Freedent Puppet Campaign – Absurd But Funny
Can ridiculous sell? Well this campaign for Freedent gum is going to find out with a series of pieces starring puppets. Puppets on crack perhaps? Funny stuff.
Read PostSeat Belts: Elegant Simplicity, Embrace Life
This commercial promoting seat belts has been viewed over 7 Million times on YouTube. One look and you’ll understand why. It’s simple and powerful with beautiful music – an idea built around the love of a family. Elegant simplicity at its best. The commercial is called embrace life. The table flying away at the end […]
Read PostRed: Short and Sweet Celebs
Here’s a great, simple spot that was, no doubt, far from simple to make. It’s for Red and Starbucks UK, showing that Starbucks supports Red and its quest to wipe out AIDS in countries around the world. What’s nice is that the celebs flash by on screen so quickly that it’s hard to keep up. […]
Read PostLet’s Colour Project – Ad Campaign
Here’s an ad campaign that has been good for both gray spaces and world paint manufacturers called the Let’s Colour Project. It’s an international campaign to brighten up drab spaces with color… or colour as they say in jolly old England. But is it a project or is it an ad? Sure smells ‘ad-dy’ to […]
Read PostStones In Exile – Rolling Stones Documentary
Here’s a trailer for the Rolling Stones documentary, Stones in Exile, about the making of their record Exile on Main Street, recorded in France in 1972. The film highlights the heyday of the Stones creatively, and explores the band in action, in exile. Not much to object to here with great interviews with the Stones, […]
Read PostTop Graduation Speakers
The best graduation speakers we could find. It’s graduation season and with it comes the painful ceremony. The graduation speaker is usually a horrible sweaty piece of the ceremony we must endure to get to the meal at the end of the ceremony. But once in a while you get a great, inspired speaker, with […]
Read PostVirtual Guide: Putting an Avatar on Your Website
IBM is just one of many companies now offing Virtual Guide’s for their website, and the guide could be you, or Barack Obama. It’s another creepy move towards personalized customization of websites using video. But I have to wonder how helpful this customization will be. You be the judge. Check ’em out. The package starts […]
Read PostWilkinson Hair Campaign Does Not Sharpen My Blade
Wilkinson’s new Hair Off My Stuff is odd. Perhaps it appeals to women blighted by their hairy men’s fur, but for me it evokes gross images of a hair covered world that I would rather forget? Which surreal artist created the fur covered plate, was it Man Ray or Gaudi? I suppose it’s unique, but […]
Read PostA Cat Named Dewey, a Critic Named Leonard, and a Journalist Named Kuralt
A Cat Named Dewey, a Critic Named Leonard, and a Journalist Named Kuralt The wonderful stories told by Sunday Morning, the CBS Morning news show have always appealed to my softer side. As my birthday closes fast and I prepare to turn another year older, it’s time to pull some of my favorite news stories […]
Read PostAnnual Fund Video Contest: UNC
University of North Carolina asked students to make a video for their 2009 annual fund, and here’s here’s one of the five compelling stories that made the cut. UNC Annual Fund Video Contest. Update (Dec. 2013): This particular website no longer exists, but the contest was a success and provided UNC with some very […]
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