http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFEnAno-Jzg
Last year, Global Democracy released an awareness-raising video (top), showing how easily model shots can be manipulated in Photoshop.
This year, open source ad agency Victor & Spoils did a suitably Yuletide take on it.
Melbourne based Steve Sammartino sent out a single tweet:
Anyone interested in investing $500-$1000 in a project which is awesome & a world first tweet me. Need about 20 participants… #startup
— Steve Sammartino (@sammartino) February 29, 2012
He ended up with a 500,000+ piece air powered LEGO roadster built by 20 year old Raul Oaida from Romania.
It seems a little too good to be true, but I’m wishing with all my heart that it is.
There’s more about the project on Super Awesome Micro Project.
In the latest instalment of their Honest series, Screen Junkies ask an actual doctor to assess exactly how hard John McClane would have died in real life.
Neatfreak filmmaker Cy Kuckenbaker explains:
The source footage for this video is a 4-minute shot from the Washington Street bridge above State Route 163 in San Diego captured at 2:39pm Oct 1, 2013. My aim is to reveal the color palette and color preferences of contemporary San Diego drivers in addition to traffic patterns and volumes. There are no CG elements, these are all real cars that have been removed from one sample and reorganized.
Cy’s previous two ‘studies’ (which you should peruse without delay if you like the cut of his jib) involve composite videos of planes landing and departing at San Diego International airport.
This week, Doc Sweets be breakin’ down Dostoyevsky’s existentialist classic.
Decked out with too much consciousness, a fool be miserable and lonely as hell.
But you knew that.
A short by South Korean animator Hyunji Lim, who sez of it:
As society evolved, the mandatory amount of stress people had to receive increased immensely. Modern people are vulnerable to mental problems. Regardless of age or gender, anyone can suffer from a mental illness and not be aware of it. However, people are unsure if they have a mental illness and also the symptoms sent by their mind. That is why people nowadays are constantly suffering from their mental illnesses without even realizing it.
The characters represent each metal illness and show us their symptoms. Someone may find his figure through the characters. I hope that my characters paved the way to look after your tears.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImlmVqH_5HM
Apple’s seasonal ad barely mentions the iPhone, instead reaching out deftly to grab you by the warm and festives.
Knife throwing duo Adam and Dakota ramp up the jeopardy in a practice sessions that begins with mere knives and ends with flaming axes.
Pyromanic and munitions-freak Richard Ryan of RatedPR constructs a Christmas tree from detonating cord (which explodes at approximately 6.4km per second), ignites it and films the result in ultra slow Festive Motion™.
When 20th century Fox commissioned videographer Casey Neistat to create a motivational ad campaign promoting The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, he proposed to spend the entire 25,000 budget on the victims of the recent Haiyan typhoon in the Phillipines.
This shameless feelgood viral was the result.
No doubt Fox intend you to skip the movie and instead donate the ticket price to relief efforts.