September 2010 (5)

Nokia and Burton working together

Nokia Push Project – Featuring Burton Snowboards Fine video pushing Nokia’s Push project morphing technology and skating/snowboarding, Burton Style.  This is fun to watch and very cool technology.  Good stuff. The integration of typeface graphics with video is seamless and really sells the video. It’s all very professional in presentation and appearance, and does an […]

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Procrastination – Fine Piece of Animation

Here’s a fine piece of animation created by John Kelly. It won a 2007 contest sponsored by the Royal Academy.  Simple, solid sound track with great sound effects.

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Burger King, what were you thinking? It’s horrible, it’s terrible, it STINKS.

The new Burger King ‘Breakfast March’ campaign is perhaps the worst commercials/campaigns I have ever seen.  It’s surely an odds on favorite for worst campaign of the decade and the decade has just begun.  I would gladly pay money to the investment bank that just bought Burger King to NOT run this commercial.  Really, it’s […]

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Restrepo: The Front Line in Afghanistan

Restrepo – An unbelievable film. Here’s an intense new doc from Sebastian Junger (Perfect Storm) and Tim Hetherington (‘Liberia: an Uncivil War’ and ‘Long Story bit by Bit : Liberia Retold’). The film chronicles a unit’s real experiences at a remote outpost in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley. The danger is real and it is palpable on […]

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The Oath – Documentary about a Former Bodygaurd of Osama Bin Laden’s

The Oath – Powerful Doc Today he’s a taxi driver in Yemen, but at one time he was a bodyguard for Osama Bin Laden.  His Brother in Law, Salim Hamdan, whom he helped recruit into Al-Qaeda, is currently a prisoner at Guantanamo.  This documentary, directed by Laura Poitras, looks at the lives of these two […]

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PUMA Ad – After Hours

Great Puma Ad – After Hours. Here’s a beautifully shot and scripted commercial that dares to break the patterns created by other sneaker ads.  It could carve a fine little niche for the sneakers if the positioning works.  The commercials’ words are elegant and lyrical, yet the voice feels like it’s coming out of a […]

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