Category Archives: Advertising & Marketing

Alan Ball’s New Show TrueBlood

By Gib | Saturday, September 6, 2008

I was watched the 15 minute promo that HBO had on for TrueBlood.
The editing effects they referenced — speeding up the vampires’ movements — looks really hot.
Definitely not the first timewe’ve seen super speed, nor the first time it’s been done on film for vampires… but it looks very cool.
Now that I’m used to all [...]

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Pamperphiliac Seeks Mistress

By Gib | Wednesday, August 6, 2008

A Smile Means Everything
Or almost everything to this guy. A real life Craigslist ad.
A real guy wants to pay rent, have a regular busy job (for a woman who’s a producer) and live with and cook and clean for a woman.
I get that. I dig it.
The perverted, dirty part? He doesn’t want a [...]

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Battlestar Galactica — the last season? Or The Last Supper?

By Gib | Tuesday, March 11, 2008

What the frak?!? Coasting down Melrose Avenue this morning, I looked up and saw this image.
Does it look familiar to you? It did to me, too. Let’s compare this great billboard with the famous image it’s inspired by after the jump.

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Watch All the Super Bowl Commercials In One Spot

By Gib | Thursday, March 6, 2008

 
Did you miss any of the Super Bowl commercials? Reactions are kind of tepid from many corners, but if you did… You can actually watch all of them in one spot. Link after the jump.
The Will Ferrell ad is great. Justin Timberlake is, well… Justin.

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Don’t Cry For Me, Estados Unidos

By Gib | Monday, February 25, 2008

Is it just me, or does she seem a little like Eva Peron? Or at least, Evita?
I know that she’s courting the latino vote in Texas, but…

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TV Still Loves Itself — Too Much (extremely brief episodes (2007-10-24)

By Gib | Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Image by Stefan via Flickr.
 
There’s something onanistic about watching someone on television watching television.

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Trojan: evolve — condons that help the species evolve are scarey (extremely brief episodes (2007-10-19)

By Gib | Friday, October 19, 2007

 

Let’s think about the proliferation of the species right before using a condom!

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Beowulf: violent, sexy, mythic, and in the original Old English (extremely brief episodes (2007-10-02)

By Gib | Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Beowulf
violent, sexy, mythic, and in the original Old English (I wish!).

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Who Has the Scarier Hairdo? Trump or Spector? (extremely brief episodes (2007-09-25)

By Gib | Tuesday, September 25, 2007

 

The Dashboard Confessional poster: “The new studio album.” Have they release so many live albums that the word “studio” matters in the ad? #

Overheard: “Pushing Daisies is phenomenal.” From a television professional at Upright Cabaret. #

 

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Gossip Girl Looks Fake in a Hot Way (extremely brief episodes (2007-09-24)

By Gib | Monday, September 24, 2007

The billboards & online eyeball ads for Gossip Girl lack of versimilitude. All the girls are gossip-worthy themselves & don’t look like pro gossips.#

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