Hurley's World

Having worked with high tech clients back in the dot com days, we're accutely aware of their unending need to give everything an acronym.

Here's some more Calvin Klein Envy ads featuring Zoe Saldana. And if these additional images aren't enough for you, there's video coming in mid-August with Saldana talking about CK's envy-inducing underwear.

So here's yet another look at the plight of less then fortunate children across the globe.

In the It's So Stupid It Could Only Happen in Advertising category, we have an update on GeniusRocket and 99 Designs' attempt to rename crowdsourcing.

"Opulence. I has it." Right up there with Verizon Dumb Dads and blacks who love chicken comes this new commercial from Grey New York and Biscuit Filmworks' director Tim Godsall for DirecTV that portrays a Russian doofus as if he were an Italian goomba. Oh wait, is that too many layers of stereotyping?

Last night in Times Square Mad Men Season four premiered at 9PM

In 2005, Nike released a campaign which focused on the fact not all women are rail thin supermodels.

Yawn. Well, sort of. Scotch Tape's new ad is derivatively predictable and brilliantly witty all at the same time. (See, we didn't write the headline.)

Saatchi & Saatchi Cape Town has enlisted Super Heroes to call attention to the healthy effects of eating canned Saldanha Pilchards

It's kind of sexist and stupid all at the same time. But fashion advertising gets a pass on this. why? Because do we really want to look at fashion as if it were a Sears catalog?

The fact Hollywood is even humoring Sylvester Stallone by making his The Expendables is shocking in and of itself.

Phallic? Definitely. Hot? Indeed. Strange. For sure.

This is one of those ads. Yea, one of those.

Leave it to Axe to save little boys from losing it prematurely at the site of a beautiful girl.

A recent article by Advertising Age's Social Media and Event Content Manager David Teicher got us thinking. And writing.

It would seem Levi's is testing a new mechanical billboard in New York.

Everyone has sex in the middle of a hardtop playground, right?

Oh and while Taylor Momsen is pimpimg Madonn'a new Material Girl line of clothing, the Material Girl herself is pimping Dolce and Gabbana.

While this just screams fake publicity stunt, it seems a resort in Russia did parasail a donkey last Thursday to promote its private beach.

If you have kids - or even if you don't - do you ever get sick of them running around the airport screaming and yelling while you're quietly trying to catch a little shut eye before the next leg of your journey?