Just for laughs

In light of posting movie trailers, I wanted to post one I saw recently that made me bust into an uncontrollable fit of laughter. Best. Trailer. Ever. (or its up there at least). The movie was pretty damn funny, but this preview was HILARIOUS! Just watch it.

TFLN Monetizes Content

Check this out. Texts from last night has started a new form of advertising. I think it's a great idea IF the message strategy fits. I've seen previews for this movie. I think this fits. The ads aren't necessarily TsFLN, but the medium still works for the message, and I'm sure is resonating quite well with its intended target (not me, but a few of you).

I wonder what other advertisers will latch on to this. The Hangover missed a golden opportunity here, though. Agree?

In case you needed a step-by-step guide

I'll say nothing and just let the video do its work.

Ms. Taken

Ok, so how many of you are familiar with The Lonely Island? I only feel like highlighting "Jizz in my Pants" because someone has decided to parody the video in an awesome attempt to market a new product. See below.



Ms. Taken is a new product for "all the single ladies" out there. Wow ok enough YouTube linkage. But seriously, this Ms. Taken thing is for real. And I never thought seeing girls puke could be so hot.

Mentos and...Carlsberg?

Found this on a blog done by two guys I'm working with here.

"We all know what happens when you put Mentos in Diet Coke, but what about Carlsberg?"

Well done, BMW

Click to enlarge.

You can tell by the way I use my blog...

We just launched this today. Open to thoughts. Anyone want a free razor?

In case you have an extra 1:30 to spend

An hour and a half, not a minute and 30 seconds. Sometimes called Turkish Starwars, though its real name is The Man Who Saves the World. I made it through a few minutes of it, just to witness the complete ripoff of Star Wars. No, not the plot or anything. There's no Varth Dader or Skuke Lywalker. But holy hell! The footage! This guy just flatout lifted the footage from the original movie! Spend a few minutes to appreciate the blatant thievery and awesome scriptwriting.

Example:

"But in reality, how strong their weapons be; the enemies of the Earth in galaxy; did not have brains."

How poetic!



I think the Star Wars stuff may only be in the first 5 minutes or so, since I didn't really get past it, but who knows?

A Commercial based on...A Widget!

Yep. Saw this Monday night when I was watching the basketball championship. Forget basing spots on SNL skits. Let's make a spot based entirely on a widget! Except, this was VERY, VERY WELL DONE.

Gatorthirst

In the spirit of the Gator videos below, and a classic fake ad that was actually once parodied for a real ad, I give you this:

I'm lovin this ad!

Saw this a bunch this weekend while watching basketball. It really gets stuck in your head. I feel like the music is from another song (or very similar) but I can't place it. But I like the ad. I get excited every time I see it come on. And one commercial break I remember hoping it would be on and then it was - I was like "yes!"

Slow Thursday

Been a pretty slow afternoon for once. So i decided to post some random spots I felt like sharing:

Found this guy the other day. Karina liked it so much she made it her status. Pretty cool spot.


Found this one while looking for a spot the other day. Cute.


Thought I was having a nightmare the other night. Then the spot ended and I woke up. Except I was never asleep. Even the Slowskys were better than this.


lol funny spot from castrol. better than the monkeys one from the super bowl (this actually ran pregame, but hardly anybody saw it)

An Economical Choice

Price of a decent mop at the store: $10

or

Average cost of the first year of having a child: a little over $10,000

+ Price of Baby Mop: Pretty sure it's Japanese, so it's 500 Yen (tell me if I'm wrong, Lauren) making it a little more than $5

but

time saved from not having to mop the floor yourself: priceless


Baby Mop from Chris Milk on Vimeo.

Found this video on AdFreak.

A Classic, Remixed.

Some things are still absolutely hilarious, even when someone goes through and changes it up for us. This is literally never a let down.

Just for Reference...and a smile :)

Since not everyone paid attention in Weigold's class when he showed us Mean Joe Green (or even had him as a professor), here is is, along with the remake, Mean Troy (and I've added the Coke brand team for good measure, in case you've missed those TOO!)

Honestly, I liked the Mean Troy ad at first. But it wasn't one of my favorites. Then I watched it again and realized how good it was. How well they did a job of integrating another campaign into it. That association really helps drive that it's Coke Zero, not Coca Cola. And they did a wonderful job paying homage to a Super Bowl Classic. Great spot for a heterogenous audience. And they did a better job of combining old and new than Pepsi did.

StarSearch, Wizards Style

Ok, I first read this here. I promise there are no Rick Rolls in this post. Read the first post on top. Or if you're getting to this late, it's the post from Feb 2. It quotes something from E! Spoiler Chat (you have to scroll down a ways to find it). Anyway, for those of you who don't click links for fear of RickRoll:

Mel in Columbia, Mo.: I'm so glad they started the Super Bowl ep of The Office with a heavy dose of Dwight. He is awesome. Any scoop on what's to come with our fave lovelorn beet farmer?

I hear The Office is now casting for Corwin, a friend of Dwight's who is "kind of weird." He'll work with Michael and Dwight and deliver a few lines in a gruff, serious manner. We can only hope this means another trip to Schrute Farms!

So now the tough question: Who should get to play Corwin? Who do you think would be best at it? I'll start the discussion by posting a few of my thoughts. Please include pictures and an explanation why this person should play him. Remember, must be able to play "kind of weird" and deliver lines in a gruff, serious manner.

1) Keanu Reeves


He was the first person that came to mind for me. But he has to have the longer hair. Acting-wise: Think Neo. Whoa. No emotion. Gruff, serious. The longer hair could make him seem more weird.

2) Pauly Shore


The Office is a comedy, so Pauly would be right at home. Except it's a really good comedy, so maybe he'll be a little out of place. But damn he can play weird. Gruff and serious might be a stretch, but come on, I can definitely see him playing a friend of Dwight's.

3) Rainn Wilson


Who else would Dwight pick as a friend? Come on. If the AT&T spots can have two of the same guy on screen at once (they're not twins, Nicole), then the Office can do it! Plus, he can definitely play weird, and deliver gruff/serious lines yet make them funny.

4)Jason Lee


I can definitely see him playing "kind of weird" and delivering gruff/serious lines. And hell, he's already in one NBC show. Shouldn't be tough to get him in another.

5)Emile Hirsch


He played semi-socially awkward in Girl Next Door, and then someone that can definitely be a Corwin in Into the Wild. And for some reason, I just see it going over really well.

6)Kevin Corrigan


I really only remember him as that weird crazy uncle from Grounded for Life. And I think he also had a role in Superbad. But damn, the looks are pretty spot on. He could definitely play Dwight's friend Corwin.

7) Yao Ming


There's precedent for this. I can see him delivering these lines perfectly. Michael Jordan acted before. So did Shaq. Why can't Yao? He did have that Garmin spot before. His delivery was brilliant.

8) Tay Zonday



Why not?


Ok, I was much more serious about the first 6. Please, comment all you want with your own ideas for who should play Corwin on The Office. Maybe we'll vote, or have a bracket-style contest or something. Maybe something like what AdFreak did with its freakiest ads. We'll see. But please, don't hold back. That's what she said.

By the way, I lied. I'm sorry.

A Look Back in Time

Just a fun little blast from the past at newspapers' earliest ventures into the online arena. Not quite the World Wide Web, but it was a step in the right direction. Maybe this was back when it was still a series of tubes. As my dad said when he sent this to me, "Little did the newspapers know in 1981, they were testing themselves out of business." Check it out.



More cool stuff that happened in the 80s that is still shaping our Internet landscape

Got my hata blockas on YouTube

Ok, saw this on AdFreak. Really cool video done for Ray Ban back in 2007. Don't know how many of you have seen this before or not, but I wanted to share:



They've come back around this year with some more videos. I don't think they're nearly as good. In fact, they're weird. Here's one:



More videos with people doing things in Ray Bans:
Guys with mobile disco

Green screen guy

Guy sings and dances while bartender does flips and jumps off fence, amongst other things

Guy running around with really tall ice cream cone

Microsoft is cool (to make fun of)

Ok, if you haven't heard of Songsmith or seen the ridiculously long, even more ridiculously terrible ad for it, here it is:


I present that to you to tell you this: Songsmith is shockingly popular. It would appear that Microsoft has finally done something cool. Oh, wait. Everyone is using Songsmith to show just how absolutely terrible it is. There are tons of great songs on youtube that have been redone using Songsmith, with terrible results. See a few below. I bet Microsoft never intended for their product to be used by so many solely to point out how terrible it is.









Ugh, not all of them will allow embed, like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVMfpne6aEc. And there are plenty more where that came from!

re: Ketcup & Mayo

I couldn't help myself. All I could think about was this when I saw the thing on McNuggets, so I had to find a way to put it up. Here you go. And if any of you has ever heard me say it before, this is where it's from.