Bubbles, today....

Jeff Koons rose to stratospheric fame due to this sculpture of Michael Jackson and Bubbles, his pet chimp.... I just saw a new photo of Bubbles after Jackson had to let him go (As chimps grow too strong to become pets).... It is the end of an era indeed on many planes.

Jeff Koons - King of Kitsch

When I did my exhibition in Cleje, Slovenia, artist Tomaz Milaz commented that I showed them the limits of kitsch... Obviously, he was wrong... The new exhibition from Jeff Koons at Serpentine gallery even goes beyond all limits. The article by Jonathan Jones is a pleasure to read.

Lebanon Creative Cluster Conference cartoons by David Habchy

Getting to the essence of things!!!.....

David Habchy and his klekeesh....

It seems rather strange for me to have come through Deborah's blog and David Habchy's the same day.... Both I believe incredible up and coming creative people! Check out David at: http://klekeesh.blogspot.com/

Abracadabeborah!

Just because she plays on words like few people I have seen, I am sharing with you the blogs of Deborah Phares - well worth a look and exploration..... She is a copywriter, but also a graphic designer, product designer, and many other creative things as well... She dubs herself "abracadébOrah- électron libre" - and an enchanting witch she is!

deborahphares.wordpress.com

troispointsentreparentheses.blogspot.com

Cannes winners 2009

And the winners of the Cannes Advertising festival for this year are:

Outdoor Lion grand prix winner: A campaign for the Zimbabwean, an exiled newspaper critical of the country's president, Robert Mugabe, using the country's almost worthless bank notes to make billboard adverts fromTBWA/Hunt/Lascaris Johannesburg.

Press Lion grand prix winner: Campaign for Wrangler jeans, created by French agency Fred & Farid that 'screams raw sex' according to judges.

Design grand prix winner: Nike Paper Battlefield ad, created by McCann Worldgroup.

Film Lion grand prix winner: Still from a Philips video ad, created by Tribal DDB Amsterdam.

The viral campaign was a tracking shot of a bank robbery frozen in time.

Winner of Cyber Lions best website and interactive campaign, PR Lion and direct marketing Lion grand prix: The Queensland Tourism campaign - orchestrated by Nitro - for 'The Best Job in the World' as caretaker of Hamilton Island.

Cyber Lions best viral campaign winner: 'Why So Serious?' campaign for Batman film The Dark Knight, created by 42 Entertainment.

Cyber Lions online advertising grand prix winner: Fiat Eco:Drive marketing, created by AKQA.

Titanium and Integrated grand prix winner: Multimedia campaign that helped Barack Obama win the 2008 US presidential election. Created by Obama for America.

General Purpose ambient brilliance

First, let me say what a relief it is to go back spotting ads which do not sell electoral promises or candidates!.... And it is a welcome change to see all those summer offers, trips, cruises, discounts and whatever have you. Top of the class in the post-elections ad goes for this ambient media for Jeep (Which originally meant General Purpose) with the slogan "Go anywhere, do anything" I first dismissed the ad as some passable shot at entertainment when I first saw it from afar -
but as I passed next to it on perpandicular angle - there it was, a FULL car hanged on the wall of the mall!..... They've been there, they've done that, and they got the ad to prove it. I once read in a photographers' magazine that to explain the angle of a photo one needed to take a tree in it (As trees always grow upright), in today's urban environment, I took a street lamp (As street lamps - like trees - grow upright!) to indicate the fact that the car was hanging totally
from the wall.... With the Gargour showroom right across the street from the mall, one must expect people flocking to me get them one of these (Only to use it to go back and forth to the mall, naturally!).