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Here’s some guy in a chicken suit that thought it would be funny to interrupt a chemistry lecture. The professor did a pretty good job holding back until the idiot let the joke go on a bit too long and decided that he’d had enough. I’m not surprised that the prof got the guy in the end; chemistry profs tend to be spry and a little (by which I mean a lot) crazy.

[ Youtube via BoingBoing ]

We would like to dedicate this blog post to a few new Toronto web design and print design clients:
Metzlife in Toronto

Metzlife.com. Metzlife is a brand new Toronto based company dedicated to health and fitness. The interesting thing about this project for us is that it is a WordPress hosted website. This of course means that owner Michelle can update entries on each page, upload video and add photos without having paid for an expensive CMS program or to contact us.

Make sure to check out Michelle’s brand new WordPress hosted website.

toronto mechanic business card designToronto based traveling mechanic Mark Ellis contacted us to create a compelling logo and business card design for LM Auto Tech. Mark specializes in Truck and Coach mechanics but is able to assess and work on most any engine or mechanical issue.  We incorporated a check engine light when we created his logo and business card design. Need to contact him? Leave a comment on this post; I am sure he will read it! ;)

cricket club logo design, TorontoOn the topic of logo designs, This Toronto based cricket club asked us to incorporate their existing image to create a logo. This logo design will be embroidered on their team uniforms, which we think is pretty cool. They have told us they will send a photo of the embroidered logo. If we get it, we will definitely show you both this image and the embroidery side by side in a separate post.

Iterazia Offshore Software DevelopmentThis next web design project is not actually a Toronto client but we like his new website and his accompanying blog  so much that we are including Iterazia Corporation in this post. Iterazia offers offshore software development services to North America. If you need to Outsource IT projects, contact Iterazia.

Here’s a cool looking advertisement video from Pedigree shot with a crazy amount of slow motion. I just love how happy and excited the dogs look while getting a treat. I feel pretty much the same way about getting a treat, and I move at about the same speed as well.

[ Youtube via BoingBoing ]

Why breaking it off with social media is like breaking up with a boyfriend / girlfriend:

1. You broke it off because Social Media was  monopolizing all of your time, distracting you even while you were at work.

2. You feel like you shared TMI too soon. Before your first date was over, you had already been pressured to give up wayyy too much personal information about yourself. And that stuff is out there. You can’t take it back. Even though you pretended to be cool about it, it was always in the back of your mind.

3. This is the 12th time you have sworn off Social Media this month. Your friends have started to make fun of your on again off again relationship.

4. Once you call it quits, you:

A) Spend time obsessing over what is being said about you in your absence.

B) Secretly want Social Media to not move on without you even though you were the one to break it off.

C) Want all your friends to quit hanging out with Social Media as a show of loyalty towards you, their real friend.

5. The only reason you stuck it our for as long as you did is because your friends and family are so crazy about Social Media. In fact you are suspicious that they like social media better than you. But that’s crazy, right? (see point 4.C)

Social Media Funny

cartoon from Joy of Tech

Similar to when the Muppets covered Bohemian Rhapsody, Beaker tries to cover Kansas’ Dust in the Wind. However, he has some problems with some pushy Youtube commentors. Poor guy, he’s just trying to express his art.

[ Youtube via BoingBoing ]

Advertisement Placement Fail

Advertisement placement fails happen often. Here is yet another example of an advertisement that would have looked good had it been placed almost anywhere else. Sigh.

advertisement placement fail

If the title does not convince you that it is time to consider sugaring up your pantry with a box of kids cereal, then maybe you should watch this YouTube commercial:

I will be honest, I did not even know they still made Golden Grahams but they were my absolute favourite when I was a kid and sick of Boo Berry’s…which totally used to exist.

boo-berry cereal

Super Bowl ads are going fast…and they are not cheap. Of course we take this as a  sure sign the recession is on the mend (these days any bit of marketing news that is not a woe automatically gets the status of wow and is touted as a sign that we are lifting out of a recession). According to NBC revenues are expected to be up from last year’s 213 million. I did a tiny bit of digging, however, and found that the going rate for a 30 second spot is the same as it was in 2009, about three million apiece. This is compared to the 2008 pricing of about 2.7 million dollars. So how do we explain the expected growth from 2009 to 2010? Well, we I am thinking they will be squeezing a few more commercials in there. Good thing that this is the one occasion where consumers seem to welcome the commercials. TiVo, Direct TV, and other DVRs are a lot less likely to come into play on Super Bowl Sunday. And with over 90 million rapt viewers, what self respecting conglomerate would not want to shell out the big bucks?

Super Bowl Ads Sold Out; Some Earn $3Million

How $3Million Gets You 30 Seconds

Super Bowl Advertising

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