Upload any mp3 and add more of what it's missing: More cowbells and Christopher Walken, obvi. Here's Build Me Up Buttercup with more cowbells and Walken.
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[Disclaimer: It appears to be a video created by Sprite and so despite the "hidden cam" it may all be a complete set up. But it's still a pretty solid concept.] This guy thinks he can get into any club by wearing requisite DJ gear (sunglasses, bright hoodie, and a record bag) and telling the bouncer that he is "playing tonight."
Just watch this ridiculous commercial with sound on, especially for the satisfying pay off in the end which is how I wish all local car commercials would end. When did local car dealerships corner the market in obnoxious, loud, and annoying TV and radio commercials? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnF6i0b9Ux8]
[Thanks Paul!]
Along with every other website and YouTube surfer, a few days ago I posted a creative music video created by Dennis Liu for the band The Bird & The Bee which has created quite a "buzz" (har har) on the Internets in a short period of time. As a result, Liu is attracting a lot of attention as well. In addition to job offers from Yahoo, Microsoft, and HBO, here are other highlights:
- Head nods from several known Hollywood producers and directors.
- Talks to getting a manager/agent at a major talent representation agency.
- NYU, USC, and Berkeley requesting the video to show their film/new media students.
- E-mails from major corporations, including marketing directors and employees of Yahoo, Microsoft, HBO, Pixar, Disney, and of course Apple.
- Invited to screen at film festivals world wide, from the UK to Australia.
- An apple store manager in IL showed all her employees the video as an example to artfully show the power of the macs to customers.
- The author of “Stickies” wrote to congratulate, as well as a lead developer of OSX.
Read more here.
Okay, it's less of a show and actually a commercial for Volkswagen. So by posting it and replaying it here (yes, another YouTube vid--apparently that's the unifying theme today), I'm cognizant that I'm just shrilling for a large car company. However, that aside, I'm still awed by the creativity and the execution of this video that involves hand puppetry which is also rorschach-esque. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zIODJsnqXE]
The commercial isn't going to get people to buy the car (VW Phaeton) and so in that sense, it's a terrible commercial (if you look at Ad Age's rankings of most impressionable commercials, it's generally the incredibly crude ones that just pound the viewers with a simple message over and over again--Dial down the center, anyone?), but for artistic merit and originality, I'm sure this VW ad will pick up some industry awards.
This is an amusing, but slightly bizarre music video with one of the members of Lonely Island (which brought you the Chronic-what?-cles of Narnia) and Kal Penn from Harold and Kumar along with a surprising what-the-fuck cameo by Brandon Routh aka Clark Kent aka Superman.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlxhD284RKM]
Asian Americans inevitably deal with racial stereotyping in the US. This commercial is clever, because it highlights the gross absurdity with which many ignorant and/or prejudiced whites in America perceive their Asian American neighbors. This distasteful situation is an obvious point to many of you reading this, but it's interesting to me to see it played out in a commercial. Other than the slight caricature of the (white) parentals portrayed in the commercial, the ad captures the sensibility and atmosphere of what it's like to be a minority youth in this country. Less so than our parents, and grandparents, and great-grandparent's generations, it's less of a taboo (of course, it's still forbidden in some families, etc) kids today to date someone of another "race" or ethnicity. Today, traditional lines of demarcation--religion, class, and race--aren't as rigid as they once were. So it's interesting to see an inter-racial white-Asian couple in this commercial.
The only problem I see is that some people aren't going to "get it" and only reaffirm their ignorance. Anyway, I would have loved to be a fly on the wall at the ad agency that created it.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwQkU7jLXRY]