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From the director of Snowpiercer comes this intriguing new Netflix-only film, Okja, about corporate waste, monsters, and other stories. Via the Guardian: An Seo-hyun gives an outstanding performance as 13-year-old Mija, who has grown up with no parents, looked after by kindly grandpa Heebong, played by Byun Heebong (who was in The Host and also […]

Old Spice wants you to help teach its robot kraken how to live life… Anyone else think this is quite likely going to end in tears? Via Adweek: Want to spend 15 hours this weekend teaching a giant eight-tentacled robotic Kraken sea beast how to navigate the squishy steps from adolescence to adulthood? Old Spice […]

Casillero del Diablo has the most elaborate ad campaign for a wine we’ve ever seen – titled the Wine Legend, set up to look like a film. We saw it this weekend in prerolls before John Wick and for a moment, almost thought it was a film with a really silly premise. Great series. For […]

Did you know? there’s a pattern behind colour names around the world in our languages, particularly in the first colours we choose to name. Via Vox: In 1969, two Berkeley researchers, Paul Kay and Brent Berlin, published a book on a pretty groundbreaking idea: Every culture in history invented words for colors in the exact […]

ICYMI: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is coming out in August, and as Fifth Element fans, we are super excited. Via Polygon: Created by writer Pierre Christin and artists Jean-Claude Mézières in the 1960s as a French serial, the comics went on to have a long life in both other languages and […]

AlmapBBDO has a clever new campaign for Getty’s audio catalogue, splicing audio into a classic silent film, Nosferatu. Check it out! Via Adweek: For its client Getty Images, the Brazilian agency has spent the last few years making in-depth, academic use of the company’s massive assets (most of us don’t even make it past the […]

The Fraktur bag for IKEA has become so viral, there’s now even a workout that involves it, thanks to Reebok trainer Andrew Connor. Via People: People have managed to turn the iconic IKEA Frakta bag into boots, wallets and even crop tops, and now Reebok trainer Andrew Connor is demonstrating how they can be exercise […]

In this Monoprix ad campaign called Label of Love, a boy pursues a girl in a 4 minute cinematic film using… packaging labels? Via DesignTaxi: It seems that romance somehow regularly blossoms from French supermarkets. Not long ago, Intermaché launched a funny, amorous ad that demonstrated how far a guy would go to win a […]

Words Hurt is an interactive music video by Romain Chassaing, a “Choose your own adventure” that moves into bizarre territory. Check it out here. Via Short of the week: A Choose Your Own Adventure styled interactive music video, Romain Chassaing’s immersive new video for Naïve New Beaters track Words Hurt lets its audience decide on […]

A trailer for the highly anticipated tv series The Dark Tower has dropped! It’s based on Stephen King’s bestselling dark fantasy books. And can we say, Idris Elba looks amazing. If you’re new to the series, The Verge has an explainer here: To understand the film, you need to know a little bit about the […]