St. John Ambulance Corps – Popcorn: Breaking Out of the Box
A British advertisement for St. John Ambulance Corps. Here’s an interesting ad that mixes up expectations and conventions. It’s a little hard to figure out what’s going on initially when you keep seeing the cutaway to a movie theater, but then it becomes real clear when the theater goer makes the ‘spatial jump’. What do […]
Read PostLeBron James – “Rise” Nike Commercial
Here’s a clever, well produced, big ticket commercial that deals head-on with LeBron James’ controversial move this past summer from the Cleveland Cavaliers to the Miami Heat. It’s serious, provocative, entertaining and is peppered with a few wild scenes with Don Johnson of Miami Vice and a piece of big machinery reeking havoc on the […]
Read PostDid You Know version 4 and Shift Happens
Boy, are there are lot of versions of these – Shift Happens and Did You Know – on YouTube. Zoweee….. They are pack full of great facts…. here’s a starter. Blogged about Did You Know version 1 a few years ago.
Read PostNowhere Boy: John Lennon Story
Here’s a new film, Nowhere Boy, about John Lennon’s early life pre-Beatles. Looks like a winner. Shot in Liverpool, the film stars Aaron Johnson as Lennon and Krstin Scott Thomas. For those looking for a full on Beatles story, you’re not going to find it here.
Read PostWindows Phone Intro: Really?
The windows phone? Better late than never, will their entrance into market unseat Apple’s iPhone? Here’s a fun commercial. It positions the phone nicely in a crowded market. It’s done for the British market, will we see a similar ad on our shores any time soon?
Read PostGreat Editing – Now This is Dancing! – Cut Loose
Here’s a piece of great editing cut to the song Footloose by Kenny Loggins. Great stuff.
Read PostNokia 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 […]
Read PostProcrastination – 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.
Read PostBurger 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 […]
Read PostRestrepo: 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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