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If we could scour the globe for a single country that routinely produced the weirdest most perplexing ads, it would have to be.... Japan!


And you thought Tommy Lee Jones was strange at the Oscars...

For all our friends doing stop motion or any other kind of animation, you'll love this advert from England for John Lewis Home Insurance.

In fact, do a youtube search for John Lewis Christmas ads, they're epic!

Those Japanese adverts are crazy :-o This is also mad. I suspect that it is real! Scary!



Here is another Genre bending video. It actually could go into the movie trailer thread but seeing as how it a Movie about a advertising campaign I thought that i would put it in here!

I slave all day :woohoo:

Is it an Advert or is it a political statement? That is up to you decide. I love my Apple products but am still resisting the iPhone jump or perhaps dunk would be apter. Symbian (Nokia's forgotten OS) still works fine for me

The Robot iPhone short is a brilliant piece of filmmaking. A satire on our culture, poingant, profound & a little pointed. I love it.

The Fear based advertising "documentary" is actually a fake, though quite convincing. They've got an actual website set up with a funny Pharma ad & a list of high profile corporate clients (that is until they're legally forced to take them down).

www.johnst.com

econsultancy.com/ca/blog/63808-take-that...s-hilarious-reaction

Number One Rule of Advertising...

Be Clever!

Here's a brilliant Rube Goldberg Machine operated by Dogs!

Just imagine the work that went into this (some perfect camera movement too)

Wonderful stuff

Slightly off topic but some how an inspiration

Should really be in the music video section ops…

This s kind of unusual

without music



and one of the better alternatives with music

Der Lauf der Dinge with additional sound aphex (2 of 3)

Sorry Paurray, haven't had the time to check those last 2 posts out yet (half hour required), hopefully later.

Just thought I'd do a quick share, having tweeted a couple of these earlier today & people really liking them.

Great exploration in filmmaking, these little ads from around the world...

When reaching out to people, does your message have heart?

Each one of these is barely a minute or so, but as deep & rich as a full movie...

Lego





Gum





Beer





Telecom

Entertaining one from Argentina

I'm not so much a fan of Coke, but it's a great ad with a good song...

Have been in rural France with out internet so am just catching up now…

The Lego advert is really cool. Love the kids voice over. Not every day you hear something like that. Really makes the story!

The gum advert is a little toooo cheesy for my taste but sure very well done. It reinforces clichés.

The beer one literally gave me goose pimples and not just because beer is involved. Crazy mad men in wheel chairs and then not/kind of in wheel chairs twist!!! (Must be the anarchist in me Just love the way it breaks so many cliches!!!

And the telecom one got me also despite my best judgment It really is like a very simple little short film.

Coke, yeah some how kind of sweet. But what an amazing house.

I like this one here. It is really creepy with a lovely twist at the end!

One for the weekend :woohoo:

For the Olympics

another amazing advert!!!



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Some great videos there, I really love Japanese adverts, their tv is so crazy. Here's one of my favourites with Arnold in it