A new meme for butterfly cliches

This comic takes on the butterfly.  Finally.  Thank you.
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Coffee Art

Here’s a new bunch of images I pulled from a coffee art email that’s making the rounds.  There’s the fish:

Butterfly:

I like the sailboat one in particular:

There were several others in the email too.
It looks like at least one of these is from Israel.  I would like to credit them properly if anybody knows who the [...]

Are Havaianas flip flops on their way up?

In my rage against sports Crocs in August of last year, I predicted that Havaianas Zori-style sandals would likely to become the summer footwear of choice this year.  The company is certainly slowly pushing their way into the market.  This ad is from the March 2008 issue of Complex:

They’ve got the palm trees, flowers, [...]

Paradise Hotel 2 returns tomorrow ~ even after cast member commits suicide

Brace yourselves.  Paradise Hotel, one of the most ill-conceived irreality television shows of our time, returns on February 4th for a second round.  The show "brings a sexy new cast of singles to a secluded hotel for an adventure-filled experience to win a cash prize," according to E! Online Canada.
Pass.
Not to mention that one of [...]

Society’s love of butterflies currently valued at $40,800

Butterflies and their peaceful meadow imagery powers have been all over the place this week (wait until you see the butterfly with the ball and chain that’s in the scan queue).  According to CNN, someone placed a winning online bid of $40,800 to name a butterfly the Minerva owl butterfly or Opsiphanes blythekitzmillerae, which is [...]

Sony Playstation 3 ~ Universe of Entertainment

One of AdForum’s Top 5 ads this week is for the Sony Playstation 3.  It is black-and-white industry with cuts to color game scenes.  It starts out with this weird wheel of widgets, and they zoom on on these flowers on top that bloom and zoom into the stamen and pistil, which are actually a [...]

Chase cash freedom or merchandise ~ your pick

Chase has their "Freedom" credit card that they’ve been advertising for quite a while now.  Its benefits are that it allows you to switch your points back and forth among different options, like cash and travel. Their advertising campaign pulls together some cliche images but with slightly more interesting visual twists than you would expect [...]

NBC’s online-only drama "Coastal Dreams" ~ more maxipads than you’ll ever see on actual TV

Today a new word has joined us here on earth: “padvertisement” (with the British pronunciation of course). It means “an advertisement for a product using video as the medium along with a badly disguised aura of entertainment.” NBC and Stayfree maxipads helped spawn this one with their new online-only show “Coastal Dreams.”
Being a [...]

Can Jellyfish.com take the sting out of shopping?

I was thinking today about writing a post on the MSN butterfly, but luckily I don’t have to. Instead I came across this little number from the shopping site Jellyfish.com:

Is that a squished MSN butterfly? Amazing! Although I’m not really sure what the heck a jellyfish has to do with a butterfly…has [...]

A new cocoon for “Butterfly” Vanessa Hudgens built from items from her Disney virtual dressing room

It’s hard not to feel somewhat sorry for Vanessa Hudgens who very embarrassingly had a nude picture of herself, aimed for megabeau Zac Efron, leak out onto the Internet. Oops. It sounds like more than just love has erupted at the Lava Springs gated golf community. She just became the biggest of [...]