Random (A)Musings

The Vendor-Client Relationship

Anyone who provides services to clients is familiar with the good/fast/cheap equation -- meaning, You can have your project done well, you can have it delivered quickly, you can have it completed cheaply: PICK TWO.

Most clients are business people themselves, with their own clients or customers, and they understand the tradeoffs. And then there are the others . . .

Imagine if those who "don't get it" carried their attitudes into their interactions with restaurants, hairdressers, video stores, etc. Anyone who has clients or customers will recognize these hilarious conversations, transposed into real-life situations.

People for the (Un)Ethical Self-Promotion of Mindless Models

Following her participation in PETA's "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" ads, Naomi Campbell is again plunging into the fur campaign — this time lobbying hard to be the face of the luxury furrier Dennis Basso.

Hey, as long as the check clears! 

PETA's 1994 supermodel ad:

[From HuffPost via AdRants]

The Funniest Cat Video *Ever*

Even if you're not a fan of "cute animal" vids, this will make you laugh.

I Left My Heart in Candyland

Hasbro celebrated Candyland's 60th birthday by building a life-size version of the game on San Francisco's Lombard Street.

God, I love this town!

[via Flavorwire and Kimmie Nguyen | photo: AP Hasbro Inc., Darryl Bush]

Enjoying the Flavors

Talking pigs ruminate on the superiority of Boost Mobile over other carriers while "enjoying the flavors of a fallen friend."

This is disturbing . . . and wonderful . . . and so very, very wrong.

My Self-Esteem's Not Low Enough to Date You

Clearblue® Easy

TV and print ads for the Clearblue Easy Digital Pregnancy Test ask:

 

Hmmm . . . any chance that these are the same women who couldn't figure out birth control in the first place?

Certified, Pre-Owned Cats: Better Than New!

Michigan only knows one way to move merchandise. But with owner surrenders up at shelters nationwide, an old gimmick can yield new results.

The Michigan Humane Society's clever "Certified, Pre-Owned Cats" campaign is offering humans who need a (or another) shelter cat to boss them around the opportunity to bring home a brand new (to you) cat today!

The offer: $0 down, 0% financing, no payments. Translation: No adoption fees.

What? No 112-point inspection? What about custom detailing? I smell a rip-off!

Remember, savvy consumers, when shopping for a pre-owned cat, be sure to get its FIN (Feline Identification Number) and request a CATFAX® report before finalizing the adoption. Nobody wants to take home a lemon. Cat. (Or you could just talk to shelter staff about the cat's personality and medical history.)

Trimming the Bushes (Updated)

I rarely "watch" TV ads. I sometimes see them in passing, and only because something happens to catch my attention. So the first couple of times I actually tuned into this ad for the Schick Quattro TrimStyle for women, it was because I did a double-take about 16 seconds in.

Are they really doing what I think they're doing?! Why, yes! Yes they are!

Here's the entire 30 seconds of personal topiary maintenance for the self-starter. Hilariously tacky? Or totally brilliant? You decide!

UPDATE: After receiving an email from a woman who felt "they were awful awful awful ads clearly written by men!" I dug deeper to see what I could find out . . .

1) A team of women created these ads (credits below the second vid).

2)  Women heart this razor.

3) Women either hate the ads or love them. Haters think a man created the ads; admirers think they were done by a woman.

Below is the European version, never released in the U.S., which went viral on the Web. Depending on your point of view it's either edgy or completely tasteless.

Either way, it's also hilarious.

Client: Schick
Agency: JWT, New York
Executive Creative Director: Sarah Barclay
Creative Director: Lisa Topol
Art Director: Megan Penmann
Copywriter: Margie Chidley
Senior Agency Producer: Kirsten Larson
Production Company: The Directors Bureau
Director: Mike Maguire
Executive Producer: Melissa Culligan

Imaginary Bitches

How do you get revenge when the "pseudo-spiritual psychopath" bitch who stole your boyfriend grovels for your forgiveness after he dumps her?

Turn her over to Catherine and Heather, your imaginary-bitch girlfriends, of course, and let THEM call her out.

Here's Episode 7 of the web series "Imaginary Bitches" (entitled "A Spiritual Bitch-Bath") where we begin to wonder: Are Eden's "imaginary bitches" really imaginary? Or simply invisible to the non-psychotic?

My own imaginary bitches are telling me to shut up and watch the episode!