andy grayson

monkey mails

So we're talking a lot these days about viral marketing ideas and such and such. "How do we go beyond the 30 sec TV spot?" is every agency's current million dollar question.

Kristen found this site after receiving a monkey mail from her friend. Definitely check it out. It's the best "viral" idea I've seen in awhile.

monk-e-mail

bet you didn't know #15

Annually, the amount of garbage that is dumped in the world's oceans is three times the weight of fish that is caught from the oceans.*



*earthtrends

bet you didn't know #14

In honor of my wife nabbing a job yesterday at St. Mary's Hospital in SF, and in honor of the crazy, unpredictable, hard labor job that being an ER nurse is... I thought this would be an appropriate fact. (side story... the ER really is crazier during the full moon)

Murder is the only crime that does not increase during the full moon. Theft, disorderly conduct, larceny, armed robbery, assault and battery, and rape all statistically increase dramatically during the full moon.

* want a great example of ambient media?

Julian Beever is a sidewalk artist who creates amazing 2D drawings on the sidewalk that look 3-dimensional from an oncoming angle.  They'll blow you away. He's been transforming the sidewalk experience in cities all over Europe.

See his stuff below.