Life in Advertising

John Lewis Christmas Advert 2013

I know this ad has been making the rounds of the social mediasphere and indeed it is a very tender, touching ad but I was even more amazed at how they made the ad. When I first watched it I just assumed it was a classically animated piece but the making of video shows that it is a combination of classically animated drawings and stop motion capture. Really phenomenal piece.

The ad:


The making of video:

Offensive advertising that would be banned today

Holy shnike. Here's a collection of unbelievably offensive ads by todays standards that actually made it to print.

one step closer to smell-a-vision

From the motherland comes another interesting invention for those on a diet, a tight budget or ..a date?!? What the... The basic premise is this. This iPhone attachment allows you to smell meat to trick your body into thinking it is experiencing the consumption of some delicious grilled meat while you eat your bowl of plain white rice. Or maybe you just like the smell of meat while you work. I dunno...

Superbots

Some pretty cool drawings, Chasingartwork created some fun robot versions of some of our favourite comic book heroes. Neat stuff.

Thor	Loki	Hulk	your descriptive text here
Spiderman	Dark Spidey	Venom	Dr. Doom
Flash	Hellboy	TMNTe

Collaborating with a 4 year old

I love collaborative artwork. It produces some really interesting stuff. I also like kids. So when this woman collaborated with her 4 year old daughter, some amazing thing happened.

Brush your teeth in 6 seconds

I'm one of those people that hates the monotony of brushing my teeth. This toothbrush (if you can call it that) looks the brush for me. Now if they can only make it look just a little less scary...

THIS IS WATER

This is a very thought provoking exerpt from a 2005 commencement speech by David Foster Wallace

Zachary Quinto vs. Leonard Nimoy: "The Challenge"

When I build my dream house...

... I would like some of these
 

Kids Pictures Come to Life

Ok, this is seriously cool. Imagine bringing that great piece of art that three year old drew for you to life. That's what Crayon Creatures is doing. Pretty sweet.

It's a bag! It's a coat!

They say necessity is the mother of all invention. So when one man got tired of all the luggage restrictions airlines had he invented a coat.

Bully Calls News Anchor Fat, News Anchor Stomps Them On Live TV

Hello hello?

another one of those, "Why didn't I think of this first?" designs. This is pretty fun.

Fighting in slow mo

Well this is fun...