Wednesday, 4 June 2008

Monday, 2 June 2008

Local vicar's tea spiked with happy pills

Check out what came through my front door.

The best bit's the lion, it's loving the petting.

Was difficult worth doing? Part 1

Two new ads for Honda have recently been aired on Britsh telly. They both involve skydivers making intricate and risky formations after jumping out of a plane at fuck loads of feet high. After which follows the strapline "Difficult is worth doing". However each ad was done by a different agency.

$ Creative produced the first ad, which aired on a Thursday night, was 3 minutes long and live. Every national newspaper covered the subject leading up to the event. In fact, it was advertised in much the same way as a programme. It had it's own publicised time slot, and ad campaign. People set their alarms for 8.10pm and snuggled up on the sofa to tune in. Because who wouldn't want to watch adrenalin junkies dice with death live on terrestrial tv. Well... me actually.

It slipped my mind. For once I was doing something better than checking out ads. I was at a concert. So what chance have agencies got in encouraging people to watch ads if the ad students aren't even interested?

Hey, I never said I wasn't interested. As soon as I woke up the next day I got straight on Youtube. It was comparible to watching match of the day. I purposefully didn't want to know the results. I was genuinely excited.

See what you think...


Seeing the ground rush up while they calmly go through their routine is a bit hairy, but I think the whole event was really involving. The interest surrounding it was enormous. It still is. And most importantly it's not just ad land that's talking.

Great job, I agree with Scamp, 4Creative deserve a Black Pencil. What on earth could Wiedens do with the second ad to top this?

To be cont...

Wednesday, 28 May 2008

Comedy Hip Hop




And that just about sums it up, I think.


George Carlin, a man who says it how it really is. Genius.

Friday, 23 May 2008

Suck butter from my ass

for more 'light relief'....
http://www.cracked.com/article_16275_9-most-devastating-insults-from-around-world.html

"With digital advertising, there is no wrong or right...You are the next generation...you invent the new model'' Richard Burdett

Watford were lucky enough to do a workshop at Channel 4 yesterday. The brief was to advertise a new season on Street Violence ( I wonder if I can divulge?).

We had a really informative talk from Richard Burdett and a great crit by Ed Webster and Tom Tagholm. If anything the day illustrated how intelligent and talented the team, that work there, are.

Something that came to mind while we were working was the ad below. The agency never showed us their work they're going to run on Tuesday, but I thought I'd post the link while we wait to see if any of our ideas cross over with what they had.





Respect to 4Creative for continuously knocking out such inspiring work.

http://www.channel4.com/4creative/