Category Archives: Cool Ads

Video of the Day: T-Mobile Dance

I find most advertising stunts either very creative or really annoying.  Rarely do I find one that I would say is inspiring.  This is one of those rare exceptions.  This commercial was shot at the  Liverpool Street  Subway Station in  London Jan 15, 09.  Only the dancers knew what was happening; the general public didn’t [...]

Commercial Fail of the day

- – - – - ‘My wife would LOVE that!’ Courtesy of FailBlog via Youtube.

rebel:art

Our society is in many ways based on deception. Not that I think most are intentionally attempting to lie (although some are), but it is in our best interest to always present the most positive and optimistic scenario for our life and or business. Sometimes when this happens on a larger public scale we need [...]

Whispy Wonders: The Art of Smoke

Smoke symbolizes an intangible mystery, residual evidence of an often dangerous action or event. A great roundup of amazing smoke art can be found at Dark Roasted Blend, which contains many related links, including smoke art manipulated for commercial ads. Unintentional crown: There’s a lot of work being done with colour enhancement, but I think [...]

Refreshing and Delicious: The Japanese

Join me now in fear and wonderment in the exciting journey of Ten Even More Weird and Bizarre Japanese Soft Drinks! #3: Am I thirsty yet?

Billboard of the Week: Imagine No Religion

Just saw this driving down Denny from Capitol Hill (Seattle). Check the Freedom From Religion Foundation here. I don’t know much about this foundation, but it is interesting and encouraging to see such blatant anti-religion being advertised.

Flickr / Ad of the Day: Big Head Edition

Have not seen this driving around Seattle, but apparently it is making it’s rounds to promote Eddie Murphy’s new movie Meet Dave.  You can catch a video of the head traveling down the road here. (via slog)

Bonus Youtube of the Day: Chris Crocker… wow.

Hold on to your knickers y’all. The Chris Crocker insanity has just escalated with Chris Crocker t-shirts at Districtlines.com. I warn you now to Brace Thyself: . Real life (gchat) conversation snippet: me: (Chris Crocker video) him: I made it exactly 20 seconds. Whereas I couldn’t stop watching. Unblinking, mouth agape, probably making very strange [...]

Youtube of the Day: Body Write

8 hours of writing 5 permanent markers 3 baths and 2 showers to clean off Part of a campaign to promote writing on designated graffiti walls rather than someone else’s property. fortheloveoftype.blogspot.com

3-D Living Wallpaper – The Work of Emma Hack

Using female models, sparse props, and lots of body paint Emma Hack creates stunning visual illusions as living art. I recently stumbled across her work on Lunatica Desnuda. Ms. Hack’s own site is here (warning: bad interface). She’s done extensive work in fashion and advertising, mostly in hair/make-up and style consultation.