High Five FirstBank. Great Super Bowl Commercial.

Januar 28th, 2012 • Ads, We like
Tags: Advertising, Cool, Funny, Ideas, Super Bowl, Truth, TV, We like

Yes, that Creative Director had balls to present this concept to the client. Love it.

FirstBank – Super Bowl Commercial from TDA_Boulder on Vimeo.

Whoa! What a Difference a #BlackoutSOPA Day Makes.

Januar 24th, 2012 • Politics
Tags: Change, Cool, PIPA, Politics, SOPA, USA

Just to make sure nobody ever ever ever asks the question again ‘What we can do against something like SOPA?’ or if it makes sense at all to protest. It does. Check out the results from Blackout SOPA Day last week on Jan 18.

Thanks to Buzzhunt

The Next Big Thing. Strange Cooking Shows.

Januar 15th, 2012 • Ideas, Trends
Tags: Cooking, Cool, Creativity, Funny, Memes, Videos, youtube

The world of Meme patterns is a rich one. My trusted helper to find out what’s so funny about advice dog or Tim Tebow is knowyourmeme.com. Not yet on the list is the apparent new trend stage really really niche topical cooking shows on Youtube. The following shows are highly recommened.

Vegan Black Metal Chef – Seriously funny. Brian Manowitz from Norway mixes Vegan food and Black Metal. What could go wrong?

Here is the link to more recipes and here is an interview with Brian himself.

Culinary Propaganda Chef – Szef Bartek is a new competitor of Vegan Black Metal Chef and obviously not yet quite decided if he wants to be rather Stalin or Batman. Check it out here.

Depression Cooking – Depression cooking is not quite what you think: Clara is 94 and she gives advice on how to cook like back during the Great Depression. The lovely elderly Lady has started quite a successful concept with Depression Cooking. She sells her own DVD and I am quite sure she sells here cook book somewhere on amazon.

Did I miss a strange cooking show on Youtube that must be on the list? Let me know.

Meanwhile in Japan. A Kinect Hack a Day keeps the Doctor away.

November 21st, 2011 • Tech
Tags: 3D, Cool, Creativity, Experimental, Funny, Hack, japan, Kinect, prank, Tech, visual, World

This fantastic looking little Kinect hack is almost too typical Japanese. At least if you consider that it seems to be completely normal (after a little surprise) for Japanese people to pose with your evil Manga-twin in the mirror…

Catvertising. How a small Canadian Agency revolutionizes Marketing (again).

November 14th, 2011 • Experimental, Fake, We like
Tags: Agencies, Cats, Cool, Experimental, Funny, Pink Pony, Viral

Canadian agency John St does it again. After staging Pink Pony, the mother of all award videos, last year they are now ready for the next step: a Catvertising Agency. John St: The time is ripe.

Stuff We Like. Selfcontrolfreak’s Interactive Videos.

Oktober 20th, 2011 • Experimental, People, Tech, We like
Tags: Amsterdam, Cool, Creativity, Experimental, Funny, Gaming, intelligent, Pechakuchanight, People, selfcontrolfreak, Tech, video, visual, We like

Last night I attended Amsterdam’s Pechakucha Night at Roest. Most of you probably know the concept: Random people present their business concept/idea/art theory/whatever on 20 slides and they only have 20 seconds for each page before a heartless Powerpoint algorithm switches to the next one. The one person that definitely stood out for me was Olivier Otten – a young Dutch Creative/Developer who tries to play with very playful ways to interact with video under the name Selfcontrolfreak.

I don’t want to say much more. Just one thing. Gamification is not about badges and check-ins. Traditional playful, interactive metaphors have been around since the 1990s. But even two decades later I know of few platforms which are as much fun as this one.

Check out his 22 simple, playful video examples and start playing with Selfcontrolfreak.

Anrealage. An 8-Bit Showroom in Tokyo.

Oktober 10th, 2011 • Experimental, Retail
Tags: anrealage, Cool, Creativity, Design, diesign, Experimental, Fashion, Ideas, japan, Kunihiko Morinaga, Lifestyle, People, Presentation, Retail, tokyo, visual, World

8-Bit? Yawn. We have seen pretty much everything in 8 Bit already. Except a store concept. Experimental Japanese designer Kunihiko Morinaga has built this showroom for the F/W collection of his label Anrealage in Tokyo. I think 8-bit is pretty close to getting buried very soon – but I think Mr Morinaga’s showroom is a fantastic final scream.

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Great Ads. Sony PS3, Long Live Play.

Oktober 6th, 2011 • Ads, Games
Tags: Ads, Agencies, Brands, Cool, Creativity, Funny, Gaming, Ideas, Lifestyle, sony, visual, We like

Some campaigns are different. Sony’s “Long Live Play” PS3 Campaign may be one of them. Playstation brand’s ad agency Deutsch Inc. really did a great job. But just check it out…

Mobile Campaigning. Sweden’s Safest Hands.

Oktober 4th, 2011 • Mobile
Tags: App, Apps, Campaign, Cool, Creativity, Funny, Mobile, Sweden, We like

Ah nice! My colleague Oskar shared this link of one of his favorite campaigns right now: Sweden’s Safest Hands – a vert smart Mobile competition by the Swedish Post.

Actually it’s a type of campaign we have seen before. But the time-relevance and the densitiy of post offices makes this one extremely cool. Oh…and the app looks pretty nice as well. I can imagine this really works for the Swedish Post. Great idea.

Here is how it works:

The agency is akestam holst. And I don’t know what that means. Unfortunately.

How to position Ice Cream like a Boss: “You want nutrition, eat carrots”.

September 22nd, 2011 • Ads, Brands, We like
Tags: Ads, Cool, Copy, Copywriting, Creativity, Food, Funny, intelligent, World

I just stumbled upon this perfect example of a great copy text. After years of working as a copywriter (in my previous life) I still have a lot of respect for the few who are able to write such an intelligent, bold, entertaining text. A no-bullshit text that positions this ice cream as the fat, unhealthy, very delicious product that it is. Well done! Congratulations Wisconsin for this ice cream and congratulations for the copywriter (who was probably the van owner).

Please zoom in if you are too old to read the text below.