So, a nice long Easter weekend ahead of us.
Always seems a bit odd when people say "Happy Easter". Doesn't seem like it's a holiday where there's actually anything to celebrate. Apart from the shedloads of chocolate that we all get to consume.
Here's comedian Jim Gaffigan expanding on the theme and pointing out the weirdness of the kind of things associated with this holiday.
Anyway, Happy Easter readers.
Tilman Singer Stop Motion
Wagwan, readers. Check out this lovely little animation of some chopped up skateboarding images.
Skateboardanimation from Tilman Singer on Vimeo.
Skateboardanimation from Tilman Singer on Vimeo.
Recalling 1993 in NYC
Neat idea by Droga 5.
They've commandeered 5,000 payphones in New York on behalf of their client, New Museum. All people need to do is step inside and just dial 1-855-FOR-1993 to hear local stories from the streets of that time twenty years ago when the city was a very different place.
Recalling 1993 from Droga5 NY on Vimeo.
They've commandeered 5,000 payphones in New York on behalf of their client, New Museum. All people need to do is step inside and just dial 1-855-FOR-1993 to hear local stories from the streets of that time twenty years ago when the city was a very different place.
Recalling 1993 from Droga5 NY on Vimeo.
Drip, drip, drip.
This is for everyone out there sat at their desks on a Monday morning, staring blankly at their computer thinking "this again - selling things...whats the f*%king point".
Well, turns out Advertising can help people and do good things provided smart people are involved and brains are engaged.
There is a little village in Peru called Bujuma that gets sod all rain, making supplying clean drinking water to the population tricky.
Clever science folk from The University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) and some creative types from Ad Agency Mayo Peru DraftFCB joined forces to make a billboard that produces safe drinking water from the humidity in the air - 96 litres of the stuff a day.
Well done Advertising, I knew you could do it! What a jolly good use of a billboard.
But before we get too ahead of ourselves, patting each other on the back thinking the world is a better place - hold your horses. I present to you Wink Bingo's latest offering to the world. Rather than producing clean drinking water, this piece of outdoor instead drips fake tan and excrement for us all to lap up.
Well, turns out Advertising can help people and do good things provided smart people are involved and brains are engaged.
There is a little village in Peru called Bujuma that gets sod all rain, making supplying clean drinking water to the population tricky.
Clever science folk from The University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) and some creative types from Ad Agency Mayo Peru DraftFCB joined forces to make a billboard that produces safe drinking water from the humidity in the air - 96 litres of the stuff a day.
Well done Advertising, I knew you could do it! What a jolly good use of a billboard.
But before we get too ahead of ourselves, patting each other on the back thinking the world is a better place - hold your horses. I present to you Wink Bingo's latest offering to the world. Rather than producing clean drinking water, this piece of outdoor instead drips fake tan and excrement for us all to lap up.
Joe Sedelmaier
It's Friday. Howzabout a bit of Joe Sedelmaier to brighten up your day?
For the unintiated, Mr Sedelmaier was responsible for directing some of the USA's best known, most memorable and funniest commercials.
His brilliant eye for unusual casting, comic timing, offbeat scenarios and quirky soundtracks created a new genre of advertising.
Every one of his ads still stands up today. And if you saw it in a commercial break, I guarantee that would be the ad you would remember.
Revel in more of his legendary work at Sedelmaier.com.
Here's a brief trailer for the Point Of View Retrospective that came out a few years back. The great man nails it when he says "Let's face it. A commercial's what you watch when you sit down to watch something else...You should at least make it entertaining".
It's a crying shame that so many commercials fail to follow that simple principle these days. How British advertising desperately needs a Sedelmaier-esque shot in the arm right now.
For the unintiated, Mr Sedelmaier was responsible for directing some of the USA's best known, most memorable and funniest commercials.
His brilliant eye for unusual casting, comic timing, offbeat scenarios and quirky soundtracks created a new genre of advertising.
Every one of his ads still stands up today. And if you saw it in a commercial break, I guarantee that would be the ad you would remember.
Revel in more of his legendary work at Sedelmaier.com.
Here's a brief trailer for the Point Of View Retrospective that came out a few years back. The great man nails it when he says "Let's face it. A commercial's what you watch when you sit down to watch something else...You should at least make it entertaining".
It's a crying shame that so many commercials fail to follow that simple principle these days. How British advertising desperately needs a Sedelmaier-esque shot in the arm right now.
Stupidity captured at 2500 frames per second.
Yep. That's right. Some guys doing some not very sensible things, and filming them at 2500 frames per second. A simple concept, but it produces some pretty spectacular results. The camper van is worth looking out for.
ps. Don't try this at home kids. Unless you're going to film it in a really cool way and upload it to youtube. In that case, drop us a link so we can see too.
Where's The Good Stuff?
Every agency claims to be doing great work. Awards schemes are still awarding loads of awards to people. Trade mags are full of puff pieces on agencies and work. So where is it?
You see, every day I get up, and look through a couple of newspapers, a couple of magazines, watch some telly, see some posters. Shit. Shit Shit. It's all shit. All of it. Give or take maybe one ad on the TV (most probably for Apple), everything else is absolute bobbins.
Pretty much 99.99% (scientific fact) of all advertising you see in the real world - is shit.
So it seems there is a vast gulf between the imaginary version of advertising industry output as depicted by trade publications and awards shows, and the reality of advertising output as witnessed by spending some time in the real world.
So, where is the good work? And who is making all the shit that represents 99.9% of all advertising that we see?
I think we should be told.
You see, every day I get up, and look through a couple of newspapers, a couple of magazines, watch some telly, see some posters. Shit. Shit Shit. It's all shit. All of it. Give or take maybe one ad on the TV (most probably for Apple), everything else is absolute bobbins.
Pretty much 99.99% (scientific fact) of all advertising you see in the real world - is shit.
So it seems there is a vast gulf between the imaginary version of advertising industry output as depicted by trade publications and awards shows, and the reality of advertising output as witnessed by spending some time in the real world.
So, where is the good work? And who is making all the shit that represents 99.9% of all advertising that we see?
I think we should be told.
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