See more Will Ferrell videos at Funny or Die
Monday, 4 August 2008
Ferrel Makes A Funny
Lunar BBDOs blog is no more, which is a shame, I enjoyed it. Not only was he on the ball industry wise but it was a great source of interest generally. Here's something he posted pre blog close. It's led to me discovering the Funny or Die Blog, so as one blog dies another is born (into my life). All marvel at the the circle of bloggy life. RIP Lunar.
Thursday, 31 July 2008
I Think My Favourite Bit Is The Way It Ends
Gnarls Barkley's new vid, "Who's Gonna Save My Soul?" Directed by Chris Milk.
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
Chilly Zombies
I'd never seen Jon Carpenter's, The Thing until Saturday. Awesome prosthetics and eery synths make the movie a proper treat. Then, ironically, I get emailed this new homage this morning...
Monday, 28 July 2008
Friday, 25 July 2008
Monkey Hosts Olympics.
Watching Monkey Magic as a kid was a trip. It's weirdness sticks with you (that might explain a lot). Now I find out Jamie Hewlett (of Gorillaz and Tank Girl fame) has done an animation for the Beebs Beijing Olympic coverage, and guess who it features...
Sunday, 20 July 2008
Old Spice TV Provides
Unfortunately where the TV provides the digital doesn't. So I won't provide the link.
Saturday, 19 July 2008
Smart Digital
"A pun is a shift of wit. A fart is a whift of shit."
I know... but I couldn't help myself. Pun's are disgusting and crass and brilliant. It's like tourette's though, I felt uncontrollably compelled. I apologise. But the headline is true; the Smart car strategy makes a lot of sense. Ok, so it's not the donkey's knob when it comes to campaigns but I'm always impressed when demonstration advertising as straight as this is made appealing. So kudos to Agency Republic for it's cute handling of good interactivity.
http://www.truthaboutsmart.co.uk/
I know... but I couldn't help myself. Pun's are disgusting and crass and brilliant. It's like tourette's though, I felt uncontrollably compelled. I apologise. But the headline is true; the Smart car strategy makes a lot of sense. Ok, so it's not the donkey's knob when it comes to campaigns but I'm always impressed when demonstration advertising as straight as this is made appealing. So kudos to Agency Republic for it's cute handling of good interactivity.
http://www.truthaboutsmart.co.uk/
Friday, 18 July 2008
Thursday, 17 July 2008
No Cameras, Lasers, Action
A friend recently asked me what band of today I could ever imagine becoming as prolific as Led Zepplin. We both agreed wholeheartedly on Radiohead. And couldn't find another. It's fitting then, that they should pioneer new techniques like the ones they've used here. Shot with no cameras, just 3D laser scanners, check out House of Cards...
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and the making of...
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and the making of...
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Just like that...
... he copies and pastes an email. You lazy fucker Nick.
Hush ya beak and an old fashioned English chuckle with these... All hail the king of one liners...
I went to see a friend with her new baby last night, she
> asked me if I
> wanted to wind it.
> I thought that was a bit harsh, so I just gave it a Dead-Leg
>
> *****
>
> Two Aerials meet on a roof - fall in love - get married
> The ceremony was rubbish but the Reception was Brilliant.
>
> *****
>
> Man goes to the docs, with a strawberry growing out of his head.
> Doc says, 'I'll give you some cream to put on it.'
>
> *****
>
> 'Doc, I can't stop singing the green green grass of home.'
> 'That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome.'
> 'Is it common?'
> 'It's not unusual.'
>
> *****
>
> A man takes his Rottweiler to the vet.
> 'My dog's cross-eyed, is there anything you can do for him?'
> 'Well,' says the vet, 'let's have a look at him'
> So he picks the dog up and examines his eyes, then checks his
> teeth.
> Finally, he says, 'I'm going to have to put him down.'
> 'What? Because he's cross-eyed? '
> 'No, because he's really heavy'
>
> *****
>
> 'Doctor, I can't pronounce my F's, T's and H's.'
> 'Well you can't say fairer than that then'
>
> *****
>
> Two elephants walk off a cliff...... boom boom!
>
> *****
>
> So I went to the dentist.
> He said 'Say Aaah.'
> I said 'Why?'
> He said 'My dog's died.'
>
> *****
>
> So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and
> said
> 'Who's speaking please?'
> And a voice said 'You are.'
>
> *****
>
> So I rang up my local swimming baths.
> I said 'Is that the local swimming baths?'
> He said 'It depends where you're calling from.'
>
> *****
>
> So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip
> outside my
> house.'
> He said 'I'm not stopping you.'
>
> *****
>
> Apparently, 1 in 5 people in the world are Chinese. And there
> are 5
> people in my family, so it must be one of them.
> It's either my mum or my dad.
> Or my older brother Colin.
> Or my younger brother Ho-Cha-Chu.
>
> But I think it's Colin.
>
> *****
>
> So I was in my car, and I was driving along, and my boss rang
> up, and
> he said 'You've been promoted.'
> And I swerved.
> And then he rang up a second time and said 'You've been promoted
> again.'
> And I swerved again.
> He rang up a third time and said 'You're managing director.'
> And I went into a tree.
> And a policeman came up and said
> 'What happened to you?'
> And I said 'I careered off the road.'
>
> *****
>
> Now, most dentists' chairs go up and down, don't they?
> The one I was in went back and forwards.
> I thought 'This is unusual'. And the dentist said to me, 'Mr
> Cooper,
> get out of the filing cabinet.'
>
> *****
>
> So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can
> you give
> me a lift?'
>
> I said 'Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for
> it.'
>
> *****
>
> Two cannibals eating a clown. One says to the other
> 'Does this taste funny to you?'
>
> *****
>
> Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery
> acid, and
> the other was eating fireworks.
>
> They charged one and let the other one off.
>
> *****
>
> You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today.
> They left a little note on the windscreen; it said 'Parking
> Fine.'
> So that was nice.
>
> *****
>
> A man walked into the doctors,
> The doctor said 'I haven't seen you in a long time'
> The man replied, 'I know I've been ill'
>
> *****
>
> A man walked into the doctors, he said 'I've hurt my arm in
> several
> places'
> The doctor said, 'well don't go to those places'
>
> *****
>
> I had a ploughman's lunch the other day.
> He wasn't very happy.
>
> *****
>
> I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I
> couldn't
> find any.
>
> *****
>
> Two blondes walk into a building..........you'd think at
> least one of
> them would have seen it.
>
> *****
>
> Phone answering machine message -
> '...If you want to buy marijuana.............press the hash
> key...'
>
> *****
>
> I went to the butchers the other day and I bet him 50 quid
> that he
> couldn't reach the meat off the top shelf.
> He said, 'No, the steaks are too high.'
>
> *****
> My friend drowned in a bowl of muesli.
> A strong currant pulled him in.
>
> *****
> A man came round in hospital after a serious accident.
> He shouted, 'Doctor, doctor, I can't feel my legs!'
> The doctor replied, 'I know you can't, I've cut your arms off'.
>
> *****
> I went to a seafood disco last week and pulled a mussel.
>
> *****
>
> Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly.
> They lit a fire in the craft. It sank, proving once and for
> all that
> you can't have your kayak and heat it.
>
> *****
>
> Our ice cream man was found lying on the floor of his van
> covered with
> hundreds and thousands.
> Police say that he topped himself.
>
> *****
>
> Two fat blokes in a pub, one says to the other 'Your round.'
> The other one says 'So are you, you fat slob!'
Hush ya beak and an old fashioned English chuckle with these... All hail the king of one liners...
I went to see a friend with her new baby last night, she
> asked me if I
> wanted to wind it.
> I thought that was a bit harsh, so I just gave it a Dead-Leg
>
> *****
>
> Two Aerials meet on a roof - fall in love - get married
> The ceremony was rubbish but the Reception was Brilliant.
>
> *****
>
> Man goes to the docs, with a strawberry growing out of his head.
> Doc says, 'I'll give you some cream to put on it.'
>
> *****
>
> 'Doc, I can't stop singing the green green grass of home.'
> 'That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome.'
> 'Is it common?'
> 'It's not unusual.'
>
> *****
>
> A man takes his Rottweiler to the vet.
> 'My dog's cross-eyed, is there anything you can do for him?'
> 'Well,' says the vet, 'let's have a look at him'
> So he picks the dog up and examines his eyes, then checks his
> teeth.
> Finally, he says, 'I'm going to have to put him down.'
> 'What? Because he's cross-eyed? '
> 'No, because he's really heavy'
>
> *****
>
> 'Doctor, I can't pronounce my F's, T's and H's.'
> 'Well you can't say fairer than that then'
>
> *****
>
> Two elephants walk off a cliff...... boom boom!
>
> *****
>
> So I went to the dentist.
> He said 'Say Aaah.'
> I said 'Why?'
> He said 'My dog's died.'
>
> *****
>
> So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and
> said
> 'Who's speaking please?'
> And a voice said 'You are.'
>
> *****
>
> So I rang up my local swimming baths.
> I said 'Is that the local swimming baths?'
> He said 'It depends where you're calling from.'
>
> *****
>
> So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip
> outside my
> house.'
> He said 'I'm not stopping you.'
>
> *****
>
> Apparently, 1 in 5 people in the world are Chinese. And there
> are 5
> people in my family, so it must be one of them.
> It's either my mum or my dad.
> Or my older brother Colin.
> Or my younger brother Ho-Cha-Chu.
>
> But I think it's Colin.
>
> *****
>
> So I was in my car, and I was driving along, and my boss rang
> up, and
> he said 'You've been promoted.'
> And I swerved.
> And then he rang up a second time and said 'You've been promoted
> again.'
> And I swerved again.
> He rang up a third time and said 'You're managing director.'
> And I went into a tree.
> And a policeman came up and said
> 'What happened to you?'
> And I said 'I careered off the road.'
>
> *****
>
> Now, most dentists' chairs go up and down, don't they?
> The one I was in went back and forwards.
> I thought 'This is unusual'. And the dentist said to me, 'Mr
> Cooper,
> get out of the filing cabinet.'
>
> *****
>
> So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can
> you give
> me a lift?'
>
> I said 'Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for
> it.'
>
> *****
>
> Two cannibals eating a clown. One says to the other
> 'Does this taste funny to you?'
>
> *****
>
> Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery
> acid, and
> the other was eating fireworks.
>
> They charged one and let the other one off.
>
> *****
>
> You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today.
> They left a little note on the windscreen; it said 'Parking
> Fine.'
> So that was nice.
>
> *****
>
> A man walked into the doctors,
> The doctor said 'I haven't seen you in a long time'
> The man replied, 'I know I've been ill'
>
> *****
>
> A man walked into the doctors, he said 'I've hurt my arm in
> several
> places'
> The doctor said, 'well don't go to those places'
>
> *****
>
> I had a ploughman's lunch the other day.
> He wasn't very happy.
>
> *****
>
> I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I
> couldn't
> find any.
>
> *****
>
> Two blondes walk into a building..........you'd think at
> least one of
> them would have seen it.
>
> *****
>
> Phone answering machine message -
> '...If you want to buy marijuana.............press the hash
> key...'
>
> *****
>
> I went to the butchers the other day and I bet him 50 quid
> that he
> couldn't reach the meat off the top shelf.
> He said, 'No, the steaks are too high.'
>
> *****
> My friend drowned in a bowl of muesli.
> A strong currant pulled him in.
>
> *****
> A man came round in hospital after a serious accident.
> He shouted, 'Doctor, doctor, I can't feel my legs!'
> The doctor replied, 'I know you can't, I've cut your arms off'.
>
> *****
> I went to a seafood disco last week and pulled a mussel.
>
> *****
>
> Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly.
> They lit a fire in the craft. It sank, proving once and for
> all that
> you can't have your kayak and heat it.
>
> *****
>
> Our ice cream man was found lying on the floor of his van
> covered with
> hundreds and thousands.
> Police say that he topped himself.
>
> *****
>
> Two fat blokes in a pub, one says to the other 'Your round.'
> The other one says 'So are you, you fat slob!'
Sunday, 29 June 2008
Picks from Saatchi and Saatchi New Directors, Cannes 2008
Joey Garfield directs this one shot wonder featuring Bill Shannon. Born with a degenerative hip condition, he has developed a way of moving on his skateboard and crutches that's both playful and beautiful to watch. Here Bill just does his thing.
The tracks creator, RJD2, also makes a few appearances as several different extras. See whether you can spot him...
Muto:
present active mūtō, present infinitive mūtāre, perfect active mūtāvī, supine mūtātum.
1. I move, remove.
2. I alter, change, modify, transform.
3. I vary, diversify.
4. I mutate, spoil.
5. I exchange, barter, sell.
6. I forsake.
according to Wiktionary.
Mentioned in the post about Tate Modern's street art exhibition, Blu, gives his definition of the word...
An old-y but a good-y. John Kelley's, Procastination deals with something all creatives know all too well.
Santogold + technicolour gorefest = cool video. Thanks Nima Nourizadeh.
Another crazy Bjork video. Encyclopedia Pictura take it to an all new level though. For the hi res and 3D experience go here
And then there's Vincent Moon, who takes a fresh approach to the music promo. The musical documentaries and portraits collected on his site, www.vincentmoon.com/ explore the fascinating characters of the bands he shoots.
Also see previous posts Tits and giggles,
The nerd's done good,
and Stress, Justice
directed by Romain Gavras
The tracks creator, RJD2, also makes a few appearances as several different extras. See whether you can spot him...
Muto:
present active mūtō, present infinitive mūtāre, perfect active mūtāvī, supine mūtātum.
1. I move, remove.
2. I alter, change, modify, transform.
3. I vary, diversify.
4. I mutate, spoil.
5. I exchange, barter, sell.
6. I forsake.
according to Wiktionary.
Mentioned in the post about Tate Modern's street art exhibition, Blu, gives his definition of the word...
An old-y but a good-y. John Kelley's, Procastination deals with something all creatives know all too well.
Santogold + technicolour gorefest = cool video. Thanks Nima Nourizadeh.
Another crazy Bjork video. Encyclopedia Pictura take it to an all new level though. For the hi res and 3D experience go here
And then there's Vincent Moon, who takes a fresh approach to the music promo. The musical documentaries and portraits collected on his site, www.vincentmoon.com/ explore the fascinating characters of the bands he shoots.
Also see previous posts Tits and giggles,
The nerd's done good,
and Stress, Justice
directed by Romain Gavras
International ad students put Britain's to shame
Last week took me to the D&AD New Blood exhibition at Earls Court. Quite frankly the standard was shocking. The graphics and illustration left more of an impression so my mission of finding a copywriter bombed. I came away feeling bitterly depressed. Which is why, when I saw there were no British finalists for the Future Lions it didn't surprise me one bit.
http://www.futurelions.com/
The ideas aren't massively mind blowing (GPS/ Google Earth tracking, nothing new there) but at least they attempt at a degree of creativity that was seriously lacking in most of the work I saw last Tuesday. Oh dear.
Happy Thought has a more in depth review of New Blood, check it
Friday, 27 June 2008
Tits and giggles
Keith Schofield directs for Brighton Port Authority (Norman Cook's new project). The track features David Byrne and Dizee Rascal. The samples are apparently from a collection of tapes found at Brighton Dockside Warehouse. Splains the name I spose.
The nerd's done good.
Who would have thought editing transitions, a computer loading bar and an Apple 'processing' colour wheel could spawn such an awesome video.
zZz is playing: Grip
Dir. Roel Wouters
link for more work
zZz is playing: Grip
Dir. Roel Wouters
link for more work
Thursday, 26 June 2008
Flickr Rediscovery
After Martin DeThurah, I thought I'd post some Cole Rise shots.
He's pretty well known within the Flickr community. I remember first seeing a photo of his in the Creative Review article they had on the site. I lost the article but the images below stuck with me. Well pleased I stumbled upon him earlier, immediately bookmarked his page. Enjoy. link
He's pretty well known within the Flickr community. I remember first seeing a photo of his in the Creative Review article they had on the site. I lost the article but the images below stuck with me. Well pleased I stumbled upon him earlier, immediately bookmarked his page. Enjoy. link
Musical musts for me at the mo
Last October, the gig-ometer was blown apart by an electric Kings of Leon at The Shepherds Bush Empire. The latest contenders stepped up with fine audio fidelity but both lacked on the atmos fronts. The Kings fail to be threatened on the top spot. I can, however, recommend their albums. Give em a whirl.
So I've shown you mine... you show me yours. What's your Ipod saying?
Man I wish I was going Glasto this weekend.
Dir. Martin DeThurah Short Films
One of my fave promo directors seems to be trying to break into the world of narrative film. Although the reports aren't great, he's set the bar high for himself with his music vids. But who cares when they look like this though....
Click the posters for links to trailers. The second one is on Academy's Films website. Go 'Commercials', 'Martin DeThurah', 'We Who Stayed Behind'. But Check out the rest of his reel. Check out the site too - hardcore director fest.
Click the posters for links to trailers. The second one is on Academy's Films website. Go 'Commercials', 'Martin DeThurah', 'We Who Stayed Behind'. But Check out the rest of his reel. Check out the site too - hardcore director fest.
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Saturday, 14 June 2008
Friday, 13 June 2008
''Andy has a Woody..."
Discovered this on the writers reel yesterday via Scamp's blog. His name's Graeme Hall an ex Watty student, so there's hope for me yet. It's from a really strong campaign from 2007. Don't know how it got past me. Great writing. I'm jealous. They repeated the campaign this year but it's not as good.
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