The strangest version of 'Take 5' I ever heard.
Roll over Dave Brubeck — 12 Girls Band Link
Puppies and Flowers
…for when you need to think of something else — in a hurry!
Video Archives
May 7, 2007
May 9, 2007
Never Hide Films
Guy catches glasses with face
Link to YouTube
May 15, 2007
A New Direction for Safe Sex Ads
May 21, 2007
Never Hide Films
Link to YouTube
May 28, 2007
Big beer ad
Link to YouTube
June 22, 2007
Trippy experimental video
Link to youTube
June 25, 2007
Australian anti-speeding commercial
Link to Roads and Traffic Authority NSW. Link on page pops video
June 26, 2007
Good Cop, Baby Cop
The sequel to Will Ferrell’s “Landlord” video.
Link to “The Incredible Sulk” at manicmama
Beastie Boys new instrumental album
July 2, 2007
Diesel 'Liquid Space' Holographic Fashion Show
This is an amazing fashion show which appears to be interactive with the models. Over at Creative Review there is an excellent article on players involved in the creation of this piece.
Gizmodo's top 5 iPhone movies.
Comfortably Numb - Van Morrison & Roger Waters Live
Link to YouTube
July 5, 2007
July 6, 2007
Puppies and Flowers : Sleepy Meerkats Keep Falling Down
Scottish Star Trek — Hilarious
Link to CompFused, see also trouble with tribbles
Jibjab do it again with a presidential mash-up of The Star Spangled Banner
July 11, 2007
The Dude Driving — Clip from "The Big Lebowski"
Link to YouTube
From thedudeiseverywhere.com, you might be a dude if:
- You wear your dressing gown to the supermarket.
- You have begun writing cheques for less than £1 (or $1).
- You are partial to Thai Stick and a good ‘caucasian’.
- You have a habit of using the royal ‘we’, you know, the editorial…
- Your car has developed some rust ‘colouration’.
- You enjoy the occasional acid flashback.
- You have been known to occupy various administrative buildings.
- You hate the Eagles, no, you really hate the f-ing Eagles.
- You have no idea what day this is.
- You are unemployed.
Lebowski lexicon
via Grow-A-Brain
July 17, 2007
Very clever ad for Spanish blood bank
Link to clip via Cameron Mall Thanks Ben L
July 18, 2007
Reality desktop vs. virtual BumpTop interface
Reality Desktop
Windows interface moved to real life.
Do you remember what is your Computer Desktop? It's a metaphor
of real desk.
Link to video
Snappy, fresh interface with stacking, folding and crumpling abiliities.
Anand Agarawala presents BumpTop, a fresh user interface that takes the usual desktop metaphor to a glorious, 3D extreme. In this physics-driven universe, important files finally get the weight they deserve via an oddly satisfying resizing feature, and the drudgery of file organization becomes a freewheeling playground full of crumpled documents and clipping-covered "walls." Worried your laptop's desktop will descend into the same disorder as its coffee-mug-strewn real-life equivalent? Fear not: BumpTop has a snappy solution for that messy problem, too.
Link to video
Real Dolls and the men who love them…
Over the last few weeks I've been running into articles on this topic including an excellent documentary by Channel 4.
Link to documentary 'Guys and Dolls'.
This phenomenom is not to restricted to Japan, if you've watched the video above you'll see Americans and an Englishman.
c-r-e-e-p-y
From Reuters article:
Real love is hard to find for one Japanese man, who has transferred his affection and desires to dozens of plastic sex dolls.
When the 45-year-old, who uses a pseudonym of Ta-Bo, returns home, it's not a wife or girlfriend who await him, but a row of dolls lined up neatly on his sofa.
Each has a name. Ta-Bo often watches television with his toys before bathing them, powdering them so that their skin feels more human, dressing them in lingerie and then taking them to bed.
"A human girl can cheat on you or betray you sometimes, but these dolls never do those thing. They belong to me 100 percent," says the engineer who has spent more than 2 million yen ($16,000) over the past decade on the dolls.
"Sometimes it takes too much time before I can have sex with the person I meet. But with these dolls, it's just a matter of a click of the mouse. With one click, they are delivered to you."
Link to Reuters article
Where's that tiger? Amazing video clip
Pink donuts — more guerilla marketing? IDTS
Breasts — Miss Cellania's link round-up
Hold on to them here
"Too sexy for my bus," woman told
A German bus driver threatened to throw a 20-year-old sales clerk off his bus in the southern town of Lindau because he said she was too sexy, a newspaper reported Monday.
"Suddenly he stopped the bus," the woman named Debora C. told Bild newspaper. "He opened the door and shouted at me 'Your cleavage is distracting me every time I look into my mirror and I can't concentrate on the traffic. If you don't sit somewhere else, I'm going to have to throw you off the bus.'"
Show me Miss Cellania's links
July 19, 2007
Strange Dutch ad, family farting:consumption
Link to YouTube
"Can I have more butter in my bucket?" — Billy Connolly on the American diet
Link to YouTube clip
More Billy Connelly clips:
Gets A Bit Angry At The Audience
Early stuff, complete with the famous banana shoes:
Thanks Miss Cellania for the inspiration on this post
July 20, 2007
Cruel and unusual punishment? "Thriller" as performed by inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center
Link to YouTube
July 23, 2007
U2 and Leonard Cohen - Tower of song
Link to YouTube
August 6, 2007
Broccoli trifecta
Pulp Muppets & Reservoir Cats
9 year old Australian gets picked up by Manchester United after they watch YouTube clip
If you didn't know the name Rhain Davis before, you almost certainly do now.
The nine-year-old, a recent recruit for Manchester United's academy, is now the talk of football - thanks to a DVD of him in action for Brisbane club Redlands United.
He even made the front page of The Sun newspaper - who have immediately, and somewhat inevitably, dubbed him the new Wayne Rooney.
An unnamed 'source' told the paper: "He has created a huge buzz and people are raving about him all over the world."
The video, which is said to have already had more than three million viewers on YouTube, is undeniably impressive. The youngster dances round defenders, performs some step-overs a la Cristiano Ronaldo and delivers defence-splitting passes.
August 7, 2007
Clever Toyota commercial
Link to YouTube
Dead dog named "Sh**head" causes a fuss
Leonard Cohen Live - Everybody Knows (with Spanish sub-titles)
August 9, 2007
China frees 3 Canadian activists after Tibet protest
Very little coverage of this story in the US Media.
Link to YouTube clip of a story CTV ran on the banner unfurling
From CBC article:
Three Canadians arrested by Chinese police following a protest at the Great Wall against China's presence in Tibet have been released.
The British Columbian activists — Lhadon Tethong, Sam Price and Melanie Raoul — left China after their release on Wednesday and flew into Hong Kong.
Lhadon Tethong, the driving force behind this protest, has generated a lot of online buzz through the smart use of internet technologies, blogging, live video etc.
See also:
Technology for Tibet Trumps Tyranny!
Tech-savvy pro-Tibet protesters get message across
From London to Lhasa Students for a Free Tibet UK blog their stories, thoughts, and actions.
BET's 'Read a Book' racist rap profanity laced PSA
August 13, 2007
Dick Cheney on why America shouldn't invade Iraq (1994)
August 14, 2007
Karl Rove or 'turd blossom' as Bushie calls him… (Comedy Central video)
Link to video
Public Domain Movies — Nosferatu
This is a very cool resource…
August 17, 2007
Ah Jaysus would ya lookit…
August 18, 2007
"And sit and fart in the duck…"
I 'heart' Miss Cellania. Busy as she is, she still has time to find the ol' fart in in the duck song!
Awesome I tell you.
Link via yesbutnobutyes
Satchmo and Cash
Russian soldiers response to "The Sound of Music"
August 20, 2007
Fresh TV - Metaphor, hand shandy and beef curtains
How many metaphors and sexual innuendos can you get?
From Brentter.com's advertising blog:
I’m surprised Steve Hall from Adrants hasn’t already snagged this spot for Sky Television’s Fresh TV - one of New Zealand’s adult television programs. It’s pretty funny and I dare you to try and find all of the metaphors used in the 1:10 promo. Hint: As the ending tagline reminds us, “Think Filthy.” I was only able to recognize 16, but there were a few items that I was unable to identify.
If you’re at work I can assure you that this piece is SFW, however I guess that depends on what industry you happen to be in. There’s nothing even close to nudity, but I have to warn you that you get to hear banter like:
(Man walks up to bar)
“Man: Hey love, I’ll have a little hand shandy please.
(Bartender brings him an overflowing beer)
Bartender: Ooo, Sorry about the head.
Man: Nah, that’s great. Nice beef curtains.
(Camera pans behind bartender to show the cow-print curtains leading into kitchen)
Bartender: Thanks.”
This jovial look at sexual innuendos was brought to us by DDB, New Zealand and was directed by Nic Finlayson from Film Construction, Auckland. Regan Grafton & Bridget Short were the Creative Directors for DDB (where Toby Talbot resides as ECD) and was produced by Phil Liefting.
The micro-site for the “Think Filthy” campaign is currently hosting a “Be Back Soon” image, but you can view accompanying print pieces, all featuring various sexual metaphors, here: Pub, Cottage, Farm.
Thanks Brady
August 27, 2007
400 Russian men and women use inflatable sex dolls as flotation devices on river run
From article:
The unusual sporting event was dreamed up by mastermind and organiser Dmitry Bulawinov.
He said the idea of floating down the river in the embraces of a rubber woman was conceived as a joke at a party where the men got drunk and the women didn't show up.
While considering the possible uses for a rubber woman on a camping trip, someone suggested that a sex doll would make a handy flotation device. Thus the 'Bubble Baba Challenge' was born.
Article with two more pictures
YouTube clip
Miss Teen USA 2007 - South Carolina explains why some US Americans can't locate the US on a map and such as
August 28, 2007
How to paint the Mona Lisa with MS Paint
August 30, 2007
Puppies and Flowers : 3 yr. old vs. Monster
August 31, 2007
Hungry sinkhole swallows family's kitchen
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A loud explosion heard inside an Apopka home led a family to a 30-foot sinkhole swallowing their kitchen, bathroom and other rooms inside the structure.
Rodrigo Coronado, who is renting the home with nine other family members, said the structure could be heard cracking Thursday.
Click here to find out more!
Coronado spoke to Local 6 through an interpreter.
"(Coronado) said basically what happened was last night at about 7:30, the first thing he heard was an extreme explosion in the house," interpreter R.L. Colina said. "When he went to go investigate what it was, he said he looked in the bathroom, the entire floor was gone."
A 30-foot hole opened in the home and has taken the kitchen down 25 feet, according to the family.
Firefighters said they were not certain if the sinkhole will continue to grow and neighbors have been warned.
Watch video on this story.
Puppies and Flowers : Cat scratchin'
The Great Iraq Swindle
From Rolling Stone Magazine:
How is it done? How do you screw the taxpayer for millions, get away with it and then ride off into the sunset with one middle finger extended, the other wrapped around a chilled martini? Ask Earnest O. Robbins -- he knows all about being a successful contractor in Iraq.
You start off as a well-connected bureaucrat: in this case, as an Air Force civil engineer, a post from which Robbins was responsible for overseeing 70,000 servicemen and contractors, with an annual budget of $8 billion. You serve with distinction for thirty-four years, becoming such a military all-star that the Air Force frequently sends you to the Hill to testify before Congress -- until one day in the summer of 2003, when you retire to take a job as an executive for Parsons, a private construction company looking to do work in Iraq.
Now you can finally move out of your dull government housing on Bolling Air Force Base and get your wife that dream home you've been promising her all these years. The place on Park Street in Dunn Loring, Virginia, looks pretty good -- four bedrooms, fireplace, garage, 2,900 square feet, a nice starter home in a high-end neighborhood full of spooks, think-tankers and ex-apparatchiks moved on to the nest-egg phase of their faceless careers. On October 20th, 2003, you close the deal for $775,000 and start living that private-sector good life.
Continue reading (links to video also)
September 11, 2007
Puppies and Flowers : Helpmann awards shadow puppets
September 13, 2007
Original Design Gangsta
Link via The Presurfer
September 17, 2007
Kids just have it too easy these days…
Thanks Arbroath!
September 27, 2007
Scohol zone
uh-oh:
OVIEDO, Fla. -- Seminole County officials are scrambling to fix a typo on a roadway after a motorist informed Local 6 that the word "school" was misspelled "scohol."
October 3, 2007
Bushisms: A week of stumbles on video
Link to Slate.com Video
October 5, 2007
"Proof" that NASA knows about the alien base on the Moon and airbrushed the pictures
October 22, 2007
A Few Good Creative Men — "You can't handle a bigger logo!"
Thanks Faisal
October 29, 2007
Gali the Aligator — Adult kids TV show
November 29, 2007
Most expensive ever Guinness Ad?
Link: Scroll down to video clip
to YouTube:
Most expensive ever Guinness advert features large-scale domino game.
Directed by Nicolai Fuglsig of Sony Bravia 'Balls' fame, it is a celebration of community.
The advert was shot on location in a remote side village called Iruya, in the Salta region of northern Argentina, with a population of around 1,000 people.
Toppling items included: 6,000 dominoes, 10,000 books, 400 tyres, 75 mirrors, 50 fridges, 45 wardrobes and 6 cars.
January 17, 2008
The dB's — footage from 1986
February 5, 2008
Blonde Chinese girl on a bus — Steven Wright
February 12, 2008
Advertising : Vici Seafood — Laughing Bear
February 19, 2008
Demetri Martin - “The Jokes With Guitar”
Very funny clip via videospew.com
March 5, 2008
How to Be Creative in Advertising — a montage of OOH ideas
Link to YouTube clip
March 10, 2008
"Can I have a napkin please?" — Improv Everywhere
George Bush's tribute to Frank Zappa!
I've long been a fan of Frank Zappa and I'm sure he'd be proud of this use of his music…
Previously on P&F about Zappa
March 23, 2008
Happy Easter
Melting chocolate bunnies
March 24, 2008
The Garbage Warrior
The film will make its US TV premier on the Sundance Channel next week Tuesday, April 1, 2008.
March 25, 2008
Puppies and Flowers : Kitten with heart in fur
A California family says the unusual markings on one of their kittens, proves the kitty's love for its mother. Take a close look at the side of the cat -- on its fur you can see the message "I Love Dot." The family says the name of the kitten's mother is Dottie -- and the message of love is for her. The unique kitten was one of a litter of six.
Link to article and video
Previously on P&F:
April 2, 2008
Spoof trailer for 'The Molten Core'
April 3, 2008
Super Pii Pii Brothers
April 4, 2008
iPhone Band - Smoky Bubbles
April 11, 2008
Film and TV Show interpetations using kinematic typography
Many other examples of Kinematic typography, including 'Kill Bill', 'The Big Lebowski', 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' and 'Psycho' can be found here.
And now for your viewing pleasure, 'Pulp Fiction'.April 14, 2008
Foam City — New Sony spot
The campaign sees downtown Miami flooded with 460 million litres of foam by a machine that generates over 2 million litres of foam every minute.
In the ad over 200 residents from Miami are invited to enter “Foam City” armed with the cameras from the range to capture reactions.
All the images taken on the shoot will be uploaded to an online database and is accompanied by a digital campaign that focuses on the technologies of the new camera range.
April 23, 2008
Britain's Got Talent 2008 - Andrew Johnston singing Pie Jesu
Previously on P&F: Singing salesman makes Cowell's jaw drop (UK Idol)
April 28, 2008
Puppies and Flowers : Kittens bobbing their heads to music
May 5, 2008
Nike soccer spot — take it to the next level
Crazy Saudi kids 'road surfing'
Thanks Ben.
May 6, 2008
Absolut TV Spot
By TBWA\CHIAT\DAY New York
Alfred Hitchcock speaks to viewers in the year 2000
May 10, 2008
The Call Up- The Clash
May 19, 2008
The Bubble Project
May 20, 2008
Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada
"Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada transforms common people into icons by rendering them in charcoal as urban murals. By questioning the controls imposed on public space, the role models that represents us in the public space and the type of events that are guarded by the collective memory he breaks preconceptions of where art is permitted, when art is needed and to whom it is directed. Documentary created by Ana Alvarez-Errecalde and FILMCHICK PRODUCTIONS."
Via Wooster Collective
May 27, 2008
Marie Curie Actions - Chemical Party
If only they explained chemistry in school like this.
May 30, 2008
iPong — Three player wirless pong on iPhones
June 2, 2008
Ireland Vs. the USA — Funny TV Spot.
This appears to be a spot for Silva, a compass manufacturer. Funny stuff.
June 5, 2008
Popcorn anyone?
Thanks Arlene!
June 10, 2008
Henry Miller recounts New York on video clip
Straight out of The Air-Conditioned Nightmare. Some of the associated links on YouTube are interesting too.
June 16, 2008
New Ford Focus "Beautifully Arranged"
The New Ford Focus ad features 21 instruments made from the parts two new Focus cars. Not only have they been made for real but trained musicians were used to play a specially created track by movie composer Craig Richey. The ad agency selected one of the worlds top Directors Noam Murro to capture Ford's latest TV ad, shot in LA.
June 19, 2008
Gracias mate! — England turns Spanish in Nike spot
With the help of Fernando Torres. Spot was developed by 72andSunny for Nike's "Take it to the Next Level" campaign.
Link to YouTube
June 23, 2008
Time lapse video of Banky's 'Cans Festival'
Very cool video of the event from set-up to the happening itself.
Link to YouTube clip
Previously on P&F about Banksy:
Photos from Banksy’s Cans Festival — 05.07.08
Graffiti artist Banksy pulls off most audacious stunt to date - despite being watched by CCTV
Banksy returns to Bethlehem
Banksy's debt to Warhol revealed in London show
George Carlin , RIP — 7 Words you can't say on TV — NSFW Language
Reminescent of Lenny Bruce.
Link to YouTube clip
Improv Everywhere — Brooklyn Bridge Flash Mob
From http://www.ImprovEverywhere.com, 700 agents lined the length of the Brooklyn Bridge a week before its 125th birthday. In the rain and cold we created a wave of camera flashes across the bridge from Brooklyn to Manhattan.
Link to YouTube clip.
Le le's Breakfast — Art by Piet Parra — NSFW
Video for Le le's hitsong 'Breakfast'. It consists solely of drawings made by Piet Parra that are also used as loops during the live performances. The song is about bitches and eggs...
Link to YouTube clip.
Puppies and Flowers : Swimming African hedgehog
You may need to turn down the saccharine sound track that goes with this video.
Link to YouTube clip.
June 24, 2008
Team Fortress 2 : Meet the Sniper — Game Trailer
In his former life as a tracker of dangerous game in the unforgiving Australian outback, the Sniper would spend months by himself. Prolonged isolation taught him a valuable lesson: You don't have to rely on other people if you never miss.
Team Fortress 2 : Meet the Sniper from Béranger Roussel on Vimeo.
Team Fortress 2 : Meet the Sniper from Béranger Roussel on Vimeo.
Puppies and Jugs
Wonderbra brand has launched a campaign to recruit women from across the UK to pose in their underwear. This viral ad was created by integrated marketing agency Iris.
The new campaign, which with its emphasis on real body shapes echoes Dove's ongoing Real Women strategy, launches today. A viral film featuring a montage of images representing a range of familiar nicknames, from puppies to jugs, is used to describe women's breasts.
Wonderbra is aiming to encourage 1,000 women to attend Britain's largest underwear shoot to date in central London on June 2.
Link to clip.
Previously on P&F about Wonderbra:
June 25, 2008
The website is down! From the viewpoint of an IT guy.
Hilarious look at the life of a tech support person versus the evil Sales Guy, a la You Suck at Photoshop.
June 26, 2008
Freestyle Street Soccer
This doesn't appear to be a sponsored viral, but who knows, fun to watch just the same.
Link to clip.
The Brooklyn Bridge Waterfalls Have Risen
UPDATE: Video available here.
Eliasson Waterfall at Brooklyn Bridge from rsguskind on Vimeo.
NEW YORK - Four giant waterfalls will be erected in New York for three months this summer in a public art project city officials hope will create $55 million in extra tourism revenue for the Big Apple.
The waterfalls, including one that will fall from the famed Brooklyn Bridge, are the brainchild of Danish artist Olafur Eliasson. Installation will cost $15 million, funded by private donations to New York's Public Art Fund.
June 28, 2008
"No excuse for not not voting" — Funny clip
From The Onion:
Our morning show's political correspondent offers tips on how you can seem informed about politics without picking up a single newspaper.
July 1, 2008
Quantum of Solace Trailer — Bond, James Bond
The first official teaser trailer for the 22nd James Bond film. Link.
Homemade Fireworks — DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME
July 2, 2008
DropClock — Screensaver
DropClock is an aesthetically intriguing motion clock screensaver. Every minute of real time is numerically expressed with heavy Helvetica dropping into water in super slow-motion.
Link to site
Link to site
July 10, 2008
'Western Spaghetti' stop-frame animation by PES
July 14, 2008
RA DIOHEA_D / HOU SE OF_C ARDS — Radiohead launched their new video on Google today
Very cool indeed.
Learn about how the video was made and the 3D plotting technologies behind it.
Thanks Noah.
"This is How We Roll in India" — Funny clip
Thanks Noah.
Similar previous post:
Crazy Saudi kids 'road surfing'
Similar previous post:
Crazy Saudi kids 'road surfing'
July 22, 2008
PSA — Foundation for the Deaf | Lip Reading
Very nice, found here.
"Roadsworth: Crossing the Line" - The Six Minute Trailer
6 1/2 minute trailer for an upcoming documentary on Roadsworth by Alan Kohl, funded by the International Film Board of Canada. Looks really good. Link to video.
From a previous post on Puppies and Flowers:
Every now and then the internet surprises me with an unexpected gem. While searching for an image for a different post, I came across these great photos of a Montreal street artist named 'Roadsworth'. Apparently "Montreal police arrested Gibson on November 29 last year [2005] and charged him with 51 counts of mischief, the charges carrying maximum penalties ranging from $200 to $5,000" but since January 6, 2006, "All charges against Gibson have been dropped. His punisment is a minor fine and 40 hours of 'community work'."
July 27, 2008
The InterContinental Hotel — Guerilla Marketing
Philadelphia based Gyro Worldwide is pleased to present a collaborative video installation currently on display, on all facades of the The InterContinental Los Angeles - Century City. For the entire month of July, The InterContinental Hotel in Century City will present the artwork of Los Angeles painter and stylist Kime Buzzelli through artistic video vignettes designed to capture and display the essence and amenities available at The InterContinental. The video projection, produced by Klip Collective, is live from dusk to midnight each night, for the entire month of July, and is visible all the way from Santa Monica to Century City, turning the 17-story hotel inside-out for all to see.
July 31, 2008
Oreo Elevator — Clever mall installation
Created by DraftFCB, New York.
August 14, 2008
"More doctors smoke Camels than any other kind of cigarette". Really.
August 15, 2008
Himani — pain relief product commercial — Publicis Mumbai
August 20, 2008
What you are about to see is a wholly computer generated animation…
The team at Image Metrics - which produced the animation for the Grand Theft Auto computer game - then recreated the gestures, movement by movement, in a model. The aim was to overcome the traditional difficulties of animating a human face, for instance that the skin looks too shiny, or that the movements are too symmetrical.Link to Times Online
August 29, 2008
Sela Ltd Clothing Spot from Russia. (Mildly NSFW in the USA at the end).
"It costs an arm and a leg just to live on your knee" — Snoop Dogg feat. 2pac & Dillinger - Midnight Love
September 2, 2008
Ben Stiller, Kung Fu Panda, and Iron Head team up to make a viral video. Guess it worked.
Has its moments, link to collegehumor
September 8, 2008
John McCain Gets BarackRoll'd
Thanks Kevin!
September 10, 2008
Johnny Lee: Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote
This is pretty cool, Johnny Lee hacks a $40 Wii remote to create an interactive whiteboard, a multitouch surface and a head-mounted display.
Thanks smith.
September 12, 2008
Matt Damon on Palin…
The Extreme Sticky Note Experiments
From the duo behind their now legendary project The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments. The video is part of a promo for the new ABC Family network show Samurai Girl. OfficeMax got in there too.
EepyBird's Sticky Note experiment from Eepybird on Vimeo.
September 15, 2008
Marcus's gangsta party — Yell.com, UK search engine ad
Richard Wright RIP — Zabriskie Point 1970
September 17, 2008
Puppies and Flowers : Ninja cat comes closer while not moving!
Thanks Liz G
September 18, 2008
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic…
named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon's every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon's boundless wit, and timeless message.
Thanks Eric B.
Thanks Eric B.
Vintage Mr. Magoo Stag Beer Commercials
September 29, 2008
'Current' time-lapse video of San Francisco Bay
Hi-Def San Francisco is project of CloudView Photography. The camera is a 3 megapixel StartDot Technologies Netcam XL mounted in a weather proof enclosure high in the hills of Sausalito. Images are captured every 15 seconds cropped from the full resolution to 1920x1080 and uploaded in 480, 720 and 1080 resolution to the web server. Periodically the software (running on a FreeBSD server) creates a time lapse that collapses the prior 24 hours into 240 seconds of video.
Link to site. Thanks JPP.
October 3, 2008
The Clash — Two classics, relevant as ever…
"Washington Bullets" —Video montage
"The Call Up" —Live footage.
Guinness Spot — "Spoken Word"
Working with a powerful script and creative from Saatchi & Saatchi London, Shilo directed this spot -- which has as its main components location-based live-action cinematography, an amazing performance by international spoken word artist Ainsley Burrows and stylized original animation seamlessly blended into the striking visuals.
Found at Adland
Lil' Bill O'Reilly weighs in on the important issues.
October 6, 2008
David Bowie - Jean Genie - 1976 Rehearsal
October 10, 2008
Irish Classic — The Horslips — Dearg Doom
October 15, 2008
The Name Game — funny video clip
via yesbuynobutyes
October 16, 2008
U.S. Celebrities as seen in Japanese Commercials — 21 Clips
October 17, 2008
Obama Roasts McCain at Al Smith Dinner — Very funny!!!
Thanks Primo
John McCain - Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner
October 20, 2008
Apple's rebuttal of Microsoft's effective Vista campaign
Digital TV Signal Conversion PSA — Funny Clip
Talkshow with Spike Feresten cast member, Mae LaBorde, helps you prepare for the 2009 digital switch.
October 23, 2008
Interactive mirror — endless possibilities
October 29, 2008
"We can change what they do" — Funny Amnesty Int. Ad
November 10, 2008
Want to know how to respond to a UFO crash? — See chapter 13 of the FEMA Firefighters Manual
Video after the link. From Gizmodo:
This video shows how FEMA no only deals with credible threats as hurricanes and terrorist attacks, but also with credible threats like alien attacks and UFO crashes: They have an entire chapter dedicated to this topic in their firefighters manual. Great. As if it wasn't enough with the UK government revealing airplane encounters with UFOs and Hubble discovering unidentified objects in Space to fuel my absolutely cuckoo, sculpt-giant-mountains-out-of-mash-potatoes, I-hope aliens-are-two-meter-tall-buxom-blue-amazons, I-want-to-ride-a-warp-capable-spaceship fantasies.
Puppies and Flowers : Slinky Cat Goes Down The Stairs
via laughing squid
November 11, 2008
Airport Wi-Fi Guerilla idea. Brilliant.
Samsung and Ozzie Osbourne
November 12, 2008
Frankie Boyle — Hilarious Scottish Comedian
November 17, 2008
Clown vs. Mime Smackdown on The Streets of San Francisco
Scott Beale over at Laughing Squid has a piece on the smackdown last friday night:
A smackdown between mimes and clowns took place Friday at Dirty Marina 16th and Valencia at 10pm. It was reported that a clown picked a fight with a mime in front of Kilowatt by smashing a pie in his face. Later the mimes and clowns duked it out in Albion Alley, ala West Side Story. The fight ended when two clowns ganged up on a mime, wiped off his face paint and ‘demimed’ him. The mime, stripped of his powers was carried off by his troupe, screaming in terror.
More videos after the link
November 18, 2008
Extreme kayaking at Llyn Brianne reservoir
This looks like a total blast!
November 21, 2008
Friday Music — "Move" by CSS
November 24, 2008
Queen Rania Al Abdullah — Funny, reasonable and hot!
Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan spoofed David Letterman's Top 10 while accepting the first ever YouTube Visionary Award at the YouTube Live event. It's pretty funny.
November 25, 2008
Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart make mashed potatoes
December 1, 2008
Simpsons make fun of Apple & Steve Jobs
December 18, 2008
13th Street — Guerilla Marketing
Jung von Matt/next, the agency for interactive and innovative communication, presents the project "Blood Bath":
To promote the exclusive thrillers and horror films on 13TH STREET NBC, the toilet of a nightclub in Hamburg was specially prepared. Just after entering the room, the light suddenly goes out and the room is bathed in black light.
And now a bloody crime scene becomes visible on the floor and walls: "See what others don't see. 13TH STREET. The Action and Suspense Channel"
To promote the exclusive thrillers and horror films on 13TH STREET NBC, the toilet of a nightclub in Hamburg was specially prepared. Just after entering the room, the light suddenly goes out and the room is bathed in black light.
And now a bloody crime scene becomes visible on the floor and walls: "See what others don't see. 13TH STREET. The Action and Suspense Channel"
January 7, 2009
A Charlie Brown Ad Agency — Total humor
Thanks smith
January 18, 2009
Excellent T-Mobile Ad, a la Improv Everywhere.
I'd been wondering when some Ad agency would capitalize on the Improv Everywhere formula, well Saatchi & Saatchi scored with a T-Mobile commercial they shot on the 15th of January 2009 at Liverpool Street station, London.
January 22, 2009
Excellent "Noisy" Ad Campaign for Sound Production Company
Noisy interactive posters were designed by DM9DDB to promote Saxsofunny, a sound production company from Brazil.
Found at toxel.com
January 26, 2009
"Objectified" — the trailer
Continuing on the theme of Industrial Design, here is:
A peek at the upcoming design documentary "Objectified", by Gary Hustwit, the director of "Helvetica". The trailer features the voices of Jonathan Ive, Andrew Blauvelt, Marc Newson, and Karim Rashid. The song is "I Like Van Halen Because My Sister Says They Are Cool" by El Ten Eleven.
Objectified premieres at film festivals and events worldwide starting this March, more info here: www.objectifiedfilm.com
Thanks Derek S.
Poster Boy NYC — Guerilla Art
January 30, 2009
Old Jews Telling Jokes… Funny Videos
Only three episodes so far but this site looks very promising.
Link to Old Jews Telling Jokes
February 2, 2009
"Typocraphic Spiderweb" Interactive art installation
Swiss artist and computer wiz Michael Flückiger combines installation, text art, and computer program design to create interactive text/projection works.
Typocraphic Spiderweb from Michael Flückiger on Vimeo.
Pandoras box from Michael Flückiger on Vimeo.
Funny Videos — Just for laughs
February 9, 2009
Montage of every curse form evry episode of "The Sopranos"
From Victor Solomon's site:
for those of you watching the sopranos on a&e, here’s what you’re missing. this is every single curse, from every single episode of the sopranos, ever.
the sopranos, uncensored. from victor solomon on Vimeo.
February 10, 2009
Mastercard Blowjob Commercial — very funny
Thanks Robert H
Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Sh*t That Doesn't F**king Work — Language NSFW
February 12, 2009
Ricky Gervais — Bad Excuses
February 13, 2009
Tears for Fears — Head Over Heels: Literal Video Version
February 17, 2009
Christo Braun — The "Variations/Phenomena" Show
The show is currently hung but the openiing reception is Friday, February 20th from 6-9pm at Reaves Gallery, 235 gough street, between fell & oak.
sinking 36h x 72w 2008
untitled 48h x 48w 2006
river sunset 48h x 44w 2006
merging 48h x 72w 2008
The video below shows Christo process of working with resin, magnets, pigments and ferrous metal powders, it's amazing to watch the metals in the resin take on the patterns of the magnetic energies.
Art and science recently overlapped in conversations I had with the late Jack Shearer, whose photographs of magnetic imagery (www.nanomagnetics.us) greatly resembled my own abstract compositions. This piece is the first composition with that inquiry in mind. Utilizing different sizes, shapes, and types of magnets of varying strengths, the images came to life by themselves, revealing the energy within them. Correlations between these simple constructions and the forces of natural phenomena that stimulate my imagination and creative expression have already furthered my process of discovery.
February 24, 2009
New Orleans Mardi Gras — 1941 in color
Robots In Disguise - The Sex Has Made Me Stupid
Thanks Garry MBS
February 25, 2009
Losar — Tibetan New Year Feb 25th — Worldwide Protest
Today, February 25, 2009, is the date on which Tibetan New Year -- Losar -- begins. Many Tibetan exiles around the world are observing Losar in a different manner this year. Some are forgoing traditional observances to instead protest human rights abuses by the Chinese government inside Tibet. There are reports that Chinese authorites are effectively making Losar celebrations inside Tibet compulsory, and reactions have led to violent clashes.
February 26, 2009
The Coen Brothers anti 'clean coal' spot for Reality Campaign
Joel and Ethan Coen shot this spot for Reality.
March 4, 2009
Lucas with the Lid Off — Directed by Michel Gondry
An excellent music video that aired briefly on MTV in 1994 and soon became largely forgotten. This one was filmed in B&W to produce an old-timey ambience that works very well with the ragtime sound. Pay close attention to the continuity. The whole video was filmed with a steadycam, in one continuous shot... an unbelievably difficult task that only someone like Michel Gondry could pull off.
Thanks Jeremy S.
March 10, 2009
Guinness World Record For New Matrix-Style Ad
A new TV ad made using 200 camcorders has landed itself a Guinness World Record.
The commercial for Toshiba's range of HD products was shot using the "bullet-time" technique, as seen in sci-fi movie The Matrix, starring Keanu Reeves.
The technique freezes the shot, while circling the freeze-frame.
The advert was filmed using a custom-built, 360-degree rig of Toshiba Gigashot handheld cameras.
The shoot used up 20,000Gb of hard disk space and took over 336 hours for computers to process.
Those stats helped earn it a world record for incorporating the most moving image cameras used in a composite film shot.
March 13, 2009
SPACE INVADER #763
Space Invader filmed during the installation of of one of his pieces on March 10, 2009 in Montreuil, Île-de-France, France. Very cool, even the cops who stop by seem to think so.
March 16, 2009
St Patrick's Day PSA
Thanks Liam.
March 18, 2009
First official BaconCamp comes to San Francisco — Watch the video
Date: March 21, 2009
Time: 1pm - 5pm
Location: 500 3rd Street, Suite 510, San Francisco, CA
BaconCamp - The Internet Bacon Meme in 60 Seconds from Bac'n.com on Vimeo.
Previous posts involving bacon:
March 27, 2009
English Pub Painted Pink by Pranksters
March 29, 2009
Old AIG Comercial - "Butterflies"
While I generally try to avoid topical/political issues this one I couldn't resist. Also, there is an excellent article in the current Rolling Stone Magazine that deconstructs the whole AIG meltdown and a list of the "Dirty Dozen' bankers and brokers responsible for the financial crisis.
March 30, 2009
The Lost Tribes of New York City — Brilliant Animated Short
Urban Anthropologists, Andy and Carolyn London interview some of New York City's more overlooked citizens.
The Lost Tribes of New York City from Carolyn London on Vimeo.
The Lost Tribes of New York City from Carolyn London on Vimeo.
March 31, 2009
Fake names on TV…
Including Craven Moorhead and Dixie Normous, how many can you catch? Via Miss C
April 1, 2009
Super Cheese Retro Flick — Lesbian Vampire Killers
A la Shaun of the Dead, Lesbian Vampire Killers starring James Cordan and Mathew Hornelooks like a fun little spoof. I really like the posters, shown here courtesy of Heart Attack.
April 2, 2009
1970's Moog/Schaefer Beer TV spot
"When you're having more than one". Now that's copy writing for you.
April 3, 2009
WiiSpray Grafitti — Just Nintendo Wii technics and Flash
David Byrne — Burning Down the House — 2 Live Versions
David Byrne performs Burning Down The House with The Extra Action Marching Band in San Francisco 10.06.08.
And with The Rockettes, well one of them, at Radio City Music Hall circa 02.28.09. The ending is worth the watch in this video.
April 6, 2009
Wilkinson Sword Viral? No beating about the bush here…
Check out this kooky new film from Wilkinson Sword featuring a bunch of glamorous girls getting busy mowing their lawns, trimming their bushes and having a general 'tidy up' in their gardens...!
Trailer for Bruno —aka Sasha Baron Cohen
April 7, 2009
Art of the Title — Dozens of HD film title sequences
Shown here Sweeney Todd –scroll down a little after the jump or this link takes you directly to the clip.
Some more samples:
Thanks Chris C.April 14, 2009
Excellent stop motion animation — The Wolf and the Pig
Frankie Boyle live at the Apollo Dec 20, 2008.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
April 16, 2009
Meet Adobe Illustrator 88 — Presentation video from 1987
Thursday Music — Tom Waits - Heart Attack and Vine
April 19, 2009
Billy Connolly : Banana Feet — Rare 1975 Documentary
I'm very happy that WeegieBurd posted this documentary on youtube. It's a brilliant slice of the 1970's in Ireland, both North and South.
Billy Connolly was, in the 1970s, a sort of Scottish Lenny Bruce, who, with devastating humour, sliced through the hypocrisies he perceived.
This 1976 documentary follows the singer-comic during his 1975 Irish tour. Made in a cinema verité fashion, the performer appears to be completely unaware of the presence of the camera in his off-stage and backstage moments.
Links pop a new window:
April 20, 2009
"HASTILY MADE CLEVELAND TOURISM VIDEO" — Hilarious
April 21, 2009
Inspired Bicycles - Danny MacAskill April 2009
April 23, 2009
Auto-Tune the News — in the Key of C
April 24, 2009
Grafica Fidalga, a printing press in São Paulo, Brazil, makes posters on a 1929 German letterpress using hand-carved wooden letters.
Thanks Fabio C
Excellent Scrabble commercial from Ogilvy Paris
April 29, 2009
Funny animal voice overs
May 4, 2009
Big red ball of yarn rolls down hills in SF
Disclaimer: I know the folks over at neverhidefilms
May 5, 2009
Mia Farrow hits day nine of online hunger strike for Darfur
Mia Farrow has been chronicling her hunger strike on YouTube for eight days, and she says that's just the beginning.
The actress and activist has committed to three weeks of an all-water diet in support of refugees in Darfur, where Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir expelled or shut down 16 aid agencies -- a move that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said put the lives of more than 1 million people at risk.
Farrow has been keeping an irregular video blog of her fast on her own YouTube channel, as well as on the channel of Darfur Fast for Life, an organization that fellow activists put together to draw attention to Farrow's efforts.
As of tonight, 75 other people had signed up on the site to join Farrow in the fast. Some said they would only drink water; others said they would eat the same rations as those in Darfur.
Participants in the growing online hunger strike have been posting updates to Twitter and posting to YouTube.
Farrow, a slight 64-year-old, said in a recent video that she wasn't sure if she'd be able to last the full 21 days -- she has never fasted before, and her doctor was skeptical.
Still, she was resolved to make a statement. "Of course I don't expect that me on hunger strike is going to do that much," Farrow said in the video. "But if it provides a news hook for newspapers so they can talk about what's really important, then that will be worth it."
Gabriel Stauring, who helped organize the site, expressed concern for Farrow, with whom he said he'd traveled to Darfur last summer. "You’ve seen Mia’s size," he said. "There’s no way she can go that long without doing permanent damage. We want to convince her that if we have somebody else that is famous and that would draw attention, that she should stop." Stauring suggested that more recognizable names might be joining the effort soon.
Also striking is Pam Omidyar, a founder of the philanthropic group Humanity United, and the wife of EBay founder Pierre Omidyar. Omidyar has been eating the refugee meals for 18 days, according to her blog on fastdarfur.org.
Farrow appeared on CNN's Larry King Live on the day she began the strike, and will reappear on the show Tuesday night, according to Stauring.
May 6, 2009
F is for Fail — An Alphabetical Odyssey Through The Creative Process
Really nice animation.
May 7, 2009
Bomb The Bass - Butterfingers
Nice music video animation.
May 22, 2009
The Unfinished Swan — Game in developement
The Unfinished Swan is a first-person painting game set in an entirely white world. Players can splatter paint to help them find their way through an unusual garden.
The game is still in development and no release plans have been announced. You can track the game's development on the blog.
The Unfinished Swan - Tech Demo 9/2008 from Ian Dallas on Vimeo.
June 1, 2009
Sorry I'm Late — Stop frame animation
“Sorry I’m Late”. Really impressive stop-motion directed with patience and talent by Tomas Mankovsky. Check the making of this epic moment…here.
Sorry I'm Late from Tomas Mankovsky on Vimeo.
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