A cell phone is not an ocean or a surf shop, Helio

I have pondered for a long time now why the Korean company Helio would name their mobile power center phone the "Ocean."  But the images don’t stop there.  The company has put an ad up on BoingBoing for the phones very cool one click search function.  See:

This is a really great feature.  All you do [...]

Wachovia ~ or surf over ya

If you thought that the Pepsi Dare for More campaign was great, then you’ll love this new little banner ad from Wachovia in Los Angeles:

It’s an animated Flash ad that I pulled out the boundaries on so that you could see the little animated surfers sitting off the stage after floating by to form [...]

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 [...]

Marvel Super Heroes ~ USPS 41-cent stamps of the Silver Surfer and Sub-Mariner

The US Postal Service has had a good decade-long track record of producing some interesting stamps.  I remember a time when people would complain about how boring US stamps and currency were compared to other countries’.
In my opinion, the Looney Toons stamps were some of the first to really break out and allow us to [...]

Comedy Central’s Real ‘Ving Break ~ Surf and Turk

Comedy Central has been airing a four-day "Thanxgiveaway Wiikend" promotion with the chance to win a Scion xD and a Nintendo.  If you visit their Thanxgiveaway site, you’ll be greeted by this surfing Turkey:

At first glance there doesn’t seem to be any reason behind giving the turkey a surfboard.  None of the prizes that they’re [...]

Oops ~ surfer unravels the mystery of the universe

Okay, just head on over to the article.  Here you go: "Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything" at Telegraph.co.uk.  Hey, Einstein started as a patent officer, so why not?

Honda wants you to rejoice with the van gods and just to respect their van

Last year, this ad from Honda appeared in the July issue of Real Simple magazine:

It was meant to appeal to women with families, but I wondered if they had kind of missed their market a bit.  They were even afraid to use the words "Van Gods" without the caps and without the quotation marks.  Were [...]

Westin ~ happily accept your delays here

Occasionally companies that actually put out ads that make you smile.  This one from Westin is a good example:

This photo was an iPhone shot taken at Boston Logan International Airport.

MSNBC: Dolphins save surfer from shark ~ 500 stitches later

MSNBC is reporting that a pod of dolphins saved surfer Todd Endris from a great white shark attack on August 28th.  Read it here or click on the image for the newscast.

CNN: British Airways bans surfboards

Effective immediately, British Airways has banned surfboards and other large, awkward, and/or heavy objects.  See the newscast here.

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