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Game of Brands: The Game of Thrones Houses as Modern Corporations

Stock photo website Shutterstock has followed the steps of other brilliant marketing campaigns that have used their products in advertisements to appeal to the geek crowd.

Taking advantage of today’s popularity of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Fire and Ice novels — as well as the Game of Thrones television show! — they have taken six of the Great Houses of Westeros, took into account their strengths and cultures, and transformed them into modern corporations with their own distinct brandings.

What’s more, they did this using stock photographs from its extensive database. 🙂

Take a look below — I’m especially loving Air Targaryen! (But then again, I may be biased because Daenerys is my favorite character from the series.)

Arryn Communications

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Sharing the Love: Fantasy, Action, and Kiddie Edition

Did I mention that J's currently away on vacation? He's back to his motherland — Hong Kong — and with travel time, he'll be away for TEN WHOLE DAYS.  8-O This is the longest we've been apart since we got married (even when I stayed at my parents' for 2 months last summer, we still saw each other at least a couple of times a week). And while I'm glad he's getting some much-deserved rest while catching up with old friends, things haven't been so peachy for me. Because as it often is the case in life, getting handed one lemon wasn't enough — people and circumstances have been hurling them at me left and right and all around. Needless to say, I'm very...

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Once Upon an Internet

There have been a lot of good stuff showing up on my Feedly this week, but I haven’t had the chance have been too busy playing with my new phone to share it with y’all. So as any lazy blogger would do, I have decided to a roundup…

Terrible-Tweet Score
What is your Terrible-Tweet Score? I got 6, which fits into the “Tone it back a bit buddy” category.  😳

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(via The Doghouse Diaries)

Pretty IP
This simple website generates a color palette based on your IP address. I’m not too crazy about the colors produced by my IP address, but you may have better luck. Go give it a try!

“Once Upon a Time” — A Fairy Tale Themed Baby Shoot

I’m not too keen on newborn/baby photo shoots (they mostly look the same to me and some of them can be downright creepy), but I’m all game when they’re super creative. (See: Kristin & Kayla, Mila’s Daydreams, and Baby Arthur.)

The latest series of baby photos to make its social media rounds has been that of photographer Wendi Riggens, whose fairy-tale themed shoot of 9-month-old Maddie has her placed in scenes and outfits from some of Disney’s most popular films. Take a look, and be ready to coo:

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