Stunning work and cinematography by Wieden + Kennedy for Levis Europe. Although I think the ad is stunning, it is rather unfortunate that it includes an image of a student standing against riot police and talking about living life to the fullest. The ad started airing yesterday in the UK, very very poor timing guys!!
Kulula: UFO
To help celebrate 10 years of Kulula their agency King James has worked out that they have flown 55million KM, the same distance from here to Mars!. They have bought plots of land on Mars and will be giving away 22 of them to lucky winners who suggest the best use of the plots through a facebook app (click here for that). They have also made up a UFO (pictured above) and placed it at Cape Town airport.
Thanks for the plot of land and the Mars Rock Kulula! thanks for always going above and beyond.
Nokia: Gulp Worlds Largest Stop Animation
‘Gulp’ is a short film created by Sumo Science at Aardman, depicting a fisherman going about his daily catch. Shot on location at Pendine Beach in South Wales, every frame of this stop-motion animation was shot using a Nokia N8, with its 12 megapixel camera and Carl Zeiss optics. The film has broken a world record for the ‘largest stop-motion animation set’, with the largest scene stretching over 11,000 square feet.
The sand artists: http://www.sandsculptureice.co.uk
Subway: SubBeat Musical
Interesting approach by McCann, London for Subway’s new Smokey Chicken Sensation Sandwich. They produced this pretty crazy country rap video featuring famous chap Yuri Lane with his beatbox harmonica.
TomTom: Knight Rider
As a follow up to last years Star Wars themed ads TomTom have enlisted the help of Kit from Knight Rider to promote their maps update service. Nice.
Reporters without borders: The voice
Wonderful campaign by Reporters without borders. To help draw attention to some of the countries in the world who do not have a free press, they ran print ads with the faces of people like Muammar Gaddafi along with QR codes. They then prompted people to scan the QR code and place their phone over the mouths of the villains, a journalist then explained the crimes against reporters currently happening in that country.
Via: Blogilvy
Jell-O Pudding: Twitter Billboard
Crispin Porter + Bogusky recently put up the above interactive billboard in New York for Jell-O puddings. The billboard monitors twitter for smiley and sad emoticons to work out an American average. If there are more smiley faces the billboard face is happy, if there are more sad emoticons, then the billboard shows a sad face and randomly gives coupons for Jell-O to the people posting sad emoticons.
For an online version go to http://jellopuddingface.com.
Digital Edge Live: Cape Town Event
The producers of the IMC Conference, LIVING YOUR BRAND have partnered with NATIVE to bring you this years Digital Edge Live in Cape Town on 14 October 2011.
The event puts the brightest digital minds against each other in a showdown in South African digital marketing. The event disposes of the dull & done conference format and provides a platform for intelligent debate about critical digital marketing & communication issues in a one on one format.
The Digital Edge Live is squarely aimed at all marketing & communications professionals, including agency teams who are looking to grow their understanding and to learn from global and local experts.
The Event takes place October 14 at Dragon Power Arena, 8 Stirling Street Cape Town.
Cost is R1550 per person, but tickets purchased before 30 August will qualify for a 10% discount on the price. The event will extend over four hours and includes free secure parking, coffee, tea, snacks and bar and entertainment.
For more details contact the organizers on 021 6716362 or bookings@livingyourbrand.co.za
Visit www.thedigitaledge.co.za/live2011 for more details
Old Spice: Mano a Mano Final
After another week of personal video replies, the original Old Spice guy ends his fight with Fabio. Few. Well done for milking it to the end Wieden + Kennedy
Nando’s Noise: Reggie Watts
Stunning work by Nando’s UK.They hired famous beat boxer Reggie Watts to launch the Nando’s Noise campaign where users can make there own Reggie Watts beat box mix and share it on facebook or twitter. Go to http://www.nandosnoise.com to find out more.