Tag: advert
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You could stop at five or six stores
Sometimes stuff like Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! is actually too tame for the real world which is much, much weirder. Exhibit 1, this awkward screen tests for an advert at the Sarantos Studio of Acting: (via Boing Boing) – although I found a longer 13 minute cut
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Scary adverts
Came across the above advert via 4chan then had a little Google for more. Turns out 1940’s and 1950’s adverts and earlier, while being archaic are also really odd. I mean scary. And really bad for your health…especially DuPont and their frankly psychotic Cellophane ads – were they high on the plastic smell? I could…
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Is it live or is it Memorex?
https://vimeo.com/55006097 Probably a good thing I saw this after I finished my new video so I won’t be influenced by this great mix by Smash TV, interestingly similar jump off points though. I’ve also been diving into my old VHS collection and digitising large chunks of adverts and programs from the late 80s-early 90s. You…
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Advertising is evil
Having worked in agencies for years I know this – soul destroying, depressing and incredibly cynical or deluded. Hence why I don’t work in that industry anymore. But if you need proof, check out Sharp Suits, an Irish exhibition where designers taking actual phrases and turning them into posters. A creative act for such uncreative…
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Holy Ghost cover Ministry and need to tell you
Although basically an advert for some nuclear green glop (I wonder is the future of the music industry such company sponsored online record labels like from Dr Marten and Mtn Dew?), I love this Ministry cover by Holy Ghost featuring the cute Juan Maclean and Nancy Whang doing some BMX shenanigans…great video, like some cheap…
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It says pancakes on the outside…
But high-grade Sandoz brown on the inside. I mean WTF were the admakers taking in 1969? (via BoingBoing)