Cloud Computing Isn't Bad, It's A Fad

Here's some Deutsch New York-created, Biscuit Filmworks-produced work for Microsoft (yea, yea, we know) that IT managers the world over will appreciate. When seeking IT solutions for their companies, there's always one memorable solution presented that's not really a solution at all. But it makes for all kinds of great jokes and story telling. This one come courtesy of Tad, head salesman for VMlimited,

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Noses Cleaned, Brief Simplified, Pistachios Pimped

- This is just too funny. World Championship Nose Cleansing. All to promote a nasal spray.

- Having trouble getting started on a creative brief? There's an app for that. Brief Buddy.

- Wonderful Pistachios is out with a slew of new ads featuring the Facebook-slighted Winklevoss Twins, gooy Mr. Bill, crazy Crystal the Monkey, the angry...Angry Birds and the bootylicious Khloe Kardashian.

- Sony Ericsson partnered with artists, intellectuals, and other artists from around the world, provided each with a Sony Xperia phone and asked them to see what they could make with it. Then they documented the project.

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Beat Boxing, Banjo Picking, Hip-Hop the New Folk

A new campaign for Kent State University's WKSU Folk Festival, Sept. 21-25, called You Don't Know Folk, asks folk music lovers to broaden their ideas of who, and what, is folk. The print, poster, guerrilla and online campaign, created by advertising agency Marcus Thomas, has some great headlines.

Print ad headlines include "Ever hear a beat boxing jug blower and a banjo picking opera singer singer bust out a swaggering hip-hop jam?", "Know who burned down the house with Dave Matthews, chewed gum with Elvis Costello, and partied on a boat with Mick Jagger?" and "Think a former NASA technician. two Ivy League graduates and a saw player don't know how to bring the funk?"

Ads will appear in local Ohio newspapers, wildpostings will be placed and QR coded guitar picks will be distributed. All lead to the campaign website.

Legal Sea Food Snubs Nose at Animal Rights Groups

We love this new DeVito/ Verdi-created ad campaign for Legal Sea Food. Why? Because it slaps upside the head all the tree-hugging, animal-loving cause groups who spend their days complaining about stuff when, instead, they could be at Legal Seafoods devouring succulent crab, salmon or trout.

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Mens' Crotch, Biceps Most Attractive to Women

Remember the woman with the iPad head? It was all about helping guys get inside the minds of women. And it was a promotion for the launch of Cosmo For Guys. Well, the team behind the iPad head, Thinkmodo is at it again. To determine just what interests a girl about a guy, Thinkmodo mounted four cameras on a guy and set him lose in New York City

The cameras were mounted on his glasses, his bicep, his crotch and his butt. The video below shows us what happens and what truly interests women. They're eyes wander just like guys' eyes wander.

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Lingerie-Clad Hotties Not Allowed to Sell Juice in Russia

You've gotta love the new-found freedom the Russians have expressed over the past few years and, especially, how its made its way into advertising. Of course, it was totally predictable. You see, the easiest way to make a splash with anything you do is to...wait for it...employ a scantily clad woman. And that's exactly what the Russians have recently done in much of their advertising including in this ad for a fruit drink.

But, this ad has a twist. While this ad does go to salacious levels just to sell juice, it also sends a kind of message. When a woman with a shotgun approaches a hottie who is cavorting in a field and, seemingly, making mad passionate love to a strawberry...and scares her off with a shotgun, you know you're getting a completely different message.

Sex may have a place in advertising but certainly not in an ad for a children's drink. And the woman with the shotgun isn't going to have any scantily-clad hotties frolicking in her strawberry field to sell some juice. Nope. Not on her watch.

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