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Reuters reports indie music for beer launches

The national campaign for Bud Light Lime will feature the music of multigenre performer Santogold. A remix of her song "Lights Out," as well as the ringtone, will be released online next week at budlightlime.com.

In addition, a CD sampler, with up to 18 tracks, will be released in June to tastemakers and music blogs. Tentatively titled "Bud Light Lime + Fader Presents," it will feature existing music from such indie labels as Downtown Records.

Disclaimer: I'm a huge fan of Santogold. Here's some lovely to listen to (inside)

Our buddies Researcher and TextURL have both noticed the strange story of the Louis Vuitton markings on Yale schoolyard.

Lawmeme posted: "Yale's Louis Vuitton® Sidewalk" april 26, with images of the drawn on sidewalks. The poster Rebecca Bolin asked students who were doodling on the pavement what it was all about and got the reply: "to raise awareness".

I’m a fan of guerilla marketing, but a company called Gourmet Impression has taken it too far. The company created a food “Stamper” and “Roller” that can emboss food with text and graphics (i.e. advertising).

What’s next? Ads in the bathroom? Oh yeah, we have them already…

Click here to check out Gourmet Impression’s website.

David LaChappelle's latest video "Dirrty" with Christina Aguilera is a lot dirtier than they initially thought.

Raunchy images of Christina Aguilera dancing isn't the scandal, neither are her exposed buttcheeks or sucking of bottles.. It's the posters in the background added by some set Art Director that doesn't read Thai.

"I had absolutely no knowledge that this poster contained such offensive words, and I sincerely regret the insult." said David LaChappelle.

Microsoft pulled a switch. To be more specific, they posted a cute ad on their sales pages supposedly written by a freelance copywriter who switched after eight years of mac-dom over to XP. It beat the same drum as the apple switch campaign but with a lot less personality. An entire personality it seems.

The slashdot community thought they recognized the woman, and found her to be a Getty images stock photo. Was this a testimonial without a testimonee?

No rest for the wicked, they say, so here is yet another pair of ads ready for Badland. A tip from an adgrunt who prefers to remain anonymous in this case leads us to twin ads for the same Nintendo client!

"The winner of a Golden Egg (Guldägg)in print/magazine category - Nintendo by Lowe Brindfors - is based on the same idea McCann Norway did three years ago. For the same client."

Remember East Bank Communications in Portland who made the site shifttheblame.com and the little booklet called it's not you, it's your ad agency?
Well, Jason over there send me one of those fab foam-fingers; "I noticed that your hand was lacking a calibrated blame-shifting device. Here ya go." and I've been pointing the finger on people, stuff and their little dogs too ever since. Now, I found the perfect use for it really. Wanna see?

Adland's crew has been rather swamped of late. Our adlist mate, Brandon, posted (gosh was it really a month ago now! yipes!) on The Executive Coloring Book, printed in the 1960s. Fellow crewman Claymore happened to have a copy of the original book and did us the favor of scanning the pages. See the coloring book images here.

The crazy "make love not spam" screen saver which we wrote about here: Spray gives away free screensaver that DDoSes spam-sites is a success, 9800 downloads so far in Sweden alone, lots of gigabytes of traffic has hit the spammers servers, and now they'll take over the world with it. Lycos Europe has joined the make love not spam revolution and offers the screensaver to anyone on the planet. Comes in these flavors: Italian, Spanish, English and German.
Not everyone is so keen on the idea the Register ends their "When is a DDoS attack not a DDoS attack?" report on a concerned note:

A spokesman for Lycos in Germany told The Register he believed that the tool could generate 3.4MB in traffic on a daily basis. When 10m screensavers are downloaded and used, the numbers quickly add up, to 33TB of 'useless' IP traffic. Seems Lycos may hurt not just spammers

We kinda knew it wouldn't take too long before someone spoofed that Pepsi/iTunes ad... And voila, here's the first spoof already.

A political parody produced by IDC Films and created by James E. Saldana, is already spreading like wildfire. Check the above linked site for mirrors of the film - we're one of them. Instead of Pepsi, the ad promotes the website called whatacrappypresent.com, a feature site from Downhillbattle.org.

Hat tip to Claymore for spotting it, now click 'read more' to see the film.