Clever energy drink packaging

Packaging created by Saatchi & Saatchi Belgrade for Booster Energy Drink.

Hertz rent a car 1949 advertisement

found on http://questionableadvice.tumblr.com/ known as Centuries of Advice & Advertisements

Clever/Irritating advertisements for Antique Roadshow

"To promote a new season of Antiques Roadshow on Prime TV, DRAFTFCB Auckland took to the streets, placing price tags on numerous objects that could well be considered an antique in the future. From shopping trollies and picnic benches, to cars and arcade machines, all objects were labeled with prices far greater than their current value." Via.

Gilmore's 1934 traveling neon sign fuel tanker (mack chassis)

found on http://dieselpunk.livejournal.com/471611.html#cutid1

Link roundup

1. Cartoon Brew is conducting a reader survey and giving away a $50 Amazon credit.

2. DIY modern platform dollhouse.

3. If the aquarium was closer to the airport, I think I'd take advantage of the $4 flight Jetblue is offering from Burbank to Long Beach this weekend. (A major freeway is going to be closed all weekend, so residents have been begged not to drive.)

Clever cartoon showing off new Nike technology

Cartoon showing off Nike's "hyperfuse" technology. Via.

Link roundup

1. For other Blogger users, here's a useful comment by a Blogger employee from Ann Althouse's blog:

While our export tools may have been somewhat unreliable when handling blogs this large (Althouse is one of the largest Blogger blogs!), along the way helping Ann we discovered ways to improve them and moving forward Blogger will be much better equipped to handle cases like this.

So Ann while I'm personally sad to see you go (if that is indeed the decision), I wanted to let you know that you will always have a home on Blogger and a team who cares about your experience with Blogger. That also (of course) goes for everyone. We love hearing from users, and anyone can bug me directly on Twitter (@electrobutter) if something is on their mind, or hit up the team via @blogger.

It seems like such a typical Google thing to do to make such outreach efforts only when it was too late to keep her on the platform. Her entire Blogger blog was deleted, possibly by error, possibly by a rogue Google employee, last month.

2. "An investigation into Atlanta’s public school system has uncovered evidence that teachers and principals have been secretly erasing and correcting answers on students’ tests for as long as a decade."

3. "For the past few years, networks have been digitally inserting ads and product placements for new products into old reruns."

Seagram's predicts the future

Seagram's predictions of the future (from 1950).

*Previously: Paul Pope looks at the future of Japanese cars.

Earworms

Advertisements by Y&R for Penguin audiobooks

Advertising Durex condoms at soccer matches

McCann Erickson for Durex:

We decided to use the electronic boards held up at half time and the end of matches to signify how much extra time will be p|ayed.These boards were branded with the Durex Performa colours and logo. Of course, with our branding of the boards, the extra time took on a whole new meaning and relevance.

Via.

*Previously: Durex pillows.

Funny Captain America-tie in advertisement for Dunkin Donuts

Captain America sort of stars in this advertisement for Dunkin Donuts' Cherry Coolatta.

*Previously: Thoroughly redesigned Captain America.

These ads for Scion (featuring Zeus) are way better than that Immortals trailer

I love these ads by Attik for the Scion tC by, starring Zeus. Funny and they do an excellent job of showing off the car:





I couldn't make out what his brand of juice is:



The minisite features ringtones and a downloadable autographed picture.

There's also several "behind the scenes" videos, including this one in which he explains how he created Athena:

the 3 Stooges advertised Simoniz car wax

Spanky from Our Gang commercial for Speedo bikes (skip the first 20 seconds)

1970 Nova commercial with OJ Simpson

Demonic commercial for Dirt Devil

It's The Exorcist with a twist in this frightening advertisement for Dirt Devil directed by Andreas Roth. Via.

*Previously: If Atticus Finch had starred in The Exorcist.

The Roamer Duesenburg, 1921 Daytona Beach speed record holder

Roamer automobiles were built from 1919 to 1926 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. They were 'assembled' automobiles, which means the components were purchased from automotive supplier companies and then assembled at Roamer's plant.

This was typical of many low volume automobile companies that did not have the resources to design and build their own parts. Roamers were known as sporty automobiles and their designs reflected the look of the Roaring 20's. Two models were produced http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z15634/Roamer-Roadster.aspx

The Roamer was marketed from its inception as "America’s Smartest Car." It was also successful in many early racing events. After a Roamer with a Rochester-Duesenberg engine set six records for one kilometer, one-, two- three-, four- and five-mile sprints at Daytona Beach in 1921, the advertisements crowed, "America’s Smartest Car Makes America’s Fastest Mile."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barley_Motor_Car_Co.

Killer Elite

Killer Elite: Jason Statham vs. Clive Owen (with an absurd mustache) set to some sort of remastered version of The Scorpions' Rock You like a Hurricane (or is it another band doing an impression)? Just put it on a loop on Spike.

And since the version of Van Damme's Coors Light commercial that I posted last weekend was taken down:

Image roundup

Unpopular bankers tied to poles in Australia in an advertising stunt.



Deer.



Kiwi.



A Happy Sky Over Los Angeles by Dave Jurasevich.

Link roundup

1. Julie Taymor blaming others for the failure of the Spider-Man musical:

“It’s very scary if people are going more towards that, to have audiences tell you how to make a show,” said Ms. Taymor, a Tony Award-winning director of “The Lion King” and other stage works and films. “Shakespeare would have been appalled. Forget about it. It would be impossible to have these works come out because there’s always something that people don’t like.”

Because everyone knows of how respectful audiences were in Shakespeare's time.

2. Idoru used to promote a Japanese ice cream. Here's the commercial itself. Via.

3. Transformers: Turn Off the Moon kid's meal toys at Burger King.

4. I like the muted colors on this blog layout. Even the icons look like they were doodled in ink.

5. For Californians, one pundit's analysis of the current budget battle.

*Buy Happy Meal toys at eBay.