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[Thoughts] Blatant rip-off or pure coincidence?

It has been a long time since I do not know when where I give some of my two cents in Flash sites. I have stumbled across this site in the morning and upon the first 10 seconds, deja-vu occurred to me.

Cup Size Choir

Apparently, I am pretty challenged to think why the decision was made by the Creative Director or Art Director to pitch the project with this idea. Was it coincidence? Or inspiration? You decide. However to think that a good idea will always lives on, it’s a true statement, because even until today, it will always reminded me of the site below, that whipped this up years ago.

OOOOOOUCH.com

Even today, the execution and idea are still one of the cheekiest and brilliant one. The site above originally posted back at myflashportal (That was 4 years ago!).

[Rant] Is cursing the new hello?

There has been some buzz on these site that I noticed a while back, that upon one site sprung from nowhere, and then when became a meme, it quickly become old. But I had no idea what is the merit in fancying of using curse word for a creative project. Perhaps it would be really fresh for the first time, but the novelty of the idea quickly wears off.

Below are some of the site that I spotted sharing the same idea using the F word.

• http://www.whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com/
• http://thefuckingweather.com/
• http://www.goodfuckingdesignadvice.com/
• http://whatthefuckismysocialmediastrategy.com/

[List] 18 Advertising & marketing inspirations around the web

In no absolute order, I would like to share with you few of my favorite blogs and portals that feature news and insights on the advertising scenes from Asia, Australia or even North America. I’m pretty sure there are much better ones out there but if you got one to share, drop me a note on the comments below. Hope you’ll find things here useful.

Creativity Online
You’ll actually benefit more from being a member in this site, where you can have access to most of the “legendary” campaigns ever made. But still, for non-subscriber, you can still enjoy the cakes while it’s hot (around 15 days after the article is posted). Covers from prints to videos.

Coloribus
Claimed as the world’s biggest ad archive on the internet, one of the best feature on the site would the listings for award winners across the globe. What I liked about the TVC section of the site that it allows you to either view the spot online or download it into your hard drive.

Advertolog
I guess it’s on the same network as Coloribus. Huge library.

Campaign Brief
This site is pretty direct and concise which acts almost like a CNN for the advertising industry in Australia. You get juicy updates on what is happening around on the hottest people on the game. They did have a site dedicated to news on advertising in Asia!.

Media
This portal has almost everything you need from insights to job opportunity in advertising. The bulk of the content are still targeted at the Asia region. You can view videos, look at opinions/discussions and even get a heads up on the events that is about to happen. The blog features day-to-day interesting news.

Adverblog
The name says it all. Advertising Blog. One of the favorite among surfers. Though most of the content are based on Digital campaigns/Interactive websites. You can find a lot of inspirations on this blog itself.

Creative Review
A must to visit for any creative individual. Covers a lot of grounds in jobs, news and happenings. One of my favorite since the layout is exceptionally good.

Marketing Interactive
If you are looking towards insights on Asia creatives, you can go to this site that covers not only news on digital campaigns, but also news on agencies around the region.

Ad Goodness
A blog that collects good and interesting ads ranging from prints to videos.

B And T
A portal dedicated to Media news in Australia. You can actually skimp through the summary of news, categorized by the labels on top.

Marketing Alternatif
A blog in French, but the content remained very interesting. Covers most of the international campaigns.

Photoshop Disaster
Slightly off-topic, but remained one of my favorite. This is because it gives me inspiration towards what not to do.

Public Ad Campaign
This site promotes local advertising news around the States, cities like NYC or Toronto. You can get some insights on the happenings around the town, which most of the time are OOH type of ads.

Personal Insights

A+M Bootleg
An advertising and marketing blog that gives you news on happenings in Malaysia advertising campaigns.

The Pitch

A more rough and raw unedited journal of advertising scene in Singapore/Malaysia.

Room 116
A small little blog that takes the insight of Brian Chiao. Interesting links shared over time on good things that happened in advertising.

Copyranter
A blog from a veteran copywriter’s point of view.

5 Blogs Before Lunch
One of the ace in advertising blogs, a Webby awards winner for 2009. Need I to explain more? But you would normally get more coverage and news on the advertising in the United States though.

[Inspiration] Bleeding Visuals

Make Visual

Perhaps this is one of my favorite studio that inspires me in their fine details of their motion graphics.

Gili Chen Photography

The Toke
The birth of a hybrid designer/developer. The site itself is a good mix of motion graphics, actionscript and cutting edge futuristic flash portfolio website. Definitely worth a visit.

JUMP!

… (speechless) flickr set found on iblog