We recently finished the third, and final, spot in our Seminole Hard Rock TV campaign. Classic rockers all over Florida officially know where to go if they want to rock like they did back in the day. Check all three of the spots below. Do you have a favorite line or a line of your own?

A few behind the scenes shots from the Employers photo shoot. We built and shot 13 American flags that we made out of all kinds of good stuff.

Drew looking very patriotic during the machine shop flag shoot.

Detail of the car dealership flag.

Detail from the plastic flag. That one was a look of work.

Paul can be patriotic too.

Fine tuning the helicopter cam.

Drew makes with his best Luke Skywalker during a game of wiffle ball after we wrapped up the shoot.

A thumbs up for the fast food flag.

Photographer Greg Anderson is one hard working dude. Check out his website here.

What can we say, we like to have some fun too.

Looks like too many art directors if you ask me.

Well actually we like to think that the new website we designed and developed is well beyond good enough for government work. The site features include a blog, Flickr image library integration, and a fantastic CMS (Content Management Sytem). And it delivers a large amount of content with easy to use navigation and clear site information architecture. Have a look at the Nevada Office of Veterans Services website by clicking here.

This week team OGG took on team D-flat (BestBuy) for their third game of the season. Things were looking competitive at the end of the first inning, 1 point a piece. In the second inning, D-flat bulked up the back of their lineup with some heavy hitters (aka kickers), scoring an easy 6 runs which team OGG was never able to recover from, despite holding D-flat to less than 2 runs in each of the following innings. Final score was a disappointing 14-5 in favor of D-flat.

Next week team OGG takes on the Blue Stars at 6:30 at the Reno Sports Complex. Come check ‘em out! (PS The above photo was taken after the game, so yes, we were still happy.)

Team OGG, fresh off a season opening victory against “Looking to Score,” came into the second game of the Reno Kickball League season looking to chalk up another “W” as they faced off against the “Kool Kids” on the sopping wet fields at the Reno Sports Complex. But Team OGG’s hopes of victory and a 2-0 start to the season were quickly dashed by the Kool Kids’ potent offense and their smothering defensive play. The final score, 17-4 in favor of the Kool Kids, says almost all there is to say about the rough evening experienced by Team OGG. At the plate, the Kool Kids were able to hit the gaps with stunning accuracy, and they patiently moved runners around the bases with strategic bunts by their female players. When it was their turn to kick, Team OGG couldn’t counter the offensive onslaught and managed to send a scant four runners across the plate. The game was called one inning early due to the Reno Kickball League’s “Mercy Rule.” Now 1-1, Team OGG faces off against D-Flat next Monday at the Reno Sports Complex.

The Glenn Group, represented by Melissa Deitz, Paul Hamill, Ryan Walker and Flip Wright, made a good [showing] at the SGN “Times are Tough” Golf Tournament. Despite the toasty temperature, long and not so forgiving course, they managed to place 4th. Honorable mention to Lacey Scott as the courses beverage cart lady, making sure The Glenn Group were stocked up with plenty of cold “beverages”.

Here’s the first in a series of national spots we’re doing for our client Minelab. They’re one of the world leaders in metal detection technology, from military countermine to high-end recreational machines.

The spot was shot by FLF Films on the RED ONE, Canon 5D and, believe it or not, the iPhone 4. You may have seen the web-only spot we posted that was one of the first online commercials shot completely on the iPhone 4 (which will actually be featured on apple.com soon), but now we included footage from the iPhone 4 in the actual spot that recently started airing on the Outdoor Channel.

That has to make it the first commercial to air nationally that has iPhone 4 footage in it.

Can you pick out which shot it is?

Below is the web-only spot and a shot of the remote helicopter that FLF mounted the 5D and iPhone 4 on.

After  stinking up the Sparks municipal softball fields for the last two seasons, Team OGG (Original Glenn Gangstas for those of you not in the know) went into this summer’s kickball season with few expectations. But unlike softball, where we spent our seasons dwelling in the basement of the co-ed K league, we seem to have a knack for a game most of us haven’t played since we were 10. While that doesn’t say much about our maturity level it felt damn good to chalk up a 9-7 victory in the season opener against “Looking to Score.” Team OGG combined a surprising potent offense with solid defensive play, which included some spectacular catches that would be worthy of a highlight reel, if there was such a thing for rec league kickball. Catch Team OGG in action at Rancho San Rafael next Monday night at 7:30, where we’ll square off against the Kool Kids.

This morning, Tiffany, Jennifer, Kelly, Gina and I played tour guides to a group of of about 50 students and counselors from TeenEngage, a collaboration between University of Nevada journalism students, the Northern Nevada International Center, the U.S. Department of State, high school students in Algeria and a bunch of other organizations in northern Nevada. TeenEngage’s mission is to get kids from around the world to use social media

to make positive changes in their communities, and while the Algerian students are here, UNR professor Todd Felts has them developing several social media campaigns for area non-profits. We had a great time taking them around the office, showing our work and taking a look at some of the stuff they’ve been doing for Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Food Bank of Northern Nevada and others. They’re a group of super smart and talented kids, and it looks like there will be more than a few Algerian social media superstars emerging in the next few years. Check out their facebook page to learn more about them and check out what they’ve been doing.

We’ve been talking about how it seems like there are quite a few campaigns out there right now celebrating the glory of good old-fashioned Americanism.

Examples of this (below) are the Levi’s “Go Forth” campaign, a new Grand Cherokee ad from Jeep, a Challenger spot from Dodge, and now a new spot from Chevy for the Corvette, which isn’t as powerful as the other three, but it’s certainly crafted in a similar mold.

The newest iteration of Levi’s “Go Forth” campaign, the Jeep spot and the Corvette commercial tap into a nitty-gritty, optimistic and nostalgic notion that at our core we are still a country of builders, makers and craftsman who can again blaze trails and manufacture innovation with skill and sweat.

The Dodge Challenger spot was created for the U.S. vs. England World Cup match, and it pretty much just screams, in a quite clever and magical way, “America, F*CK YEAH!”

Ironically, three of these campaigns are from Wieden + Kennedy (Levi’s, Jeep and Dodge). So, it appears that even if none of our politicians can unite our country in direction and spirit, one of our leading ad agencies might just pull it off with a brand-new blast from the past—rousing, stirring romantic patriotism.

It’s making a few of us around here want to trade in our black-framed glasses and wacom tablets for steel mallets, arc welders, denim capes and American flag bandanas.

What do you think of this new trend?