“Canon Power Shot S90. With optical image stabilizer.” Advertising Agency: Giovanni+Draft FCB, São Paulo, Brazil Creative Directors: Adilson Xavier, Ricardo John, Benjamin Yung Jr Art Director: Henri...
If you’re going to be in Rome between September 17th-19th, you’ll want to make an evening pilgrimage to the Colisseum to take in an extraordinary video installation conceived by Thyra Hil...
We’re soooooo grateful to the Blogging Pompeii site for posting this off the chart video, PompeiEffect’s Villa of the Mysteries, by PompeiViva. Like Blogging Pompeii, we don’t want...
Rome is abuzz with news about Caravaggio in the past weeks! The Baroque bad boy — who died 400 years ago this month — has been in the spotlight for months as the Eterna marks the anniver...
We’re loving this ad campaign from a travel agency in Singapore called Vista a’la carte. When daily life becomes just too much, you can turn to Vista a’la carte for a bit of travel...
Earlier this year we showcased a smashing pair of sandals appropriate for any woman who might consider herself a direct descendant of Mercury. Now we’re happy to report that Adidas has taken t...
Volkswagen has a great advertising campaign that riffs on the ubiquitous souvenir plates found in shops across Italy. The plates — meant to be reminders of summer vacations in Tuscany and Sici...
We wish we’d spotted this nice stencil by SONE ourselves, but, alas, we did not. Rather, it came to us by way of the fabulous Wooster Collective. We’re told it’s in Rome, but we d...
Anyone who loves Rome is probably passionate about the city’s #1 baroque artist, Gianlorenzo Bernini. And anyone who loves Bernini will be absolutely delighted by this ad for 3M cushion wrap! ...
Our intrepid photographer, Susan Sanders, has been roaming the globe in search of all things Roman. This week she brings us the majestic Dawgustus, a University of Georgia Bulldog that’s been ...
Ron English, a well-known painter whose work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, recently took to the streets of Rome, painting an X-Ray Guernica on the wall of the refrigerator at...
As everyone in Rome is perfectly aware, the World Cup kicks off in just a few days and there are high hopes that the Italian team might repeat its 2006 victory. While we in the eCool Compound enjoy a...
Eric Fischer is the author of the Geotaggers’ World Atlas, an online resource that shows where photographs are taken in the world’s great city. Using the geotags linked to photos posted o...
Last weekend, Rome’s new museum of 21st century art–the MAXXI–opened to the public after more than a decade of construction (and delays). Designed by architect Zaha Hadid, the bui...
We haven’t had the pleasure of trying out Goodbye Detergent!’s Spaghetti Scrubbers, but when we came across them on the web a few days ago, we fell head-over-heels. The all-natural and p...
We’ve heard now and then that the only thing Rome has more of than churches is underwear stores–and our own informal census suggests that may just be the case. Those hundreds of lingerie ...
While browsing about at Ads of the World, we came across this very nice campaign for Shun, an Italian-Asian (or Itasian) restaurant on Via Tunisia in Milan. The illustrations are worth a careful exa...
A stroll through Trastevere led us to this lovely piece of street art stuck on a wall just off Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere. We don’t know who does these Madonna & Child stickers–...
We’ve been spending a lot of time on Roman buses and trams in the past few weeks and nothing makes us happier than when we zip past one of these Radio Globo ads that have appeared streetside th...
The first step in learning a foreign language is that of laying a firm foundation. That seems to be the message of Inlingua’s latest ad campaign for its Italian for Beginners courses. The clev...
In honor of Rome’s 2764th birthday yesterday, April 21st, Flashmobbers in Rome appeared at the Colosseum at 5pm sharp, linked hands, and began to circle the monument. It took a few minutes to ...
We’re a little late on this but that’s because we haven’t stopped laughing since April 1 (i.e. April Fool’s Day) when the Huffington Post ran an article titled “The Hist...
We thought it was amazingly cool when Second Life opened their virtual Sistine Chapel and we could fly around the building and examine it paintings from a vantage point that just couldn’t be ac...
The Spring ‘10 collection of designer Beatrice Ong includes a shoe inspired by the Greco-Roman god Hermes or Mercury. The wings on the back are elegant, sassy, and sexy. We’re pretty su...
We just spotted this fabulous ad campaign on the great Blogging Pompeii site! To raise awareness of Visa’s sponsorship of a Pompeii exhibit at the National Museum in New Zealand, the TBWA\Tequ...
We’re happy to announce that The Times has declared Rome to be one of the world’s top 12 sexiest cities. We can’t argue. If you’re not in Rome now, get your Rome-ance on by pe...
One of our favorite museums in Rome, the Centrale Montemartini (click here to read more), has announced a new program that sounds just divine. Starting on Friday 9 April, the museum will offer live ...
Admittedly, we don’t know that much about this ad. We found it on an Italian blog and fell instantly and madly in love with it. It’s fabulous. It couldn’t be better. It makes us...
Here at the eCool Compound, we’re grateful to Caroline Lawrence, author of the Roman Mysteries series of books and tv series for kids, for letting us know about the excellent Cave Canem Project...
Yes, we know that we showed you this last year. But some of you are new here. And others of you love Romulus and Remus as much as all of us at the eCool Compound do. So, we’re going to show ...
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