Jack Sparrow (feat. Michael Bolton)

Since it's Christmas, behold the resurrection of Michael Bolton. 

Feats Per Minute

I don't blog often. But when I do, I prefer to blog about things like this.

NeverWet Superhydrophobic Spray-On Coating

Business Mouse: Business or Leisure?

BM takes a punt on a major new Leisure Industry player who paddles him straight up shit creek.

Hans Brinker Budget Advertising

Genius. Although, I imagine, from said "overpriced and lazy communications agency".

Run With Ryan

Vitro conceived this video wall as part of its campaign for the New York City Marathon.It shows long distance runner Ryan Hall running at marathon speed across a tunnel in NYC’s Columbus Circle subway station – and challenges the public to keep up.

DyE Fantasy

Stunnignly beautiful animated video fro DyE's new track Fantasy. Directed by animatior Jérémie Périn, the video tells the story of a group of highschool kids ready for teenage mischief. Cool song too.

Spherical Flying Machine

Developed by Japan Ministry Of Defense.

Big Bad Wolf

How good is this? Directed by Keith Schofield.

The Black Keys' Lonely Boy

I love this in special places. A lot might have to do with the fact that it ws directed by Jesse Dylan (yes, Bob's son).  

You Don't Know How Lucky You Are

A simple but powerful video for Keaton Henson from director David Wilson, starring actor Sophie Thompson.

Back to the Start

A beautiful animation for Chipotle Mexican Grill by director Johnny Kelly. Featuring a specially commissioned cover of Coldplay track The Scientist, by Willie Nelson.

The Independent Astronaut

Everything is a Remix Part 3

Everything is a Remix Part 3 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.

Creativity isn't magic. Part three of this four-part series explores how innovations truly happen.

The World's Largest Record Collection

Paul Mawhinney was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Over the years he has amassed what has become the world's largest record collection. Due to health issues and a struggling record industry Paul is being forced to sell his collection. A film by Sean Dunne

Obsess

A strangely hypnotizing new promo for Kap Bambino track, Obsess, features actors demonstrating their 'ability' to express a range of emotions. Shot by Carl Burgess through Colonel Blimp.

Broken Social Scene's Sweetest Kill

Claire Edmundson's video for Sweetest Kill by Broken Social Scene was in part funded by Canadian music television stations MuchMusic and MuchMore, though both stations ended up banning it due to its content. Beautiful track and a stunning, albeit disturbing, video.

Indie Game

Indie Game: The Movie is a feature documentary about video games, their creators and the craft. The film follows the dramatic journeys of indie game developers as they create their games, and as they release those works, and themselves, to the world.

Splitscreen: A Love Story

I love the winner of the Nokia Shorts competition. Shot entirely on the Nokia N8 mobile phone by JW Griffiths.

Dramatic Reading Of A Break-Up Letter

A funny thing happened to me today. I see this.

Hornbach Faces

HEIMAT Berlin won a D&AD for Sound Design for Film Advertising for its Faces ad for Hornbach. Personally, I'd have picked it out for an Art Direction accolade too.

It's a Better Life without Oxfam

A great idea for oxfam from Virginia Feito, Manu Manceda, Christian El Asmar and Andrea Ayala of the Miami Ad School Madrid. The above film entitled It's a Better Life without Oxfam, won this year's D&AD Student Awards.

Volkswagen Side Assist Office

What are great way to illustrate the brand's side assist feature. An online tool that uses your webcam to scan the area around you in search of encroaching management. When it spots someone it pops up a new serious-looking chart to give the impression that you're busy working away. Very smart execution.

Walls Talking Dog

That's how you do TV advertising people. Nice work from Saatchi & Saatchi, London.

Interactive YouTube Music Machine

Inductance

This is silly cool. Directed by Physalia & Gerardo del Hierro for the F5 2011 RE:PLAY Film Festival.

Music Painting

This is stunning. Created by Lab for Matteo Negrin's track Glocal Sound.

Milton Glaser on the Fear of Failure

To promote their graduation exhibition in May, students from Berghs School of Communication invited leading figures in the creative world to discuss their 'fear of failure'. There are some great insights here, but for me, the most philosophical and fascinating is the contribution from Milton Glaser.

Ro.me

You're going to read a lot of posts about this over the coming days and weeks. This is Three Dreams of Black, written and directed by Chris Milk in collaboration with Google Labs and the illustrious North Kingdom. It's the latest Google Chrome experiment for the new album ROME, from Danger Mouse, Daniele Luppi, Norah Jones, and Jack White, showcasing the creative potential of WebGL, which enables the rendering of 3G graphics in a web browser without the use of a plug-in. The track is entitled 'Black'. Check it out here - note that you need Chrome of course.

Death Penalty: Take A Stand Digital Installation

Cool digital installation in France’s National Library, helping to raise awareness and generate petition signatures for a movement against the death penalty.

The Canvas Experiment from Converse

Damn, this is cool. Converse have invited artists to "animate" a giant 4x5 meters equalizer made using 480 pairs of Chuck Taylors, playing their instruments.

Symmetry

A lovely short from Everynone. In collaboration with WNYC.

Heineken Star Player

Some more inspiring work for Heineken from our comrades over in London, England. That's just north of France I think.

Drawingmachine

Eske Rex's "Drawingmachine" will be on view at Salone Milan 2011 at the Danish design & craft exhibition MINDCRAFT11.

The Mountain

Incredible. Filmed by Terje Sorgjerd at Spain's El Teide, one of the best places in the world to photograph the stars. It's also the location of Teide Observatories, considered to be one of the world´s best observatories. Music is "Nuvole bianche" by Ludovico Einaudi.

My First Crush

Directed by Julia Pott for the 2008 Future Shorts.

Where Is My Mind? By Petebox

So this is pretty awesome.

Touch Wood

The most elaborate automated performance of Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” in the middle of a forest to promote a cell phone you will see today, guaranteed.

Skittles Touch: Cage Cop

Thursday

An everyday love story set in the not so distant future sees blackbirds battling with technology, automatic palm readers and power cuts. Directed by Matthias Hoegg at the Royal College of Art, London, 2010. Nominated for a BAFTA for Short Animation

Tsuchinoko

Rakudasan's new video for 16-piece instrumental band Gaka's track Tsuchinoko, features an array of silver leggings and real-time slow motion, as well as a host of live action pantomime tricks.

Untitled

The new MIT Media Lab logo, created by TheGreenEyl, is based on a visual system, an algorithm that produces a unique logo for each person, for faculty, staff and students. Each person can claim and own an individual shape and can use it on their business card a personal website. The design encompasses all collateral, business cards, letterhead, website, animations, signage etc. A custom web interface was developed to allow each person at the Media Lab to choose and claim an own individual logo for his/her business card, as well as a custom animation software which allows to create custom animations for any video content the lab produces.

Panyee FC

Based on a true story from 1986 of a football team that lived on a little island in the south of Thailand called "Koh Panyee", a floating village in the middle of the sea that has not an inch of soil. The kids there loved to watch football but had nowhere to play or practice. But they didn't let that stop them. From Leo Burnett & Arc Worldwide for TMB Bank's Make The Difference Campaign.

La Machine à Voyager

DDB Paris have created La Machine a Voyager for rail booking website Voyages-sncf.com as part of their Welcome Campaign.

My Favorite Color

Kutiman became a YouTube sensation back in 2009 by creating songs out of found sounds from YouTube videos. The mixmaster struck again this week with a new, bluesy track called "My Favorite Color". Awesome.

My Favorite Color

Kutiman became a YouTube sensation back in 2009 by creating songs out of found sounds from YouTube videos. The mixmaster struck again this week with a new, bluesy track called "My Favorite Color". Awesome.

Gareth Bale Animation

An gorgeous animation by @RikkiLeaks. The track is called 'Cinematic Balloons', also by Richard Swarbrick.

Future Lions MMXI

Our new campaign for the Cannes Future Lions 2011 Competition went live today. The art was created by UK-based illustrator Nik Ainley. You can check out the site here and view the facebook page here.

Google's Self-Driving Car

The Mini Rocketman Concept Film

Beautiful product film for the MINI Rocketman, created by BSUR and PostPanic.

Le Flâneur

A project by Luke Shepard, a student at The American University of Paris. Shot on the Nikon D90

Pierre Gleizes: Greenpeace Through The Lens

In 2011, Greenpeace - the world's largest environmental campaigning organisation - celebrates its 40th anniversary. French photographer Pierre Gleizes has shot some of the organisation's best known photographs over the three decades he has worked for Greenpeace. Some of these pictures have truly changed the way we look at our planet and the environment.

World's Biggest Shave

Precision grooming on a grand scale. The world's largest 5 o'clock shadow on Major League Baseball's Derek Jeter

Old Spice | Behind the Scenes

Behind the scenes on Old Spice's new Scent Vacation commercial

The Art of Flight

A visual masterpiece in the world of snowboarding. Filmed on location in Jackson Hole, Alaska, Chile, Aspen, Patagonia, British Columbia and more, The Art of FLIGHT follows Travis Rice, John Jackson, Mark Landvik, Scotty Lago, Jake Blauvelt, Nicolas Muller, Gigi Ruf, DCP and Pat Moore as they dream up new global adventures and progress the sport to unimaginable levels. Releases September 2011

The Beatles Smack My Bitch Up

Awesome bit of editing here. The Beatles' Concert at Shea Stadium, New York, from 1965 put to a live performance of The Prodigy's Smack my Bitch Up.

Summertimes

Aussies in London will empathise with this new short film from Partizan director Ariel Kleiman.

Samsung Optical Illusion

A great way to illustrate the quality of your printers. Nice little film for Samsung. (I didn't even realise they made printers).

Be Infectious

How does a person become creative? What does it take to nurture that gift rather than squelch it? How do you inspire someone to make the most of their talents? The truth is, creative people are different. And most of us have known it all our lives. It hasn't always made us popular, but it has made us very powerful. Through our ideas, we can have great influence over the way people think and feel. Even the way they act. We like to call it infectious creative energy. It's the unique ability to come up with an idea so compelling that people can't help but spread it. Be Infectious is the mantra of creative agency Integra. They created this film to illustrate just that. I like it.

London: Live The Language

How nice is this? Directed by Gustav Johansson for EF Languages School. With some beautiful type treatments from Albin Holmqvis. Also in the series, Beijing, Barcelona and Paris.

Untitled

I posted about Watson some months back. This time IBM and Joshua Davis begin to prepare the modern day HAL for Jeopardy.

Howl

Howl, a movie about Ginsberg's classic poem, has its debut at UK cinemas next week. Starring James Franco as Ginsberg, it recreates the legendary (and undocumented) first performance of the poem in a San Francisco coffee house in 1955, as well as the obscenity trial that followed its publication.

Radiohead's Lotus Flower

I love this video for Radiohead track Lotus Flower from their new album The King of Limbs. Directed by Garth Jennings and choreographed by Wayne McGregor. Hypnotising.

Chim Chim Cher-ee

I don't normally post old film scenes up here, but it's been a stressful day and this one from Mary Poppins cheered me right up. I hope it has the same affect on you too. Take a breather and enjoy.

Hour Face

Face-mapping moves up a notch. Created by MotionPortrait, Inc.

The External World

The External World from David OReilly on Vimeo.

David O'Reilly's dark animation The External World is a meditation on the anxieties and fears entrenched in modern life.

Procrastination

Graduation film from the Royal College of Art, 2007.

4 Minutes Hip Hop History By Eklips For Trace

Ad Agency Clichés

Funny stuff for the IPAs.

he Frontier Is Everywhere

More wise words from Carl Sagan. Put to a lovely score and some humbling footage.

Why Can't We Walk Straight?

Undercity

Videographer Andrew Wonder created this video documenting self-proclaimed urban historian & photographer Steve Duncan as he peels back the layers of NYC.