What if facebook existed in World War One?

The Museum of the Great War (Musee de la Grande Guerre) in France brought World War 1 to life by imagining if Facebook had existed in 1914 and posting the story of an individual young man and his family. The campaign, through DDB Paris, created a Facebook profile for  Leon Vivien, an ordinary young man who becomes torn apart from his family by the War (and eventually dies, in 1915). When the campaign kicked off in April, the page already contained 10 months of posts, and two months of live daily updates then followed. The page received over 50,000 followers within the first two weeks, 5,000 comments and the museum (based in Pays de Meaux, Marne) saw its visitors increase by 45%. Via: Creativity

This is more than creative AD Campaign, this is a creative way to bring awareness to young generations! You can join the page Here
Brilliant!

Sex shops in Beirut

Sex shops - Pigalle Paris - joesbox

It is hard to spot any real sex shop in Beirut, apparently selling sex toys in Lebanon is forbidden .

Is there a law rendering sex shops illegal ?

In  Beirut  guns are sold everywhere but sex toys are banned. I think the whole thing is quite funny, and it also shows people have their priorities all wrong. Good sex and lots of it would lower crime rates everywhere but here we prefer war over sex...

That's right Lebanon is a vibrator-free Country! 

The new regulation for phones in Lebanon.

Nice video about the new regulation for phones in Lebanon. It explains the latest changes via: Wezank
Check it out.

Thank you Google !

I just love this. A web film by Google celebrating all the developers that have helped to develop the web. Thank You Google!

From a humble beginning of static text, images, and links, the web has grown into a rich platform teeming with interactive content and powerful applications.  Via Google Chrome

The Summer collection is Here!

In many places of the city, young men are lining up the highways to sell different products: bags, hats, water, flowers etc..They always have seasonal stuff to offer ...
As you drive around the city, a man comes up trying to sell you something, you send him off, but he keeps following you. And when he finally goes away another one comes up.... This scenario happens on a daily basis 7 days a week every season in Lebanon .

Do we really need commercial activities in our busy roads?

Are these people making money selling the same useless stuff? And who is their wholesaler or Big Boss?

I know they are trying to make money but they are very annoying, but what annoys me most are the people who love these stuff and park in the middle of the road for a good bargain!

I guess buying from them VIOLATES THE LAW! Not in Lebanon of course...
 

The Power of Twitter.

"In a fascinating talk at #PoweredByTweets, David Hepworth, the former publisher of Word magazine, explains how the news of the magazine closing travelled further, faster from a single Tweet than it would have done ever in the old world." Via YouTube

Send it to your friends or your boss who don't get twitter 

Finally School Life is Over!

Teens celebrating the end of school Life, reminds me of my own teen life and how much I hated school!

Every single day, I was cursing at school, forcing myself to go, just trying to survive. But really, school sucks enough as it is, because it is very boring, it kills your creativity , it is a place when you get what you don't want,  you enter a system with the idea to get educated  instead you get programmed; memorizing none sens, make tests and you are defined genius or stupid based on your answers...It is more like mind control without challenging you to think.

Education is more important than schooling, There is so much stuff to learn and to read but we forget how to learn by ourselves, we become dependent on school to give us the knowledge we need. Unfortunately I did not have the luxury of the Internet back when I was in school...

So yeah celebrate and keep on hating school! But i want you to know, you’re not alone :-)

Arabic is not Cool!

Lebanese embrace several  languages, and we combine English, Arabic and French in the same sentence, that's fine with me, but it is sad to see a huge billboard in the center of Beirut show Arabic message in the web-friendly Latin script ( a silly Message by the way).
 Who said Arabic  is not cool!?  

“We should link the Arabic language to modern art and culture... to end the perception among young people that the formal language is outdated and dull,"

I ‘ve seen beautiful Arabic fonts, typography and type design. why don't we use it in our advertising campaigns? Check out Tarek Atrisis & Nadine Shahine work for beautiful Arabic artwork.

White wine for Girls only!

When you look back at this ad campaign, you see the problem: At no point did they actually make wine seem like something you'd want to drink. It was a great campaign for girl products or a reminder on how some girls unfortunately think but not a WINE AD. People actually do drink wine when having fun,listening to music (bars, parties, restaurants, with family and friends...). It makes no sense to try to make  "girly moments" association with wine. In my opinion this ad will hurt sales and chateau ka will need an urgent action plan to boost...CREATIVITY!

Lebanese Facebook population

You might be interested to see the Lebanese Facebook population 
Lebanese population on facebook: 1,524.180
Lebanese population: +4,259,405

Statistics by Nasri Messarra/ Kleudge you can follow @nasrimessarra  on twitter