24.3.10

You Are What You Eat

I just found a cool little website devoted to direct marketing campaigns (as in, direct mail and other direct marketing and consumer-interactive advertising). It's got some cool, creative stuff.

But this one creeped me out a bit -- a Burger King in Brazil that wanted to show how every order is made fresh to order by printing each customer's picture on the sandwich wrapper. I'm not sure I like the idea of a hidden camera at Burger King, even if it is just for an advertising purpose. On the other hand, it would certainly get my attention, and I'd probably even save the wrapper as a souvenir. (I tend to save cool paper objects, especially advertising.)

15.3.10

Census 2010

I just filled out my Census 2010 form. Don't forget yours! Because participating in constitutional law is awesome.

3.3.10

Rube Goldberg

Many of you know I love Rube Goldberg devices. This one by OK Go is pretty excellent, though I'm not sure it's as easy to follow as it's supposed to be, and I'm a little suspicious about it being done in one shot rather than two (there's a zoom in that would be perfect for a new camera take, though I only watched the video once so I'm not sure).