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Here’s a cool spot from the folks @ This Is Reality. If you’re wondering why this ad seems a bit creepier than usual, maybe it’s because it was directed by the Coen Brothers. Check it out.

The other day I was walking through my student union and I noticed something very peculiar. Mountain Dew has changed its name to Mtn Dew. I guess they figured they would shorten their name to make everything easier.

Texting is getting huge and often times you will find people shortening the way they write a word to make everything more efficient. I guess the guys over at Pepsi decided to go along with this fast growing texting phenomenon. Check out their website.

Now even coffee shops have realised that if the servers take off their shirts, it will lead to more business. At the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop in Vassalboro, Maine, coffee is served by shirtless men and women in order to bring something unique to the town that would guarantee no competitive business.

While Billy Mays has hocked countless Mighty Mendits, Big City Slider Stations, Handy Switches, Steam Buddies, Simoniz Fix Its!, and several other semi-useful products in the past few years, is it any wonder DC Snowboards and ESPN360.com have recruited the almighty infomercial man to be there spokesman?

Baby Mop from Chris Milk on Vimeo.

Has anyone ever looked at your child and said, “Yes, it’s cute, but what can it do?” If so, maybe it’s time for your family to invest in a Baby Mop. With absolutely “no child exploitation involved,” the Baby Mop lets you teach your offspring “responsibility and a healthy work ethic” while “doing what he does best anyway: crawling.”

Thanks AdFreak.

Do you find yourself craving an interactive web adventure? Thanks to the folks @ ZenSoft, you can go on a magical quest as our new Commander-In-Chief in Super Obama World.

Thanks to G4TV for the scoop, and remember to watch out for lip-sticked Pigs and evil Lobbyists!

LA-based graphic designer Jonathan Harris’s visual credit-crisis creation. Enjoy.

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

I found it interesting that a recent Harris poll was conducted asking Americans to identify who they would classify as a ‘hero’ and the top three came back as Obama, Jesus and Martin Luther King Jr. Just missing the top 10 group was God and Hilllary Clinton…

Adweek has the full story.

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Ashton Kutcher’s film production firm, Katalyst Media, has partnered up with Slide Inc. which creates social networking applications for Facebook. Kutcher has designed a short online series called “KatalystHQ” which will show viewers behind-the-scenes shots of the Los Angeles Katalyst offices.

KatalystHQ marks a changing online sphere, where Facebook is rivalling MySpace’s capacity to produce entertainment alongside social networking.

Think you get mad at your TV? According to KARE 11, a man in Joplin, MN was charged with unlawful use of a firearm after unloading a clip into his TV because his DTV converter wouldn’t work.

Click the pic. for the Huffington Post article.

Cruising through the Short North in downtown Columbus during this month’s Gallery Hop, I found myself standing in front of some amazing artwork by Christian Faur.

As Denison’s Director of Collaborative Technologies in the Fine and Performing Arts, the amount of work exhibited at Sherrie Gallerie was almost as unreal as Faur’s creativity and attention to detail.

Want more? Check more artwork here, or click the pic.

Anti-smoking campaigns have reached new creative heights. Promoting a “No Smoke Day,” Ogilvy + Mather and Peru’s Liga Contra el Cáncer worked together to create this billboard, containing 15,000 handpicked cigarette butts. Check out the story on Animal for more pics.

Have you ever wondered what your professor’s do “off the Hill?”

Though some may see their professors at the local coffee shop, drinking Chai and discussing Postmodern literary theory alongside a clamoring group of students and bearded townsfolk, the Romanticized scenario of your favorite scholar burning the midnight oil next to a mountain of pencil shavings and ungraded papers, smoking their corn-cob pipe and listening to John Coltrane may be a lie.

While it may be hard to believe, some of our most beloved professors lead dark and mysterious lives outside the classroom.

Behind his sly smirk and those big brown eyes lies the mind of one of the nation’s foremost Hammered Dulcimer players…or so he’d like us to think. What you didn’t know was that Visiting Professor of Music, Mark Alan Wade, is a criminal mastermind.

As a nationally accredited champion of music, Mark Alan Wade is better known as a musical prodigy than as a master of deception. In fact, Wade has been using the hypnotic tones of his Hammered Dulcimer to lull unsuspecting people into a life of treachery and carnage for years now. Preying on the naive, the insecure, and the generally fragile, Wade’s genius and ambidextrous fingering capabilities put him on a level all his own.

A little reconnaissance work brought us to Wade’s personal website where he waxes poetic about his wizardry of the occult.

With “a mastery of the subtleties and finesse of Celtic Airs and Chopin Nocturnes…Mark’s audiences are drawn into a broad spectrum of emotions that his music evokes.”

Need more proof? Take a look at what Mark Alan Wade doesn’t want you to see, and why his top secret plan to take over the world stops here.

At first glance, it’s as if this group of women performing the theme from the 1984 box office smash “Beverly Hills Cop,” are actually enjoying themselves, but to the more discerning eye, it becomes clear that these women have been brainwashed by the soothing tones of “Axel F.” It’s been years since these women were seen, or heard from again.

Now living in Granville, it looks like Wade’s chosen another group of naive, insecure, and fragile people as his next victims: Denison students.

ANDREW ADAM NEWMAN / The Body as Billboard: Your Ad Here / NYTimes.com / 17 Feb. 2009

If you’ve watched boxing anytime in the last couple years, you’ve seen advertisements plastered across the backs of many a fighter.

In a delicious breed of branding and shamelessness, everyday folks are sacrificing their bodies to serve as walking advertisements for a variety of companies and a pocket full of sweet, sweet cash. Newman’s article cites a particular craze in which AirNewZealand.com offers free flights to Kiwi-country in exchange for the space on their baldheads.

FeelUnique.com, an online beauty store in England, went even further. Andrews writes: “[The company] paid 10 men and women to apply temporary tattoos with the company’s Web address on their eyelids and then wink at strangers. Chosen randomly from more than 6,000 who applied online, participants were paid 100 pounds (about $149) to wink at people 1,000 times, or 10 pence a wink, an allusion to pay-per-view Web advertising.”

Though a bit ridiculous, companies are getting their name out there, and bald people are getting paid. Believe it or not, in 2005 a 20-year old guy in Omaha offered his forehead for a month and got over $35K from Green Pharmaceuticals!

If you’re a fan of mash-ups, get your hands on Travis Barker or DJ AM’s new mixtape, entitled FIX YOUR FACE. Taking off where genre pioneer, Girl Talk, left off, this drummer-DJ duo throw down hard with an aggressive breed of funk, punk and hip-hop that will keep you and your Converse-wearing, PBR guzzling, Marlboro Red-smoking friends raging until sunup. To download the entire mixtape, check out TRVSDJAM.com. If that doesn’t work, check this.

This is a pretty interesting video that was forwarded to me about the incredible technological changes constantly occurring in our modern world. It was created for a conference and was posted on Flixxy. It is strange to think what our world was like before technology began to dominate, and what it may be like in the future.

Colombian scientists have just discovered the world’s largest snake remains. It was 42.7 feet long and 2,500 pounds and one paleontologist explained that “reality has exceeded the fantasies of Hollywood.” See CNN.com for more on this story.

This is what the snake was thought to have looked like when it was alive 60 million years ago.

Best Buy and Circuit City have always been the top competitors in the technology retail business. Now that Circuit City seems to be hitting the end of their time, Best Buy posted signs that had plenty of sarcasm. I guess their pleased with the top spot in their business.

One Super Bowl commercial that I could not stop laughing about was the Pepsi ad titled, Pepsuber. There is a popular skit on SNL title MacGruber with Will Forte. I thought it was great when companies took personalities on the NBC network and stuck them in to their own commercial. It was great marketing because the Super Bowl aired on NBC. Talk about two birds. Here is my favorite commercial from the big game. 

While the Pittsburgh Steelers deserve a standing ovation for their outstanding performance in this year’s Super Bowl, Slayterbox1748 would like to thank those at Hulu for hosting all the ads.

Here are some of my favorites:

Cars.com - David Abernathy

Hulu - Alec in Huluwood

Doritos - Power of the Crunch

Monster - Need a new Job?

Coke - Heist