Seasons Greetings
Category: newsletter
Animate THAT
AI: more showstoppers than the Screen Actors Guild.
Unsettling, but, yeah.
Makeup artist Mimi Choi. Via @rainmaker1973
Guinness alcohol-free ad
Meanwhile, in Las Vegas
The guy who posted this video from his hotel room commented, ‘People say we can’t build cathedrals, but put a Middle Ages stonemason in front of this thing and ask which makes him feel the presence of God’.
Ad Age article on advertising on The Sphere.
Via @swiftonsecurity
All great artists are lunatics
Simon Beck decorates the alps with mathematical designs, by running in snowshoes across freshly laid snow.
Via @Massimo
History
Shame they didn’t write a ‘Thanks for Coming’ in 2005, when IBM bowed out. In 1981, when the ad ran, total worldwide sales were 1.5 million units. The sales projection in the ad for 1982 was accurate. They were a bit out on the market potential. Total sales now 290 million.
Saturday Night Live
Imagine you’re running the world’s highest profile comedy show and war breaks out in Israel following shocking attacks by Hamas. How do you open the show?
Japanese ads are next level
The last batter up is a professional baseball player. Guess what the ad is for. It’s eight years old btw. Please forgive the delay.
Didn’t know judges campaigned…
Janet Protaciewicz got elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in April. Won by 11 points. She recently refused to recuse herself from the gerrymandering case currently before the court and is being threatened with impeachment by Republican politicians. Before she’s heard a single case.
