In today’s news-you-wish-you-didn’t-know, there’s a vicious rumour circulating that Carrie Bradshaw swaps her MacBook for a HP netbook. Albeit one designed by fashion designer Vivienne Tam. Gasp! Phone the girls! We have a MAJOR situation on our hands! More »
Moderately musical little person Scooter Smiff has helpfully demonstrated, point by point, how not to endorse gadgets in your music video.
After making an appearance in a recent Britney Spears video, and showing up again in Christina Aguilera’s video for “Keeps Gettin’ Better” (about 1:07 in), Nokia’s marketing strategy regarding their new 5800 XpressMusic is becoming pretty clear. At least this time the singer can actually, you know…sing. Hit the jump to check out a couple of stills.
We love high budget sci fi and action as much as anyone, but who really starred in Iron Man? Robert Downey Jr? Sure, he made an appearance. But so did his co-stars Apple, Dell and Burger King. The Dark Knight? Christian Bale peeked his head in, but so did Canon, Nokia and Bang & Olufsen. Antrepo Design Industry has gone through some of our favourite films and remade the movie posters with a bit more honesty and brand awareness. The ads are a tad light on explosions, but they pack a mighty punch of truth and justice:
