Above: A screenshot of the video player on TLC‘s homepage, advertising the next special episode of Jon and Kate Plus 8 Last night, TLC played the special 1-hour episode of Jon & Kate Plus 8, in which Jon and Kate Gosselin, the parents of twins and sextuplets (8 children in all), announced that they had…
This post is definitely long overdue! While at the 2009 Coffee and Tea Festival NYC in April, my friend, boyfriend and I happened to meet Michael Harney, Jennifer and Jess from Harney & Sons Fine Teas. We were all volunteering, as we’re all tea fanatics. We had no idea that Harney & Sons would be…
Has anyone seen the newest infomercial about Bumpits, by Big Apple Hair? If not, please enjoy above. This commercial is outrageous, featuring big-haired moms, cheerleaders and a 10-year old dress-up girl… so intriguing, I wonder who this is actually targeting. If I had to guess, I would say the Bumpits is perfect for Middle American…
A few good friends and I created the video that you see above for the Cannes MoFilm User-Generated Content Initiative, judged by Spike Lee! As you might remember, we created our film all in one session at Central Park. We staged a huge dirtball fight and got a lot of people smiling and laughing. Now,…
Above: Israel pride. That’s me in the middle. Above: The EL AL Airline float. Above: Super Israel Girl Above: A clever passerby placed an Israeli flag into the arms of a Central Park statue Above: The grand finale float. My friend, Mike, invited me to the Salute to Israel Parade this year, and I was…
Above: From a distance the Buitoni ads appear to be framed works of art with labels denoting the “artist”, “title” and description. Buitoni, the pasta brand owned by Nestlé that claims to be “The Italian Art of Food”, has recently turned the 14th Street Union Square subway start into a pasta art exhibition. This is…
I was just stopping by NYTimes.com, when a huge Bing (Microsoft’s new search engine) advertisement (as pictured above) frightened the heeby-jeebies out of me. What the?!?!?! It was so huge, I thought it was a pop-up ad. I guess whatever brings in the bacon for The New York Times is good enough for me, but…
Above: H&M’s “Fashion Against AIDS” campaign in action at their storefront Above: H&M invaded my Pandora today Above: Cute H&M tagline, followed by world-savers, U2. Today, H&M invaded my Pandora “Pop/Rock” playlist with their “Fashion Against AIDS” advertising campaign. Cute tagline, though: “Be smart. Do your part. Think Twice. Wear one.” Hmmm, what a mystery……
Above: I searched for “Sustainability” on Dictionary.com and found a Prius ad. I tried looking up Sustainability on Dictionary.com and indeed, a lovely Prius ad was served. Other words that served a Prius 3rd Generation Solar Roof ad included “Solar Power”, “Green”, “Moonroof”, “Hybrid” and “Hybrid Car”. Oddly, when I looked up “Prius” (definition: “Before;…
Above: My friends, Maria and Andrew, at Tiananmen in 2006 Anticipating the 20th Anniversary of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising, the GFW (Great FireWall) of China has struck again! For those of you who have never heard of GFW, it’s a method by which the Chinese government censors out anything that they don’t…
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