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Creativity Magazine outs us! "Dabitch is back"

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Posted by dabitch on 6. March 2001 - 1:00

Tess Wilkinson-Ryan from Creativity chatted with me on the phone one day and asked if me and my alter ego Dabitch are "out of the closet". Oh yeah - Åsk Wäppling is so out of the closet now... *hahaha*

Dabitch is back
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Åsk Wäppling is the mistress and founder of ad-rag.com, a web destination for industry news, gossip and rants; her online persona is called "Dabitch". The site is very popular with ad insiders, despite (or thanks to) its many caustic comments.

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Fat vs. Sugar-A Battle of Wits: Cliff Freeman takes on SNL with a major reversal

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Posted by claymore on 2. March 2001 - 10:20

AD-RAG EXCLUSIVE: What happens when the world's most remarkably clever ad agency gives the world's most remarkably clever weekend late night sketch comedy variety show a taste of their own medicine?

(adapted from the forthcoming Little Golden Book special hardcover edition)

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Ratings Reality Check

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Posted by commando on 28. February 2001 - 17:43

It's easy for those of us in the insular ad world to lose sight of the public's perception of our work. With the Hollywood glamour associated with spot production, many prefer to see themselves as showmen rather than salesmen. Yet, the Monday night ratings for a program called The Greatest Commercials You've Never Seen indicates TV viewers have a different take.

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JWT NYC sheds accounts and staff

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Posted by James_Trickery on 27. February 2001 - 23:01

With the loss of several high profile, high $$$ accounts, including a large chunk of the US Kelloggs biz, JWT NYC has felt the heat and laidoff several producers and creatives associated with the now, non-existent biz.

JWT

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5 New iMac TV spots! Power to flower. Power to bloom. Power to catch a frisbee.

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Posted by claymore on 27. February 2001 - 16:21

Steve Jobs has ripped'em a new one. The latest batch of iMac ads, five in all, has now been released to the teeming masses. Love them or hate them, the expanded designs of the iMac shell were created to get attention, and it worked.

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Dead famous people and the products they sell

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Posted by dabitch on 26. February 2001 - 7:08

Stay Free! magazine lists dead celebrities and the products they promote.
"Hm, was Einstein the one who sold computers or french fries?" .

more inside, click the continue link.

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Saint Snugglebear and friends - More fodder for the fire.

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Posted by claymore on 22. February 2001 - 2:11

Artist Dick Detzner has been thrown into the latest heated fray of artistic interpretation versus religion. But instead of relying on the stereotypical church crowd button-pushers such as graphic sex or graphic violence, he instead took the road less traveled - graphic art and advertising icons!

Check out the following story from Wednesday's Chicago Tribune, then check out Dick Detzner's online gallery.

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Shaved Publicis

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Posted by linzen on 21. February 2001 - 11:01

It's an Amsterdamned shame, but the Publicis office in this Netherlands city recently trimmed seven creatives.

Seven - out of 10! (Not counting the Creative Directors)

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I am Rudy - I am director

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Posted by dabitch on 21. February 2001 - 10:09

You must see Scumco's spec Kodak-film - I suggest you press this link and have a laugh.
This film was directed by Mo Husseini at Kaboom, and he graced the email wires to tell us the story behind the film....

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Did Nike say that?

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Posted by dabitch on 20. February 2001 - 21:01

If you haven't seen it already - here is that email collection between Nike and "Jonah H. Peretti" - Jonah tried to buy some personalized Nike shoes from them, with the word "sweatshop" under their logo.

At Nike's site you can open a " Design your own shoe " link, a very popular feature that looks like the idea was stolen from Customatix.com the "design your own shoe" site.

The idea is that you customise your own shoe by submitting a phrase or word to be stitched on to you personal pair. So Jonah Peretti filled out the form and sent them $50 to stitch "SWEATSHOP" on to his shoes.

From: "Personalize, NIKE iD" nikeid_personalize@nike.com

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