Volvo Trucks: The Hamster Stunt

Volvo Trucks does it again. This time a hamster is steering a 15-tonne Volvo FMX construction truck at Los Tres Cunados in northwestern Spain, a place famous for its challenging conditions.

A precision driver holds a carrot and as Charlie, the little hamster, is chasing it he is steering the truck and proves that Volvo's latest steering system is very easy to handle.

Filmed in a steep quarry this test will definitely impress you.

Credits:
Advertising Agency: Forsman Bodenfors
Director: Jamie Rafn
Producer: Ray Leakey
Production company: Smuggler
Post production: The Mill
Sound design: 750
Music: Adelphoi
Animal handler: Grace Dickinson
Precision driver/Stunt coordinator: Seon Rogers

Chipotle: The Scarecrow

Chipotle returns with a new short film against the evil Crow Food which represents the food industry. Wonderful animation, lovable character, great music by Fiona Apple who covers ("Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory's") "Pure Imagination".

Following Cannes Grand Prix awarded "Back to the start", this new short film, follows a sracecrow in a big scary city dominated by the mass production food factories. Chickens being injected, food with beef-ish labels, cows milked inside metal machines, makes this world crying for help which screcrow addresses with fresh food.

If you have an Apple device you can download the interactive game.




Credits:
Animation: Moonbot Studios
Music: Fiona Apple "Pure Imagination"

Montce: Little Black Bikini

Green eyes. Perfect body. Great filming. A relaxing little film from Montce swimware. Enjoy.

MONTCE SWIMWEAR - Little Black Bikini from BJ Golnick on Vimeo.

Credits:
Starring: Dominique Storelli
Direction - Cinematography - Edit - Color: BJ Golnick
Music: Purity Ring - "Lofticries"

The Hornbach Hammer: Made from real armour steel

A hammer made from an infantry tank. Hornbach transforms within six months a Czech BMP-1 Infantry Tank into an extraordinary hammer. Nice shooting.



Credits:
Agency: HEIMAT Berlin
Production: Bigfish Filmproduction Berlin
Country: Germany
Director: Tobias Perse
Executive Creative Director: Guido Heffels
DoP: Casey Campbell
Account Director: Christina Walke
Editor: Kai Kniepkamp
Illustrator: Martijn Koster
Music + Sound Production: Thomas Berlin

MTV Mobile: GIF me more

Buzzman, created 2 films for MTV Mobile for the Gif Me More campaign. The two films: “Gif me more Silence” and “Gif me more Life”, addresses in a reflective and poetic way, two of the main issues that young people face today: the fear of missing out and the burden of living up to expectations and role models.

Gif me more Life from Bill Kalagan on Vimeo.

Gif me more Silence from Bill Kalagan on Vimeo.

Credits:

Advertising Agency: Buzzman

Come4.org: The lover

Prepare to be very surprised.



Credits:
Advertising Agency: Being/TBWA France

Google Zeitgeist 2012: Year In Review

1.2 trillion searches. 146 languages. What did the world search for in 2012?  Find out in Google's Zeitgeist for 2012.



more at http://www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012/#the-world

Axe: Morning after pillow

Axe gives you the solution to the morning after problem where your girlfriend won't let you get of the bed. The morning after pillow. An inflatable pillow with Axe's smell which comes in various models. Funny.



Credits:
Advertising Agency: DDB Latina Puerto Rico
Creative Directors: Enrique Renta, Santiago Cuesta, Manuel Bordé, Leslie Robles
Copywriting: Manuel Bordé, Santiago Cuesta
Art Direction: Juan Carlos López, Luis Figueroa, Karla Bonilla (BV)
Account Team: Edgardo Manuel Rivera, Rafa Muñiz, Alexandra Arroyo, Hecmarylys Ortiz, Luis Velazquez
Director: Alejandro Pedrosa
Prod. Co.: Buena Vibra
Agency Producer: Loren Ortiz, Ive Negrón
Producer: Emil Medina
Music: Estudios Machina

TEDxAmsterdam: Reverse engineering

The world's largest skull from 15.000 ballons is been reversed engineered in this announcing film for this year's TEDxAmsterdam on 30th November.

  Reverse engineering from Amsterdam Ad Blog on Vimeo.

Created by We Are Pi, Guido Verhoef, and director Corriette Schoenaerts (UNIT C.M.A. productions).
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Erik Qualman: Social Media Revolution 4

Erik Qualman, the social media guru and writer of Socialnomics, made the #4 version of Social Media Revolution video series with 2012 data. Watch it and then check the 2011 and 2010 versions to see how fast things changed.



Video produced by equalman productions.

International Children’s Fund: The Lost Choir - Mad World

Today, November 20th, is the Universal Children's Day. Most people don't know that every three seconds the world loses a child by hunger, malnutrition, dirty water or the absence of vaccine protection.

International Children's Fund and the Wuppertaler Kurrende Boy’s Choir who sings "Mad World", demonstrate perfectly this fact. If you want to help, you can donate here: https://www.icfaid.com/pages/DonateNow



Advertising Agency: Grey Düsseldorf
Chief creative officer: Roland Vanoni
Creative directors: Mark Hendy and Neil Elliot
Creative: Dominik Janning
Art director: Michael Kucharski
Producer: Anne Parlesch
Account manager: Anna-Christin Saric
Production: Parasol Island
Producer: Kim Düsselberg
Director of photography: Tim Neiser
2nd unit director: Lukas Remie
Mastering: Studio Funk by Marco Manzo

Red Bull Kluge: The Athlete Machine

World-class athletes, sponsored by Red Bull, do their magic in an incredible domino-like installation. Enjoy skydiving, skateboarding, golf, biking, off-road truck racing and more. The song is Soul Wars by Awolnation.



Starring: Sean MacCormac (Skydiver), Joey Brezinski (Skateboarder), Rickie Fowler (Golfer), Danny MacAskill (Trials Biker), Ryan Sheckler (Skateboarder), Drew Bezanson (BMX Rider), Bryce Menzies (Off-Road Truck Racer), Rhys Millen (Drifter), Robbie Maddison (Freestyle Motocross Rider), Lolo Jones (Hurdler), Pat Moore (Snowboarder)

MTV Exit: This Song Changed my Life

The MTV Exit Foundation (USAID, AUSAID & Walk Free) and Canadian rock band Simple Plan collaborated with Curious Film’s Ash Boland who directed an integrated film to raise awareness on human trafficking and child exploitation. The lyrics of  "This song changed my life" where crowd-sourced from fans on Twitter. There will be a global release across all MTV platforms in 68 countries and in addition, the project will be screened at grass roots pop-up open-air screenings in villages across Asia.




Credits:
Agency: 18 Feet & Rising, Sydney
Exec Creative Director: Dejan Rasic
Creative Director: Derrick Kim
Director: Ash Bolland
Producer: Tara Riddell
Executive Producer: Peter Grasse
Production Company: Curious Film
D.O.P. Lachlan Milne
Editor: Peter Crombie
Online: Ash Bolland
Client: MTV Exit Foundation
Campaign Director: Matt Love
Head of Creative & Content: Rebecca Mok
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Toyota GT86: White trash beauty

Enjoy a great online film for the Toyota GT86, a car that may ruin any relationship but will surely make you feel good driving it.

White trash beauty from Amsterdam Ad Blog on Vimeo.


Credits:
Created by Happiness Brussels
Produced by Caviar
Directed by Arnaud Uyttenhove
Shot by Dimitris Karakatsanis
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Call of Duty - Black Ops 2: Surprise

Yes I want a copy of CoD Black Ops 2. Nice work from 72andSunny, director Guy Ritchie and The Mill. They approached the genre with a fresh look.

Credits:
Advertising Agency: 72andSunny, USA
Chief Creative Officer: Glenn Cole
Creative Director / Copywriter: Jason Norcross
Creative Directors / Designers: Matt Murphy, Peter Novosel
Senior Designer/Writer: Rey Andrade
Senior Writer: Josh Fell
Designer: Patric Franz
Copywriter: Jorge Brandão
Director of Film Production: Sam Baerwald
Senior Producer: Dan Ruth
Jr. Producer: Peter Williams
Director of Business Affairs: Christine Claussen
Business Affairs manager: Jennifer Jahinian
Group Brand Director: Mike Parseghian
Brand Manager: Jen Marvin
Brand Coordinator: Justin Gonzaga
Production Company: Reset

Director: Guy Ritchie
Executive Producers: Jeff Mcdougall, Dave Morrison
Line Producer: Aris Mcgarry
Assistant Director: Peter Kohn
Dp: Claudio Miranda
Production Designer: Dominic Watkins
Costume Designer: Kim Bowen
Editorial: Jump
Editor: Rich Orrick
Assistant Editor: Healy Snow
Executive Producer: Jane Dilworth
Executive Producer: Erica Thompson
Producer: Lisa Ashe
Visual Effects: The Mill

Bodyform responds: the truth

This awesome response from Bodyform to a Facebook rant sets new standards on how a brand should react and engage in social media. The story goes like this. A user called Richard Neill wrote on Bodyform's Facebook wall about the advertising myth that surrounds periods. It want viral, with more that 75.000 likes. Bodyform responded with a hilarious video where fictional CEO of Bodyform, Caroline Williams, set things straight.



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Water is Life: Hashtag Killer Anthem

There is a hashtag called #firstworldproblems in which people tweet about problems like no wi-fi password on relatives homes, non-heated leather seats etc. DDB New York took various tweets from the #firstworldproblems and made a video with poor Haitians reciting them. The campaign for Water is Life, called "Hashtag Killer", includes also direct response videos.



Credits:
Agency: DDB New York
Chief Creative Officer: Matt Eastwood
Client: Water is Life
Executive Creative Director: Menno Kluin
Head of Production: Ed Zazzera
Agency Producer: Lindsey Hutter
Copywriter: Frank Cartagena
Art Director: Sam Shepherd
Director/Editor: Alec Helm
Designer: Juan Carlos Pagan
Motion Graphics: Gina Lin
Music: In the Groove
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Facebook: The Things That Connect Us

This is Facebook’s first commercial. They honor chairs and doorbells and bridges and everything that people use to get together and connect. Facebook is one of those things.



Credits:
Advertising Agency: Wieden + Kennedy

Rainforest Alliance: Follow the Frog

Storytelling at its best. The video is very funny but also gets the message across. A guy goes through hell to save the rainforest. You don't have to do that. There is a simpler way. Just Follow the Frog! Shop for Rainforest Alliance Certified products. 



Credits:
Director: Max Joseph
Copywriter: Max Joseph
Producer: Aaron Weber
Actor: Tim Rock
Music: Jeff Conrad

Samsung Galaxy S III: The Next Big Thing is Already Here

About a year ago, Samsung mocked Apple's fanboys waiting in an endless line to get the new iPhone. Now, they do it again. And, once again, who can blame them after the second in a row disappointing iPhone. The video is hilarious.