April 23, 2015
As a friend pointed out upon seeing this ad, “do we really need Mad Max meets Deliverance”? Actually it would be great to see Tina Turner showing up and knocking something over, a table maybe, or the narrative, but she is exactly not what this nostalgic fantasy is about.
February 16, 2013
The 2005 UK miniseries “Nathan Barley” features an ensemble cast of top British comedians and actors and satirizes what seems to be a thinly disguised Vice magazine or equivalent (here it’s “SugarApe,” sometimes written SugaRape) and hipsters in general.
October 28, 2011
via Facebook. Original source unknown.
January 10, 2010
Werner Herzog, 1980, speaking about TV and advertising and how films function while eating his shoe in public to help Errol Morris get his first major film released. See also The Occasional Diary Entries of German Director Werner Herzog.
February 24, 2009
This origami was created for Japanese shoe company ASICS by Sipho Mabona of Mabona Origami. Original video is here. Celebrating corporate advertising isn’t really our thing, but this little movie is pretty engaging and it has, not surprisingly, won many of the world’s top animation and advertising awards.
