Friday, October 16, 2009

Bring the love back in advertising

Fantastic video made for Microsoft Advertising.

Credits:
Company: Openhere, BELGIUM, Antwerp
Creative Director/ Art Director: Stijn Gansemans
Copywriter/ Creative Director: Stef Selfslagh
Account Superviser: Mathias Delmote
Company: Caviar, BELGIUM, Antwerp
Producer: Lies Muys
D.O.P./ Lighting/ Cameraman: Bert Haemelinck
Company: Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions, BELGIUM, Antwerp

: Peter Maxmin
Trade Marketing Manager: Geert Desager

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Friday, October 02, 2009

Simple IS better. And Luke Sullivan tells you why.

Luke Sullivan, the Author of "Hey Whipple, Squeeze This: A Guide to Creating Great Advertising" was on Mediastash.tv on Vimeo, lecturing for the Miami Ad School.

In this talk he comes with some great points and quotes.
38 min: Luke Sullivan says "Simple is better. Simple is faster. Simple is more memorable."

Neil French:
"For everything you add, you take away the importance of everything else in that frame. It is competing for the readers 2 seconds of attention.

Everything you add, reduces the importance of what is in there.
Everything you take away raises the visibility and importance of what is in the ad."

Amen.

ps. Follow Luke Sullivan on Twitter

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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Elliptic shows off the touchless web

Touchless wizzkids Elliptic Labs are on Engadget (again!) and this time they have teamed up with Opera Software. They have created a touchless photoalbum interface. Check out the video:



Ah, and if you happen to be really interrested in testing it (or just in Amsterdam), meet them at IBC 2009 and try their prototype at the Opera Software booth - 3.C11.

Nothing better than to see a client doing great.

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Thursday, August 06, 2009

Download Youtube videos easily

Gazzump (previously known as Farkie) downloads and converts Youtube videos, MySpace playlists, movies, audio, images, and much more into several different formats such as mp3, avi, mov, etc. Its kind of slow at times, but still usefull if you want to for example check out a video offline or listen to a song as a mp3 that you cant find anywhere. (Example: The fantastic song "Bonkers" by Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden is not available on iTunes, nor have I found it in any shop, but its on Youtube...)

Only bad part about Gazzump is that you have to register.

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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

How EMI does viral on Youtube

Found a great track today by Roll Deep "The Avenue" while listening to Last.fm. Found it on Youtube. The video has been uploaded by someone else than EMI, namely "aleduke". Rather than asking him to remove it from Youtube, EMI says: "Embedding disabled by request". Oh the joys of the musicindustry...

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

YouTube music mashup by Kutiman

Kutiman mixes songs and musicclips from YouTube into quite funky songs. See all his songs on YouTube or his website http://www.thru-you.com
My favourite song is called "I'm New. Here it goes: Kutiman (Thru-you)

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Monday, March 09, 2009

La Despensa creating great ads (as always)

The Spanish ad agency La Despensa has a great portfolio to show. And this time its for the matress company Pikolin. A long cathy song about all the noises keeping you up all night. See the video

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Thursday, January 15, 2009

Microsoft Pitches Software As Money-Saver by spending $150 mill


Good and very uncorporate ads coming from Microsoft. WPP has done a good job with the $150 milions they got for the ads. Well, I guess some of that money is also media spending.. :)
http://www.microsoft.com/business/peopleready/en-us/

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Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Macbook Wheel

Extremely well-made video by The Onion!

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Lego art by Nathan Sawaya

Lego is and always will be great. Nathan has taken this a tid bit further... See his portfolio on
brickartist.com

See how he made Master chief in the below video.

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Sunday, December 28, 2008

More free Family Guy

Another manner of watching Family Guy online. Faster than the previous site I recommended.

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Saturday, December 27, 2008

Looking for documentaries online? Check out Current TV


Not much more to say than they are free and online. Some are good, some not. But all documentaries (and TV shows) are free. So worthwhile checking out

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Watch Jim Carreyes new movie Yes for free online

Found this site yesterday called tv-dome.net. Pretty cool cause you can watch films and series online for free. Not very legite probably and in the case of this film "yes", the handycam quality is shit. But still, fast streaming. Enjoy, oh no! Wait. Jim Carreys new movie is not really funny...

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Thursday, December 25, 2008

FIRST STEPS Awards 2008 winner

Winner of FIRST STEPS Awards 2008 in the advertising category promoting the filmschool ifs. Directed and written by Hanno Olderdissen & Markus Sehr. This film is just too good for not being shared on Youtube! For all credits see http://www.firststeps.de

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Sunday, December 21, 2008

How many tshirts can a man wear!?

This video reveals the answer! And you can buy loads of design t-shirts on my site

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Monday, December 15, 2008

iTunes coverflow on Macs with iSight camera


FluidTunes from Majic Jungle Software. Scroll your library in iTunes waving your hands in front of your Apple Mac. Havent tested this one yet, but seems like a pretty cool app.

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Friday, November 07, 2008

Song for the weekend: Smolik feat. Mika Urbaniak "Who Told You"


Great song from the Polish musician Smolik. Smooth, chilly stuff. Just what I need for the weekend!

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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Hurra! Rockettothesky's new album "Medea" is released today!

And this is the first single "Grizzly Man". Yet another great song from Jenny Hval. Just have to say it: Jenny, du er flink! :) And what a fantastic voice.

But what happened to the song "A choir of crayons" that you played december 2006? Okay, quite different from the rest of "Medea", but loads of fun! Hope to get hold of in better quality than my crapping mobilephone recording...:

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Thursday, October 09, 2008

Compare different video sites

PC World has done a great job comparing different video sites, such as Youtube, Vimeo, etc. Funnily enough all sites are considered "good"


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Sunday, September 28, 2008

Wii on Youtube shaking it ut!

Great usage of Youtube to show off the new Wario game on Wii. http://www.youtube.com/experiencewii

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Thursday, September 04, 2008

P Diddy blog 12 - is an idiot...

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Sunday, August 31, 2008

Guinness beer ad - and sex still sells...

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Friday, August 29, 2008

George W. Bush on Global Warming

or Will Ferrell as Dubya on Global Warming if you like... :)

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Friday, August 08, 2008

Spam - everywhere and now even live!

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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Western (animated) Spaghetti by PES

Great animated cooking video made by PES.

Visit more great videos http://www.eatpes.com/

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Friday, June 13, 2008

Youtube alternatives: Vimeo, viddler, what other video site are there?!

More and more video sites are popping up. Good, considering Googles attempts to fill Youtube vids with overlay ads.

Here are just two examples from Vimeo, Viddler and Blip.tv :

http://www.vimeo.com/

Motion & Audio Experiments - A Minireel from Gustav Espenes on Vimeo.

http://www.viddler.com/
Steve Jobs WWDC 2008 Keynote


RightPedal video
http://www.blip.tv/ (by the way, original blip videos are massive 1280x750 pix)

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Thursday, June 05, 2008

Microsoft paa sykkeltur i Nordmarka

Video fra Microsofts sykkeltur fra Maridalen via Oerfiske og til Kikut.


Video: Sykkeltur i Nordmarka

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Sunday, May 25, 2008

Is this Nissan ad for real!?

Apparently its for Nissan Pathfinder and seems to have won a Cannes Lion. Funny, but eh...

And found some more: "Jeep, Bouncy and fun"

And finally one from Toyota: "I Love Air Conditioning" (any surprise here that this one is from Latin America..?)

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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Watch all episodes of Family Guy online

We all love Family Guy! Slowly Im thinking its better than Simpsons... wow. that was hard to say. Anyhow, watch (and even download) them online here for free (and very legit..):

http://www.familyguynow.com/

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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Easy tutorials (handdrawn and simple)

Simple animations with simple explanations of mainly web stuff. Such as "what is twitter?"
http://www.commoncraft.com/

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Saturday, May 10, 2008

Sparebank1 "Vit at vi er der"

One of my favourite ads, and really explaining how I feel right now...

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Webcasts fra Gulltaggen

Se webcasts fra Gulltaggen 2008. Bla. Bill Whitehorn fra Virign Galactic

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Friday, April 25, 2008

Gulltaggen 2008 showing Virgin Galactic and The Reactable

Yesterday was Norways web-awardshow, Gulltaggen, celebrating its 10. anniversary in Oslo Spectrum. Unfortunately the project I worked on for Microsoft, Heroes happen here, didnt win. But you can read about it (and all other nominations) here.


Gulltaggen had a couple of good seminars, especially the one by president Will Whitehorn from Virgin Galactic. Great stuff! Sci-fi today:


Another great experience was seeing the Reactable live. The reactable is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface. They performed live at Gulltaggen 2008 in Oslo

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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Broadcast directly from your mobile phone

New Scandinavian website Bambuser.com lets you broadcast directly and live from your mobile phone onto your website or blog.

Read all about it here (in Norwegian):
http://www.hjemmepc.no/tips___triks/article214246.ece

Or visit your website: www.bambuser.com

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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

La Despensa ad agency in Madrid are rockin it!

Check out the interview by the two founders, Javier Carrasco and Miguel Olivares. Not only are they really creative, they are really nice guys too!

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Lene Alexandras teknologiske betroelser

Microsoft feiret Heroes Happen {here} og jeg hadde gleden av aa intervjue Lene Alexandra med Troels. Heretter kan det ikke herske noen tvil om at Lene Alexandra kan mer enn du tror innen IT. Her IT knowledge is more than ok. Se intervjuet her: Lene Alexandras teknologiske betroelser Det finnes en mengde andre intervjuer der også med vinnerne av Heroes Happen {here}

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Thursday, February 07, 2008

Great song by Familjen: "Det snurrar i min skalle"

The proof that: 1. English is not the default for good songs. 2. Swedish dialect is funky. Very.

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Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Justice concert at Rockefeller

Justice live at Rockefeller, Oslo, Norway. Recorded 2. of February 2008. Not really quite sure which song this was (due to crap mobile sound), but at least one can experience the great atmosphere!

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Sunday, February 26, 2006

Spoof ad for VW

Im sure this spoof ad
from Lee and Dan is well appreciated in muslim countries. Especially for those who enjoyed the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad...

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