Smoke Break #707: Aussie Rave God Eats Daft Punk For Supper
May 31, 2010
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…
May 20, 2010
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?
April 25, 2010
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
April 19, 2010
I love this ad for James Boag, the Tasmanian beer company.
Smoke Break #689: Beer + Jet Pack = Hipster Beer Of Choice
April 13, 2010
This remixed ad for PBR is a big win.
Smoke Break #688: Why Are We Inside More And Outside Less?
April 12, 2010
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
Smoke Break #687: The Calamari We Eat Sell Their Oil Like Freaks
April 2, 2010
And Japanese cooks can release the Kraken…
Target Marketing Attack By Heineken Leaves Fans Grateful
March 18, 2010
This is pure genius.
Beer Ad #537: Man Plums Feeling Is The Carlton Draught Tingle…
March 17, 2010
Try getting this beer ad ditty out of your head. More of the same here.
Canucks Deserve A Mascot That Could Destroy “Fin The Whale”
March 15, 2010
If I ever scream at a Cancuks game it’s usually at the team’s official mascot, Fin the Whale. He sucks as bad as irresponsibly farmed salmon. For serious, we provide for 294 consecutive sellout games and all we get as a sideshow is a dude in a whale suit democratically tossing t-shirts to the cheap seats and the grow-op bigwigs. WTF? He might bang the drum with the enthusiasm that comes courtesy of $25 an hour, but does he ever freely thump the living shit out of those apathetic corporate “fans” who slip out of the game early in overtime to beat the post-game exodus of the Great Unwashed? I think not. So let me say this (if I haven’t said it here or elsewhere already)…if the Bruins mascot (above) ever tires of his gig, he’s more than welcome at GM Place, and he wouldn’t want for friends.
Watch more of the golden dude’s unvarnished antics here.
