Aside from just how much people enjoy making themselves into tv characters (in this one, you choose a body, accessories, etc to make yourselves into a 60s Mad Men character), I’ll give AMC major props for the final process – the download screen has not just the standard wallpapers (above), but also download formats for Facebook and Twitter icons. SMART.

What they didn’t tell me before those martinis was that there was going to be a contest. I had to go on video to answer the question “What celebrity lights your fire”? and just to mix things up I gave a slightly unexpected answer:

You can watch the rest of the entries on the contest page.

Pretty much from the start two videos got the more votes: Colleen’s and mine. In the end it was a very tight race with votes piling up for both of us until the last moments. I was in bed, watching all this on my iPhone and I have no idea who was voting for me. Whoever you are THANKS!

I got the most votes and won a FlipCam, one night stay at the Opus hotel, a Zip.ca subscription and a Social Media Clup Pro membership. I’m looking forward to playing with the Flip on our trip next week.

Watch the recap video and winner announcement at thesubstream. And then stay a little while longer and watch some of their other videos.

Found via Darren’s twitter

Drunk teenagers driving up Mount Maxwell on Salt Spring Island. They ‘announced’ their arrival by driving into/onto a boulder at the edge of the parking lot. Lovely, no?

Random fact: did you know that Cumberland, BC is the "Luckiest Town in Canada"? In 2002, Labatt gave this honor to Cumberland based on the incredible rate of consumption of this beer – it took up a whole wall of the local liquor store. [wiki] I lived in Royston at the time, right next to Cumberland. I have never consumed Lucky Beer.

To answer the age-old question of "will it blend?" The answer re: the new iPhone 3G is… YES.

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Tags: ham, vidfest, vidfest2008, vidfest08, vancouver, digital festival

The Pizza Hut P’Zone started to get some heavy promotion here in Vancouver, both on radio and television. The first time we heard the ad we were in the car.

The P’Zone makes sense in the context of the Pizza Hut brand, but it seems like someone didn’t do their homework on the name. About how the name sounds, not how it looks.

In the ad, P’Zone is not pronounced like "P [space] Zone" it’s pronounced in a very slurred way, and sounds a lot like "Pezone" or, as Ianiv pointed out, "Pezón". And that’s not a good thing.

See, Pezón means nipple in Spanish. The radio spot really makes the whole word-similarity come alive. In the radio ad, a guy is "pumping" two P’Zones because they are so big it’s like lifting weight. However, now all I hear is a guy "pumping Pezóns". And the end tagline is something like "grab a Pezón."

Tags: pizza hut, pezon, p’zone, pzone, p zone, calzone, marketing, advertising, branding, words, language

Take imagination to the next level – imagine a naked bumblebee! This piece of digital art was greated by Till Nowak of Germany. The story behind the work: Bernard the bumblebee wanted to impress his friends. They were bored and switched on the electric shaver. So Bernard shaved off his fur – his friends laughing on, Bernard realized he didn’t like what he saw in the mirror.

Via neatorama Tags: shaved bumblebee, till nowack, art, digital art, cute, funny