When your photographer is this good, make sure you send a muffin basket at Christmas this year. This Animal Planet billboard is apparently lifelike enough to attract it’s own live component - you’d almost think they rubbed the top of it with an antelope or something by the way its attracting the attention of the carrion feeders (not that I advocate that - PETA, please don’t come after me).
What do I do when I find a nifty new bit of code like Google’s Chart API? I use it to make dumb, dumb things.
Breathe through your toilet, of course
Now, you can watch your video tube-ish entertainment movies and get learning also!
A short, strange film by Trevor Cawood (of the Citroen Transformer ad fame), “Terminus” is the story of a man tormented by his own boring existence, made physical as an 8′ tall grouping of articulated concrete posts.
Yup, its as cool as it sounds. Get the full-size QuickTime at the official site.
Still tight, despite it’s nocturnal bias. From adfreak.
“You know, the place looks great. I love the brick walls, indigenous tribal drums and over-sized antique metal sign from Atlantic City. But you know, there’ ssomething missing. What is it…
“Oh, I KNOW! A well designed data-visualization of every version of Joy Division’s seminal ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart Again’!
“Or maybe some tiki lights. Either way.”
This clip of a Jell-o ad from back in the day (which was a Wednesday, if you follow Dane Cook’s logic) teaches us that a) Jell-o comes in 10 flavors, b) in the 50s, it was OK to make jokes about other ethnicities inability to pronounce English words and c) chopsticks don’t handle jiggly deserts well.
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The spot is the first ever ‘monophonic’ advert – in which 128 musicians play only note at a time to reconstruct an original music piece created by Hollywood music director Peter Raeburn…
Paste Magazine, one of the multitudes of not-so-indie entertainment rags, is now offering the Radiohead-style subscription option. For as little as one U.S. Sacajawea (that’s a dollar to you folding-money aficionados), you get 11 issues w/ 11 sampler CDs. Check it at pastemagazine.com