Leo Laporte interviews the creatives at Wieden + Kennedy who were responsible for this epic commercial.

Classic.

1. Travel somewhere brilliant
2. Start to learn to drive properly
3. Do some proper photography again
4. Become really good at designing magazine covers
5. Same as Timmy’s 5
6. Finish Dara O Briain’s book
7. Learn how to use Flash (far too late)
8. Finish watching Lost
9. Start my post-university life
10. Graduate
11. Do something unexpected
12. Blog far more
13. Get my dad to buy an iPad
14. Properly learn the fundamentals of Marketing, before my Marketing course is over.
15. Help build The Squirrel into something that continues long after I leave University.
16. Have an issue of The Squirrel without a single error on the cover.

I think I’ll add more to this post as time goes on, but that’s it for now.

Since I was aware of this ‘fact’ I thought that all teams had removed their Tobacco advertising entirely. We no longer saw ‘West’ or ‘Benson and Hedges’, and I thought, we no longer saw ‘Marlboro’ on Ferrari cars. But one thing still bothered me. If Marlboro was gone, why did Ferrari still have a massive badge on their cars, the same size, shape and colours of the Marlboro mark, albeit in Barcode form?

Well, turns out, somewhat obviously to me now, that it is indeed the case that Marlboro still sponsor Ferrari, and that the ‘barcode’ mark is for anyone who knows the cars in their traditional form, a subliminal callback to the Marlboro logo, and their brand.

I found this genuinely shocking, because far from being an inside joke that we all get, like when you see the company logo at one race, and then a funny parody one at another (to get around the rules), this subliminal non-logo is now seen at every single race. The government is always complaining about how Tobacco companies are sneakily marketing to everyone, why haven’t they stopped the one thing right under their nose?

Now you don’t think of me…

You said it was ok to say no…

Little did I know…

Life could be so different now…

All because of a cup of tea.

What can I say? I was bored.

You place money in the tin and the girl gives you a half smile. Neat.

via Creative Review

By Random_fotos on Flickr

I hate to make my blog all about them, but it seems to be a never ending issue. According to the Age of Stupid documentary I just saw a bit of, all over the country turbines are being refused because of anti protest groups. Urgh, it actually gives me a headache, don’t people realise what they are saying when they protest these things? Global warming is consuming the planet, but you’d rather have an unspoilt view of a hill than do something to stop a global crisis?

It’s horrifying, and the planning committees seemed to be staffed with people who largely agree with these people.

Case in point, the Cheverton Down turbine application. People have been on about it for what seems like years, the pro camp, with thanks to people like Kerri Trickey (disclosure: my friend), have finally got their voice heard. But what happens? Though the public voice was almost evenly split, the council voted 6 against 3 to not approve the application.

To make this clear, thats not covering the Isle of Wight with badly sited Turbines, thats 3 neat turbines, on a hill. It would look amazing. Yes, they’d be tall, and as the County Press (god love ‘em) keeps pointing out, a bit more than twice the height of St. Thomas’s Church. Well, breaking news, churches aren’t the tallest things around anymore. In fact the TV masts we see all around us on the island, are massive compared to the proposed turbines.

But alas, refused, by NIMBYs, again.

It genuinely makes me mad.

Now you get it. (from SlowPoke Comics)