organization, …
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Here’s a great gimmick that’s been used in Poland to draw attention to breast cancer—a very effective marriage of form and function. Security tags (above)—with the message, “What a person can miss, a machine will find”—were added to women’s bras in a Warsaw H&M after purchase. When women left the store, the …
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Don’t steal cars. Steal photographs created by cars. That’s what Volkswagen is trying to get people to do in Canada (apparently VW is banking on the fact that the Canucks aren’t as honest as we think). The auto manufacturer has created a limited quantity of signed, numbered and framed long-exposure light painting photographs created by …
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I wake up every day at 6 AM to start answering emails, and I fight to keep pace with my inbox for the next 19 hours. This isn’t a unique way of living; a lot of us are deal with email overload—hell, just look how many posts Fred Wilson devotes …
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You know how Saturday Night Live‘s city correspondent Stefon appears on “Weekend Update” touting clubs that have everything, such as “stickballs, pickpockets, Cookie Crisp…a shaved lion that looks like Mario Batali…”? Well this U.K. spot for Müeller dairy, “Wonderful Stuff,” really does have it all: Kitt from Knight Rider, a Transformer-like robot, Hanna-Barbera characters Yogi …
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What do you get when you smack together hip hop and candy? You get a sweet music video that’s actually a spot for a videogame. Check out Method Man and crew as they’re gremlinized by a bunch of Sour Patch Kids (sour sugar-coated soft candies). Then hang on till the end, when you’ll …
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A Lynx ad without half-naked women? Well, almost. The angels have fallen once again, following the success of the Angels campaign launched this past February. This time, BBH London has created a story that goes one step further and imagines what would happen if guys really did get to date an angel. Filmed on location …
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Remember 1997′s Digimon virtual pet? It was this little console toy from Japan that you had to “feed,” “clean up after” (we’re talking poop, here), etc.? Well, as they used to say in the ’90s: So lame! This is especially true when you compare Digimon to this brand new digital pet in need of affection: …
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You have to love French advertising. I don’t know if it’s something in their water or if it’s a result of all the wonderful French Bordeaux and Burgundy wines, but the French creative approach to advertising is always fresh, entertaining and makes you smile. Take the new commercial “The Bear” for Canal+, the French premium …
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Yeah, like just about every other media outlet this past week, we’ve been serving up a lot of Apple pie. (Hey, we don’t make the news—we just blog it.) But indulge us this one last bit of sharing. Here’s a demo for Siri—the artificial intelligence app for the new iPhone 4S—from Stuff.TV, the …
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