The Romanian ad pub IQuads recently interviewed me for their AdStory series. I talked about Tom Cruise, naked Modonna in Playboy, Sonny Crockett, buying weed, acid trips, advertising, some of my favorite ad campaigns, my family, Cornett-IMS, Kentucky for Kentucky, Walking Dead, fly fishing, etc. Read it in English by clicking here and read it in Romanian by clicking here.
GOOD MORNING AMERICA
Kentucky for Kentucky and our famous mofo 'Fried Chicken Candles' made an appearance on Good Morning America today. Right in there with Beyoncé. Check it out below. Kentucky FTW.
FAKE FLIER #7
I came out of fake flier retirement once again and made yet another fake flier for Reddit. Flier #7 to be exact. Once again it put the crush down and made the front page of Reddit. Like a true Internet player. In 24 hours the flier received about 574,000 views on da imgur. Not as strong as the 'Bronies Vs. Juggalo's' flier but still pretty damn strong. I just can't believe these fake fliers continue to still make the front page of Reddit.
SANTA
Took my daughter to see Santa last weekend. I offered Santa $12 to let me sit on his other knee and got denied.
'Scents Of The Commonwealth'
The mission of Kentucky for Kentucky is to engage and inform the world by promoting Kentucky people, places, and products. Recently we added "scents" to that mission statement. We're now in the business of promoting Kentucky's finest scents. That's right.
We collaborated with Kentuckian Kathy Werking to create a line of candles that capture some of Kentucky’s finest scents. Scents like fried chicken (invented in Kentucky), the Kentucky Derby (Mint Juleps), and Ale8One (official soft drink of Kentucky). We called our new line of Kentucky scented candles, 'Scents Of The Commonwealth'.
You heard that right, we created a ‘Fried Chicken’ candle. Candles that smell like mofo fried chicken. To make these ‘Fried Chicken’ candles, Kathy fries chicken in all-natural soy wax and adds an infusion of family secrets. How rad is that? Your home can now smell like fried chicken all of the time, without having to actually fry chicken.
Our first batch of ‘Scents Of The Commonwealth’ got hot like Jennifer Lawrence and sold out in under a minute. They’s also received a ton of press. The candles have been featured in the USA Today, Creativity, Digiday, Fast Company, TIME, Fox News, Fox Business, Daily Mail, Perez Hilton, Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, TAXI, PSFK, Complex, and a ton of other news outlets from radio to television.
Not only were these fried chicken candles a fun and unique product for us, they also served as one hell of a tourism marketing campaign for Kentucky. A shit load of free media was earned for our great Commonwealth. Epic crush by the Kentucky for Kentucky team, Kathy Werking and Rachael Sinclair.
Georgia & Charlie
A few weeks back we welcomed a couple new lil Hiler gangstas into our family. Lil kick ass Kentuckians. Here they are.
Cornett-IMS X Eye Level Films X Lane's End Farm
Dope new video from Cornett-IMS and Eye Level Films for Lane's End Farm. Agency Spy wrote and article saying "Cornett-IMS Crafts The Best Horse Farm Ad You've Ever Seen". That headline kicks all sorts of ass BUT it's probably the only horse farm ad you've ever seen. Regardless, we'll still claim it as the best.
"SoLost: Rebranding Kentucky (A Guerilla Love Story)"
A few weeks back we sat down with Dave Anderson from the Oxford American and shot a little video about rebranding Kentucky for their 'SoLost' series. Read about it here and check out the video below.
Human Centipede Of Advertising Infograph Part Two FTW
Lots of love for the 'The Human Centipede Of Advertising Infograph Part Two' on the Internets. It's been featured on Fast Company, Digiday, ADWEEK, Design Taxi, and Brand Flakes For Breakfast. Also got some small love on Business Insider and Media Post. Ewww grosssssss.
Human Centipede Of Advertising Infograph Part Two
Last Halloween my buddy/co-worker Jason Kaufmann (he's the evil designer) dropped something on the Internets called the 'Human Centipede Of Advertising Infograph'. Like all good horror flicks we’re back in action this Halloween with a sequel. An epic follow up to last year’s disturbing and beloved ‘Ad Agency Human Centipede Infograph’. This infograph covers some of 2013 hottest trends (like Native Advertising) in advertising along with some of 2013's hottest job titles (like Agency Thought Leader). Check it out below
"Meet The 24 Most Creative People In Advertising Right Now"
Stoked and surprised to have made this list. Check it out on Business insider.
#SHARETHELEX
We (Cornett) just launched a fun new social campaign for the Lexington Convention and Visitor Bureau called #ShareTheLex. Check out the video below. You can read all about it on da Digiday too by clicking here.
BRONIES VS. JUGGALOS
Last week I decided to come out of fake flier retirement for yet another fake flier. While all of my fake fliers are special this flier was super special, it was a celebration of two of the Internet’s most hated subcultures - Bronies and Juggalos. Not just ‘bronies’ and ‘juggalos’ but ‘bronies’ vs. ‘juggalos’. An epic street battle between ‘bronies’ and ‘juggalos’. So what happens when you combine two of the Internet’s most hated sub cultures on one fake flier?
1. You make da Internet babies.
2. You make the front page of Reddit. All the way to the #2 spot. 18,824 upvotes and 16,348 downvotes with 2,176 comments.
3. You get over 1 Million views in 24 hours. Our elevator at work was seen by over 1,000,000 people in one day.
4. Popular sites like College Humor, Epoch Times and i-am-bored pick it up.
5. You become the winner of the Internet for a day.
Jennifer Lawrence Kicks Ass
She's a believer - 'Kentucky Kicks Ass'.
Bass Fishing
Went bass fishing this past weekend with my buddy Colin. Salyed some bass on the fly.
Hello My Friends
Colorado
A few weeks back my good buddy Lawson got married in his hometown of Lyons Colorado. My friend Todd and I traveled out to Colorado for the bachelor party and the wedding. Epic times were had. For the bachelor party, eight of us hiked up into the Flat Tops. With float tubes strapped to our packs we headed up to Rim Lake where we proceeded to slay some Lake Trout on the fly. We had a blast. You can't beat hiking, camping and fishing with good friends. The wedding was a blast too. Gallery below.
FORECASTLE
The Kentucky for Kentucky team was all up in this years Forecastle Festival selling gear and MCing bourbon talks in the bourbon lodge. Good times.
Portland
We took a family vacation to Portland Oregon during the first week in July. This was my first time in Portland, my wife lived there once upon a time so she was out tour guide. Amazing city, we had a great time. Great shopping, beautiful parks, tasty snacks (ice cream, donuts, coffee), all sorts of good shiz. People in Portland were also very friendly. Loved it. Some of my favorite places were: Cargo, Canoe, Poler Stuff, School House Electric, Tanner Goods, Salt & Straw Ice Cream, Stumptown Coffee, Washington Park, Voodoo Doughnuts, Rose Test Garden, Japanese Garden, Elephants Delicatessen, Columbia River Gorge, Powell Books, Manor, Ace Hotel, etc. If you haven't been to Portland, I'd highly recommend it.
Beardvertising on HuffPost Video and Yahoo News
Good ol' Beardvertising is still making the rounds. This week the Beardvertising X Dollar Shave Club campaign was featured on MSN, Media Post, the Inquisitr, the Huffington Post, and on Friday is was on the front page of Yahoo news.