Smoke Break #739: Oil Company Boasted It Could Melt Glaciers

I found this old and ironically prescient oil company ad from 1962 this morning. The choice quote reads…

This giant glacier has remained unmelted for centuries. Yet, the petroleum energy Humble supplies – if converted into heat – could melt it at the rate of 80 tons each second!

Nostradamn you.

Smoke Break #728: Yes, Bottled Mineral Water Is Nasty, But…

Dita von Teese is the new spokeswoman for Perrier. I am no longer still, just sparkling.

“The Universal Food Chopper & A Few Of The Things It Chops”

Before the slap chop, and when food advertising was less subtle…

Smoke Break #717: Greenpeace Releases World Cup Guilt Trip

via Ad Freak:

It’s bad enough that Greenpeace is a pine needle in the ass and fishhook in the eye of hard-working loggers and whalers worldwide. (Loggers and whalers breaking the law? As if!) Now, the environmental group is exploiting the World Cup with the Australian spot below, which claims, “Every two seconds an area of forest the size of a football pitch is being cut down.” What’s their point? No endangered species inhabits a football pitch, unless you count the U.S. national team. The graphic in the spot shows green match-head trees covering a soccer field. They’re set ablaze, and flames engulf the goal.

Smoke Break #707: Aussie Rave God Eats Daft Punk For Supper

The star of this ad for LA rave fest Electric Daisy Carnival is a happy revelation. “I did graduate from the Perth Dancing Academy, so I do have some white hot moves”. Remarkable stuff.

PS. People still rave.

Brilliant “Single Take” Johnnie Walker Ad Wins Best In Show…

We posted this 6 minute Johnnie Walker ad back in August of last year. It was filmed in one take without a single edit. It took 40 tries for Robbie Carlyle to nail it (and did he ever). Why post it again? Because it just won Best In Show at the 35th Annual One Show Awards. Plus it’s pretty awesome.

Um, Don’t You Know When You Are Going To Shock The Monkey?

Ben Lee’s “Song for the Divine Mother of the Universe” gets loaned to a top drawer ad agency producing on a World Wildlife Fund brief (via TDW): humans send a monkey to space (as we so often like to do) and it comes back decades later to find his home in tatters and his masters gone. Pretty impactful stuff (and much better than the gratuitous Peter Gabriel headline).

Smoke Break #692: Because This Water Just Makes Things Better

I love this ad for James Boag, the Tasmanian beer company.

Smoke Break #689: Beer + Jet Pack = Hipster Beer Of Choice

This remixed ad for PBR is a big win.

Smoke Break #688: Why Are We Inside More And Outside Less?

TBWA Vancouver makes an ad for Vancouver’s “Y”. It’s a gooder loaded with plenty of pertinent questions for Vancouverites. This is the same firm that did the VIFF’s “Sexuality” ad last year, the best ad I’d seen in years (watch it after the jump)… Read more

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