Canadian Club Whiskey offers up some good old whisky wisdom in a great new ad campaign created by Brooklyn Brothers. The new “Join the Club” TV and digital campaign, which launches nationally in Canada today, features video segments available on specialty TV, on Facebook and in digital media that star the “Canadian Club Chairman” and offer humourous Whisky Wisdoms to help guys to ease their way into the whisky world. CC fans can submit their own wisdom on the Facebook fan page HERE.
The campaign includes four commercials, "The Chairman" (above) who gives us a brief history of Canadian Club and finishes it with this fantastic line that all whiskey lovers can appreciate, "...if there's one that tastes better than whiskey, it's smuggled whiskey." The "Canadian Club Chairman," has a stable of Whisky Whisdoms that are blunt, unapologetic and undeniable truths such as: "Never send beer to do a whisky’s job" and "Everything in moderation. Except bacon". and of course "Drafts are best suited for fantasy football. Order a Canadian Club Whisky."
Below, are the "Shirt", "Food Groups" and "First Step" TV spots, and don't forget to always enjoy your Whiskey responsibly my Canadian friends.
Credits: Creative and Production by the Brooklyn Brothers
New TV commercial/advert for FIFA 13.FIFA 13 is the world's most exciting football club, and the world's most exciting football club deserves a clubhouse to match. Loaded with the likes of Messi, Cahill, Hart, Benzema, Oxlade-Chamberlain, and Harry Redknapp, FIFA 13's club is a place where all of your football and gaming fantasies come to life. The FIFA 13 advert also features some pretty awesome music, the song is "Can You Feel It" by Freak Power that has been remixed by Fatboy Slim. Credits: Ad Agency: Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam
Category: Health & Beauty
Agency: Stark
Brand: Belair Health Club
Advertising Agency: Stark Communications, Kerala, India
Executive Creative Director: Shelton Pinheiro
Creative Director: Ajith Gopinath
Art Director: Nidhin Nandakumar
Copywriter: Ajith Gopinath
Illustrator: Nidhin Nandakumar
And the tasteless condom ad of the year award goes to...maybe tasteless is a bad choice of words, One Pound Johnny and the "Sex Without The Mess" advert. Warning, proceed with caution this ad will either totally disgust you or make you run to to your lover for a quickie.
One Pound Johnny Club (OPJC) was formed to solve a problem — Expensive and sometimes embarrassing trips to the store to pick up an absolute must for the bedroom. It shouldn't be an embarrassing experience, but it still is. The service, inspired by the experiences of the co-founders, offers a monthly subscription where the members of the club can have discrete packages of condoms (from as little as £1 a month) sent to their door.
What do you think, what's worse the fact that people are still ashamed to actually walk into a store to buy condoms or this commercial?
XXXX have got an island for Australian mates to experience the good life. So check out a slice of Island of free-love where rules are rules, everyone is equal and visitors are free from all of the fancy 5 star treatments. It's not Club Med - it's more Club Shed. Simply kick back and enjoy a beer with your mates.
Category: Drinks;
Client: Lion;
Agency: BMF;
Art Director / Copywriter: Alex Booker;
Executive Creative Director: Shane Bradnick;
Art Director / Copywriter: Philip Sicklinger;
Photographer: Kent Matthews;
Retoucher: Vanessa Brownlee;
Art Buyer - Basir Salleh.
Retailer jcpenny launches the Great Futures Start Here ad campaign in support of the Boys and Girls Club featuring 21 prominent Club alumni including co-spokespersons Denzel Washington and Jennifer Lopez. Directed by Ron Howard with the video soundtrack from Beyonce's "I Was Here", written by Diane Warren.
Coca-Cola shows us we still have reasons to believe in a better world with the Rivalry Wallet campaign. Here's the story line: A wallet is planted in Portugal's Benfica Soccer club MegaStore, the wallet has a rival club's ticket inside and it's just days before a big match. What would you do? It was nice to see that 95% of the people returned the wallet, and not only were they given a ticket to the game, but they were honored on the big jumbo tron.
You don't have to be a rock star to feel like a rock star, that's what the Ford dealership Jubilee in Saskatoon and the creatives at Kenetic Design came up for this commercial entitled "Night Club Crasher"....and we like it! Credits: Advertising Agency: Kinetic Design, Saskatoon, SK, Canada Creative Director/Copywriter: Drew Sebesteny Account Executive: Christopher Kleiter Production Company: Fahrenheit Films Director/Editor: Tony Hrynchuk Director of Photography: Ray Dumas Online: Cheshire Smile
Ikea's newest ad campaign is a visual delight in the art of getting comfortable and going to bed. Ikea seems to understand that we don't always end up in an actual bed to sleep, but they'll keep us nice and cozy where ever we end up...sleep tight my friends. Music is a remake of the classic song "Dream A Little Dream Of Me."
"With soft fabrics from IKEA, all rooms become a bedroom. You can curl up with my head on the pillow and pull the blanket around you, right where you need: the couch, in the tub, in the kitchen or in the hammock. Just ask one parent of young children or a couch surfer. They know that it is not always in bed as the best sleep are available."
Credits: Ad Agency: Akestam Holst Agency Producer: Leila Widgren CW: Maja Folgero AD: Petra Albrektsson CD: Andrea Ullenius Production Company: Social Club EP: Magnus Theorin Director: Jesper Ericstam Prod. Manager: Agneta Oppenheim Post: Stopp Music: Supercircus Sound: Stopp
Recently in Washington the annual public dinner — "" on which there were representatives of political elite of the USA and the press has taken place. During a dinner, vice-president of the United States known for the verbal oversights has managed a site of the confidential bunker in which should be, what, in case of nuclear attack of the White house to incur powers of the working president. As it became known, the "confidential" bunker to be under residence of vice-president where during an attack 9/11 previous vice-president disappeared.
tshirtOS is the world's first wearable, sharable, programmable t-shirt. The original canvas of personal-expression, innovated by Ballantine's and Cutecircuit. A working, digital t-shirt that can be programmed by an iOS app to do whatever you can think of.
Ballantine's believes in the power of personal expression and want to make tshirtOS available for everybody to buy. You can express your interest on their Facebook page at http://www.tshirtos.com and register your interest.
Credits: Agency: Work Club Director: Kim Gehrig Music: original score by Portasound.
I've been wearing the wrong foot attire! Apparently the age of box-fresh squeaky clean trainers is well and truly over. News reached the fashion world that casual-dressing favorite Converse is launching a new line of trainers that are already a bit battered and worn in, to give that pre-loved look – in the true Converse spirit of Shoes Keep It Clean, Sneakers Get Dirty as we can see from the ad they are running.
The Well Worn collection will feature their iconic Chuck Taylor in softer washed canvas with stained and distressed soles and toe caps, slightly dirtied and with thinner laces. The new season hues will be butterscotch, tango red, and of course turtledove.
To launch the collection, Converse is giving lucky Londoners a chance to attend one of three free concerts at London's 100 Club, the "Get Dirty" concerts will include The Cribs, China Rats, Ghostface Killah, Doom, Gallows, Carnival Kids, and Hoaxacts...and a lot of old dirty sneakers.
One of the sites chosen as part of the green cultural routes program organized by the Culture Ministry’s Directorate of Museums, Exhibitions and Educational Programs Department was Aristotle’s Lyceum. The tour, which introduced attendees to new and exciting information about life in ancient Greece, was led by the head of the Third Ephorate of Classical Antiquities, Eleni Banou.
The site of the Lyceum in August 2013, with grass, flowers and herbs growing strong and a row of young pomegranate trees along the footpath on the west side of the ruins of the gymnasium [Credit: David John/My Favorite Planet]The walk down Rigillis Street from Vassilissis Sofias Avenue toward Vassileos Constantinou Avenue was the perfect start, accompanied by the fragrances of herbs including oregano, thyme, rosemary and lavender. On our right, separated from the Byzantine Museum’s garden by a fence, we spotted a green retreat with glass shelters protecting the discoveries on the site which has been identified as Aristotle’s school of philosophy, or Lyceum, established in 335 BC.
The Lyceum, located between the Officers Club, the Athens Conservatory and the Byzantine Museum, is poised for its grand opening. The display areas are ready, the information signs are up and the site is officially waiting for visitors. Those passing the well-tended 11,000-square meter grounds on the Culture Ministry’s tour asked Banou when the ancient philosophy school would be ready. Some of them managed to sneak in through the door on the Vassilissis Sofias side of the site to take in the ancient lyceum from up close.
Plan for the archaeological park, Aristotle's Lyceum by architect Eleni Markopoulou [Credit: To Vima]The signs are insightful, even if architect and site supervisor Niki Sakka is not there to provide a guided tour, informing the public about the history of the site that Aristotle rented in order to set up his Peripatetic School, a part of the Lyceum. They also provide information on the three big compounds of Ancient Athens – the Academy, the Lyceum and Cynosarges – used for the physical and mental exercise of the city’s youth and men.
The Lyceum (first brought to light by archaeologist Effi Lygouri in 1996), was an overgrown suburb of ancient Athens named after a nearby temple dedicated to Apollo Lyceus. The archaeologists of the Third Ephorate of Classical Antiquities, which is responsible for the site, want it to become a part of Athenians’ everyday life, a place where visitors can take a walk, rest or read.
Greek archaeologists working at the site of Aristotle's Lyceum [Credit: David John/My Favorite Planet]“Our reasoning is that we don’t want people to be afraid of interacting with the site,” Banou said during the tour. The Lyceum is a new archaeological destination, with free admission, which is also expected to boost visitor numbers at the nearby Byzantine and War museums.
However, a date for its formal inauguration has not been set yet, though it is slated to take place within the next couple of months, before the end of summer.
Cue (the brand design company) creates an expression to celebrate the fifty year relationship between Frank Sinatra and Jack Daniel's Whiskey with very limited edition "Sinatra Select".
Jack Daniel’s Sinatra Select is a special edition whiskey crafted to honor Frank Sinatra’s fifty-year friendship with Jack Daniel’s. Frank was a fiercely loyal, lifetime fan of the brand, and Sinatra Select was designed to be both a classic expression of style and an homage to two American icons. This exclusive outpouring of the distiller’s craft is matured in proprietary oak barrels for a bold flavor, timeless character and exceptional smoothness. Sinatra Select will be available at high-end retail stores and major airports worldwide, debuting in Las Vegas and later spreading to destinations including New York, London, Sydney and Singapore.
Frank Sinatra lived a style that was truly his own. His independent spirit made him stand out in his time, and continues to distinguish him today. The design for Sinatra Select balances Jack Daniel’s legacy and Frank Sinatra’s legacy with a look that is sleek and stylish, a reflection of Sinatra’s timeless good taste.
The vessel designed for Jack Daniel’s Sinatra Select is a taller, sleeker interpretation of the Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey bottle, with a weighted base, an embossed metal shoulder label and a medallion featuring an icon of Frank’s familiar fedora.
Sinatra Select incorporates many of the brand's defining elements, and adds new ones specific to this expression. The capsule features the Jack Daniel's Country Club logo created by Frank to adorn a blazer he wore in the 1950s—a statement of his independent way of living.
Sinatra Select is packaged within a bespoke bottle made for this special edition product. The branded box incorporates a medallion with the Frank Sinatra fedora icon and orange ribbon. The color orange works as the perfect complement to Sinatra Select's classic black color palette. Sinatra said that orange is the happiest color, and often used a bright orange pocket handkerchief to add some pop to his tailored suits and tuxedos. Inside is a special book that tells more about the story of Frank’s fifty-year relationship with Jack Daniel’s.
This super-premium offering from Jack Daniel’s celebrates a man who lived without hesitation or compromise. The result is a distinctive expression of style and grace, in keeping with the kindred spirit that it honors.
Credits: All images and story via: Cue Brand Design.
In other Whiskey news, see the Holiday Whiskey Advent Calender created by Drinks by the Dram HERE.
The J. Paul Getty Museum today placed on view a Decree Relief with Antiochos and Herakles, the first Greek loan to arise from a 2011 framework for cultural cooperation between the Getty and the Hellenic Republic Ministry of Culture.
Decree Relief with Antiochos and Herakles, about 330 B.C. Greek; found in Athens. Marble. Lent by the National Archaeological Museum in Athens and the Hellenic Republic, Ministry of Culture and Tourism.On loan from the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, the marble relief bears a historical decree, dated to 330 B.C., which honors Prokleides, a military officer (taxiarch) in the Athenian army. The relief will be on view at the Getty Villa for three years in a second-floor gallery devoted to Religious Offerings.
The relief takes the form of a stele, a stone slab decorated with images and text, crowned with the figures of Herakles and his son Antiochos, who was the mythical hero of the tribe Antiochis. Herakles is depicted as an athletic nude, holding a club and the pelt of the Nemean Lion he vanquished, referring to the first of the twelve labors he had to perform. Seemingly the elder, Antiochos wears a dignified mantle and holds a staff (no longer visible, but probably added in pigment). Both father and son heroes were the subject of cult worship, and are shown standing within a small temple framed by columns and a pediment.
Written in ancient Greek below the figures, an inscription describes the honors bestowed upon Prokleides by his soldiers and comrades, all members of an elite infantry corps known as the epilektoi. This is the earliest known inscription referencing the epilektoi, a group of men bound together by their military service, participation in sacrifices and theatrical performances, and membership in the Athenian Council. According to the decree, Kephisokles of the village of Alopeke proposed the resolution to praise Prokleides, who “has well and with distinction taken care of security,” and crown him with a gold diadem worth at least 1,000 drachmas (an enormous sum, considering the average worker in classical Athens could support a family of four on one drachma a day).
Soon after arriving at the Getty, the stele was photographed using a technique that captures the object numerous times with varying degrees of raking light. The resulting composed image reveals the shallow lettering with unprecedented depth and clarity and enables a more accurate reading of the inscription. A transcription of the ancient Greek text, translation, and detail photography of the historical inscription accompanies the installation.
“The Antiochos relief commemorates the affection and respect of troops for their commanding officer,” explains Claire Lyons, acting senior curator of antiquities at the Getty Villa. “We are delighted that it will be on view at the Getty Villa in time for Memorial Day, when we honor the contributions of fallen soldiers to their communities and country.”
This long-term loan results from the Framework for Cultural Cooperation signed in September 2011, which provides for joint scholarship, research projects, loans, and exhibitions between the Getty and the Hellenic Republic. “As part of this framework of cooperation between the Hellenic Republic Ministry of Culture and the Getty Museum, we are pleased to have the Antiochos relief on display at the Getty Villa,” said Maria Vlazaki-Andreadaki, director general of archaeology in Athens. “We believe that this collaboration will promote classical studies in the United States and will spread the values and the spirit of ancient Greek civilization.”
Historical Background
The relief was discovered in 1922 in the foundations of a house in the Athenian neighborhood of Dourgouti. In antiquity, the area was known as Kynosarges and was the site of a public gymnasium and a sanctuary of Herakles, the greatest of the Greek heroes. Believed to have stood in this sanctuary, where several other inscriptions mentioning the tribe Antiochis were found, the relief was a votive dedication erected in a prominent public location befitting a successful military leader.
The Antiochos relief is a primary document of democracy, and the language of its inscription shows that voting and public speech were deeply ingrained in civic life two centuries after the foundation of democratic political institutions in Athens.
The creation of the Attic tribes was the most important feature of the revolutionary reorganization of Athenian politics that followed the overthrow of the tyrants in 508 B.C. In this system, ten tribes composed of approximately 3,000 citizens and their families were created. Each tribe was assigned the name of a mythical Athenian hero: Antiochos was the eponymous hero of the tribe Antiochis.
Drawn from villages in three distinct zones of the Athenian territory—the coast, the inland farming region, and the urban/suburban zone—the tribes represented the entire citizenry of Athens. Josiah Ober, Professor of Political Science and Classics at Stanford University, observes: “Imagine a reorganization of the United States that would require citizens from Maine, Texas, and California to work, fight, and feast together on a regular basis. The communities constituting the tribe of Antiochis included Alopeke, the philosopher Socrates’ home village—so we might even imagine that a descendant of Socrates as among the signatories to the decree.”
Credits: Advertising Agency: Deutsch, New York, USA Partner/ Chief Creative Officer: Greg DiNoto Group Creative Directors: Jeremy Bernstein, Karyn Pascoe, Bernie Hogya Associate Creative Directors: Luke Hughett, Sean Lee Art Director: Jessica Giles Copywriter: Austin Hamilton Director of Integrated Production: Joe Calabrese Director of Creative Technology: Rey Peralta Director of Digital Production: Suzanne Molinaro Digital Producer: Kristina Trimmer Executive Producer: Lauren Ziffer Associate Producer: Dylan Mizner Senior Project Manager: Jeremy Gelade
Hot Pockets and Snoop team up and create the ultimate music video rap with "Pocket Like It's Hot".
The irresistibly hot music video to end all music videos — "Pocket Like It's Hot", featuring Snoop, DeStorm Power, Andy Milonakis, Herbie Hot Pockets®, and WWE® Superstar Brodus Clay, brought to you by HOT POCKETS® brand sandwiches. Lots more info and on the company Facebook app page.
I know what you thinking, don't you wish you had the lyrics to the rap...done.
Lyrics: Hungry kids in the crib ma Pocket like it's hot Pocket like it's hot Pocket like it's hot When the craving's got a hold of you Pocket like it's hot Pocket like it's hot Pocket like it's hot And yo munchies get a attitude Pocket like it's hot Pocket like it's hot Pocket like it's hot I've got the pockets in my arms Settin' off smoke alarms And I eat 'em smokin hot 'Cause I got it going on - I'm a hot dude, with some hot dreams Getting fired up, letting off steam Everybody showing love — Herbie's in da tub Checkin' applications for the Hot Pockets fan club Pepperoni pizza, much better than some fish eggs The interior too hot let it cool off for a few secs I'm running for the taste, that can be my phys ed Chompin Hot Pockets, that's how you get ahizzead Winners get the meaty meats, Winners get da cheesy eats The tag-team meal that's too hot for TV Get off my pockets, you gotta backup Yup that's whatssup, now sign the prenups Me and Hot Pockets never gonna splitup You should think about it.....take a second. - I bring the heat, but y'all knew that Da Big Sauce Boss, yeah, I had to do that I keep it fired up, even when I'm inside You take what's mine, then ya gonna have to run 'n hide He light 'em up so much that everybody talks They all wanna turn in his Hot Pockets Box Two, one, yep, three these Pockets are H O double T Smokey temps hitting that three thirty three If you can't stand it this hot Then you can't chill with me So bring your friends, we going on a wild ride Herb Sauce tender meats heat yo insides So don't change the dizzle, turn it up a lizzle Got some cheesy drizzle dripping on my shizzle Waiting on the brizzle's, the pizzle, the dizzle Gs, when da cheese hits your tongue it'll scream "Fo Sizzle" - Hungry kids in the crib ma Pocket like it's hot Pocket like it's hot Pocket like it's hot When the craving's got a hold of you Pocket like it's hot Pocket like it's hot Pocket like it's hot And yo munchies get a attitude Pocket like it's hot Pocket like it's hot Pocket like it's hot I've got the pockets in my arms Settin' off smoke alarms And I eat 'em smokin hot 'Cause I got it going on
I'm constantly altering the order of the entrants in my hypothetical `favourite actor's list'.However, one permanent feature has been the always awesome and versatile Sam Rockwell. Since his debut in the teen-horror Clownhouse, the 40-year-old has gone on to become a one-man gallery of crooks, rogues and oddballs. Critics adore him. Cinephiles applaud him. Yet still he manages to tread comfortably on the line between stardom and obscurity. Touted as `the next big thing’ for over a decade, Rockwell has made a career of playing the anti-hero. He shifts between supporting roles and leading parts as if they were gears in a car and is widely considered one of the finest actors working today. With a name like a character from an Austin Powers movie, Rockwell is the go-to man for directors with controversial or challenging parts. Thus, when Duncan Jones, son of David Bowie, entered into a career as a filmmaker it’s no wonder he wrote his debut feature Moon as a vehicle for Sam Rockwell. As audiences worldwide prepare to see him in the biggest the role of his career, I thought I'd put together this piece to look back at some of the his most memorable performances.
His breakthrough performance was in 1997 as a lovable oddity in Tom DiCillo’s Box of Moonlight. He went on to star in a number indie drama’s and had his first foray in to studio pictures as a child murderer in The Green Mile (below). Despite only having a small amount of screen time, Rockwell left a lasting impression as the charismatic killer.
Charisma was again a major feature in his role as Eric Knox in Charlie’s Angels. One of his most well-known parts, Rockwell was unforgettable as the quirky and deranged super-villain who was just as comfortable moon-walking to Pharaoh Monche as he was shooting missiles from his helicopter. However, it was his leading turn in George Clooney’s directorial debut Confessions of a Dangerous Mind that certified Rockwell as a rising talent. He won the Silver Berlin Bear for best actor at the Berlin International Film Festival for playing game show impresario Chuck Barris, who claimed to have been a CIA hitman.
With a growing reputation as a diverse character actor, Rockwell went on to star in several large supporting roles in films such as Matchstick Men, A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Snow Angels and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Perhaps his most controversial role was as a sex-addicted con-man in last year’s Choke which is based on a book by Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk. As a serious actor it would be difficult to find a juicer part than that of a man who pays for his mothers hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who save him from choking to death. On the surface it’s the kind of character that audiences should have loathed but Rockwell threw himself in to the part making him poignant and hilarious. He followed Choke with the Oscar nominated Frost/Nixon where he played passionate political writer James Preston Jr.
Although he has spent much of his career playing second fiddle, in his latest film Rockwell is back at leading-man. In fact, he is the only actor in Moon. He plays astronaut Sam Bell (below) who is wrapping up a three-year stint on the moon where he has been overseeing the mining interests of the Lunar Corporation. With the exception of recorded messages from his family and bosses back on Earth, his only company is the base’s computer Gerty (voiced by Kevin Spacey). That is until he meets a younger, angrier version of himself who claims to be there to fulfil the same three-year contract. Engaging the eye as much as the mind, Moon draws from classic science-fiction films and is propelled by an intense performance from Rockwell. Taking out the best British film award at the Edinburgh film festival earlier this year, it has been hailed as a remarkable debut from Duncan Jones who wrote the film to lure Rockwell in to working with him.
Made on a budget of $5 million and shot in 33 days, Moon has been hailed as an intelligent, intriguing and unique film held together by Rockwell’s performance. Critics have tipped this as the film to finally elevate the American actor to A-List, leading man status. Whether this will actually come to fruition remains to be seen, however Rockwell seems content with his position in modern day cinema. If nothing else the role will be another display of brilliance from the actor and can be added to his repertoire of unusual characters. In the mean time, his next move is away from the indie-circuit and back in to blockbuster mode as he stars alongside Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Gwyneth Paltrow and Mickey Rourke in Iron Man 2.
The Outback Steakhouse and creative ad agency Deutsch, NY create "The 12 Days of Leftovers" just in time for Christmas with singing food from our refrigerators. The online campaign comes complete with a series of talking and singing food web ads to get you to forget the leftovers and head on over to Outback instead.
Below are the "Mystery Mashed Potatoes" and "Slab of Slimy Ham" which is an outtakes reel of talking food bloopers. spots for your viewing pleasure, or you could run to Outback!
Holidays come and go, and then you're stuck with leftovers. Crusty, Fuzzy, Icky, Slimy Leftovers--and those are the ones you can recognize.
Take a break from holiday leftovers this season, and head into Outback Steakhouse for a delicious topped steak instead.
"The outtakes reel — some say there is no higher form of cinema. Just like some say there is no lower form of food than the holiday leftover. As a charter member of the past-their-prime portion club myself, I disagree.
But if you just can't spend another night with your old friend Slab of Slimy Ham, then go ahead into Outback Steakhouse for a real meal. I'll be fine. Really. No, I'm not crying..." — Slab of Slimy Ham.
Credits: Ad Agency: Deutsch, NY. Client: Outback Steakhouse Directors: Ben & Julia Art Direction & Puppets: Ben&Julia Studio Assistant: David Huckert Production: Hornetinc Executive Producer: Jan Stebbins Producer: Zack Kortright Line Producer: Joel Kretschman Editor: R.J. Glass & Anita Chao Director of Photography: Ivan Abel Gaffer: Michael Yetter 1st AC: Nathan Spengler Best Boy: Casey Wooden Key Grip: Mike Farino 2nd Grip: Leo Schott Fabricators: Tim McDonald, Nathan Asquith, Connie Chan VTR: Jon Osterman Puppeteer: James Godwin Compositors: Ali Kocar, Peter Fink PA: Tim Kuhl, Dean Ford
