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This is possibly the worst advertising idea ever

Posted on 24. May, 2010 by Jonathan Cherry.

We won’t post the picture of it here – because it’s offensive and we wouldn’t want to ruin our pretty colour combination and layout by posting the image. But if ever, ever you remotely think, dream or consider something like this to advertise a product of this nature – then frankly you need to take yourself to an electric wall socket and offer the brain that the good Lord gave you, back to the heavens with a pray of forgiveness for not using it correctly.

If it’s real, and not some sad joke, the client and agency should look at each other over a boardroom table and vow never to reorder that brand of Tequila ever again.

Click here to view the highly NSFW image and lame detail of what the hell they were thinking.

Gordon Ramsay says chefs shouldn’t be fat

Posted on 18. May, 2010 by Jonathan Cherry.

Gordon Ramsay is a Comrades runner, which is interesting cause it symbolises his philosophy to staying on top of his game. Get out of your comfort-zone and strip yourself out of your security. Get your mindset into difficult and uncomfortable places, the routes your find getting your way out always lead to surprising discoveries.

Learning happens when you’re in a vulnerable situation.

via Runner’s World

More indication that Juju may be a Nando’s employee

Posted on 14. May, 2010 by Jonathan Cherry.

Only i-best for ama-visitors

[thanks Lance]

[Breaking] Jack Parow ft. Francois van Coke – Dans Dans Dans (official)

Posted on 06. May, 2010 by Jonathan Cherry.

Jack Parow rol met giftige katte. Jack Parow se piel is so lank soos ‘n putter.

Now we’re going to have this tune assaulting our minds for the rest of the day. Rad!

Next: The restaurant that takes you through multiple locations and periods of time

Posted on 05. May, 2010 by Jonathan Cherry.

If food is meant to be a gastronomic journey, restaurants theatre and chefs rockstars – why don’t you buy tickets to a set show like you would when going to see theatre. Grant Achatz, the chef of a spot called Alinea in Chicago, is planning to make that a reality.

Anyone wishing to eat at Next  will pay in advance on its Web site. Like airlines, Next will offer cheaper tickets for off-peak hours.  Ticket prices will also vary based on the menu, but will run from $45 to $75 for a five- or six-course meal, according to the site, nextrestaurant.com.

The menu will change four times a year, with each new edition featuring the cuisine of a particular place and time. When the restaurant opens, Mr. Achatz said, the theme will be Paris in 1912, with painstakingly researched evocations of Escoffier-era cuisine. Three months later, the kitchen will turn out a fresh set of recipes — evoking, say, postwar Sicily, or Hong Kong 25 years from now, with modern techniques employed to imagine the future of Chinese cuisine. [More via NYTimes]

The whole thing is right up our street. We call it ‘Fantasy Reality‘ marketing and as luck would have it we’re hosting this year’s BRAND HOOLIGANS conference in October around that exact theme. If you’d like to be personally mailed when tickets and more details for that event are revealed – please just let us know via e-mail: jon [at] cherryflava [dot] com.

KLM stunt: Wonder why nobody light a match under his arse?

Posted on 03. May, 2010 by Jonathan Cherry.

Here’s a classic example of how superior South Africans are to other nations around the world. Here’s this guy chilling at the airport as part of a KLM brand activation-type stunt thing. Everybody is standing around, politely wondering how the hell he’s managing to recline on a ‘cushion of air’ in the middle of the airport.

If this was done at OR Tambo in Joburg, within minutes some punk will have his lighter out, under the guys arse and the trick will soon be revealed. Looks like he’s wearing pretty snappy shoes too. Those would also be ‘redistributed’ in a flash to contribute to some or other bar tab thanks to a longer ‘volcano cloud’ delay in a foreign place who’s planes are too flimsy to just power their way through the damn stuff.  [thanks Franco]

Benoni crowd were indeed hired by Wimpy

Posted on 21. Apr, 2010 by Jonathan Cherry.

Mylo was right – those strange Die Antwoord-type people were practicing to perform in a Wimpy ad. We’re at a lost for words.

Previously: The poor people of Benoni are always getting picked on – Cherryflava

[thanks Anton]

Horror stationery

Posted on 20. Apr, 2010 by Jonathan Cherry.

Great invoice paper

A German crime and horror channel commissioned these designs for their office stationery. [thanks Jason]

More pics…

For a Friday: The poor people of Benoni are always getting picked on

Posted on 16. Apr, 2010 by Jonathan Cherry.

Smooching onto the fame of Die Antwoord and Jack Parow, now there’s the Skoltimaier 7even [try Google that after a few Brannas].

It’s clearly an ad teaser. For who? Who knows – probably Provita or something like that [considering the big reveal after the National Skirt Extension campaign thing from last year].

Go…play with it…speculate. The world is erupting and we need beer! [thanks Anton and Dave]

Papsak gets a marketing makeover and is now seen as an innovative idea

Posted on 15. Apr, 2010 by Jonathan Cherry.

Nee man!

From Rooibos tea to bunny chow, Americans foreigners are taking South African’ess and turning it into money. The latest victim, the ol’ papsak, which has now received a fancy rubber coating and a cute new name ‘The Baggy Winecoat’.

That’s like calling an old geyser ‘chronologically challenged’. We’ve been hiding and drinking wine out of bags for decades down here. What’s with the new name and scientific research that says it makes wine taste better?

It shouldn’t be allowed man…shouldn’t be allowed.

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