ya'll know that you can view diesel's new film oil crash to a town where everyone pushes around their cars as they have no oil...

It was directed by Johan Kramer - from the Amsterdam agency Kesselskramer.

A short film, produced to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of The Bessies, Canada's broadcast advertising awards, follows the twists and turns in the life of an advertising idea. The tragi-comic film debuts at the gala in May, but an advance copy has been circulating on the net (see link) to rave reviews from frustrated creatives in Canada and abroad.

http://www.adbeast.com/theIdea/

* http://www.adbeast.com/

The scenario in AOL's superbowl ad proved true - people do surf and superbowl at the same time.

Queries on search engines were superbowl inspired. The most popular search was for Oakland Raiders center Barret Robbins - he was suspended for the Super Bowl game. Other popular searching ranged from Dixie Chicks to Sting and askjeeves explaining to everyone that yes indeed, Celine Dion is Canadian and "God Bless America" is not the USA's national anthem.

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Before hawking Cocoa and Fruity Pebbles, Fred Flintstone was huffing and puffing on Winston cigarettes. No bull!

Check out this website of censored cigarette commercials from the 50’s and 60’s!

from dabitch: by July the website was taken down. shame. :(
There are more vintage cigarette ads in our SuperBowl Commercials - start in 1969 where every fifth ad is for cigarettes.

B3ta challenge : "if advertisments were honest" photoshopping game - plenty of creativity out there when you can mock advertising. Some could almost run ironically, others are quite refreshing or adbuster style.

some is too true... Ouch... and slim fast.

It's now official: Winona Ryder is to pose for Juergen Teller in Los Angeles later this month. Ryder has been signed up to star in the Spring/Summer 2003 advertising campaign for Marc Jacobs, the very brand that she was caught lifting at an American department store. Rumours about this deal have been abuzz since mid-december. Exhale.

So, everyone is sending christmas greetings - and adgrunts do it better. ;-) From Maverick Media a film celebrating mr J's birthday, then we found in the pile of dead ideas a rejected xmas card from Kranzler Kingsley - meanwhile in holland Cayenne communications lets us make our own card complete with soundeffects while their hard working crew take some days off.

The Banner Art Collective has announced the winner of their Buy Nothing Day contest!

The winner, "buy-sell(f) nothing," won its creator, Zebra3, a grand prize of $0 (USD) and display on the front page of bannerart.org until the end of the holiday shopping season.

The Banner Art Collective (http://bannerart.org) has implemented a new design created by Garrett Lynch. The new design brings a vast number of improvements to the site, which collects and distributes net.art and poetry created according to the limitations of WWW advertising.

This is the season to practice for the awards.

Drink heavily each night - and with weary eyes line up the One Show excuse generator to whine about why you didn't get in to the One show...

;))

Droll friday when you need to waste office hours one something?

amuse yourself watching william shatner priceline outtakes in both quicktime and media player formats over at priceline.com. [if the first link is dead try the second and navigate to films]

If that doesn't tickle you - how about the japanese Apple switch ads? Their very own version of Ellen Fleiss is the charming student momoko kikuchi (i hope i got that name right). [quicktime only]

What's your favorite ESPN SportsCenter commercial? View 18 of their best spots (streaming video) and vote for your favorite one here.

My favorite one wasn't listed!

The Decline of Fashion Photography.
A brilliant argument in pictures.
Check it out at:
http://slate.msn.com/features/010510_fashion-slide-show/01.htm

OSAKA - japan Asahi in english:
Phone sex telemarketing to mobile phones allegedly jumbled up telephone lines Monday morning in Osaka Prefecture and Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, NTT West said.

A sharp rise in calls around 10 a.m. hampered nearly 5.16 million phone numbers. Yes I said 'million' this is japan after all.

Complaints of jammed phone lines began flooding Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) West around 10:30 a.m, when the company blocked as many as 50 percent of all calls, on both cellphone and landline. NTT West partially lifted the restrictions at 11:42 a.m.

At 10:59 a.m., the company cut off the phone lines to a so-called one-call telemarketing company based in Osaka.

The firm had made thousands of calls to mobile phones that morning......

When the switch campaign launched it was only a matter of time for the spoofs to appear. Though the best spoof, might have been stoned Ellen Feiss who's dad's PC just ate her paper.... bummer...

No rest for the wicked, Macboy muses on a possible switch ad with Bill Gates. "I mean, my life's been nothing but trouble since I started microsoft".

bmw sets a trend?

www.luckyluckystar.com

It's a trailer to a movie called Lucky Star featuring Benicio Del Toro and directed by Michael Mann.
However there is no movie. It turns out that it's a commercial for a Mercedes SL.
But of course, according to a spokesman from Mercedes-Benz, they're thinking about making a movie based on the trailer.

apple switch campaign - the spoof of the entire apple 'switch' website.

suprise, it's still up. We thought someone would have sent a C&D by now.

straight from Mefi we follow links down to Keith's page on fuckthatjob.com - man does Keith know how the underemployed creative/designer feels when he reads these ads.

"Soooooooo sick of seeing EVERY storyboard job trying to ply me with credit in lieu of pay. Even worse is promises of FUTURE work. Jiminy Jillikers, that sounds really lucrative!!

All I have to do is work for free this ONE time and I'll be set!!
I mean, gosh-a-rooty, they wouldn't lie or anything, would they? The Entertainment industry is nothing if not ethical!!!

The problem with these carrot-on-a-stick offers is that when you look closer you see that the carrot is just a week-old dog turd painted orange."

http://www.rumorpill.com/roddick.html

good commercials (see link above for streams), but are they real or faked?

*note the films are windows media player.

Lots of people were passing the banned x-box advert around via mail - to the point that some figured it was pure viral.

But it did actually air in the uk, and the 136 complaints echoed in news reports across yahoo , BBC news and even stirred up a good discussion/ thread at metafilter.