Cute Animal Christmas Song

BBC ad created to raise awareness and educate people to adopt environmentally friendly actions that help preserve the natural habitats of the animals living around us.

Yell.com: Marcus' Gangsta Party

This spot is by AKQA London. Marcus is like the boy version of Veruca Salt from Wally Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. “Daddy I want a golden goose, and I want it NOW!” Only Marcus wants to be ghetto, with gold chains, not a golden goose.

Twitter Flash Mop Helps the Homeless

Twitter users in Vancouver take to the streets to donate warm clothing to the homeless. It's a tweetup with a cause--using Twitter to call people to action, people showed up with bags full of clothes to donate.

The Doghouse

This is funny. Put people in the doghouse and see who else was put in the doghouse. If you're being a bag, your going in the doghouse.

Yulia Brodskaya

Russian graphic designer and illustrator Yulia Brodskaya.

From her paper-cut illustrations series:

43 Folders: Merlin Mann

Our crazy and brilliant friend Merlin Mann. There is so much within 43 Folders who knows where to begin to explain.
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War Child Canada: Do Nothing

Canadian PSA that shows how when we do nothing to stop children from fighting war it is like we are aiding them (John St., Toronto).

VW Dog Fish

Man's best friend: his dog (fish) and the VW car he drives. (BBDO, Sao Paolo)

Brains from Thunderbirds

Using Thunderbirds in advertising to sell Drench Water (CHI, London). That puppet can dance. The song is "Rhythm is a Dancer" by SNAP!

NY South Ferry Station: "See it Split, See it Change"

The new NYC South Ferry subway station will feature work by twin brother artists Doug and Mike Starn entitled "See it Split, See it Change." Through their project, the brothers seek to integrate the splitting and changing direction of tree branches with the railroad tracks and, in doing so, juxtapose nature with man-made construction.

Keitai Shosetsu: The Japanese Cell Phone Novel

In Japan, there is a rising popularity in novels created by Japanese girls written on their cell phones. Stories often feature content which is controversial in the Japanese culture so many authors write under pseudonyms. The novels are also being criticized for being inauthentic and having less merit for being written on a cellphone instead of more traditional methods. An abstract of an article from The New Yorker.

Friends With You

Friends With You is an ongoing art project by Miami-based artists Sam Borkson and Arturo Sandoval. With themes of magic, friendship, and luck, the two have created everything from a toy line, to movies, to public art installations.

SodaHead

SodaHead.com, a Web site that lets users create and participate in opinion polls, is achieving ad click and conversion rates as much as ten times higher than the industry average by using provocative topics and questions to capture the attention and engagement of viewers.

Waltz With Bashir

A trailer for Waltz With Bashir, an Ari Folman film. It is a documentary about the 1982 Lebanon war done all in animation.

Man is No Island: Tropfest NY 2008 Winner

Here is the winner for Tropfest New York--the world's largest short film festival, held in both Sydney and New York. All of it was filmed on a camera phone.
Director/Producer: Jason van Genderen
Co-Producer: Shane Emmett
Original Music: John Roy

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Wisdom Book: Andrew Zuckerman

"Pontiac Firebird 82"

And the song from the marina still-shot video is "Pontiac Firebird 82." Can't figure out if the artist's name is Sonido Lasser Drakar or Maria Daniela y su Sonido Lasser. Either way, it's definitely a Mexican electronic duo.

My Robot Friend--"Robot High School"

The song from the monster truck rally tilt-shift video is "Robot High School" by My Robot Friend. Also known as Howard Robot, My Robot Friend has opened for acts such as the Scissor Scissors and Le Tigre. Really catchy vibe.

Tilt-Shift Video

Tilt-shift video--making the world look like miniatures one photo at a time. Time elapse them together and you get amazing results. Below are images from the Hoover Dam and if you click here you can see what a monster truck rally and marina look like in miniature.

Kung Fu Panda

Artist's renditions of KungFu Panda from Variety Japan. Sure the words are in Japanese and you may not be able to read them but the images speak for themselves.

And more (Kung Fu?) Panda images can be found on the armyofsnipers blog. The image of the peaceful bamboo-eating panda will never be the same. These guys will rip you to shreds five times before you hit the ground.

Urban Camouflage Art by Joshua Callaghan

And in a similar fashion, artist Joshua Callaghan has turned ugly urban utility structures in and around Culver City, CA into works of art by painting them to look like part of their environment.

Environmental Graffiti

Photos from TheChive of people painted so that they blend in with the environments that surround them. This takes camouflage to a completely new level.

Royksopp--"Remind Me"

The music video for "Remind Me" by Norwegian electronic duo Royksopp (running Scandinavian electronic theme running here?). A day in the life at its finest. You might recognize the song from the "It's so easy a cave man can do it" GEICO commercial where the caveman is in an airport on the horizontal escalator.

Minilogue--"Animals"

The music video for "Animals" by Swedish electronic duo Minologue. I'm all about the guy that's hammering the apples on his head. If you like the sound, check out their website. Their latest album is very minimalist house/techno.