Beef and Tomato Glamourpuss Fashion — Ad Alarm Video

Japanese McDonald’s Advertisements
Like Eiji Wentz gone Kool-Aid in his Gegege no Kitaro garb; above the obvious, I find it slightly off that he pulls it out of his rump.
This one’s for the Ladies:

Seemingly heavy Adam & Eve theme pictured at the end… TAKE the tomato.
This one’s for the Men:

ANTM: There can only be Four

Last season of Top Model fizzled out for me very quickly when it became quite clear that the bubbly girl with the bob (Saleisha?) was going to win. I think I caught bits of two less than memorable episodes with a lot of screaming. This season is a little more interesting since there [...]

Absolut Mexico - Drunk Designers? — Ad Alarm

We took it from them (lots of land after the Mexican-American War), they want it back. Apparently, graphic designers for Absolut feel the same way. Sketchily distributing them in Mexico, oddly believing their neighbor would not catch wind of it, Viva Mexico! was the message, drunken or not. What do you think [...]

Whoa Wrinkles! — Ad Alarm

[Ad found on moviefone.com]
I’m not sure what’s more frightening, this ad or that women who shell out big bucks for “miracle goop” that they believe will erase time. In this case, a lot of time. The helpful Flash slider “wipes” away the wrinkles, displaying the sandblasted face of the “same but new [...]

Bomb It! — movie review — screener!

Chris rolls his eyes at me but obligingly spins the car around, heading back towards something I whined about missing during our serendipitous in-motion drive-by photo-op. It’s a shell of a building seemingly built out of graffiti, layer upon layer of splayed and swirly signature scribbles or tags, but in this remote sketchy part [...]

The Shoe Fairy (aka: Renyu Duoduo) dvd movie review

Uh-oh, I just discovered that I’m a shoe whore. I’ve always bought way too many shoes, but only recently I’ve been actually wearing them like a girl and not a guy, which means I’m not just wearing one favorite pair until they basically fall apart anymore. Oh what a joy it is to [...]

Calvin Klein and his “logical stuffed transparent box of models”

A couple of days ago, there was some promo for Yahoo! oneSearch linked to Fashion Week 2007. Obviously, I don’t follow fashion, so I immediately thought they meant São Paulo Fashion Week (don’t ask me why I knew that one over the one in New York).
I decided to do a quick search [...]

Frank Gehry Napa Valley groundbreaking today

A new six building 110,000 square-foot Napa Valley winery which celebrated architect Frank Gehry designed for Craig and Kathryn Hall is having its official groundbreaking ceremony today. Unconventionally, the groundbreaking is taking place after initial construction has already begun. Mrs. Hall, the former U.S. ambassador to Austria, is a known avid art collector [...]

Who’s on Top? Jaslene’s on Top! ANTM Cycle 8 finale

Sooooo.. it was down to rancorous Renée, sassy Jaslene and naïve Natasha. I don’t have much to say this season.. I liked Natasha’s bubbly attitude even though it was completely devoid of humility, but Jaslene took the best photos. I’m not sure why self-proclaimed “Cha-Cha Diva” seemed like she was on valium as [...]

The Hagia Sophia collapsed

The Hagia Sophia, otherwise filed in a space in my collegiate brain under “Christ, another thing I half memorized and forgot”, may not need such a big space anymore. The immense gorgeously sunlit Byzantine dome (31 meters/102 feet diameter, 56 meters/184 feet high) of the Hagia Sophia crumpled early this morning following an earthquake. [...]

Yahoo! News . New Yahoo!

Some of you might not see this yet; only a minute percentage of random users will be able to see the unveiled brand spanking new Yahoo! search header for now. SO GO SEARCH ON YAHOO! NOW.
Go on, I’ll wait.
Did you see it? Well, if you didn’t, there’s a screen [...]

Hair Don’t - Iranian salons forbidden to give Western style haircuts

Sure we can invade them, bomb their citizens, decimate buildings and homes, but no way, in no way can we influence their fashion sense! Barbers in Tehran Iran have been warned not to give Western style hairdos.
By Islamic law, women are required to wear dark shades of long loose-fitting clothing and veil [...]

Toilet Trivia

Toilets filled with water aren’t usually the first thing you’d think would catch on fire. Earlier this month, some bidets in Japan defied common knowledge and their manufacturer Toto is in the “hot seat” so to speak. Sorry I just couldn’t resist. “The fire would have been just under your buttocks,” said [...]

Sketches of Frank Gehry — movie review

When I was first introduced to Frank Gehry’s work, I honestly did not like it. Giant binoculars (Chiat/Day/Mojo Headquarters) and fish sculptures (Fishdance restaurant in Kobe, Japan), oh how literal. His Nationale-Nederlanden office building in Prague is Dali-esque at best and his Wynton Guest House looked like kinderblocks to me. Really, I [...]

Divine Blessings Bra

A while back Kris and I bore witness to one of the most absurd and entertaining infomercials ever created. It was for the Chinese engineered “breast enhancement product” (read push-up chest-belt), the Divine Blessings Bra. Brought to you by Quan Yin, the goddess of compassion and mercy, the Divine Blessings Bra bestows wonders on [...]

Red Hot Pocky Commercials

To complement the Men’s Pocky review, here are a few awesome Pocky commercials I dug up on YouTube, starting with the commercial for Men’s Pocky.
Men’s Pocky
Clumsy Pocky
Nosy Mother Pocky
Nosy Fisherman Pocky
Pocky Love
Scary Pocky
Bonus Yukie Nakama commercial

I vant Dracula’s castle back

Chris and I were totally going to do this “Dracula’s Castle” trip in the Carpathian Mountains and Transylvania this past Halloween, but it was postponed. I know that it’s only speculated that Vlad the Impaler may have roamed the halls or even briefly bunked there, but it still seems eerily romantic. There’s a [...]

Lezbo Advertising for Straight Women

Ah, remember those days when you went to a cocktail party to straddle your girlfriends? Is this effective advertising? You be the judge.