Media hijacker Ji Lee sank $2,000 into the Bubble Project, an ambitious (and illegal) campaign that transforms advertisements into DIY comic strips ripe for input from anybody with a magic marker.
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Hoping to take a stand against the formulaic ads he was helping create, Lee plastered 30,000 blank thought bubbles (similar to those seen in comic strips) on billboards and advertisements around New York City. Neigbors[sic] and passers-by were able to scribble their thoughts into the thought bubbles, turning the ads into a community conversation.
Much more interesting than the decapitator with a clearer message. I think the key point is that Lee allows others to fill in the bubbles, essentially crowdsourcing the graffiti. Neat!
Epic battles, heroes, killer cyborgs, pew pew lasers, and the search for Earth—it’s fraking awesome. It’s Battlestar Galactica!
Unfortunately, I haven’t got any new and exciting information on the new episodes. However, I do have a Barbarella-esque photo of the gals of BSG (Grace Park, Katee Sackhoff, Tricia Helfer) from a GQ photoshoot and Edward James Olmos racing a rocket bike in a commercial for Farmers Insurance. Enjoy!
As a response to the nasty gum blobs on the street, Hubba Bubba produced paint by number style posters that use different gum colors/flavors for the palette. Warhol, Da Vinci, and van Gogh are the featured artists.
Advertising Agency: DDB, Sydney, Australia
Executive Creative Director: Matt Eastwood
Deputy Creative Director: Steve Back
Art Director: Iggy Rodriguez, Steele Bonus, Justin Carew, Jakub Szymanski
Copywriter: Iggy Rodriguez
Typographer: Jason Young
Renegade artist and head-hunter the Decapitator has been bombarding the streets of London with a signature style of graffiti tag - eerily removing the heads from major adverts around town, replacing them with ghastly, gory stumps. (Before and after images of a gruesomely guillotined model in a print ad, above).
He haunts my dreams… Ok, maybe not. But I’ve been seeing Batman wandering the streets with Lindsay Lohan, needing to hit the gym, being name dropped by a presidential candidate, + now he’s got a movie poster out.
+ Batman and Lindsay (I think this was some fashion photoshoot)
+ Ad for Powerhouse Heathclub
Advertising Agency: Euro RSCG, New Delhi, India
Creative Director: Satbir Singh
Art Director / Copywriter: Gurdev Singh Sidhu
Illustrator: Gurdev Baljeet
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Texas Congressman Ron Paul tells Comic Mix that his favorite comic book superhero is Baruch Wane (Batman) fromPaul Pope’s The Batman Chronicles: The Berlin Batman, #11.
What if you found 3 pages of an old, unproduced Hitchcock screenplay? What if you were Martin Scorsese?
The short film is fabulous and mimics the style, tone, and pacing of Hitchcock to a “t”. It shows just how great a master Hitchcock was.
But, part of me wonders if Scorsese really did find those pages. It just seems so set up, and the circumstances around having only 3 pages, with one missing, of a script? Sounds kind of unlikely. And I think part of us wants to believe that it really is Hitchcock, because he’s no longer with us making great cinema.
In the end, does it really matter if it was Hitchcock or not? I think it does. Just like when Blair Witch tried to pass itself off as something that really happened. Or Fargo with it’s “this is a true story” tag at the beginning of the film. That belief that it’s true gives the writer permission to do certain things that you (as the audience) wouldn’t believe in the first place.
Had it Scorsese just come out and said, “I’m going to do this thing, but in the style of Hitchcock”, people would be interested, but we would be judging Scorsese’s work. By presenting it the way he did, we give it so much more because we want to believe the lie.
And sometimes, for that split second, the lie is perfect.
I’m off to the dentist soon, but I thought I’d share this sweet holiday card with you!
This holiday card was created by the Bray Leino advertising agency. They are making a holiday donation to No More Landmines Trust on behalf of their recipients.
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