Archive for August, 2010

I Hadn’t Thought of Puma in Years ….

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Then a friend sent me the Usain Bolt game (world’s fastest man) celebrating his sponsorship contract renewal.

Simple, fun, loads quickly.

Click here for some light exercise.

Scare Easily?

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Viewer Warning:  Strong Language.

Heard of Chatroulette?  The random webcam social media, where you don’t know who you might be paired with?

The Last Exorcism (new) movie used it to launch their film.

Viewers are filmed reacting to the viral …. of a pretty girl they think they are about to chat with.

 

In its first six days this got 1.3 million YouTube views.

Shocking indeed.

The Wilderness Downtown

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

This just blew my mind away – An interactive film by Chris Milk
Featuring “We Used To Wait”. Built in HTML5 with Google maps and works best on Google Chrome.

Simply awesome!

The Wilderness Downtown

Have you RAK’d anyone recently?

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

This Friday, 3rd of September (the first Friday in September) is RAK day.

RAK stands for “Random Act of Kindness”, doing something for someone you don’t know, out of a warm heart, randomly (eg like paying the toll fee for the car behind you, carrying someones groceries etc).

 

Some of the Australian media is getting behind this and encouraging people to join in, creating and sharing their RAK stories, the idea being to unite people in goodwill (website here).  In NZ RAK day has been celebrated since 2005.

In the USA, three similar days are:

Pay It Forward Day
2010: April 29
www.payitforwardday.com

World Kindness Day
2010: November 13

Random Acts of Kindness Week
2011: February 14-20

On the one hand it feels abit of a shame that we need to create a day, to remind ourselves to act the way we all should, daily.  On the other hand, every little bit helps and the good feelings  received hopefully carry over throughout the year reminding us and others of our humanity.

Tomorrow is September 1st.  May all readers, and non-readers, have a good month and good  last third of the  year.

Stella Artois – Beautiful, Smooth and Expensive

Monday, August 30th, 2010

The latest work from Mother London for Stella Artois.  One in a series?  I hope so.

 

Last year Mother took a Cannes Gold for this piece of nostalgia, a “Smooth  Original”.

 

But I confess, I’m still a big fan of their old work from Lowe, “Reassuringly Expensive”. Here’s a couple of spots.

Though this one takes the prize for bizarre!

 

 

Interesting how many commercials, even in media “expensive” countries are now long-format. With the rise of the internet and the power of sharing something we can expect more and more of.

Deja Vu All Over Again?

Monday, August 30th, 2010

My first reaction to this spot from Cabury in S.Africa was “someone loved Honda Cog a bit too much”, but the ending is sweet and surprising.

Cute in fact.

 

And here’s Honda’s spot from a couple of so years back.

The Tweet Writer

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

The Tweet Writer is a campaign that was created by our colleagues at JWT Melbourne for The Melbourne Writers Festival. It analyzes your tweets and publishes “your book” based on your tweets which you can then share with friends to raise awareness for the Festival. It’s simple and clever.

Looking forward to more from Dan King and his team from down under!

Feeling Good or Feeling Scared?

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Couple new spots, the ever increasingly popular long version with music promo (bless the Internet) and a short, simple, clever and funny one.

Cars and Candy.

 

The Majestic Plastic Bag

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Lovely “mockumentary” (mock documentary) from DDB LA for “Heal The Bay”, raising environmental awareness of the problem of plastic bags.

Voice over is by film and stage legend Jeremy Irons.

 

If you are lucky, can see higher res copy of film here

A Beastly Way To Exercise

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

I love this.

Sony has just launched a new Sat-Nav range, which included a bicycle mounted, water-proof version.

To encourage usage, they ahve pre-programed a range of cycling routes, which when completed, form the shape of an animal.  Hence the name “Tokyo Zoo”.

So far six animals/routes have been developed in Tokyo.

A really nice idea that could be done on any portable nat-sav (how about on mobile phones for joggers/walkers?)

Would make working out fun, great to share on social media, and pre-measured.