Most Popular Corvette Colors

A Puppet's Ramblings - from Chip Martin, Mannequin American

What Color do You Want?

The GM Corvette Assembly Plant just released statistics on 2011 Corvettes produced. A total of 13,596 were manufactured. What colors do you think were most popular?

Number of cars produced for each color were:

1) Black (2,891)
2) Torch Red (2,264)
3) Crystal Red (1,419)
4) Supersonic Blue (1,417)
5) Cyber Gray (1,197)
6) Arctic White (1,133)
7) Blade Silver (1,037)
8) Velocity Yellow (867)
9) Inferno Orange (790)
10) Jetstream Blue (581)

Technically, when you add 2 & 3 together, red comes out ahead.

Trojan Has the Streets Covered

Condom brand Trojan is taking to the streets of New York next week with its "good vibrations" food truck to promote sexual health awareness. The truck won't serve any actual food but it will hand out free condoms and Trojan vibrating rings.

The Trojanmobiles will park outside bars and near actual food trucks. Let's face it - people are way more likely to stop at a food truck than a drugstore post-inebriation. In a huge cross-marketing fail, the truck will not be touring in tandem with the Wienermobile food truck.

Burnt Meat? No Problem

Valdorfo Ketchup has three new 30 second spots that are all really funny.  Click to see the pig, cow and chicken ads. If at least one of them doesn't make you smile, your sense of humor is broken.

Eggheads Shouldn't Take Karate

This commercial is entertaining ...but I don't think it sells discounthotels.com as much as it sells karate classes. 

Disco Can Save Lives

This hilarious PSA from The Ad Council and the American Heart Association entitled Hands Only CPR aims to educate people of the proper procedure for administering CPR in a life threatening situation.

The PSA features actor and comedian Ken Jeong who, along with a couple of hotties, shows up to save the day when a charades player falls to the floor.

It's funny but not as enthralling as the CPR-themed work from Fortnight Lingerie, which is my favorite.  Still, the new Ad Council piece is far less distracting and far more likely to actually educate.

P-Tree

OMG ... Enter the "P-tree", a portable urinal unit that can hang off any tree. They recently hung all over trees at the Roskilde festival in Denmark, because at festivals people will urinate against trees no matter what. Might as well give them a target. And as the video shows ... lots of men use them. I have a hard enough time going in a urinal at the state fair with a line of guys waiting for me to finish!

According to the manufacturer, "The P-tree is a temporary tree-friendly urinal that can be fixed on every tree using straps and lashings. The P-tree gives a feeling of freedom during peeing. It is the same as peeing into the wild. The hoses from the urinal can be combined and connected on a waste pipe with container. The P-tree is very accessible for festivals, public gardens, events, etc."

Men are Not Pigs

Despite the article above, men may not be as bad as you think they are. Here's some valuable marketing insight, courtesy of the dudes over at EyeTrackShop:

When looking at photos on the internet, men spend 40% more time on the face, compared to women. And women look at the chest area before anywhere else. That's the conclusion of an eye tracking study done on an H&M website, that tracked the eyeballs of 100 participants.

Proof that not all men are pigs? Proof that people aren't always looking at what you're thinking they're looking at? Only EyeTrackShop knows for sure, and they're ready to tell you exactly what people see when they stare at your site.

I Can't Believe We Survived the 50's

If you think not wearing a bicycle helmet is bad, this will traumatize you. It's Trimz DDT children's wallpaper! Because it's totally intuitive that the best way to protect your children from insects was to fill their room with a powerful insecticide.

From the ConVENTion

Here's a nice remembrance photo via Steve Axtell, from this year's International Ventriloquists' Convention.

From left to right Audrey Murdick, Jeff Dunham, Jay Johnson, (Soap and The Two and Only) Jimmy Nelson, (N-e-s-t-l-e-s) Betty Nelson, Terry Fator, Taylor Fator and Tom Ladshaw.

We'll be hanging out with Jeff and Audrey when they visit West Allis for Jeff's appearance at the WI State Fair, next week.  His show sold out pretty fast so it's not being promoted any more. Jeff's new one hour special will air on Comedy Central in September and the CD will be available shortly after that.

Also this fall a new beginner ventriloquist figure will be available from Jeff along with a video course on ventriloquism. I've seen the Mannequin American prototype and it's pretty cool ... head stick, moveable mouth and eyes. Very professional. And the instructional video was shot at at some of Jeff's concerts in front of live audiences. The puppet and the course will supposedly be available for just under $100. If he can hit that mark, it will be a great deal ... and probabably a great seller.