stunt_muppet

It is twelve frakking thirty.

I have not done my homework.

Someone please explain to me why I'm still up reading AdFreak.

PLEASE TELL ME OTHER PEOPLE DO THIS AND I'M NOT A DELINQUENT. D:

So I figured I'd link to a few of my personal favorite things that I've found trawling the AdFreak archives (which, in case the title didn't tip you off, is about advertising at its best and worst):

1. I don't know if you all remember the Darth Vader Volkswagon ad and how unspeakably adorable it is, but you might want to rewatch it just in case you forgot.

2. To promote the movie Contagion, which is about a plague that kills everyone, Warner Brothers Canada made a bilboard out of (harmless) bacteria. I...will probably never see Contagion, because even the trailers send me into a fit of (nonserious) germophobic hysteria, but that is an innovative and very fun ad right there.

3. This is another one that I'm pretty sure everyone has seen but I don't actually care. You know the trailer for the (IMO somewhat unnecessary but let's not get into that) American version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? The Muppets have their own version now. How is it possible that I only love the Muppets more as I grow up.

Also, the version of "Immigrant Song" in the trailer is by Trent Reznor and Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and while I am normally morally opposed to covers of Led Zeppelin songs it does sound pretty cool.

4. Willie Nelson covers Coldplay's "The Scientist" for an animated short film by Chipotle supporting sustainable farming. While the film's message does come across a bit...odd (Save the adorable little cartoon piggies! So you can put them on your burritos later!), the cover is emotional and heartfelt - more so than the original in my opinion, although that largely depends on your taste for both Coldplay and Willie Nelson.

5. Another one you've probably seen: Dancing at Auschwitz. I include this not because it's selling something, but because I'm honestly not sure what to think of it. It's a video of a Holocaust survivor and his family dancing at the sites of the Holocaust, including the concentration camps, the transport cars, the Maisel Synagogue, and the Jewish ghettoes. For once, the comments on a YouTube video make a decent point, that while this man survived, over six million didn't, and to dance at the site of their suffering seems disrespectful. On the other hand, he did live through it, and the image of a survivor, and the family who would never have existed otherwise, dancing on what was meant to be his grave is...I don't know. I don't want to say "affecting", because there's so much misery, death, and evil associated with those sites, but it made me think about how said sites are observed and memorialized, and I thought I'd share.

(Full disclaimer: None of my family that I know of were victims of the Holocaust; what family we have track of at that point were either in Latin America or Spain riding out the Franco regime, and as such I am completely unqualified to comment on any of this or have any opinion on how the sites whould be treated.) 


6. On a much lighter note, an adorable girl and her equally adorable teddy bears expertly pop and lock for Chocolate Weetabix. I want this to become a flash mob.

7. Also, puppies.

Okay now I really am going to bed. Good night/morning/whatever, flist. Hope I can not skip class tomorrow like the deadbeat I am. D: