Black and White Photography

Check out these photos from photographer Paul Lung. He has an incredible ability to capture delicate moments with his lens.









SIKE!

Paul Lung is a photorealist. These are actually sketches Lung created with a .5MM technical pencil. Many take up to 60 hours to create. He is extremely talented and revered as he's been written about in The Sun and Telegraph.

It's dudes like these that I refuse to play Pictionary with.

A drawing I did of Paul Lung:

Eating Dominoes While Driving A 2010 Prius

First Dominoes acknowledges that their pizza takes like someone threw ketchup on wallpaper (not the Willy Wonka kind of wallpaper--the grandma's 50 year old maroon plaid kind), and now Toyota is jumping on the "We're no good, but will be one day" bandwagon.

After recalling just about every car on their lot, we now realize that Toy-ota actually thought they were making real cars and not just Toys. So here is their new apology commercial. Toyota, until your Prius comes with a massage chair and Dave Coulier ("Cut It Out!"), I'll be content driving a Honda to Dominoes.



And because it's always fun to think "Aw, if they only knew", here is a video of the making of their "Harmony" Prius Commercial where they used people to form the landscape of the happy, non-recalled Prius world.

Old Spice is the New Spice

Check out the hilarious new commercial from Old Spice. If more commercials were like this I would DVR them instead of Lost, Oprah, and Steven Segal: Lawman. I mean...he's a COP who was a MOVIE STAR!? IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!!!





(via Brandflakes)

Facebook: Oh The Possibilites!

Einstein's Bros Bagels went from 4,700 fans to 300,000 withing 24 hours by implementing what is being coined as the first ever Instant Print Campaign on facebook.

Their campaign is a strong indication of the importance and value of a social media campaign right now.

My point here, folks, is follow us on facebook at www.facebook.com/MarketingMatters.

Snickers at the Superbowl

The Superbowl is fast approaching and the excitement is brewing! For the game?...Ehh. For the commercials!

Here is Snickers' teaser for their Superbowl commercial, complete with a cameo by the hilarious Betty White:

Subliminal Advertising

In this video Derren Brown asks two ad creatives to concept an ad from scratch after he has only given them the product. The result is surprising when we find out that Derren Brown has already predicted the result by influencing the ad guys subliminally.

It's interesting to see how easily we can be influenced by the world around us. Hence my "Give Me All Your Money, Buy Me A House, and I Also Like Those Pants" shirt that I'm wearing right now.

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COME RIGHT BAAAACK! BOO! YOU OWE ME $20!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyQjr1YL0zg

"Can I PLEASE Have Extra Crumblies?"

Our friend Rebekah, who is a Catering Manager for an events company and definitely not Long John Silver's just told us this:

"I just had someone call me at work to make a complaint about something she ate at Long John Silver's, when I informed her that I don't work for Long John Silver's and that she would need to call them, she promptly informed me that they weren't answering."

I assume it's easiest to answer customer complaint calls when they actually dial your number. The conversation ended with the Long John Silver's customer threatening to call her lawyer. I guess if Rebekah doesn't fix any of Long John Silver's issues here pretty quickly, she may be in trouble.