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Have You Seen This Yet? Ray Ban Viral Where the Sun Don’t Shine
I noticed a new viral video while trolling the net and thought I’d confront it. It was posted yesterday on YouTube. Then BuzzFeed picked it up yesterday and Laughing Squid picked it up this morning. It features a guy running through a subway train in the opposite direction that it’s traveling, so he stays even [...]
Videos From One Day on Earth
No, this isn’t the Ridley Scott film that was hyped on YouTube. Planning for the project, known as One Day on Earth, began two years ago which included coordinating thousands of people around the world to film a day in their life on 10.10.10, and then creating a full-length film out of it. Beyond that, [...]
Posterchild Messes With Phonebooth Advertisements
Posterchild is a Toronto-based street artist who likes to mess with your mind in public places. His most notable project was hanging giant Mario blocks in public, which influenced some copycat incidents. This time he’s trying to get people to think better of public phonebooths – which are no more than just sidewalk protrusions for [...]
Tuesday Laughs: Pee Wee, Tony Danza and Nick Cage’s Hair
Here are some of our new favorite funny videos trending on the internet. Pee Wee Herman and Andy Samberg take a bunch of shots and assault people. Hold me closer Tony Danza. A celebration of the many hairstyles of Nicholas “Kim Coppola” Cage. Saw this video right after I published this post, but had to [...]
Brand Spanking: MLK, Monster Trucks, Bus Stops and more
Gathering up buzzworthy branded content from around the web. Chevrolet goes big on MLK day with a site that invites people to record themselves reading quotes from the historic civil rights leader. Check out the website here. Mini takes center stage at a monster truck rally in this brilliant new commercial of theirs. Colle+McVoy created [...]
Brand New 3D Technology Sans Eyewear
A man named Francois Vogel demonstrates his discovery of a way to watch video in 3D without the annoying plastic or cardboard glasses. Instead he attaches these small devices to each side of his forehead (near the temple) and they cause his eyes to blink rapidly back and forth – which creates the same 3D [...]
BBC’s Next Big Nature Series: Human Planet
BBC just released a trailer and short clips on their YouTube channel to hype their latest nature series, following the success of Planet Earth and Life. This time Human Planet points the cameras in the mirror so to speak – just not literally back at ourselves. You know BBC went out and found the most [...]
Friday Music Video Round Up: 1.14.2011
Here’s another Friday round up of some of the latest music videos to get you pumped for the weekend. Starkey – “Robot Hands” This is just a teaser, but it’s a pretty amazing teaser. ”An Island” – A Film By Vincent Moon and Efterklang YAWN – “Toys” – Directed by Eli Stonberg Deerhoof - “Super Duper [...]
Have You Seen This Yet? Tom Selleck Predicts the Future
This video of 8-year-old AT&T commercials has been around a while – even on YouTube – but surprisingly there aren’t THAT many views on it. Somehow I missed Mashable‘s post on it the other week, but maybe you did too. So what’s the deal with these AT&T commercials you ask? They’re from an old campaign [...]
Retinal Blast: Nathaniel Whitcomb Redefines Music Videos
This weeks Retinal Blast dives into the work of Cleveland-based artist and designer Nathaniel Whitcomb. Under his brilliant blog Think or Smile, Whitcomb logs his daily inspirations (visual and musical), as well as his many artistic creations – which have developed a growing following in the indie music blogosphere. His most impressive work, however, has [...]
Cool! A Banner Ad! – Says a New Tumblr Blog
I spotted a funny new Tumblr this morning and I’m really feeling the urge to pass it on to everyone. It’s called Things Real People Don’t Say About Advertising and it features hilarious, captioned photos of exactly that. I chose a few selects for you to check out below, but definitely visit the blog for [...]
Killing It: California is a Place (@caliisaplace)
This week I’m excited to profile the creators of one of the most amazing video and photo blogs I’ve ever seen. Even if you’ve never been to California, the Golden State-centric short films at California Is A Place will still blow your mind. This state has everything within its vast borders and it shows in [...]
NASA Gets Called Out For Being Social Squares
Here’s another YouTube voice rising up. User damewse is so fed up with NASA’s failed attempts to connect with the American public that he’s putting out his own material using repurposed footage and the hypnotic combination of minimalist piano and Carl Sagan. It’s actually pretty humbling and encouraging stuff – although keep in mind it’s [...]
Tuesday Laughs: Babies, Product Placement, Cats and Oranges
The new year has yet to produce many worthy “Tuesday Laughs” videos, but these all made the cut. Enjoy a little humor to get you through the week: A completely ridiculous video about a baby that commits one serious crime. I think this video is pretty funny and I’m actually fascinated with some of the [...]
Are Employees the new Creative Directors
Well… not quite. But Stuart Elliot of NYT wrote this piece about Italian chain restaurant Carino’s producing a commercial based on a seemingly random suggestion from an employee for a concept of a commercial she’d like to see. The resulting spot that ran on TV is below. The article then goes on to explain that [...]
Have you seen this yet? Intel Visual Life “The Sartorialist”
Urgent team member Kasia posted this video on her blog fake tv the other day. It’s a short doc about fashion blogger Scott Schumann of The Sartorialist made for Intel’s new Visual Life campaign. It’s nice to see intellectual and influential bloggers getting more mainstream love by collaborating with brands. With 70k hits a day, [...]
Brand Spanking: Carlsberg, Kraft and Huggies
Gathering up buzzworthy branded content from around the web. Carlsberg goes big with this new commercial demonstrating why they have probably the best ad in the world. via Adverblog Ted Williams on his first gig with Kraft after becoming a YouTube sensation. I find the whole thing kind of awkward now. Like we can’t just let the [...]
Nikon Film Festival Wants A Hero in 140 Seconds
Nikon recently launched a European short film festival to promote their latest camera, D7000. The company is calling for submissions that describe a vision of a hero in under 140 seconds. Unfortunately it’s only for EU residents, but still it’s worth checking out some of the current submissions on the festival site (there are a [...]
Friday Music Video Round Up: 1.7.2011
We’re back with some more music videos to kick off 2011! Crank those speakers up. Destroyer – “Kaputt” – Directed by Dawn Garcia Com Truise – “FairLight” – Created by 10lb Pictures Mount Kimbie – “Before I Move Off” – Film by Tyrone Lebon Akron/Family – “So It Goes” – Directed by Tommy Yasuhara
Retinal Blast: Skate Vid, Lost Photos, 3D Graphics and Fonts