Tipp Experience. Shoot the Bear.
September 2nd, 2010 • Ideas • View Comments
Wow. Just wow.
Try…
- …is a bear
- …marries a bear
- …plays with a bear
- …has sex with a bear
- …cooks a bear
- …makes a bear
- …shoots a bear
Toxic Avenger. N’importe comment.
August 27th, 2010 • Allgemein • View Comments
Toxic Avenger‘s new video ‘N’importe comment’ carries the social graph to the extreme. It’s an almost scary vision what you can see in the video below…but I think we are not so far away from it. Thanks to thestrategyweb for the video.
Hello. And Fuck you Nissan.
August 24th, 2010 • Ads • View Comments
I just stumbled upon this pic of the current Nissan campaign by TBWA London. It is not only a boring headline, it also shows a lot of disrespect and lack of any kind of cultural sensitivity no taste at all. The headline alters the first stanza of Germany’s national anthem – ‘Deutschland, Deutschland ueber alles’ (‘Germany, Germany above all’).
I am not so sure if Nissan and TBWA know that this part of Germany’s anthem is (not prohibited but) officially banned in Germany due to its function in the Third Reich. We sing the third strophe now for about 65 years…apart from a couple of skinheads. And yes, coming up with this headline in 2010 is highly offensive for a German. But what I feel sorry about most, TBWA – your lack of knowledge in combination with bad copywriting.
Does Nissan actually sell cars in Germany too? I think so.
Twittertim.es. Yes, this is my favourite app right now.
August 24th, 2010 • Underway • View Comments
Just a quick personal update – Page Online, one of Germany’s leading design magazines put my supersized head on the frontpage today (which is a little bit creepy). I was asked to recommend my favourite application. And I think it is twittertim.es as it gives me a very handy overview of what’s hot among my followers. The article is in German only, but if you are interested in its essence – use twittertim.es.
HTML5. A Great Intro to What is New.
August 23rd, 2010 • Tech • View Comments
When you start a new job it is always extremely interesting to find out about your coworkers after a while. Who is this guy across the table actually? And what did he or she do before we actually started collaborating?
One of my new colleagues who really surprised me is Bobby van der Sluis.
Bobby is Technical Experience Director here at Blast Radius, Amsterdam and a veteran of Flash Development. He is author of UFO and co-author of SWFObject 2 (along with a lot of other projects), which are both well-known open source JavaScript libraries for detecting the Adobe Flash Player and embedding Flash content in web pages. In addition to that he does publish articles at A list apart quite often and speaks at conferences. Oooh….and he is also a very nice guy – a fact that should not go unnoticed here as well.
Anyway, last week Bobby held a very insightful presentation about Flash HTML5 and his personal perspectives on its progress. It is interesting to watch Flash veterans such as Bobby to reinvent their job profiles and start developing on a similar different platform.
Here is Bobby’s presentation. Check out his blog as well and follow him on Slideshare.
Bizarre. My Tram Station is an Outdoor Award Entry.
August 22nd, 2010 • Ads • View Comments
I work pretty much in the center of Amsterdam. I love the city. But to be honest, there are nicer places than Leidseplein, the square nearby which opens the gates to the touristic part of the city.
What I find really bizarre (beyond stoned German teenagers) is Leidseplein’s tram station. In fact, it’s not a tram station – it is a living Cannes Outdoor Lions Award entry for the city’s agencies. Every second week the tram station is in the center of another expensive outdoor ad idea that you cannot see anywhere else. It’s the kind of stuff that you see in award videos. The kind of idea that is getting sold to award jurys as a globally executed ad campaign, while in fact we are talking about one tram station at Leidseplein.
This week it’s 180 TBWA\BEC with adidas F50 Lightspeed.
A couple of weeks ago it was some fantasy motion picture…
Genius. An Open Letter to All of Advertising and Marketing.
August 20th, 2010 • We like • View Comments
Ah, great!
Read the following letter. It’s a letter about cocreation and crowdsourced ad campaigns by a user who simply does not want to participate. I love the brilliant laconic truth of it. And even though I don’t know who Brian is, his words of wisdom will never be forgotten – ‘I want to eat tasty sausages. I don’t necessarily want to upload videos.’ (via PSFK and JohnnieMoore)
Oh Fuck. ‘When I grow up’.
August 18th, 2010 • Ads • View Comments
Ha ha…ha….ha….think you’re funn……waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! The video is very very old. But it still is……waaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!
Survey. How much can you actually earn as a Planner?
August 18th, 2010 • Work • View Comments
Finally! An interesting analytical paper about the status quo of planning salaries in planning. My colleague Heather LeFevre from the colleagues at Strawberry Frog here in Amsterdam has just published her Planner Survey 2010. It tries to compare salaries of strategists worldwide to bring some light into the dark. The data was collected via an online survey with 1570+ participants from all over the world.
The effort definitely was worth it. You get a pretty good understanding about what you can expect to earn in NYC in comparison to London. But as usual – salaries don’t say much as long as you don’t integrate real costs of living. Earning and spending 100$ in Frankfurt is a very different thing to earning and spending 100$ in Amsterdam or London.
Anyway, great work, Heather. Thanks a lot.
A letter to Warhol. ‘I hear you like Tomato Soup’.
August 12th, 2010 • We like • View Comments
Lovely.
This is a letter from 1964 written by overjoyed William McFarland, at that time product marketing manager at Campbell’s Soup to the young Andy Warhol. Some complimentary cans of soup soon followed. Two years prior to the letter Warhol had staged 32 of his now world famous Campbell Soup Can pictures.
Ah…multiplier outreach. You gotta love it. And as a letter almost as good as Mick Jagger’s letter to Andy Warhol five years later.
(thanks to A letter of note)
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