You know you're a myspace loser when a stick has more friends than you. 11,000+ people added an icecream stick as a friend for god knows that reason.

Not sure how many Billabong ice creams this will sell but it's going to have to be a few truck loads to recoup the cost for a Myspace custom community.

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I missed the launch but Tequila Sydney have launched an interactive video comic called Battle for the Bronchs to promote more awareness of Asthma and their Asthma Score website. BFTB looks fantastic and the productions values are pretty good. The animating comic panels is a unique touch and the mini games at the end of each chapter which works well. I think rolling them out one a month is a little sparse though as it's not the most compelling story. My fav part is the Bronchs map and trying to spot all the Asthma puns. All that's missing for a person like me is a behind the scenes section as I'd love to see how this was put together. I haven't seen something to this level done in Australia so it's great to see more good work coming out of Aus. It does remind me of the Snickers Instant Def promotion but thats really just the use of video and comic book backgrounds. Let's hope more work like this gets approved by Aussie clients as we move forward.

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I apologise for the lack of updates to the blog as I was on annual leave without my laptop for the month of May. New baners will be posted tomorrow.

Note: The non holidaying editors are on Detention :)

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PSFK is having a London installment of their conference on June 1st. I went to the NYC conference, learned a bit, met some cool folks and generally enjoyed myself. If you're in the London area, I recommend checking it out.

The current speakers are:

Niku Banaie, Naked Communications

Mike Butcher, TBites

Russell Davies, Open Intelligence Agency

Regine Debatty, We Make Money Not Art

Jeremy Ettinghausen, Penguin Books

Karen Fraser, Ethical Index

Santiago Gowland, Unilever

John Grant, BrandTarot

Tamara Giltsoff, OZOlab brand

Jessica Greenwood, Contagious Magazine

Hugh MacLeod, GapingVoid

Beeker Northam, Bloom

Steven Overman, Lowe Worldwide

George Parker, Madscam

Simon Sinek, Sinek Partners

Stan Stalnaker, Hub

Iain Tait, Poke

Diana Verde Nieto, Clownfish

Amelia Torode, VCCP

Timo Veikkola, Nokia

Johnny Vulkan, Anomaly

Faris Yakob, Naked Communications

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Poke have once again demonstrated the value of bovine intervention, spot the bull named Derek and win tickets to the Glastonbury Music festival courtesy of Orange.

Where you, if you win, can act like an animal, chew your cheeks, and shit wherever you like.

ps. Sorry I've been away so long. tc.

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Slamdunk the moon, kick flip over a truck and eat a flying shark in your own incredible
adventure. Impossible Story lets users create a totally personalised animation in a matter of
seconds. Anyone can be the star. Simply upload a picture of their head and use the A-Z keys to make
your character achieve one unbelievable feat after another and then share your journey with your friends.

Check it out at :www.impossiblestory.com

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The winners of the 2007 NY Festivals have been announced. You can view the winners here with links to the work or if you prefer view the PDF. I hate when awards don;t link up the winning work properly and luckily NYf has a functional archive. There were three Australian winners. Two for Interactive and One for Alternative media.
	GP Y&R's Boony Doll picked up a Gold Medal. ( If anyone has a better case study link for this please let me know.)
	Clemenger Proximity not only picked up a Silver medal but also took home two finalist certificates for the Mitsubishi Revolution Facility.
	And lastly Soap Creative picked up a finalist certificate for the Beer League Pinball game.
Not the best turnout for Australia but the awareness of the NY festivals is low and I feel a lot of the good work created here wasn't submitted. Make sure to check out the winners showcase here. There's some nice work in there but nothing you might not have already seen around.

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Publisis & Hal Riney have launched a new site for Sprint in the US. With the video production done by Mekanism. Who have a history of doing great viral work. We're taken inside a Centre for Connectile Dysfunction. Basically poking fun at guys who can't maintain a steady internet connection. The innuendo is thrown at you thick and fast. The video is shot well, the script and talent are good too. But for me it's the little things like the way you transition from section to section that really show attention to detail. There's even a Aveaword style send to friend form where you can alert peopel to the CD centre.

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Tooheys Extra Dry is launching its new campaign today. The website Harvested.com.au is not up yet but you can see a special preview of the TVC here, thanks to Campaign Brief.

Oh and try to ignore BMF talking the ad up before you watch it.

It feels very Japanese or Playstation to me. (I guess Playstation is Japanese but that's not the point I was trying to make)

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With 700 under our belt the Bannerblog army marches forward on to the next milestone... 1,000 banners. A big thanks to all the support from our readers and agencies and our sponsor Tangozebra.

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We all remember this classic Animator vs Animation and it's sequal.

Well now there's a video version done by Club Internet in France called Le Duel.. It works well but lacks the spirit of the AvsA series.

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