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So apparently, Nokia has decided to join the Apple bashing world when promoting its latest phone, the Lumia 920. Although, I have to say that the folks at Nokia weren’t as clever as the folks over at Samsung at pointing out the shortcoming of the phone from Cupertino. I’ve discussed the Samsung ad in the Samsung-Apple Throw Down. Nokia points out the lack of color options available to iPhone users. But even that isn’t completely true because the iPhone is so popular that you can pretty much have the casing customized with whatever you want. I have yet to find the agency behind this creative but for now, I am…

By Rebecca Cullers  Click your way through Ikea’s regular catalog and its Saudi catalog, and you will notice something odd: They removed all the women (though not the young girls) from the latter. In some cases it’s clear they were Photoshopped out, in other instances they simply have replacement pictures. For example, there’s one image of four women sitting at a dining table where clearly someone said “Screw it” and just reshot the table. The changes have caused a bit of a stir with government officials in Sweden, as they seem to suggest Ikea doesn’t have much of a commitment to women’s rights. Ikea apologized, saying, “We should have reacted…

Samuel L. Jackson wakes people the F**k up in this in this new pro-Obama video titled, “Wake the F**k Up.” The famous actor tries to re-energize President Obama’s voting base with the four minute video. The idea behind it that the group who rallied behind the new president four years ago has lost its passion. Jackson, wearing his iconic Kangol hat, addresses all the members of a family, from the Facebooking daughter to the frisky grandparents, telling them to wake the f**k up and start campaigning for Obama. It was paid for by the Jewish Council for Education and Research according to AdFreak. The video above is the adult version of the…

Weapon X to the Z, Notorious T.H.I.N.G. & Lil’ Storm by SmugOne Part of the Alter Ego Exhibition comic book inspired art show. More please. // https://sites.google.com/site/mayuradocs/PinIt.png This post is courtesy of Kiss My Black Ads

Here we go again, Samsung pokes fun at Apple’s new flagship product the iPhone 5 with this feisty commercial above. Just in case you don’t already know, the commercial makes fun at Apple’s marketing language with respect to the new iPhones’s features. My favorite example is the comment about how the headphone jack is now on the bottom of the device and how that fact is viewed as a technological miracle. The message is, clearly, that the iPhone 5 just doesn’t measure up to Samsung’s flagship phone, the Galaxy S III. Of course I could sit here and argue the pros and cons of each phone until I am blue in the face but I’d rather leave that to…

Who else is excited about the return of Dexter on Sunday, September 30, 2012? I know I am. At the end of last season Debra, Dexter’s sister caught him stabbing his victim in the middle of the chest. I happen to capture this image while riding on Access Paratransit in L.A. The image has the van’s radio antenna going right through the image. It seemed appropriate to welcome back the dark passenger for a new season, being as cutting people in half, well pieces is what he does. Does anyone else think this might be the end of Dexter? The reason I say that is because of the cut on his left…

The Internet is a medium where people generally feel a lot less restricted when it comes to expressing their true feelings. Why, because most of the time the opinions people post are anonymous. The most recent victim of the general public’s anonymous opinions is Amazon.co.uk’s product page for “Bic for Her” pens. The pens—which are described right there in the technical specs as being “designed to fit comfortably in a woman’s hand” with an “attractive barrel design available in pink and purple. This technical description got a wide range of comical comments. Read some of them on on Bics’ UK product page. Best, -A.B.

Here is a heart-warming montage put together by Target and Deutsch LA where they string together clips of college applicants’ reactions to the news they’ve been accepted into various colleges they applied to.  It’s a simple concept, illustrated on the faces of these kids. As the copy states, “Every kid deserves this moment.” I can honestly say there isn’t anything quite like the feeling you get when you learn that you have been accepted into the school of your choice. Target has been known for its donations to k-12 educational causes so the colligate angle works well for the “Big Red Machine.” As a side note, Target has already committed…