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Strange Video From Neill Blomkamp Appears on iPads It’s a pretty common occurance to see video ads display before opening up an app or watching video on the Apple iPad. However, in the latest iPad version of Wired Magazine (issue 18.12), a mysterious and unexplained video appears instead, and it’s credited by District 9 director Neil Blomkamp. What could this be? As you can see above, the found footage-style video shows two kids who drive out to the side of a road and find a nasty-looking dead pig-like creature with a big stamp on it. 50 Creative WWF Campaigns That Make You Think Twice The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is an international non-governmental organization working on issues regarding the conservation, research and restoration of the environment. It is the world’s largest independent conservation organization with over 5 million supporters worldwide, working in more than 90 countries, supporting around 1300 conservation and environmental projects around the world. With the mission” to halt and reverse the destruction of our environment”, WWF is trying hard to make this world a better place.
Newly Launched “Dredd” Viral Site Riffs The Drudge Report Dredd may be coming out in theaters next month, but the film’s promotion is just kicking off. After Dredd received some solid reviews at Comic-Con earlier this year, the film is entering a new stage of the marketing campaign. Firstshowing reports that a viral site called The Dredd Report has launched. The site is a riff on the Drudge Report, and much like that website, the Dredd Report has links to a variety of news, videos, and photos. The newly launched site centers its attention on Mega City One (the fictional city where the movie is set) and how the new drug Slo-Mo has taken a hold of its citizens.
Sex Sells, 50 Creative Sexual Advertisements Here is the cold hard truth, “Sex Sells.” Hate or love it, sex attracts the eye more than any other type of advertisement. We are sexual beings, therefore are attracted to sexually related subjects, jokes, and other matters. Many companies use the sex concept in their favor, while adding a humorous element to it. Making you laugh and find the sexual cleverness of the advertisement, will most likely have you talking about the ad and sharing it with your peers. Companies hope that when they create an amazing ad, it will go viral. Hell.com Hell.com is an internet domain which has achieved a degree of notoriety due to its name, and an intentionally mysterious website that existed there from August 1995 to 2009 created by the first registrant of the domain, artist Kenneth Aronson.[2][3] The domain was sold by Aronson in 2009 to domain investor Rick Latona who put it up for auction several times in 2010, with reserves of up to US$1.5 million.[4][5] The domain receives thousands of curious visitors daily.[6] Hell.com under Aronson ownership[edit] Several versions of the Hell.com website were created during Aronson's ownership of the domain.
DIY: Nail and String Letters *Just want to give a quick shout out to Design Mom (not that she needs it) for posting this link on her blog. So cool! Thanks Gabrielle! So, I was at Anthropologie the other day. While browsing I saw these amazing letters on the wall made with nails and string. 20 creative guerilla marketing campaigns We are so overwhelmed with advertising everywhere that it becomes hard for creative agencies to make ads that stand out. Guerilla advertising is a great way to make unusual, surrealistic visuals and situations that passers by will remember. Here is a selection. 1.
The Blair Witch Project The film received enormously positive reception from critics and went on to gross over US$248 million worldwide,[3] making it one of the most successful independent movies of all time. The DVD was released in December 1999 and presented only in full-screen. Plot[edit] The film opens with the opening text stating that in October 1994 three filmmaking students disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland while shooting a documentary. A year later, their footage was found by an anthropology class from the same university as the film makers during a study in the field. Cloverfield ARG (alternate reality game) - Cloverfield Wiki - Cloverfield Monster, Slusho, J.J. Abrams Overview The Cloverfield ARG is the multimedia created for the film through primary use of the internet, as well as other media. The ARG for Cloverfield includes, but is not limited to, 1-18-08.com, Slusho!, Tagruato, T.I.D.O. Wave, and anything else that appears outside of the film that is used to promote or add to the story of the film. ARG components are often used in film and video game promotions.
I Love Bees I Love Bees was first advertised by a hidden message in a Halo 2 trailer; players who investigated the titular website discovered that the pages appeared to be hacked by a mysterious intelligence. As players solved puzzles, audio logs were posted to the ilovebees.com site which gradually revealed more of the fictional back-story, involving a marooned artificial intelligence stranded on Earth and its attempts to put itself back together. I Love Bees was a marketing success; 250,000 people viewed the ilovebees website when it was launched in August 2004, and more than 500,000 returned to the site every time the pages were updated. ARGs – Artificial Intelligence’s “The Beast” « Nolan Elingburg – Theory & Audience Analysis “The Beast” was a Microsoft-created ARG creation from Microsoft to promote Steven Spielberg’s 2001 film Artificial Intelligence. Beast is considered the first and most influential ARG because it paved the way for so many other ARG campaigns. The movie takes place in 2126, while the ARG takes place 16 years later in 2142. The game started in the credits of the movie trailer when Jeanine Salla’s name appears credited as a “Sentient Machine Therapist.” The same information could be found at the bottom of the film’s movie poster. There was also a phone number hidden in the text of one of the trailers.