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Bangers In The Mouth.

Why should bacon get to have all the fun? This sausage ad from Hungary makes us really hungr...must...resist...bad...pun...strength...failing...

Thanks for the snack, Boing-Boing!

In Which We Don't Know Whether To Laugh Or Cry.

So that's where Dookie's been.
A truly inspired effort from director Charles Stone III and crew.

P.S. Vote, people.

Long Attention-Span Theater?

Here's the Obama campaign with a two-minute ad on the economy. Two minutes? But we're Americans! We have short attention spans - the TV says so! What do you think? Can you watch a politician talk for 120 seconds? Mortar is big into the idea of trusting the audience not to be idiots. And we appreciate it when someone else trusts us not to be idiots. We're just more nervous than a moose on the first day of hunting season when we think of trusting everyone not to be idiots. Let us hear your thoughts.

Skittles has finally left us completely, utterly speechless.

Candy commercials have been an awe-inspiring source of WTF-ness these past few years, and Skittles has easily lead the pack with memorable gimmicks like the sheep-boys and the creepy pinata man.

But today they finally topped the cake. And then slowly, sensually, devoured it.

Thank you, AdFreak. I will never think of Skittles the same way again.

In Soviet Union, Ad Watches YOU!

This is, apparently, a Soviet-era tv spot for an Estonian meat company. Remember how the commies always used to refer to us as "capitalist pigdogs?" We suspect this dish is what they were talking about. (On the other hand, that chicken looks more nervous than a Trotskyite in a room full of Stalinists)

Спасибо to our comrades at Glorious Boing-Boing Workers' Collective.

The Curious History of Lagomorphs in Advertising.

From the Trix rabbit to the Energizer Bunny, our whiskered, long-eared (and according to David, delicious,) furry friends have had a long and remarkably successful run in the advertising industry. Not to mention popular culture in general. I encourage you to check out a fun list of some of the top lagomorphs of all-time, and enjoy some awesome commercial memories like this one, from 1994:

Thanks SaveABunny.

(A confession - I totally just wrote a blog about another blog that I wrote. I feel... dirty. But kinda proud of myself. Is that wrong?)

AirMe debuts as lead photo app in new iTunes.

OK this counts as a first. Visit the photography tab of the latest version of iTunes to get the new photo sharing app from our client Airme.

Right now AirMe users can post pictures from their iPhone directly to Flickr. AirMe adds location information to the pictures (the new iPhone is GPS enabled) and the AirMe user can include all kinds of extra custom tags like weather. AirMe will be adding scads more social networks very soon.

We like it because you can literally shoot and post without any clumsy emailing or additional needless faffing around. As Craig says, its easy, easy, easy.

You can get AirMe in the Apps section of iTunes.

 

Harry Potter Zoo Animals

No, the San Diego Zoo isn't promoting their new location in back of Hogwarts, but it sure does look that way.

Thanks to OhLaLaMag for this one.

Honey, have you been at the bennies again?

This is a classic print ad from the '60s. Presumably it's for plastic wrap. But it could also be for your local looney bin or even whatever magical substance that woman is clearly (plastic wrap = clearly, ha!) on.

Thanks, Gawker.

Ye Olde Advertisorium

A website called Worth1000 is running a contest to photoshop new products into old-timey ads. In honor of our refreshing breakfast lunch whole damn weekend beverage, we've included an example below.

Thank you, Gawker.