ANGUS WHINES

Under

Nice perspective.

Story

Just fucking wonderful.  If only...



Via Neatorama

DJ

See, this is fucking brilliant.  Tapping into a truth about the product and having fun with it.  Sure, there's a dirty little nutrition story at the end, but at least it's not the focus of the ad.  Nice work.



Via Creative Review

UGC

Fabulous music video using UGC contributions, all filmed via webcam.



Via Iain

Guerilla Knitters

Who knew 'yarn bombing' existed?  I didn't.  Apparently it's the art of "tagging" public spaces with bright knits, grafitti style.  The aim: "to humanise often austere urban environments".  Jesus.

One of its gurus, Magda Sayeg, is about to hit Sydney and I for one cannot fucking wait to see what she does.  From her lips:

"I don't care if I get arrested. There is no freakin' way that I'm leaving this city without tagging something big."

Brilliant.



Image via SMH

Anorexia

ANAD painted three classic masterpieces for a second time, slightly altered, and displayed them in renowned museums between other masterpieces. Clever. 





Via Direct Daily

Swap

In an effort to stimulate the posting of parcels, the Swedish postal service came up with 'Stefan the Swopper' [sic], a 28 years old artist from Stockholm who apparently decided to swap all of his possessions.  I like it.



Via The Inspiration Room

Pie

Sweet.







Via I Believe in Adv

Babies

I have no idea what this ad is saying and I don't give a rat's arse.  It's fabulous viewing.



By BETC Euro RSCG via Coloribus

Walkman

The BBC convinced 13 year old Scott Campbell to swap his iPod for a Walkman for a week.  It didn't go down well.  Great quotes:

"[My Dad] had told me it was big, but I hadn’t realised he meant THAT big. It was the size of a small book."

“I managed to create an impromptu shuffle feature simply by holding down “rewind” and releasing it randomly”  (In relation to the lack of a shuffle mode)

“It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape.”

Fucking brilliant.



Via Wired.  Image courtesy of the BBC.

Friends

Amnesia made Coke and Pepsi be friends.  Excellent.

CP+B

Loving the new CP+B site which aggregates videos, tweets, news headlines and blog entries that mention the agency or its work.  "The good, the bad, the mildly unnerving," according to Alex Bogusky.

Via AdFreak

Dock

Cute.

By Mike Giepert via Laughing Squid

Flip Flop Flyin'

I love Anne.  She introduces me to the best things, like Flip Flop Flyin' by Craig Robinson, where you can find brilliant things like a comparison of ball sizes, a website linking to all Craig Robinsons should they wish to be linked to, and a collection of Tic Tac boxes with Tic Tacs stuck in them. 







Genius.

Bad Dog

I love seeing the negative in advertising.





Via The Inspiration Room

Generations

Lovely wine labels showing portraits of the three generations that devote their lives to the vineyard.



Via Picocool

Yorkshire Tea

This is better.  BMB has used augmented reality and John Shuttleworth for Yorkshire Tea. Cute.





More here. Via The Glue Pot

Fireman

If only this was real.



Via Ruby Pseudo

Tea

Jesus christ.  I will no longer be drinking Tetley.



Actually, this really pisses me off too but at least I drink English Breakfast.



Why the fuck can't people make good tea ads in Australia?

Danger

Interesting recommendation from DJ Stout given the new regulations in the US which are expected to even further restrict the marketing of cigarettes, including a requirement that colorful ads and displays be replaced with black-and-white-only text.

“Our marketing advice to cigarette companies in the new heavily regulated era is to fully accept the new aggressive anti-smoking restrictions and wallow in the government’s apocalyptic health warnings. Don’t make excuses or dance around the stepped-up marketing regulations, just transform the whole cigarette pack into a three dimensional warning label.”

As much as I hate cigarettes and wish they were illegal, embracing the restrictions and making cigarettes look truly dangerous in indeed a clever approach. 




Via Darryl