Lewis Lazare: Late last week Harris, the city's third-largest financial institution, invited five shops to pitch the bank's ad business. Or more accurately five shops plus one. The plus one, in this instance, is Euro RSCG/Chicago, the corpse that former Leo Burnett creative whiz kid Steffan Postaer is trying to resuscitate. Euro RSCG has joined forces with Arnold Worldwide/ Chicago, the incumbent on the Harris …
Seeing The Che Within
Boing Boing, Gaping Void and Johnnie Moore have all posted on Ben Hammersley's presentation at Reboot in Copenhagen last week. Here's a slide from Ben's Power Point deck. Mr. Moore reports: He gave a great talk called Etiquette and the Singularity, including the notion that the first blogger was Sir Richard Steele back in 1709. Steele wanted to circulate his opinions so started writing a thrice-weekly letter which …
Big Brothers Help Each Other Out
Wired: Microsoft is cooperating with China's government to censor the company's newly launched Chinese-language web portal, a spokesman for the tech giant said. The policy affects blogs created through the MSN Spaces service, said Adam Sohn, a global sales and marketing director at MSN. Microsoft and its government-funded Chinese business partner work with authorities to omit certain forbidden language, Sohn said, …
Driving The Salami
Veroni's meat wagon comes to us via Flickr user, Myriapod. …
Pop Culturalist As CEO
I don't know how someone as irreverent as Steven Grasse of Gyro got past my radar, but he did. Until now. Now, I know there is at least one kook running a major agency today. There may be hope for our kind yet. Here are some excerpts from an Adweek piece on Grasse that ran last fall: In addition to doing ads for clients such as Puma, RJ Reynolds and Virgin Records, Grasse, 40, has turned his avocations into …
Toot Toot
Nat Ives of the New York Times put this ad guy on the defensive, with a question about Advertising Week. "There is nothing wrong with celebrating a great industry," said O. Burtch Drake, president at the American Association of Advertising Agencies, which conceived of the first Advertising Week. "What's wrong with tooting our own horn?" Brand mascots do some horn tooting at last year's event. …
Wanna Be Brides Of The Beehive State
Dooce posted this outdoor board to her Flickr page. At first, I figured Utah Brides must be some kind of mail order service like they have in Russia. It's not. What it is, is Behive State ingenuity. …
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Dumpster Diving In Marina del Rey
Adfreak's Gregory Solman posted an interesting tidbit on Ground Zero today. It …