social-creature

the ad in this case is the overall concept and execution of this whole thing. not just the video below.
Adidas Originals Left To Right:To celebrate the iconic Superstar shoe, Adidas Originals produced a pair of giant sized exact replicas. Housed in separate studios, they invited friends and artists at Surface2Air and Upper Playground to celebrate […]

shot and produced by the kicakss siouxzen kang, and featuring an unreleased glitch mob track! if this doesn’t make you wanna go, you’re probably not someone who likes FUN!

Have you seen these billboards?

They’re all over the place:

Been wondering what the hell that’s all about, maybe?

Well, answer #1 goes like this:
Hope people have been seeing the billboards that I have put up around town. I think its important everyone knows how much Sarah Marshall SUCKS! How she does look fat in those jeans! […]

In Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture, Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter explain that really, there was never any conflict between the two to begin with. Counterculture hinges on, and consumer culture consists of, the expression of your lifestyle/identity. Whether you’re choosing to wear Nikes, Doc Martens, or some crazy obscure Japanese […]

“The idea that whoever appeared onstage would play not me but a character was central to imagining how to make the narrative: I would need to see myself from outside.”
~ Joan Didion

In the midst of the quicksand hazard posed by every single episode of Lost available online, and in high def, I saw an ad […]

 
…AOL news? yeah. apparently. way to make an ad that speaks to a demographic that’s been writing you off for a minute.
 
thanks (ariel)

i’ll admit right now that this is not what i ought to be writing about.
i’ve been travelling for more of the past month than i’ve been at home, and just coming up with things to write about that i had no time to follow through on. so now that i’ve finally gotten to shower in […]

my good friend marsi frey was the visual effects producer on this goodby silverstein & partners spot for HP.

 
the flow of the whole thing has such a slick pace that it actually has the feel of more substantial scripted entertainment. that’s right, the ad is entertaining.
(not surprising considering Goodby and Silverstein predict that brands will […]

The goal of all human activity can’t be reduced to the leaving of descendants. Once human culture was firmly in place it acquired new goals.
- Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee

right as i was in the process of rereading the third chimpanzee (i had to read it in college for sociobiology, and recently realized i’d forgotten […]

following up on the smash success of its award-winning “evolution” ad, dove unleashes “onslaught“:

much like the evolution ad, which shows the intense makeup and photoshop augmentation of an image of an average woman and at the end offers, “no wonder our perception of beauty is distorted,” while directing viewers to take part in dove’s Real […]