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Sonic the Hedgehog

By Anya Ow / May 13, 2019 / Comments Off on Sonic the Hedgehog

If you didn’t like the new Sonic the Hedgehog live action trailer, check out this hilariously surreal animation that’s gone viral on the internet.

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Thistles and Thorns

By Anya Ow / May 10, 2019 / Comments Off on Thistles and Thorns

Thistles and Thorns is a fairytale about the adventures of a young girl called Assata trying to bring magic back to the Garden of Sisterhood.

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Power is Power

By Anya Ow / May 9, 2019 / Comments Off on Power is Power

Power is Power is a tie in single by SZA, The Weeknd, and Travis Scott about everyone’s favourite tv show, Game of Thrones. Via io9: The only thing Game of Thrones’ last season was lacking was, let’s be real, a great tie-in album, and now it’s got one. For the Throne, out now, is an […]

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Life and Love in Advertising

By Anya Ow / May 8, 2019 / Comments Off on Life and Love in Advertising

Life and Love in Advertising as told through a series of ads is a short film by director Ben Callner, whose Superbowl spot Goat 4 Sale was highly regarded. Via Adweek: What happens when you successfully crash the Super Bowl? For 10 years, Doritos offered aspiring commercial directors the chance at Big Game ad glory, […]

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Jeff Bridges for Amstel

By Anya Ow / May 7, 2019 / Comments Off on Jeff Bridges for Amstel

Jeff Bridges is an actual bridge in this strange if funny Amstel ad, which was created by Adam & Eve/DDB for the Heineken-owned beer company. Via B&T: In a role he was born to play, actor Jeff Bridges has been turned into an actual bridge for Heineken-owned beer brand Amstel’s latest ad campaign. The strange […]

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Rilakkuma and Kaoru

By Anya Ow / May 6, 2019 / Comments Off on Rilakkuma and Kaoru

Watch Rilakkuma and Kaoru on Netflix, a surprisingly bleak slice of life stop motion animation about working class life in Japan. Yes, we thought it was cute too, up until Kaoru swiftly gets a pay cut in the first ep and is abandoned by her friends. Via Gizmodo: No one ever stops to ask why […]

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First Faked Photograph

By Anya Ow / May 3, 2019 / Comments Off on First Faked Photograph

The first faked photograph — by the true inventor of photography, an amateur French tinkerer named Hippolyte Bayard, made in protest. Via the Nonist: This photograph, shot in 1840 and titled Self Portrait as a Drowned Man, is not of a drowned man, and if it had been it would be far less interesting or […]

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ICYMI: Old Town Road

By Anya Ow / May 2, 2019 / Comments Off on ICYMI: Old Town Road

Old Town Road is the surprise viral hit of 2019, partly due to the instant controversy that was sparked when Billboard removed it from its country charts. Via Pitchfork: Atlanta rapper Lil Nas X is the country-trap star who never was. His viral hit, “Old Town Road,” was removed last week from Billboard’s Hot Country […]

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Duelling Gym Playlists

By Anya Ow / May 1, 2019 / Comments Off on Duelling Gym Playlists

This hilarious ad for Ladder involves Arnold Schwartzenegger and LeBron James with their duelling gym playlists… and a muted Coachella guy. Via Adweek: If you don’t know that Ladder was founded by an eclectic group of A-listers—Arnold Schwarzenegger, LeBron James, Cindy Crawford and Lindsey Vonn—you might wonder how a supplement startup could afford the kind […]

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John Leguizamo and Pepsi

By Anya Ow / April 30, 2019 / Comments Off on John Leguizamo and Pepsi

John Leguizamo’s Pepsi ad follows him through his day as he’s late to his show. You may remember John from films like Ice Age and John Wick. Via PR Newswire: During tonight’s Billboard Latin Music Awards telecast on Telemundo, Pepsi will premiere a new national television advertisement starring award-winning actor John Leguizamo. The commercial follows […]

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