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“Beware the beast Man, for he is the Devil’s pawn. Alone among God’s primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother’s land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.”
- Cornelius, reading from The Sacred Scrolls of the Apes.
Planet of the Apes, 1968.

I’m going on a trip through eastern Europe soon, to take a look at their advertising. It would be cool if all ad were as funny as this one for the Ukrainian Army.

Found via The Ad Contrarian.

The new ad for Cadbury is cool. Irrelevant this time too, but I think people have learned to accept that now. By Fallon London via Scamp.

Amnesty celebrates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 60th birthday with some help from Mother. Not the most creative ad, but that’s probably not the way to go with clients like Amnesty. I like it a lot.

Via The Planning Lab.

The Natural Confectionery Company joins Skittles in the category absurd candy ads with their new campaign by Fallon London.

It’s not as weird as some of the Skittles ads, but on the other hand it doesn’t scare the shit out of children either. Or this one might actually do that, I don’t know. Anyway, here’s some more: One, two.

This spot for Björn Borg is hitting the religious right in the head with a big stick.

It was actually made for Absolut Vodka , but they didn’t like it. Farfar kept the movie and later changed the sender to Björn Borg. So it changed from in an Absolut world to Love for all. It’s a little generic and fits all progressive companies pretty well (like Google!), but on the other hand it’s really well directed.

Via Resume (Swedish) 1 & 2.

We all remember the Diesel SFW porn viral that spread on the internet some time ago. Now Farfar turns up the sick level a notch with The rise and fall of Pete the meat puppet:

It’s weird, and memorable, but I don’t think it will be as successful as the porn viral. It might make some more vegetarians though.

The UK has the highest teenage pregnancy rates in western Europe. The government doesn’t like the ring of that and spends a lot of money on campaigns. That’s good news for DLKW who got some of those money, and made this ad (click to watch it) for the Central Office of Information. (Via Scamp)

While reversed vomiting is cool, the ad doesn’t grab me. Maybe it’s because it’s played backwards and ends all happy. It reminds me alot of this and this Swedish ads by Forsman & Bodenfors. Although they are against booze, they are still very similar to the DLKW ad, only better.

If all ads were this good, people would turn on the tv just to watch the ads. So let’s all aim for this whenever we get the chance to direct a spot.

OMG, not another movie post! All too often the opening title is so much cooler then the rest of the movie. Sometimes it’s a prelude explaning how zombies took over the world. And sometimes it gets you in the perfect mood for some sexy vampire action.

Art of the title is a blog dedicated to this stuff. It easily earns its place in my RSS reader.

I love asian movies, especially korean. They make even action and horror movies beautiful in a way that few western movies do. Just watch A Tale of Two Sisters by Ji-woon Kim and you’ll see what I mean.

Smashing Magazine has a nice collection of stunning posters. Go take a look, and watch the movies too!