Special groups of the Texas rangers will be engaged in protection of the American-Mexican border, informs Associated Press.
As the governor of Texas Rick Perry has declared, the federal government could not cope with a growing crime rate on border, and the local government should be protected independently. According to critics, Perry's message has populist character.
According to the governor-republican who earlier repeatedly opposed politicians of the federal government, rangers should block border sites where especially intensively there is a narcotraffic and violence level is high. Besides, a special problem — protection of remote areas where owners of farms and ranches complain of flow of smugglers and gangsters from Mexico with which not in forces to consult local bodies of the law and order and boundary guards.
"Perry's today's statement — the next empty promise about safety of the borders, made in a year of elections", — was declared by representative Kay Bailey Hutchison — the senator from Texas which will compete to Perry on governor's elections-2010. In Perry's answer named position Hutchison "hypocritical" as the woman-politician "is in Washington 16 years", but does not undertake the measures necessary for safety of border in Texas.
Throughout 2009 Perry repeatedly asked the minister of national safety Janet Ann Napolitano and president of Barack Obama to send for protection of the Texas site of border the additional armed contingent of national guards as a part of thousand persons. Till now it have not made, as disputes on an order of financing and placing of guardsmen proceed.
The Texas rangers — the elite law-enforcement department generated in 1835 which are under the aegis of department of public safety of the State of Texas. At present number of rangers — approximately 140 persons. They are engaged in investigation of the important criminal cases, provide safety of the governor, catch especially dangerous criminals. According to Perry, new mission of rangers should become the most important for all their history.
Today sees the launch of a new ad campaign for garden wood care brand Cuprinol. The repositioning kicks off with a charming and surreal campaign by 18 Feet & Rising, which champions their Garden Shades range, urging people to cheer up their gardens.
The first push is 'Whimpering Garden', a 30” TV ad in which an unloved garden shed is cheered up with a lick of Cuprinol.
In the ad, a couple is woken up by what sounds like a crying baby, but actually turns out to be their distraught shed. After the husband tries, and fails, to pacify the weeping shed with a giant bottle of milk, the wife produces a tin of Cuprinol which works a treat. The spot’s strapline is: “For protecting and brightening your garden. Cuprinol. Cheer it up.”
The ad, directed by Thai star Suthon Petchsuwan, highlights the emotional pull of the AkzoNobel-owned brand, which boasts a 94-strong colour range, as well as a rich heritage in practical wood protection. The spot will be on air in the lead up to the Easter and May bank holiday weekends, and will be available online.
18 Feet & Rising developed the idea behind the 'Cheer It Up' positioning, as well as the TVC and its digital amplification.
The brand re-launch also includes a new logo and new packaging across all its products, designed by Brand design consultancy Springetts, and the launch of a new website on 27 March developed by AnalogFolk.
Along with its new brand identity, Cuprinol is launching new products this year, including ‘Less Mess Fence Care’ and next generation garden shades, with four-year weather protection. In addition to the 34 existing shades, the brand is also launching 60 new colours for the Garden Shades range.
Kathryn Ledson, Senior Marketing Manager AkzoNobel, said: “Cuprinol has always been passionate about protecting garden wood and enhancing outdoor spaces. We want our new campaign to show people how simple it can be to add personality and colour to outside spaces and inspire people to ‘Cheer It Up’! With the new range of Garden Shades, it’s the perfect time to brighten up Britain’s gardens!”
Rob Ward, Head of Strategy at 18 Feet & Rising, said: “Cheer it up' repositions the category from a boring, brown chore to a colourful, emotional reward that encourages the nation to bring out the best in their gardens.”
Credits: Client: Kathryn Ledson, Senior Marketing Manager Creative Director: Anna Carpen Creatives: Anna Carpen, Stephen de Wolf & Behrad Taherparvar Account Director: Adrienne Little Strategy: Rob Ward Agency Producers: Emily Hodgson & Julia Methol Director: Suthon Petchsuwan Producer: Hugh Bacher Post Production: Mum Films Media Planning/Buying: Mediacom Production: TWC Films
Kotex's Cat video ad by Ogilvy & Mather Advertising in Shanghai.
Kotex, Kimberly-Clark’s feminine care brand and first consumer product, released its latest brand campaign in China via funny viral video ads that show the importance of “worry-free protection that pleases the senses.”
“Cat” compares women to cats, who are both physically sensitive by nature – especially during their periods. The video shows how both cats and women alike need the kind of worry-free and intimate protection that Kotex products can offer. via: YouTube
Creative Credits: Project Title: Kotex Brand Promise Viral Campaign Client: Kimberly-Clark Creative Agency: Ogilvy & Mather Advertising, Shanghai Chief Creative Officer: Graham Fink Head of Copy: Thomas Zhu Creative Director: Bamboo Zhuang Associate Creative Director: Yaya Wu Senior copywriter: Kiddy Wang Agency Producer: Xiaolong Wu Media Agency: Mindshare Production House: Shine Works Exposure: Online, pre-roll
On Sunday, on May, 17th, US president Barack Obama has made speech at university I Notr-will give the State of Indiana, considered largest Catholic university of the country.
Obama has risen on a tribune in a professorial cloak as has honourable scientific degree. Speech of the president, basically has been devoted a problem of abortions.
In beginning Barack Obama has called supporters and opponents of abortions not to be so irreconcilable to the point of view of the opponents, to respect each other and to aspire to mutual understanding. Speech has been apprehended extremely emotionally: while supporters interrupted time and again the president with an applause, opponents were not kept from barrackings "Abortion is a murder!", "Cease to kill our children!"
On the eve of arrival of the president to criticism Notes-ladies called a management I Notr-will give to cancel the appointed event, however their appeal has been ignored.
"I do not consider, that discussions on an abortion problem should be stopped, — has declared Obama. — Everyone will be and to protect henceforth the point of view, passionately and with conviction... But let's work together reducing number of the women daring at abortion. Let's reduce number of not desired children. We will assist also support to the women bearing the child". By approximate calculations, to the Mr. of the president listened not less than 12 thousand persons.
Some students have decorated the hats-konfederatki with a symbol of the protest against abortions — a cross and traces of children's legs.
Supporters of the American president could be noticed on inscriptions on headdresses — "Viva Obama".
During speech of the president the protesting scanned outside of an audience: "One, two, three, four. Throw Obama out the door!". The police has detained, on different data, from 22 to 27 persons expressing the disagreement with a position of the American leader.
It is necessary to notice, that about half from 60 million the Catholics living in the USA, agree with the right of the American women to abortion. Approximately 42 % insist that abortions should be outlawed.
An island at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, Sicily occupied a pivotal place in antiquity between Greece, North Africa, and the Italian peninsula.
Statue of a Youth (The Mozia Charioteer), Sikeliote (Sicilian Greek), 470–460 B.C. Marble. Courtesy of the Servizio Parco archeologico eambientale presso le isole dello Stagnone e delle aree archeologiche di Marsala e dei Comuni limitrofi–Museo Archeologico Baglio Anselmi. By permission of the Regione Siciliana, Assessorato dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identita Siciliana. Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identita Siciliana. Sicily: Art and Invention between Greece and Rome, on view at the Getty Villa April 3–August 19, 2013, will showcase ancient Sicily as a major center of cultural innovation from the fifth to the third centuries B.C., when art, architecture, theater, poetry, philosophy, and science flourished and left an enduring stamp on mainland Greece and later on Rome.
“This is the first major exhibition to arise from the Getty’s 2010 Cultural Agreement with Sicily, presenting masterpieces that are among the most accomplished examples of ancient Greek art in the world,” said Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum.
“We are especially thrilled to have on view the exceptional statue of a victorious Charioteer from Mozia that the Getty has recently conserved. This object is a unique expression of the marvelous artistry of Greek sculptors at the dawn of the Classical era.”
Sicily: Art and Invention between Greece and Rome, co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Assessorato dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identita Siciliana, features some 150 objects, a major portion on loan from institutions in Sicily, including stone and bronze sculptures, vase-paintings, votive terracotta statuettes and reliefs, carved ivory, gold and silver metalwork, jewelry, inscriptions, architectural revetments, and coins.
“These splendid objects bear witness to the athletic and military victories, religious rituals, opulent lifestyles, and intellectual attainments of the Sicilian Greeks, which shaped Greek culture at its peak,” explains Claire Lyons, acting senior curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum and curator of the exhibition.
The Mozia Charioteer
The Mozia Charioteer, widely considered one of the the finest surviving examples of Greek sculpture, serves as the exhibition’s centerpiece. Recently on view at the British Museum in London during the 2012 Summer Olympics, the statue has since undergone conservation treatment at the Getty Villa. Part of the Getty’s cultural agreement with Sicily, this 18-month collaborative conservation project involved remounting the sculpture and the provision of a seismic isolation base, which will accompany the object when it is reinstalled at the Whitaker Museum on the island of Mozia.
The triumphant Mozia Charioteer, discovered in 1976 on the island of Mozia in western Sicily, is believed to represent a charioteer who competed at Olympia on behalf of one of the Sicilian rulers. The extraordinary style of the sculpture, especially notable in the sinuous pleating of the long linen xystis that sheathes the figure’s athletic physique, is a tour-de-force of stone carving. Clearly a master of his craft, the sculptor was able to reveal the torso and limbs beneath the thin fabric. With its confident gaze and proud stance, this statue conveys the high level of originality and experimentation achieved by Greek sculptors working in Sicily.
The “Signing Masters”
Important evidence of Sicilian artistic innovation is also apparent in the exquisite coins of the time. Beginning in the late fifth century B.C., a group of Sicilian Greek coin engravers, mainly based in Syracuse, added their signatures to the dies used to stamp coins. Known as the “Signing Masters,” these remarkable craftsmen created extraordinary works of art on a miniature scale. Departing from the traditional profile view, they devised novel ways of representing the human body in a lively three-quarter perspective or striking frontal pose. This testimony of individual mastery of the medium is virtually exclusive to Sicilian Greek coins created around 400 B.C. Often abbreviated in tiny but legible script, the artists’ signatures are typically all but hidden in locks of hair or elements of jewelry.
Known as the “coin of coins,” the unique Aitna tetradrachm from the Royal Library of Belgium is one of the most precious ancient coins in the world. On view in the exhibition along with 50 other exceptionally crafted Sicilian Greek coins, the image on the tetradrachm depicts the head of Silenos on the obverse and on the reverse, Zeus enthroned with an eagle perched beside him, imagery that alludes to the cult of Zeus on Mt. Etna. Greek settlers and their gods
Sicily: Art and Invention between Greece and Rome will also examine how settlers from the Greek mainland brought their myths and religious practices to Sicily. To sanctify new colonies and maintain ties with mother cities, they built altars and temples to such gods as Apollo, the patron deity of colonists, as well as the deified hero Herakles. Included are terracotta heads of Apollo, Hades, and Persephone, created as cult or votive images of deities that played a central role in ancient Sicilian worship. The skillfully modeled clay, embellished with striking polychrome pigments, compares favorably with the most accomplished works in marble and bronze. An exceptional example of metalwork is a religious offering dish made of two and a half pounds of gold. Known as a phiale mesomphalos, the vessel is embossed from the center outward with bands of beechnuts, acorns, and bees above blossoms; the owner’s name —Damarchos, son of Achyris— is inscribed beneath the rim, together with its equivalent weight in gold coins.
The divine hero Herakles was also embraced by Greek settlers, who linked his deeds to their cities. Contrasting aspects of Herakles’ identity —peaceful healer, solitary herdsman, and violent aggressor— heightened the appeal of his cult among the men of rural Sicily, who tended flocks and worked as mercenary soldiers. Among the objects on view is a finely preserved bronze statuette of Herakles recovered from a river-bed in Contrada Cafeo (Modica), which suggests that a shrine to the hero was situated nearby.
Preeminent among the honored deities was Demeter, goddess of agriculture, and her daughter Persephone (or Kore). Sanctuaries of the goddesses dotted the island, but their cult was most enthusiastically embraced in central Sicily, where, according to myth, Kore descended to the Underworld as the bride of Hades. Depictions of these deities include a terracotta bust with a rare painted figural scene that may represent part of a ritual honoring or celebrating the goddesses, and a cult statuette disc overed near an altar in Gela together with an offering jug of carbonized seeds of grain.
Archimedes of Syracuse
A section of the exhibition will focus on Archimedes of Syracuse (about 287–212 B.C.), one of history’s foremost scientists and mathematicians. More than a millennium ahead of its time, his work laid the foundation for branches of math, physics, engineering, and even computer science. When Syracuse’s King Hieron II asked him to determine whether a crown was made of pure gold, Archimedes made his legendary deduction that a solid displaces a volume of liquid equal to its own volume, a discovery that supposedly caused the scientist to leap from his bath and run naked through the streets crying “Eureka” (“I have found it!”).
On view is a leaf from the Archimedes Palimpsest, the only surviving manuscript containing copies of Archimedes’ writings. The medieval prayer book that included this leaf was inked by a scribe onto recycled parchment that originally bore the theories of Archimedes. The pages were scraped clean before being overwritten, but with the use of advanced imaging technology, the original writing is visible. The leaf on view is a section of text from “Proposition 1” from Archimedes’ Method, a work integrating geometry and physics.
Literature on Sicilian art
Finally, the exhibition examines the reflections of literature in Sicilian visual arts. Many mainland Greeks became familiar with Sicily through the epic poetry of Homer, including Odysseus’s wanderings after the Trojan War, which took him to the western Mediterranean.
Often depicted in vase-painting and sculpture, Odysseus’s encounters with strange creatures like the Cyclops and Scylla were allegories for early colonial settlement and trading enterprises that spread Greek culture to distant, exotic regions. The pastoral genre created and perfected by the Syracusan poet Theokritos (about 300–after 260 B.C.) flourished as Sicily was falling under the dominion of Rome in the third century B.C. He is renowned for his Idylls (literally, “little pictures”), which paint nostalgic word-images of Sicilian country life from the point of view of a sophisticated urbanite. Theokritos’s rustic characters—including satyrs, shepherds, and the woodland deity Priapos—also populated the visual arts of the period, attesting to the appeal of rural fantasies during a time of civic turmoil. On extended loan from Syracuse, a life-size statue of the fertility god Priapos, the earliest such figure in Greek art will be featured in the exhibition. Like the Mozia Charioteer, it was also the subject of a collaborative conservation project undertaken by the Getty Museum.
The importance and popularity of Greek comedy and drama outside of Athens is evident in the theatrical figurines, masks and scenes on vases, many of which come from the island of Lipari. The celebrated “Father of Tragedy,” Aeschylus (Greek, 525–456 B.C.) traveled to Sicily on at least two occasions, where his plays found fertile ground in the strong local tradition of performance on the island.
On display is a terracotta mixing vessel with the earliest known depiction of the myth of Perseus and Andromeda, which likely reflects a performance of Sophocles’ Andromeda (about 450 B.C.). The Greek inscription painted above the figure of Perseus—“Euaion, the son of Aeschylus, is handsome”— names the actor, son of the great tragedian.
Rich harvests, bountiful seas, and a favorable trade location brought immense wealth to the Sicilian city-states, and the exhibition highlights their widespread reputation for luxurious lifestyles with five gilt-silver vessels, part of a larger group of fifteen. The silver treasure had been buried for safekeeping beneath the floor of a house in Morgantina during the Roman sack of the city in 211 B.C. The entire hoard comprises religious vessels as well as a set for the symposion, a convivial drinking party for men that was an important part of the social life of well-to-do Greeks.
Sicily: Art and Invention between Greece and Rome is the latest in a series of cooperative efforts between the Getty and the Sicili an Ministry of Culture and Sicilian Identity arising from a 2010 agreement that calls for a number of collaborative projects, including object conservation, seismic protection of collections, exhibitions, scholarly research, and conferences. Recent related projects include the 2010 loan of the Gela Krater, a monumental red-figured volute krater (wine mixing vessel) attributed to the Niobid Painter; The Agrigento Youth, a rare example of an early classical marble statue called a kouros (an idealized nude young man), loaned to the Getty from the Museo Archeologico Regionale in Agrigento (2010/2011); and most recently the loan of thirty-six objects from the sanctuaries of Demeter at Morgantina (2012/January 2013).
The exhibition is co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Assessorato dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identita Siciliana, and celebrates 2013 as the Year of Italian Culture in the United States, an initiative of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, realized under the leadership of the President of the Republic of Italy.
To celebrate the historic birthday of the Golf, which has been on the road for 40 years now, DDB Brussels made a TV ad for Volkswagen Belgium to remind people that the Golf has always made safety features standard available. In this case the Front Assist technology is standard on the GOLF VII.
The spot tells the story of an elderly father and his son returning from a weekend in their new Golf. The son sits behind the wheel, while his father almost immediately falls asleep. The son is charmed by his sleeping father and looking at him with some pride. An instant later his father warns him for a stationary tractor, without lifting his eyelids. A brief moment later the Golf sends out an audible warning for an object further down the road. The son can therefore timely brake, avoiding a collision. A message appears: "Do you feel protected by 40 years experience. Volkswagen Golf."
Creative Credits: Client: Volkswagen Marketing Manager: Nicolas Deturck Advertising Manager: Tony Peetermans Agency: DDB Creative Director: Peter Ampe Creative Team: Rom&John, Peter Ampe Strategy: Dominique Poncin & Maarten Van Daele Account team: Sylvie De Couvreur, Silvie Erzeel, Quentin Maryns & Pieterjan Schouppe TV-Producer: Brigitte Verduyckt Design: Ben Hiffe PR: Michael D'hooge Production company: Caviar Director: Jonathan Herman Producer: Eva Van Riet Music: Sonicville – Phile Bokken Photographer: Christophe Gilbert
With spring approaching and the beginning of the warm season, insects start coming out, especially mosquitoes and flies, and they annoy everybody. Moreover, it is easy to defeat insects when you are indoor, the hard task starts when you are outside. For this reason, this is the perfect period to demonstrate the real efficacy of the new Orphea4D Protection, a powerful insecticide spray for exteriors. How? By transforming a normal billboard into a huge insect trap. Transparent glue was applied on a portion of the billboard surface in the shape of the jet spray and when flies and mosquitoes got trapped on the glue, day by day, they made the shape visible. Credits: Advertising Agency: Publicis, Milan, Italy Creative directors: Bruno Bertelli, Cristiana Boccassini Copywriter: Stefano Battistelli Art Director: Francesco Epifani Account Director: Claudia Brambilla Producer: Massimo Fabbri Editor: Nicolò Lombardi Photographer: Massimo Fazio Art buyer: Stefano Gruarin via: IbelieveInAdv
New controversial commercial against Obama's 2013 Gun Ban by the NRA — "Stand and Fight".
Quote from the National Rifle Association reads: "Why is President Obama so skeptical about putting armed security in our schools? It's okay for his kids, but not ours? We want our fair share of security, too. NRA Stand And Fight".
NRA (National Rifle Association)'s ad campaign goes on to call President Obama an "Elitist Hypocrite" for having Secret Service protection for his children.
Nina Nesbitt sings a beautiful cover of Fleetwood Mac song "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow" in the new John Lewis Home Insurance TV advert, "Things Matter."
Called "Things Matter", the new advert centres around your belongings, the things you have in your home that you perhaps don't appreciate everyday but wouldn't be without, as well as the sentimental items. The common thread through all of them is that everything matters. We want to capture the emotional side of insurance with the family connection to your home and its contents. We believe this fits in perfectly with the John Lewis Insurance brand and is what sits at the heart of all our products. The fundamental reason for any insurance is to make you feel you have the right protection for your home, your pets and even your car.
Using stop-frame animation, we follow the story of the entire contents of a family's house coming to life in ways that reflect their personality and character making their way out of the house, and assemble on the lawn for a family photo. It's a touching, poignant portrait of our family and all the items they own.
We strive to provide excellent product design and customer service and with our new positioning we're aiming to change the landscape of the insurance market with a more emotional story. via:
Credits: Creative Ad Agency: adam&eve DDB Executive creative directors: Ben Priest, Ben Tollett, Emer Stamp Creatives: Simon Lloyd, Christine Turner, Rory Hall, Steph Ellis Agency producer: Sophie Smith Director: Dougal Wilson Production company: Blink Animation: Clapham Road Studios Producer: Ewen Brown Production manager: Josh Smith Lighting: Camera Man Editor: Joe Guest Post production: MPC VFX Supervisor: Tom Harding Audio: Anthony Moore at Factory Studios Music: Finger Music
Saatchi & Saatchi Brussels today launch the latest instalment in the ‘Samsonite VERSUS the World’ campaign. ‘VERSUS’ showcases the latest innovations in travel design and technology that set Samsonite apart from the competition. Brought to life via a series of tongue-in-cheek videos, the POS and instore campaign will also run online from 11th August, 2014.
Following on from the success of the campaign’s earlier films, the latest work introduces the many features of the Samsonite range by subjecting each product to rigorous, real-life testing. Five new products are put through their paces in a series of unexpected endurance trials in the Samsonite Quality Lab.
Creative Director of Saatchi & Saatchi Brussels, Alexander Cha’ban said “The brief for this project was a great challenge; tell the world that Samsonite products are built to last and endure. Well we decided to go one better and actually show the world by inviting them into the heart of the Samsonite Quality Lab. Then we set about holding Samsonite to their word by letting loose the greatest forces of nature against each innovative feature of their range. The result is a series of quirky and funny videos that really reinforce the strength, resilience and durability that have kept Samsonite at the forefront of the luggage industry for years”.
Samsonite VERSUS Small Spaces The new Pop-FreshTM case is the ideal size for on-board luggage, and the ultimate cabin companion, easily gliding through a high-rise obstacle course of tight spaces.
Samsonite VERSUS Everything Twice. At the centre of the ultimate tug-of-war between tractors, horses and weight-lifters, the new Lite-LockedTMcase remains intact thanks to the innovative Curv® technology and 3-point-lock system, a winning combination of strength and security.
Samsonite VERSUS International Weather Forecast. Whether it’s raining cats and dogs in the UK, buckets in Belgium or nails in Canada, disastrous weather is no match for the Samsonite RainsportTM Umbrella. Constructed of storm-proofed material and innovative ‘floating ribs technology’, the ultra-flexible umbrella keeps the carrier dry in even the most extreme conditions.
Samsonite VERSUS Boarding Time. In a race against time with a remote-controlled car, the new Samsonite X-Pression +TMcase emerges triumphant. The winning feature is the 360° spinning wheels that offer extreme maneuverability to help speed through airport checkpoints with the greatest of ease and agility.
Samsonite VERSUS Risky Business. Even when under attack from flying tennis balls, the new TriForceTM laptop case offers the ultimate protection for your business essentials. With 360° shock absorbing casing and extra corner cushioning for a laptop, the TriForce case will protect against any unexpected falls or bumps.
Creative Credits: Creative Director: Alexander Cha’ban AD: Arnold Hovaert Copy: Damien Veys Production company: Denzzo Production Director :Lars Damoiseaux Producers: Jeroen Berx, Bea Catteeuw Account Director: Jonathan Moerkens
