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Such a beautiful soundtrack, combined with beautiful art direction. This is inspiring and contagious. One of my new favorites for 2010. Enjoy the directors cut!

Great spot by Nike, feels like it came out of a Guy Ritchie film or a sequel to Transporter. Well shot commercial! Worldcup Awesomeness! Next month should be pretty awesome. Who are you rooting for?

Decent interactive ad use inside of youtube. Not so sure they coudn’t have had that link directed to an actual URL rather than a second video. It probably would have made more sense. But other than that it was an OK spot.

Kind of a schmaltzy ad, with a cliche guy gets the girl & his beer ending. But it was also good sentimental and at the same time placing the product. Does it get me to buy a bud? No. But it makes me think the target audience might have been more feminine IE the dudes taking their shirt off at the start of the spot.

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First off let me just say to the Flash developers caught up in the middle of this debacle, this sucks. But lets be honest all trades require adaptation. Now That being said, Apple’s stance is a bit harsh, but where do we go from here? I think this ad is a pretty weak attempt at trying to paint a picture of apple as the mean bully on the block. If anything this tactic sounds like a parent saying “we love you but your attitude is wrong” to it’s kid. This attitude comes off pandering to those that are attempting to hurt their business, and sounding like they know-it-all.

This slightly disturbing ice cream machine ad brings out the worst in office behavior. And it reminds me of the ice cream trucks that troll playgrounds because of the background noise. But to be fair the ad has all the right elements to be successful ( hero, humor, product). But to be me it feels just a bit flat or maybe just leaves me with a bad taste. I think the reason for me that it does not work with humor is that it feels dreary. I wouldn’t want to be Eric or work with those zombie-eating-soft serve creatures!

The inspiration of this video comes from Todd Alcott’s poem, Television. An interpretation by Beth Fulton. Pretty cool stuff.

Fun spot for Google’s new browser, although a bit reminiscent of the Comcast & Verizon Fios Speed commercials. Especially the one where they used like a metallic substance that represented Fios’s speed to get all the chores for the day get completed in a few seconds.

Because we can only hope that what happened in the Gulf of Mexico this past two weeks gets cleaned up soon, I posted this ad. I have been a huge fan of hydrogen transportation, since I studied chemistry in high-school. It just makes sense, and it is responsible to figure out a hydrogen energy solution. We owe it to this planet to not drill this planet dry. To what end? Who knows but it cannot be good. Just think about it we’re taking huge amounts of liquids out of the mantle of this earth how is that not going to destabilize the land beneath us. And is it not ironic that BP the company owns the offshore oil rig responsible for this catastrophe once had a tag-line ” Beyond Petroleum”. Maybe they should have actually followed their own advice.