Finding A Job »

[10 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
Where to look for an advertising job

Here are some of the best places to look for a job in the industry. Visit 1-5 daily:
1. Talentzoo.com
2. CreativeHotList.com
3. Twitter: don’t use websites like twitterjobs.com or anything similar. They are just aggregates that search for hashtags. Most creative directors that post job openings on Twitter do it like Luke Sullivan who tweeted something like: “Looking for a couple of copywriters. Send me your book if you don’t suck.”
You’re going to have to weed out a lot of irrelevant stuff, but just search Twitter for “copywriter” or whatever you’re looking …

Products; Brands, Work »

[10 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
Watch this while you have your morning cup.

Is this the coolest website ever? I won’t reveal the spoiler, but they DID get it right- in reference to the addicting quality of “the product”. I wish more sites did cool shit like this rather than placing oversized, ugly buttons like “place order” on the page.
(Click on the pic to go to the site)
- Patrick Buchanan

Music, Technology/Digital/Web »

[9 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
Head Conducter

I thought that by 2010 I’d be flying cars and going to the mall with robots (I hate the mall now, of course, but I was like 13 when I was thinking about this)… Anyways my point is that yes, I’m a little disappointed in the future, but this makes me feel a little better: (Click on the pic to see video)

- Niki Clainos

Music »

[9 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
Who doesn’t love skinny jeans

My girlfriend has been pressuring me to get into the whole skinny jean thing. I have to say up until now I avoided it like the plague. But recently I’ve had a change of heart.
I was downtown last weekend when I came across this store, The Blue Chandelier. Their tagline, Home of the Skinny Jeans, how fortunate for me. I found it a little weird that none of their jeans had sizes. I figured it was a European thing so I tried on a bunch just to find a pair …

Experiences, Industry »

[8 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
Big Idea > Tactics

Lately my team and myself have been battling the clients and account people on this subject. We created this big idea. It was awesome. Multi-platform. Digital but not a website. Involved and consumer driven. Perfect in our eyes. But the client was scared. Scared it might not catch on. The legal dept. was scared it might scare people. Everyone was fucking scared. So they’ve been slowly reducing it to the parts that they like: the tactics.  Pulling bits and pieces from the big idea and wanting to execute those. Slowly …

Technology/Digital/Web, Work »

[8 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
Augmented Reality? Should it stay? Should it go?

Last week I tweeted about getting an augmented reality tattoo and what it would be of. Swimming dolphin? Growing rose? Heart with MOM written on it pulsating? Seriously people are doing this. At first glance of AR last summer I thought it was pretty sick. (That GE moving windmill.) Then I saw some LAME John Mayer video with it and dismissed the technology as being NOT that cool. Who wants to hold something up to their webcam, blocking your line of sight, for 5 minutes to see and hear Mr. …

Sports, TV »

[8 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
Budweiser World Cup Reality Show

During the World Cup, Budweiser wants to take one person from each of the participating countries to go live in the same house. It’ll be called The Bud House, the brands reality show that is supposed to show 32 people cheering for their countries inside a high-tech house in South Africa…
A few weeks ago, AdAge said that this would be like a Big Brother but the producers came back and said that it’s not supposed to be a elimination game. They want to show how would it be to put …

Music »

[5 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
OK GO is Very Cool

This video from OK Go is very cool, It looks that it’s all in one take and it got almost two million hits in three days.Worth watching.

-Pablo Jimenez