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It’s a better life without Oxfam


In last night’s D&AD Awards for design and advertising professionals and students Oxfam sponsored the student category. The winning film – “Help us End Oxfam” – was produced by students from the Miami Ad School in Madrid who also went on to col

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ect the jury ‘Students of the Year’ award. Watch it here:

WATCH: It’s a Better Life Without Oxfam – Student Awards winner

In their statement the judges said the following about the winner:

“Their entry was selected by the jury for being a powerful piece of
communication that challenges the viewer to consider a world where Oxfam doesn’t need to exist…”

Rumor has it their tutor tried to tone down the provocation, but the students stuck to their guns! I think they were right.

So the only question now is, will Oxfam take the challenge and launch a campaign based on imagining it will no longer exist? What do you think? Is this the right direction for an agency like Oxfam?

Full disclosure: I am one of those ‘Oxfam workers’ the film refers to, and you can follow me on twitter @VinothorsenRich Text AreaToolbarBold (Ctrl / Alt + Shift + B)Italic (Ctrl / Alt + Shift + I)Strikethrough (Alt + Shift + D)Unordered list (Alt + Shift + U)Ordered list (Alt + Shift + O)Blockquote (Alt + Shift + Q)Align Left (Alt + Shift + L)Align Center (Alt + Shift + C)Align Right (Alt + Shift + R)Insert/edit link (Alt + Shift + A)Unlink (Alt + Shift + S)Insert More Tag (Alt + Shift + T)Proofread WritingToggle fullscreen mode (Alt + Shift + G)Show/Hide Kitchen Sink (Alt + Shift + Z)Add Author Avatars Shortcodes
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In last night’s D&AD Awards for design and advertising professionals and students Oxfam sponsored the student category. The winning film – “Help us End Oxfam” – was produced by students from the Miami Ad School in Madrid who also went on to collect the jury ‘Students of the Year’ award. Watch it here:
WATCH: It’s a Better Life Without Oxfam – Student Awards winner
In their statement the judges said the following about the winner:
“Their entry was selected by the jury for being a powerful piece of
communication that challenges the viewer to consider a world where Oxfam doesn’t need to exist…”
Rumor has it their tutor tried to tone down the provocation, but the students stuck to their guns! I think they were right.
So the only question now is, will Oxfam take the challenge and launch a campaign based on imagining it will no longer exist? What do you think? Is this the right direction for an agency like Oxfam?
Full disclosure: I am one of those ‘Oxfam workers’ the film refers to, and you can follow me on twitter @Vinothorsen
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MoveOn admits they hacked Fox News


About 300.000 + of you have seen the video of the news reader on the Fox News building in New York being hacked with messages not exactly of the type Fox usually fills the airways with. It’s shot in a shaky hand held spontaneous kind of way.

The maker of the video seems as shocked as the viewer about what they are watching. Watch it yourself:

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It turns out – this was a pretty clever pre-campaign launch stunt by the campaign group MoveOn which on June 23rd, alongside former White House adviser Van Jones and The Roots, are launching what organizers are calling “Rebuild the Dream,” an effort to move the political conversation away from austerity and towards job creation. For more on the story of the hoax and the up-coming campaign check out <a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/08/moveon-fox-news-the-roots_n_873054.html” target=”_blank”>Sam Stein’s blog in the Huffington Post.</a>

Clever use of online media – let’s hope they have some more tricks up their sleeves as the campaign get’s rolling properly. Something to look out for.
















Larry Flynt: Why I Am Donating $50,000 to WikiLeaks’ Defense Fund


Let’s get something straight: Julian Assange is a journalist. You can argue that he is not practicing journalism the way you think it should be practiced — releasing classified U.S. State Department documents — but he’s a journalist nonetheless. And for many of us he’s a hero.

I’m sick and tired of the politicians and political pundits treating this man as if he were a criminal. If WikiLeaks had existed in 2003 when George W. Bush was ginning up the war in Iraq, America might not be in the horrendous situation it is today, with our troops fighting in three countries (counting Pakistan) and the consequent cost in blood and dollars.

Read full post at huffingtonpost.com