Archive for August, 2007

Photo by The Rocketeer.

From Metro
These neon signs for Red Zones are so cool that I hope they are real installations and not print ads.
Photo by Billboardem.

From News.com
An elderly New Zealand man who suffered a heart attack at a hardware store was revived by a salesman who just happened to be demonstrating a defibrillator to store staff.
The man, who was in his 80s, collapsed in an aisle of the Placemakers store in Albany, near Auckland, and his heart was not beating […]

From Metro
Here’s an amazing street installation by Mark Jenkins. That is, it’s art. See, we are not all about blatant commercialism here at Billboardom. Although it wouldn’t hurt if the headless guy’s clothes were branded.
Photo by Billboardem.

From Metro
Guinness created these special cans that it distributed around bars to promote responsible drinking. Blame Canada.
Photo by Billboardem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6dUCOS1bM0

From Consumerist
Walmart’s everyday low low prices are thanks to department managers sneaking into local competing Kmarts with price guns, scanning everything, and then setting all of their prices 10 cents lower, according to a former employee and current Consumerist reader Altered Beast…
Wal-Mart had (has?) these small black electronic devices [Texlons], with a scanner and a […]

From The Smoking Gun
“Britney Spears is threatening legal action against a Florida radio station that used a bald-headed photo of the pop star on billboards that appear to call her sanity into question.”
Photo by Smoking Gun.

From Advertka 
This ad is for a “son of a b*tch” written in Russian! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-hJTEP864o