Sustainable hedonism
DISCLAIMER: For maximum fun see both American Psycho and The Dark Knight before viewing the video below:P
The first thing that came to my mind the moment I saw that unfortunate(ly) Oscar worthy on-set performance was this vid (which I saw a mere couple of days before) and LOLed my ass off even more:
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Hell, I was never and will probably never be into the whole “let’s all buy shit we don’t need and do the capitalist Rock”, but there’s no shame in finding a commercial effective, is there?:) I should mention that I ain’t from the States (and don’t eeeven get me started on American ‘foot’ball), but when a huge company will intentionally and willingly spend gazillions of dollars for a Superbowl prime time commercial slot, you know they’ll get their message to the masses right, right?
Well, some of them, anyways;)…
5. Careerbuilder
4. LMAO syndrome
3. Denny’s
2. Hyundai
(major props for an unusuall, ballsy, yet somehow very classy statement/observation;) Also, great voice-over.)
1. Hulu
(now this is how you turn negative product criticism into a positive PR advantage! Also, the punch line + Alec Baldwin’s face are absolutely priceless!!!)
Honorable mentions
Monster.com
Doritos
Castrol
You can check the rest of the commercials here, but I think I’ve more or less picked the cream of the crop.
p.s. – what’s up with the content of these commercials anyway? If it’s not escapistic movies or beer, it’s commercials about changing that miserable job or settling that divorce. WTF America, WTF?!
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OMFFSM!
An upbringing so fucked-up that – if they were alive today – even the mighty Spartans would say “Goddamn!”.
I don’t know what’s worse; the fact that there are approving adults in the background who seem to enjoy themselves immensely (their voices are heard throughout the video), or the fact that I started lol-ing and soon joined the fun…?!?;)
(via: Su)
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I like to indulge in conspiracy theories political conspiracies and I find John Perkin’s undercover explanation on certain aspects of America’s background fascinating.
From what I can tell it’s about, well, objects, doh:P:) Industrial design, and how it impacts our lives, to be exact! And from what I can tell it’s due sometime in March this year.
It’s impossible to cram a full film’s worth of people, ideas, and images into a 90-second trailer… so think of this as a small taste:
The song is “I Like Van Halen Because My Sister Says They Are Cool” by El Ten Eleven, from their new record These Promises Are Being Videotaped. And the font used in the trailer is… Akzidenz Grotesk! [Shout out to Paula Scher!]
Links: Objectified (2009) | IMDb
And it appers it’s got an older documentary brother as well. Helvetica:
Links: Helvetica (2007) | IMDb
Oh, and happy New Year! FSM loves us all:)
I think I’ve just stumbled upon my underdog “it” movie of 2009! Hell, I can probably count on most guys agreeing with me on this one! So &@#*!? Watchmen, &@#*!? The Transformers, Wolverine, Star Trek & Terminator Salvation…heck, even &@#*!? Avatar for all I care. Well maybe I’d be wise to skip Cameron’s shindig, but the rest of Hollywood can go &@#*!? itself…THIS is the shit right here!:)
Also, check out the official website for the movie, it’s totally messed up which means it’s totally in line with the B movie that Bitch Slap deeply wants to be. If Tarantino ever was an influential SOB, I hope this movie can do him proud. Pure cult in the making!;)
Links: Official website | IMDb
Although I appreciate Zaha’s work, I can’t really say she isn’t lazily copy/pasting her old stuff a lot of the time, kind of suffering from the Gehry syndrome, if you will. But this time, I’ve gotta hand it to her, she’s definitely realized where her strengths lie and has shifted away from generic organic shapes on the outside to make better use of them in the core of the building. In one word, her new buildding in Dubai, The Opus, looks awesome, and the trailer below is nothing shy of hypnotic due to clever use of atmospheric music, smooth voice-over and good renders. More info here.
Links: Zaha Hadid | The Opus | more Opus
(via: architectural videos*)
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A documentary that apparently plays on a kind of reverse psychology card and instead of emphasizing the bad focuses on what to do to make it good. Release date unknown for the moment (or I just couldn’t find it), but will definitely give it a view when it comes out. They’ve managed to get some influential individuals for interviews, which hopefully means this isn’t yet another example of generic film-making. Just not sure if the title holds up to the premise of the documentary – since they mention how the subject matter affects the whole planet I’d probably go with something a bit more grand scheme-ish than ‘nation’, but that’s just me being anal about petty details again:)
Trailer here.
(via: Treehugger)
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Ever heard of a song, but had no possible way of finding it? Like a non-vocal, totally instrumental song you couldn’t even remember the lyrics to, a song that doesn’t have even a single word based on which you can google it up.
Me, I’m the zen master of finding music even when the only frame of reference I have is a single word in that song or its time and place in, say, a movie or TV show (sure, the likes of IMDb and YouTube help a great deal here cos’ there’s usually people asking the same questions as I am and luckily there’s other people who know the answers to them). I SherlockHolmes that stuff down with a 100% success rate, but when it comes to finding instrumental music my knowledge dwindles and shivers away.
Sure there’s web-based tools like Songtapper that try to help people find music with the help of the space-bar and the predisposition that you actually know how the song you want to tap sounds. How accuarate their current results are I don’t really know, but a year or so ago their range only covered mainstream music.
So there’s gotta be something better than song-tapper, right? Well, atm the best I can find is VidtoMp3. When even YouTube comments can’t give me the answer I want I can now at least easily download the video’s audio as an .mp3. It’s also handy if you can’t download the audio file anywhere else…if a video with that song exists, that is. And don’t expect solid bit-rate quality either.
But I have a feeling that I’m not the only one thinking of an universal audio search engine to which I could stream that YouTube video and this search engine would go through it’s ever-growing audio database and find me the result I want. Heck, it could even distinguish between certain versions of that song, like mixes and remixes which are a dime a dozen in electronic music. Since there’s so much music going around it’s really a shame that some of it is so hard to come by. And where would this audio beast feed you ask? Well, ever since web 2.0 sites offer online music databases. The likes of Last FM, Deezer, Songza, TheSixtyOne only to name a few. Their range has well passed the mainstream and if the web has something to offer, that’s everything! Literally, EVERYTHING:) We need a Technorati for music. What you want, when you want.
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Man this brings me back to the early to mid- 90’s when the likes of Aerosmith, Guns ‘n’ Roses, Bon Jovi and co. were on top of their game and rock’n’ roll dominated the airwaves. There’s also a version of the music video made in Excel, but I’m not sure whether it’s a case of weird excel nostalgia or pure experimentation. But that’s totally beside the point: this song is proof that ‘old fucks’ can still kick-ass! With ease!!!
Links: Official site | Wikipedia | Album info | Song info | Lyrics
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