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While every other news site out there is only covering the bout of violence that happened this past Comic-Con in San Diego and not so much the actual coolness of the event, we’re highlighting some of the best trailers that were released at SDCC.
So, say you’re Bob From Marketing. You’ve already received your promotion for creating one of the most successful commercial campaigns of your career, but you just have to out-do yourself. What do you do?
That’s right. I’m talking about @OldSpice. If you’re a twitterbug (I just made that term up. One nickel to my paypal account every time you use it. Thanks.) you’ve already figured out what Bob did. Here are the ingredients for his amazing commercial-sauce.
- Build a fake bathroom and hope no one confuses it with a real one
- Hire Isaiah Mustafa for
an entire dayseveral days (Apparently this thing is still going! Say goodbye to your productivity.) - Get your creative team to just chill and write down random things
- Scope out Twitter and YouTube for comments
- Have a video-editing robot
- Have a GIANT box somewhere with just tons and tons of props
Phase 1: Spend all day coming up with ridiculous things to say in response. Phase 2: ??? Phase 3: Profit.
His real name is David “Elsewhere” Bernard, but you all know him as that kid in the orange sweatshirt back with the slick frakin’ moves. The original viral video, shot at Korean American talent show Kollaboration in 2001, became the 8th highest viewed video of all time on YouTube, and this got advertisers’ attention — in a major way. Since then, David Elsewhere has practically made a living as an illusionary dancer, appearing in commercials, stage, and film — even gaining the attention of the late Michael Jackson, who he was collaborating with for the “This is It” London show.
Here’s a small collection of the work he’s done with commercials and a behind-the-scenes from Alice in Wonderland.
The latest release of Opera’s 10.60 browser boasted ‘What is faster than the fastest?’ Although tests by Lifehacker and DailyTech show that Opera is still not as fast as Chrome or Safari, it’s really made some headway in the new version. Nevertheless, an Opera-employed copywriter put together a video of one of the most overused — but still entertaining — internet memes: alternative subtitles to the famous Hitler outburst scene from the film ‘Der Untergang’ — aka ‘Downfall’ (via Download Squad).
Fourth of July is coming up on Sunday, and you know what that means — everyone becomes a pyromaniac. However, if you don’t feel like setting your garage on fire or taking that fun trip to the emergency room because you were playing Roman Candle Dodgeball, you could head over to a public viewing of a fireworks show.
There’s a lot more to fireworks than a guy standing in a field lighting fuses with a cigarette, and the most impressive of all compete for national and international titles. Here are a few examples from professional competitions, where teams of pyrotechnics go head to head for the best fireworks displays, synced to music. This first video is synchronized to Cowboy Beebop’s theme song, “Tank!”
