Clowning Around

August 23, 2010

Although this has been on Youtube for over a year, I only stumbled across it this weekend, it’s incredible!!!

Interview with Director

Making of

Double Life

August 17, 2010

For years I’ve lived a double life.
In the day I do my job,
I ride the bus,
Roll up my sleeves with the hoi polloi.
But at night I live a life of exhilaration,
Of missed heartbeats and adrenaline,
And, if the truth be known,
A life of dubious virtue.

I won’t deny I’ve been engaged in violence,
Even indulged in it.
I have maimed and killed adversaries,
And not merely in self defence.
I have exhibited disregard for life,
Limb,
And property,
And savoured every moment.

You may not think it to look at me,
But I have commanded armies,
And conquered worlds.
And though in achieving these things
I have set morality aside,
I have no regrets.
For though I’ve led a double life
At least I can say,
I have lived.

Last Year I posted about the Volkswagon campaign named The Fun Theory, I just read on Digital Buzz that the campaign has since gone on to win the Cannes Cyber Grand Prix for a digitally led integrated campaign, which it won along side Nike’s “Chalk Bot” who took the award for the other digital solutions / digital channels category in the Cyber section.

The Fun Theory was all about generating interest in Volkswagen’s Blue Motion technologies that deliver the same great car performance with reduced environmental impact, and to do this, they found an insight around how “fun” could change human behavior for the better, and this formed The Fun Theory, a campaign that spawned over 700 user generated Fun Theory initiatives along with a number of big viral hits that generated over 20 million YouTube views, with one rushing past 12 million views alone!

Below is the 2009-2010 winner

We ? Adobe

May 26, 2010

As Adobe & Apple slug it out over the Flash plug, arguing who is more “Open” I stumbled across something today that made me smile. A week ago Adobe placed Ad’s in the broadsheets in the US saying they Love Apple, and that they love choice… but I really smiled when someone, somewhere out there on the web had created a fake response from Apple, … genius!

More info here and  here

Don’t get my wrong, I have nothing against facebook, in fact I think it’s great… but this whole privacy fiasco is becoming a PR nightmare!

A couple of days ago I stumbled across reclaimprivacy.org a fantastic little javascript, that safely scans your privacy settings and warns you of any problems.

But taking a completely different approach youropenbook.org lets you type in a phrase and voila… of it goes rummaging through Facebook users that have left their wall posts a little too public

I’m Big in Sweden

May 17, 2010

I’ve seen a few of these types of things in my time, but this is the best I’ve ever seen!

more Adolf Hitler adverts here

Video Name Tag

April 22, 2010

more info here

The Business cARd

November 13, 2009

I stumbled across these pieces this morning. First a business card and a video ident sting for E4, both of which use the popular method of using a pattern encased in a square, but the third example uses a different approach, whereby the camera recognises any pre-stored image, in this case a photograph on a postcard.

More info here:
AR Particle Beam
The Artvertiser