TheSpunker - by Ben Popken. Published by Gattaca, Inc.

More Napoleon Awesomeness

(via Adfreak) For those of you who loved the Napoleon Dynamite ads for the Utah State Fair, here’s a lengthy article about them from Utah’s Deseret News. The paper tracked down Bryan Lefler, who directed the spots and was the storyboard artist and script supervisor for the film. Using Napoleon to promote the fair was “the greatest move they ever could have done. Nothing says Utah and Idaho like Napoleon Dynamite,” Lefler says, adding that he had two basic goals for the campaign. “One was not to screw it up,” he says, “because there’s a certain amount of ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ that goes around, especially in Utah and Idaho. People feel a kinship to it. And No. 2, make it as funny as possible and keep it consistent as possible.” The article also includes the scripts for all five radio spots." - Tim Nudd.

Subservient Chicken Continues to Dominate

Adjab informs us that Fallon just hired Mark Taylor, the  Crispin Porter + Bogusky art director who helped create the original site.

I have a new theory. No real consumers have ever seen the oft-cited Burger King Subservient Chicken site. It's primary function is insidious industry-insider calling card to further CP+B's dominion...

"What do you call your viral?"

"...The Aristochicks!"

Question: Why hasn't anyone created an subservient person site where you could engage in some remote-control S&M tomfoolery? They have, however, created the Subservient President, Subservient Blair and my electoral candidate, Subservient Stickman.

un-American Apparel

I've been keeping an eye on the American Apparel outlet for a while now, mainly because they have cute indie chicks with nice butts in their ads. I went to their website to find t-shirts for my new printout ironons. Their men's t-shirts offer a "flattering, stylish fit on virtually any body type." As long as that body type includes a fat wallet: $18 + S+H for a plain white t-shirt. Come on! So instead I went to Ebay and got 6 white t-shirts for $18, 3 bux a t-shirt. No matter how vertically integrated and non-sweat-shoppy you are, I don't need to pay for juicy hipster booty on a fancy flash website just to iron on pithy comments like "Communism is for Lovers" and the Spunker logo. I highly recommend these shirts if you're a trust-fund hipster doofus.

UPDATE: Adjab's Adam Finley is also unnerved by "the "...legal, but they look illegal" models..."

More of Less Clear Channel

(via AdRants)  Extending its "Less is More" strategy of offering :15 and :30 ad segments, Clear Channel plans new :05 "ad-lets" for their media mix. "Clear Channel has been in discussion with an undisclosed agency about the short ad units which, like the five second television Cadillac commercials, will either be a novelty or a viable, long term ad unit. Let's just hope radio doesn't become a quick-cut, ADD-style barrage of micro-ads while they attempt to keep up with the pace."  Question: Will having more radio ads in a shorter period of time mean they can now annoy us faster?

Napoleon Dynamite Rides Again

Napoleon Dynamite and Pedro are back, helping pimp the 150th Utah State Fair. An apropos  tie-in as the film is set in Preston, Idaho, but a few tater tots from the Utah state line. And, as you recall, Napoleon and Pedro are members of the 4H club, able to determine the aberrations within various jars of milk: "This tastes like the cow got loose in a turnip patch."  The spots are worth seeing to add new Dynamite quotes to your overextended repertoire. Blaine Olsen White Gurr (BOWG) did the ads.

TV (requires RealPlayer)                                        RADIO (requires Quicktime)
    Horse v. Sasquatch                                                          Ninjas
    Dueling with Tots                                                              Cakes
    Sweet Rides like the Box of Wonder                          Thunderlizzards
                                                                                                      Dear Diary
                                                                                                      Pedro's Song

Go Kanye West, Young Man

A strong contender for University of Colorado - Boulder's faculty lounge wall this fall.

Kanye West eschewed the teleprompter during NBC's "A Concert for Hurricane Relief" Friday saying, "George Bush doesn't care about black people," and now you can be the proud owner of a t-shirt bearing the slogan, available at Moe Wampum. Original video of Kanye's off-the-cuff comments here in Quicktime and WMV. They pretty much go as follows:

"I hate the way they portray us in the media.  "If you see a black family it says they are looting if you see a white family it says they are looking for food.

"We already realize a lot of the people that could help are at war now fighting another way and they’ve given them permission to go down and shoot us."

"George Bush doesn't care about black people."

In a related story, this morning on the way to the laundry sat a pile of misshapen poo by the curb in which perched a little yellow sign on a wire and on the little yellow sign was a picture of George Bush. Hopefully it's still there when I get back home so I can put up a picture. Perhaps I should contact Moe Wampum and see if they want to make it a t-shirt?