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If you’ve just watched a video of Japan being flattened by a tsunami, you may not feel it’s the best time to book a flight over.

We’re pretty sure there won’t be enough pixels in the world until we can distinguish our faces when the Earth is photographed from space. That said, Getty Images is offering some remarkable Giga-pixel and 360-degree images of some of the world’s biggest news events.

In case you haven’t noticed, New Zealand is a pretty photogenic place. And Getty Images has compiled its top-selling images of this beautiful country, as downloaded by the locals.

Bradley Cooper sums up this great new Nike ad from Wieden + Kennedy perfectly with his second last line.

People do strange things for money. We’ve seen the auctioning of penile ad space by a Hamiltonian chap, people selling space on their bodies for branded tattoos and a weird name changes to corporate entities. For a moment, Maria Sharapova fooled the world into thinking she was joining that club of money-hungry sell-outs by saying she would legally change her name to Sugarpova, the name of her sweets brand, for the duration of the US Open.

One StopPress reader will win a double pass to the California Design art exhibition, which is currently being held at the Auckland Art Gallery. If you’d like to go but don’t want to take your chances, StopPress readers will also get a $5 discount on tickets.

Absolut has a reputation for adding chutzpah to its brand through its various art projects, Frucor’s H2GO went down the designer route earlier this year and spruced up its bottles and French water brand Perrier is also getting in on the act with limited edition bottles inspired by pop artist Andy Warhol hitting the shelves as part of the brand’s 150th anniversary celebrations.

We know you thought you were sick of Grumpy Cat, but apparently the frowning feline is still doing TV interviews. In this clip from Australia’s Today show, host Karl Stefanovic can’t cope with Grumpy Cat’s reaction to his line of questioning.

Got 12 seconds? Then you’ve got time to check out a time lapse of Nespresso’s new billboard, printed and installed by Boston Digital.

If you’ve ever been self-conscious about your dress, don’t worry: you could be traipsing around New Zealand carrying an 18kg backpack that looks like an alien invention.

Now that same-sex marriage is legal in New Zealand, and the licenses have been signed, we round up the companies chasing that sweet pink money.

Here at StopPress we’re a fan of F-words. We mean fun, fantastic and fabulous, of course!

Fox Sports’ Jay Onrait takes a novel approach to promoting a Colts vs. Giants American football game.

Republik and Fuji Xerox brought a bit of creativity to the world of digital printing a couple of years back with its impressive Fujikistan campaign, which won a host of awards and helped sell plenty of colour presses. And the pair have continued that trend with an impressive aviation-themed campaign to launch its wide format range of digital printing presses.

TV3’s ‘competitive current affairs’ show The Vote discussed whether Auckland was sucking the life out of New Zealand this week. Throng.co.nz’s Regan Cunliffe wasn’t too impressed and wrote a post entitled ‘when whoring for ratings doesn’t work’. And he copped an earful on Twitter from the two stars of the show, Duncan Garner and Guyon Espiner.

Our weekly wrap of good things, strange things, funny things and other things from inside the intertubes.

PopPress remembers a time when it tried to find out what Kelloggs’ LCMs stood for. It remains a mystery to this day and it may never be solved. But does it matter what an acronym actually stands for? Phone maker HTC doesn’t think so and it’s launched a massive (supposedly $1 billion) Here’s to Change campaign starring Robert Downey Jr that says it can mean whatever you want it to mean, whether that’s Humongous Tinfoil Catamaran, Hipster Troll Carwash or Hot Tea Catapult.

Australians are renowned for their dignity, manners and good grace. So it’s no surprise to see a bunch of ex-Wallabies erecting a billboard that offers the All Blacks a warm welcome to Australia for the Bledisloe Cup.

Telecom and Vodafone both announced today that Telecom has dropped court proceedings against Vodafone, after the latter’s SuperNet advertising ruffled some feathers.