2012 World's Best Commercials

"As long as there's none of those damned commercials" I tell the clerk as I buy the tickets, "Absolutely none" he tells me, "the film goes right into the movie...".

Now these commercials, the best, the Bronze, Silver and Gold Lion winners from Cannes, they're great. Some are better than great, most have far more insight, originality, depth and emotion than James Cameron's entire life's work. Links to some of the more memorable below.

Allstate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DU5LKoC1A8 - You know it's going to be good when the narrator tells you he's your son. The other Allstate commercials with Mayhem are worth watching as well. 

Drink Driving - Brandhouse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JWUXXXJq8k - Like being a woman on Plenty of Fish...

Heineken - The Entrance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcX1PTOmvO8 - Which only serves to remind me how much I need to improve my party skills....

Nike: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl0IlD4qLUM - Deep pockets can buy you great advertising. Love the ad, despise the corporation.

Indian Train: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzEKCYb6zzU - Just for the WTF factor. I mean, WTF.

Tippex - A hunter shoots a bear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ba1BqJ4S2M - Clever Viral, try and stump the hunter. Go on.

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Category: Film

Created: 23 January 2012

The Best Newscast Ever

Without a doubt, the best news ever. How much better would the news be if every station did this?

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Category: WTF

Created: 19 January 2012

minus thirty degrees and dropping...

The temperature minus thirty degrees and dropping. 

The first taste of winter this winter. We can't complain, temperatures hovering at the +10, +12, degree Celsius range, now, however, winter's here.

In the morning the temperature in the house is 10 degrees. I crank the heat, the cats perch upon the vents, clouds of fur and dried cat-feces fill the air. Winter's here.

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Category: Miscellany

Created: 18 January 2012

Probably the best hot chocolate in the world

Now I'd bought myself some hot chocolate discs - premium, at a correspondingly high price, while doing my Xmas shopping, and never gotten around to trying them. So today I brought one in and frothed some milk and stirred it up - chipotle chile & chocolate, a curious combination, but I'm a curious guy.

It was amazing. Not sweet, simply rich, pure chocolate. The best hot chocolate in the world. Now I'm curious to try their other flavours....

Link: http://www.tazachocolate.com/ 

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Category: Other

Created: 18 January 2012