Orangina Naturally Juicy Commercial

If Cirque du Soleil were to base a commercial on their Zumanity show in Las Vegas, perhaps with a little bit of Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element mixed in, this is what it would look like:

 
Commercials don’t get any saucier than this one.  It’s for the Orangina brand drink from France.  Did you notice the [...]

Holiday Chocolate Oranges

I may have finally found a slight exception to the rule that chocolate is the one product that isn’t advertised with paradise, even though it’s usually grown there: holiday chocolate oranges.
It’s only a "slight" exception in that you don’t really think about about the traditional chocolate orange that appears in the run up to Christmas [...]

Bling h2O

Here’s a quote for you from Kevin G. Boyd (Hollywood writer-producer): "…you could tell a lot about a person by the bottled water they carried.  In Hollywood it seemed as if people flaunted their bottled water like it was part of their presentation. Whether the bottles had a cool shape or came from an exotic [...]

Multi-Grain Cheerios ~ six times the sugar and ten times the escape

Who wouldn’t want to wake up in the morning and feel like you’re running across the beach carefree with your eyes closed and your arms waving in the air?  You can if you eat Multi-Grain Cheerios:
 
Unless your parents kept you from eating your sugared cereals, you might like the fact that Multi-Grain Cheerios are slightly [...]

Cookies for Santa

This ad is from 2oo6, and it’s one of the best print ads related to the Rapidsea cause.  It’s an Oreo cookie wearing a snorkel:

Some readers might be surprised at the statement that it’s great.  After all, what does a cookie have to do with snorkeling?  You might even picture a nice beach.
But there [...]

Pepsi Dare for More ~ Epica d’Or award-winning ad campaign

Pepsi and their ad agency BBDO Germany GmbH of Dusseldorf have won the Epica d’Or Outdoor award among European advertisers. They won in part because of this surf wave logo image as part of their “Dare for More” campaign:

At first I wanted to cry to think that they had won for this ad alone [...]

LG’s new HDTV ~ kitchen paradise found?

Imagine our un-surprise when we noticed that LG used a tropical island as the image on their publicity shots for their new $3,999 refrigerator embedded with a 15" high definition television:

Here’s the close up:

And inside?

Yup, lemons, limes, pineapple orange juice, fruit bowls are all front and center.   Paradise indeed.  Consider this product officially categorized in [...]

CNN: Billions of jellyfish wipe out Northern Ireland salmon farm

I’m trying to imagine a layer of jellyfish that is 10 square miles in area and 35 feet thick.  Not a pretty site.  Read it here.

Giving Free Rice to the Poor ~ Our 250th Post!

While a few economists argue that giving food and aid to poor countries may actually flood the markets and dampen prices, thus restraining economic development, I’m going to err on the side that giving a little is still better than not giving at all.  Tonight I found an easy way to give through a site [...]

Mixing with fake coral reefs at Mix Lounge in Vegas

This weekend I ended up having one of the most accidentally decadent trips to Las Vegas, and on Saturday we went out to a club called Mix Lounge at THE Hotel at Mandalay Bay where we were staying. It was a nice place, but failed to find the balance between being decadent AND inviting. [...]

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