Photoshop Live Street Retouch Prank

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Now you can go to the same school as a Time Lord

This is absolutely the most brilliant university ad that has ever been created. It’s for the University of East Anglia which just happens to be Matt Smith’s alma mater. He studied drama and creative writing there, graduating back in 2005. They have a pretty impressive list of graduates, but I think graduating a Time Lord really does have all the others beat.

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Why does your food look different in the advertising than what is in the store?

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Creative Dresses Made of Light

London-based advertising and art photographer Atton Conrad does some pretty interesting mixing of fashion and light painting photography. He has done a number of images for magazines and ad campaigns that feature models wearing dresses manufactured from light rather than fabric.

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Beautiful people can travel for free

Misstravel.com is a creative new website that hooks up beautiful women with rich men. It’s essentially a dating service, but only meant for the wealthy and the attractive. Once registered, good looking women can go on a trip with generous rich men, who will, of course, take care of all the expenses.

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Mindplay Lego Hair

Holland-based design studio elroy klee have recently completed an advertisement shoot using the building blocks of LEGO's. The constructed wigs resemble the fashionable hairstyles of an african afro, short crop and blonde layers, using only black, red and yellow pieces. The custom objects were properly fitted to the portions of the models heads, whom then had to balance the covers while the photographer captured the necessary shot for the campaign.

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Interesting and funny advertisements around the world

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Interesting Marketing from Taobao

Recently, Taobao is setting up a delivery/logistics company with their “Tao Girls” (淘女郎) to delivery goods purchased off the Internet. Currently hiring “Tao girls” all over the country whoever is interested in participating. Choosing a Tao girl to delivery your purchase will cost ten yuan extra. According to sources, Taobao had the idea of Tao Girls delivering goods for long time, consumers purchasing goods on Taobao have the option of choosing a Tao Girl in the same city personally delivering the goods.

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Creative Advertising Perfume Plug-in Ad in Japan

While Japan’s robotically hypnotic girl-trio Perfume is making their world debut while keeping their “Japan-ness” with their new album JPN, they’re also still being heavily promoted at home.

Not sure if this has been done before, but this ad in Shibuya for the single Spring of Life plays the video, but if you want to hear the music you’ll have to plug in your own headphones. Pretty decent amount of people doing it too, all plugged into the same wall.

Here's what the ad looks like.



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Dafuq did I just watch? Probably the weirdest commercial ever

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The world's first lickable wallpaper

The world’s first lickable lift has been installed in an office block in a bid to elevate the mood of city workers.

The edible lift has 1,325 Jaffa Cakes stuck on its walls to provide staff with a tasteful alternative to a traditional glass elevator.

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The Three Little Pigs Story in Modern Media

This advert for the Guardian's open journalism, screened for the first time on 29 February 2012, imagines how we might cover the story of the three little pigs in print and online. Follow the story from the paper's front page headline, through a social media discussion and finally to an unexpected conclusion.

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Awesome Carlsberg's Social Experiment

Carlsberg's new advertising campaign is putting unsuspecting couples in the hot seat. What would you do when walking into a movie theater only to see two available seats surrounded by 148 badass biker dudes? Would you sit down? Would you run away? Maybe the real question isn't what would you do? The real question is do you have the balls to be yourself and to be a real man in any situation?

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The future of retail is a bit creepy: Android Mannequin Display

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Advertised Fast Food Compared To The Real Deal

Let’s talk a little about the fast food that millions of people stuff their faces with each and every day, especially the millions of hamburgers that are consumed. Advertisements are one of the most powerful mediums these burger chains have to spread their reigns. We don’t seem to be phased by the differences between an advertised burger and the one that is actually in the package when we get it.

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Yes you just watch an ad and enjoy it

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Controversial ads by Equinox Fitness Clubs

You may or many not have read the glut of recent articles highlighting the controversy over the "skinny" models in the latest ad campaign for Equinox Fitness Clubs shot by photographer Terry Richardson. According to Fashionista, Huff Post and plenty of other blogs, gym goers expressed disappointment in the 'thin' physiques displayed in the ads.

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If It's Hip It's Here

The History of Advertising

Advertising has been around almost as long as human civilization, but not quite to the same extent that we have it today. According to the infographic, some of the first ads popped up around the time of the ancient Egyptian civilizations serving more as public notices and announcements than the call to buy or sell.

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