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Ad Nauseum: Every Day Is Day One
Despite the underlying Samsung sponsorship, this is essentially a beautiful promo for how great surfing is. Shot by one of my favourite DOPs - Grieg Fraser.
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2nd Aug 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet
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Short Attention Span Theatre: Castello Cavalcanti
New Wes Anderson short for Prada, starring Jason Schwartzman.
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14th Nov 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Calvin Klein vs David Fincher
New David Fincher ad, starring Rooney Mara. Shot by David Devlin for that Rumblefish vibe. Music by YYYs.
9th Jul 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Prada Candy L'eau
Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola bankroll their screen quirkiness with this Prada outing.
29th Mar 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Beauty Inside
Lovely short film from Sundance winner Drake Doremus about a person who wakes up differently every day. Beautifully shot, with a great performance from Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
30 mins, split over 6 episodes. Ignore the fact it's funded by The Man.
3rd Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Cornelius for Nike+
Cornelius's Count Five Or Six soundtracks this Nike ad imagining the world as a platform game
7th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Wes Anderson for Sony
One of the kids from Moonrise Kingdom explains how a phone works, Wes Anderson animates his thought process.
11th Jun 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: WTF!? Star Wars Update
OK, here's Volkwagen's full Star Wars themed Superbowl ad. WTF!? Probably the worst use of Star Wars ever ...even worse than the Yodafone spot. Did Lucas give the major brands 3 minutes to come up with a concept if they wanted to cash in on his assets or something? Abominable.
1st Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Ferris vs Star Wars - Superbowl Special
Another stupid Star Wars/Advertising tie-in .....though this one's for Volkswagen, who nailed that ad with the kid using the force at the last Superbowl. The Bark Side is an ad for an ad that will show at the Superbowl this Sunday. I remain to be convinced.
Next up, the tepid return of Ferris Bueller, in an underwhelming Honda ad. Bah.
1st Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Honest Logos
What if logos told the truth? Nice series from Viktor Hertz
30th Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: State of Chaos
Check out this fun interactive Google map simulation from State Farm insurance. Though I imagine an interstellar robot attack comes under 'force majure' and you won't be covered...
4th Oct 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Volver al Futuro
Doc Brown is back in action, for an Argentinian electronics store commercial. Great Scott!
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31st Aug 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Kia by Mark Romanek
Check out the new ad 'Soul Hamster' by Mark Romanek for Kia cars. It's something of a departure from his most recent feature "Never Let Me Go".
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30th Aug 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Justice Adidas Civilisation
Lionel Messi, Katy Perry and some skate kids feature in this Romain Gavras ad featuring a new Justice track
16th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Day V Lately
Anyone who remembers J.R. Hartley from 1983 will get the joke with Yell's mildly nauseating updated commercial, but the campaign goes beyond the TV ad. Check out Day V Lately's website, in all in 1996-era glory. Best viewed in Internet Explorer.
Strange to only aim an ad at the over 28's, but at least Yellow Pages seem to be becoming aware of who might actually use them these days. We have Ask Jeeves now after all.
9th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Superbowl Special
At $3m for 30 seconds (or something like that), a spot during the Superbowl ad break is advertising nirvana, with many advertisers creating special spots that air only once. Nothing particularly flashy about this one ...just a clever idea, well made. With a very large licensing budget.
7th Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: The Psychology of Mad Men
Great article over at the BBC Blogs looking into some of the psychology and thinking behind the advertising boom of the 1950's and 60's.
7th Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Call of Duty Black Ops
BC and I spent a good amount of time shooting stuff with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and I doubt this update will be any easier to resist. Clever ad too.
All-digital trailer below.
10th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Prawns
The land of advertising is a dangerous business. Post-meerkat, a high-concept ad campaign is likely to fall flat on it's face, but drafting in Sgt Elias AKA Willem Dafoe is one way to seal the deal.
Newsflash chimps: Prawns.
8th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Ikea's Cats w Mara Carlyle
New Ikea cats ad soundtracked by the lovely mara carlyle.
10th Sep 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Film A Day In Your Life
Ridley Scott is flexing his advertainment muscles again, this time with the help of Kevin MacDonald for an LG-Sponsored project with YouTube: LIFE IN A DAY.
It's a pretty neat and simple concept - film your day and the 'most compelling and distinctive footage' will be assembled into a film documenting 24 hours on Earth, which is slated to be screened at The Sundance Film Festival. Not bad.
The only problem is what to do during your day in order to make it into this crowd-sourced Koyaanisqatsi. I had a day in front of the TV pencilled in, but that isn't going to impress anybody. I just might have to fake doing something interesting.
Some FAQs here.
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22nd Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Major Minority Report News
Trials have begun in Tokyo of digital billboards that use facial recognition to target specific adverts at passers-by.... Wonder what I'm in need of buying?
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16th Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Flake
It might not sell a lot of chocolate, but it caught my attention. Sure, Cadbury's new ad from agency Fallon is a total re-make of the film from Alexander McQueen's A/W 2006 catwalk show, which projected a Kate Moss version of the film in front of the audience - but it's made by the same director (Baillie Walsh), so it gets a pass.
18th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Paint The Town Lavender
Fairly epic ad up from Dulux, who've kindly painted your neighbourhood a puke inducing shade.
17th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Spike Jonze: I'm Here
We missed the boat on this, but Spike Jonze has had a new short online since March. I'm Herecan be viewed in it's entirety over at the Absolutly-branded website: www.imheremovie.com
It's a love story, with robots. Trailer up top.
16th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Celebrate Originality? Star Wars vs Adidas
Very, very strange ad for Adidas... totally lacking in atmosphere. And Beckham shoots first.
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5th Jun 2010 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Write The Future
Sure, it's an ad from a mega corporation, but ads don't get much more epic than this - just in time for the World Cup. Amores Perros director Alejandro González Iñárritu is the man calling the shots...
And while we're at it, here's a quick Nike salute to LA Laker Kobe Bryant, leading the Lakers into the NBA finals this week. Andre 3000 covers All Together Now on the soundtrack. (via Pitchfork)
4th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Parallel Lines
More entertisment from Ridley Scott's RSA Films. This time they're making films in aid of hawking the latest 'innovation' from Philips - widerscreen TVs.
The films revolve around the concept of a unicorn. That's Carl Erik Rinsch's effort above. See them all and make your own over at YouTube.
27th May 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Mini Cooper
Not an actual TV ad this time, just a clever ad installation to advertise the Mini Cooper, post-Christmas.
4th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Adidas Originals
You might have caught this star-studded Adidas Originals campaign on TV this year - a well planned campaign that started with invites going out with a teaser clip, followed by the party/ad itself and even ending up with a Simpsons parody (below). All run through their website, Facebook and Youtube page.
Great concept, great photography and great direction - by Nima Nourizadeh, through Partizan.
Final ad above. You can probably dig out a more legit copy of the final clip on the Adidas website, or see it on the Partizan site.
P.S. Check out Beckham's hole in one too.
18th Dec 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Google Out of Office
Clever clip pulling together the many assets of Google, in a National-centric way.
15th Dec 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Spotify
Nicely done ad for Spotify, which is currently running on TV in Sweden.
28th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: David Fincher
He might be selling Nike, but we've always got time for anything by David Fincher. Shot on a RED digital camera, by Emmanuel Lubezki - the man behind the magnificent The New World amongst others.
21st Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Greatest Chase Ever
A fun video up at Greatest Chase Ever - all part of a semi-subtle Converse marketing campaign. You can find an index of all the linked up sites here.
27th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Dudeism
Not sure I'm OK with VW appropriating The Dude to sell cars, but check out the details of their new campaign over at Creative Review.
24th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Simulated Red Carpet
Nikon won a bronze lion award at the Cannes Advertising Festival for this red carpet simulation in a Seoul shopping mall, which fires off the flashes when someone walks past. Make sure your hand luggage is that flashy handbag we talked about.
27th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Samsung Jet
You might have seen this lovely new ad for Samsung's new Jet mobile. I have no doubt that it's being pitched as an iPhone killer, but the ad's nice at least.
Ad up top, making of below. Some boring details here.
20th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Art and Copy
Trailer up for Art & Copy, a new documentary about the advertising industry from Doug Pray.
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13th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Unpimp My Ride
Nice ads for VW here, featuring a nihilist.
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3rd Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Gucci
Nice ad up for Gucci perfume, directed by former bad boy Chris Cunningham. It's a pretty mainstream ad, but nicely retains some of Cunningham's signature strangeness.
23rd Apr 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Crystal Head Vodka
"Hi, I'm Dan Ackroyd..." Has the Ghostbuster gone off the rails? Is this ad for Crystal Head Vodka real? Looks like you can buy it
20th Apr 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Protest
Creative Review has a run-down of some of the latest ads doing the rounds, including a flash-mob rip off of that Thriller thing, plus another Cadbury's ad.
This one for Protest caught my eye however. I can smell the snow.
27th Jan 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Virgin Atlantic
Not sure if airlines were evr 'sexy', but Virgin claims to be putting sexy back into their brand, with this retro 80's ad. Funny to see Our Price Virgin Mega Zavvi Bunkruptcy recreated in the background.
Creative Review has the low-down.
13th Jan 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Cactus Kid
Not quite sure what untouchable, reclusive director Terrence Malick would make of the current 'homage' to his film Badlands - which is designed to make Coca-Cola-owned juice brand Oasis 'famous'. By 'irreverent' humour, I assume the article means the current glut of off-hand, sarcastic, post Vic-and-Bob stupidity that seems to grace T4 on a weekly basis. Grrr.
22nd Jul 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet