Watching the USA vs Canada gold medal game this weekend — one of the rare times I cannot TiVo through commercials — they played this Michelin ad and I actually rewound and watched it again. Great animation, and what’s…
1
Mar
Michelin Man goes to battle
Presidia posted 25 images from Sydney-based photographer Neil Bailey that help justify the art of advertising. I love the action-figure-as-pained-protagonist shots…rad…
28
Oct
A twist on all things pop, finding the calm balance between the ‘60s and ‘70s and 21st century hyper culture
I’m pretty much a magazine junkie. For the ones that provide superior content anyway. Like Milan’s Pig magazine. As much as I like the immediacy of the web, nothing can replace the experience of walking up to…
5
Oct
Pete Campbell from Mad Men discusses the genius of Mitch Hedberg, the biology of monogamy, life with Jon Hamm and why he takes the bus everywhere in LA…
This is PART TWO of Lost In A Supermarket’s interview with Vincent Kartheiser of AMC’s Mad Men (click HERE to read PART ONE). Unlike PART ONE of the interview, which was pretty heavy on the Mad…
1
Oct
Pete Campbell from Mad Men talks about the absurdity of morality, the death of the American Dream, and being part of the Best Show on TV...
You recognize Vincent Kartheiser as Peter Campbell, the utterly obsequious and calculating account executive at Sterling Cooper. You know, that fictional Madison Avenue advertising agency on the much talked about AMC series Mad Men. I didn’t say…
This is the day for PSAs I guess — some real, like this one, and some imagined, like the Will Ferrell one below. This one’s a motorcycle awareness safety commercial from Norway directed by Kristoffer Carlin and Lasse Gretlan,…
20
Jul
Was it the inter-racial politics...or the blowjob?
Well no shit this ad was banned in Germany! No matter how liberal and progressive those saurkraut-eating, pilsener-brewing, Rammstein-listening Euros are, there’s no way anything this suggestive is playing on TV. Still, gotta give props to whatever Sprite exec…
You know, 98% of the time I hate advertising — I hate how its getting evermore ubiquitous, and evermore insidious. As devices like Tivo allow us to circumvent the ancient, nearly obsolete Old School Guard of advertising like…
