Collect the complete set! I spotted some of these at Home Hardware in-store earlier today, then noticed them later on Boing Boing. Fantabulous!
What! No hoe?
OMG! Creative genius, Paul Robertson, creates probably the greatest animation humankind has ever known. Side-scrolling action that smacks of River City Ransom meets Night of the Living Dead.
Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006.
The site is really getting hit hard. Here’s a mirror of the torrent.
Every year, the Regina Public Library Film Theatre, a repertory theatre (don’t worry, I had to look it up, too) located here in town, would screen a film entitled “The World’s Best Commercials” I think for only one night. It’s a showcase of the winners of the Cannes Lions Award winners from the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. Entries have come from the USA, Canada, the UK, France, Brazil, Australia, you name it. If you thought the Super Bowl Commercials were good, you haven’t seen anything, yet. These aren’t run through the Jesusland filter.
I’ve tried to make a habit of going every time the RPL screens the next year’s edition, but I’ve only actually been to a few, the last time being in 1999 or 2000. Added below is one from the UK by BBH, advertising Lynx body spray. You might know this brand under a different name here in Canada, Axe. This was from The World’s Best Commercials, 1997. I wonder why I remember it so well…
Now, AdFilms here in Canada used to offer many of the different years for purchase for a few hundred dollars a pop, presumably for educational institutes, but that part of their site seems to no longer exist. And I seriously doubt they’ll ever be available for joe public in some kind of DVD or DVD-esque format. I assume the high price tag is due to some kind of weird advertising licensing thing. What is it with commercials? If they’re current, you can pay a service not to see them; if they’re old, you pay a service to see them.
Sometimes I feel there are entire money-making market schemes opportunities just passing me by.
Update: BTW, the song in the Lynx commercial is “Boom Shack-A-Lak” by Apache Indian. You can find it on Make Way for the Indian. Apparently, he’s done a new version of “Israelites” with Desmond Dekker, shown here:
You can see Desmond Dekker’s original version here:
Which reminds me of this Maxell commercial from many years ago:
And just because I like to make you people scroll, here’s something to top it off. Bobby McFerrin, Bill Irwin, and Robin Williams.
Bachelors, this one’s for you.
Description from YouTube: “‘Make a line on the potato before boiling, and after boiling, put the potato into ice water for 10 seconds, and you should be able to peel the skin easily. You don’t need to worry about potato becoming cold or hard to be mashed. It remains hot enough to be processed after that.’” –mcplyn
Four videos for your viewing pleasure (in the same vein as the Back Dorm Boys and Gary Brolsma). Two girls goofing around in front of a karaoke station for a TV show. I’d love to know if someone could fill me in on the details: name and purpose of the show, names of the girls, names of the songs/artists, etc…
Update: It’s a shame you don’t see that kind of stuff on this side of the world. I think people here are just way too reserved to let loose. They seem to need to get drunk to get silly, which might explain why you’ll never really see this sort of thing here in great numbers. And that’s sad.
Witches – There She Is
Yu Chae Young – Emotion