Genius..!!
A note of the things that pop up in my head. Or in front of me. Or whichever comes first.
Genius..!!
They voted this guy twice???
Humor from David Letterman.
A video profile of asics / Onitsuka by Mabona Origami.
Awesome idea and award winning execution.
Back in mid-September, my office made a TVC for Telkom. We came up with a retro feel just for the sake of TV stopping power, which did work pretty well since quite a lot of people talked about it and even grew some buzz in the local advertising mailing lists. This is what we came up with:
Then today I found something over at the 2dopeboyz.com blog. There was a video for the Swizz Beatz remix of the Maroon 5 featuring Rihanna song “If I Never See Your Face Again”. I wasn’t prepared for this. And neither will you.

Forget whatever Naomi Klein said.
“Yes, We Can” is the new “Just Do It”.
The ’40s had Churchill’s “We Will Never Surrender” and “Finest Hour”
The ’60s had Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream”
The ’80s had the Berlin Reunification
The ’90s had the Rodney King tape
This speech will belong to our generation.
History will remember November 4, 2008 as the day the third millenium began.
Take the political issues of Syriana, the gritty real world feel of the Bourne trilogy, the shadowy intricasy of Infernal Affairs, the “keep-your-enemies-closer” credo of the Godfather trilogy, the cultural and linguistic accuracy of The Kingdom, the rollercoaster sensation of the RPG assualt scene from Black Hawk Down, the adrenaline rush of the desert aerial rescue scene from Transformers, plus a pinch of romance sub-plot that only Leo DiCaprio can deliver and you get a rough idea of what Body of Lies feels like.
8/10