It’s Saturday, my time to kick back and relax after a crazy week. And today, I’m watching “PressPausePlay” the award winning SXSW film that has been screened at more than 30 film festivals around the globe. It depicts the digital revolution of the last decade, and the way that technology has opened creativity to each [...]
Continue reading...28. December 2011
Well, what a year, particurally for the growth and promotion of online video, and as always, YouTube has released the YouTube Rewind 2011 Showcase for your viewing pleasure, just in case you missed it among the first 3 million views of the round up video so far… here it is! Via AdsMitchell. So what makes [...]
Continue reading...3. October 2011
Here is a nice, simple yet creative Vimeo takeover that doesn’t try too hard to pull you into the experience like many of the standard YouTube template takeovers seem to do. It’s for the Beck’s Green Box Project, a global fund established to inspire, celebrate and financially support talent in art, design, music and fashion. [...]
Continue reading...22. September 2011
Most of you would have heard about the “World Cup” on in New Zealand right now, but I suspect a large percentage of you, particularly people from the US, might not know all the rules of Rugby… So, in a style made famous recently, here is the “Sexy Rugby Rules” presented by Lynx. I thought [...]
Continue reading...7. August 2011
After almost 8 years, Blink 182 have launched a new single, and with that, a very unique approach to re-engage their fan base, by trawling YouTube for every video uploaded that used their music without permission, then they set about cutting it into their very own music video, turning the tables on their fans, and [...]
Continue reading...3. August 2011
Nokia is making another big push to promote the quality cameras on board their latest range of phones, by partnering with Aardman Animations and Wieden + Kennedy once again to create the Gulp animation, a new Guinness World Record animation filmed on the Nokia N8. The stop motion fim is shot entirely on the new [...]
Continue reading...31. July 2011
The “OK Go” guys have a habit of creating highly shareable music videos, with their last one generating almost 30 million views on YouTube alone. So it was quite interesting to see them team up with Google to create an interactive HTML 5 experience as their latest music video. Called “All Is Not Lost” the [...]
Continue reading...26. July 2011
And so it begins… Isaiah Mustafa VS Fabio himself in a real-time streaming Old Spice Internet Duel at 12pm Noon EST. Wooo! It was only a matter of time until the guys at W+K took the new-look Old Spice campaign to a whole new level, and that they will in just a few hours time, [...]
Continue reading...3. May 2011
This is an amazing piece of light painting by local Melbourne director Darcy Prendergast, created for All India Radio’s new sound track, Rippled, which provides almost four minutes of pure eye candy. The video has been six months in the making and is all shot in camera, frame by frame, by real people, in the [...]
Continue reading...8. February 2011
The Volkswagen Super Bowl spots, featuring the Beetle and the Passat, have gathered significant buzz from the TVC’s. The digital angle is via it’s offical YouTube page, capturing viewers looking for the ads and giving them more, the VW Academy. The idea of the academy is to push viewers to see how the VW stacks [...]
Continue reading...18. January 2011
By now you might have heard about the new Aston Martin digital campaign for the new Rapide four door sports car. It’s an interactive experience that aims to take branded content to the next level through a series of super-high-end short films and social content through a kind of ARG game that requires you to [...]
Continue reading...13. January 2011
Subaru Canada has launched a nice little piece of annotated YouTube video content for the 2011 WRX. They bolted on 4 HD video cameras for a real leg of the tall pines rally, then cut it into a 7 minute 4 angle annotated YouTube video that puts the viewing experience in the hands of each viewer, [...]
Continue reading...12. November 2010
This is a beautifully directed short film about the life of a man, as seen through his Facebook profile. And the beauty this film is the absolute reality of the content, interactions and display of how a life would unfold inside Facebook. The film was directed by Max Luere. Loved it.
Continue reading...10. November 2010
This is a really nice short film from R+I Creative that documents how trends and creativity can become contagious in the real world. From music to fashion and entertainment to advertising. The film attempts to understand the essence of influence, what makes a person influential and all without taking a statistical or metric approach! Written [...]
Continue reading...13. October 2010
Holler London and Olmeca Altos Tequila have teamed up for a neat little webisode series that takes us behind the scenes in Mexico to learn a little more about how that magic drink is made. Perfectly timed too, as I’m up to Turtle’s tequila business that is going crazy in Entourage season 7! Webisodes are [...]
Continue reading...
14. January 2012
1 Comment