Match Made in Hell
Can a love story get any more surreal than this? Satan and 2020 are imagined as a perfectly matched couple in this whimsical commercial for dating website, Match.com.
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Put Some Clothes On, Man
This quirky 70 second film is the first in a series of satirical shorts called ‘Lowest Common Denominator’. As per the description on the YouTube channel, the series is aimed at “dealing with ignorance, stupidity and hypocrisy one sarcastic slap at a time”.
Drive like Gran’s in the car
If you drive like an arse, you deserve a matronly scolding. That’s the message across this quaintly endearing Scottish road safety campaign targeted at young drivers, that kicked off last year. The latest commercial in the series adds some ovine admonishment as well.
Observation on Anti-Bullying Week
From an opinion piece in the context of Anti-Bullying Week, earlier this month:
It says a lot about human beings that we need a whole week dedicated to not being pricks to each other.
A Christmas food shopping adventure
This is a personal story from a former employee of Marks & Spencer, who shared it on Twitter, a few days ago. It is heartwarming, hilarious, and wonderfully told. Here’s the link.
Make Christmas Great Again
This is a Christmas commercial for The Norwegian Postal Service that stands out for its wacky vision of Santa’s world, and is all the more amusing for its allusions to Donald Trump. It portrays Santa on the couch, lamenting to an elf psychiatrist about being put out of business by the postal service. It is replete with off-kilter imagery that includes a bare-chested Santa, riding a jet ski, and him uprooting mailboxes, wearing a baseball cap that reads “Make Christmas Great Again”.
Ghost
From the Czech Republic: a PSA from IKEA that plays out like scenes from a horror movie. It ends with a spine-chilling message that makes you realize that those scenes could have happened in real life. Here’s a link.
A Whiteware Christmas
From New Zealand: a Christmas commercial that stands out for a very unexpected twist.
Drum and Docks
From British electronic and audiovisual artists, Addictive TV, comes this extraordinary blend of percussion pieces that use boats, railings, footbridges, and more as instruments. Here’s a link to the video.
Long Live Little Brats
A kid being a brat can be a good thing: that’s the idea driving this commercial for The Montreal Children’s Hospital Foundation.
Punctuation Matters
A London restaurant by the name of Anu’s Kitchen was in the spotlight this week for a “punctuation oversight”. Beyond the glaring lapse that was the centre of attention, the oversight seems to extend to its logo as well, as it appears on its flyers.
KFCheese - Everything's Better
From Singapore: a cheese-dripping ad for KFC that takes a sly jab at the competition.
BBC Dad is back
Twitter’s new explainer ad for its conversation settings isn’t particularly exceptional but for the fact that it revives memories of this exquisitely awkward 2017 BBC interview that went viral, much before WFH video call interruptions became commonplace.
Domino’s- Jurassic Car Park
Despite a preposterous premise, this new commercial for Domino’s Car Park Delivery service makes the need for it almost believable.
Search Boliden
From Thailand: an inexplicably titled, hilarious, 3 minute commercial that features zombies, the Frankenstein monster, and plenty of unbelievable absurdity, all in the service of promoting a car battery. Here’s a link.
Plenty- Xmess
It is the complete opposite of what you’d expect a Christmas commercial to look like. Depending on your point of view, you may find it disgusting, or funny, or both. If you still feel like checking it out, here’s a link.
Billboards that disinfect mobile phones
From Finland: a 15 second solution to disinfect mobile phones while on the move.
When things have a mind of their own
From New Zealand: AMI makes the case for having insurance for the times when things around you… decide to do their own thing.
Fall in Stock Prices of Gunmakers
Going by this report, it would appear to be a matter of concern for some on Wall Street.
Stocks of gun manufacturers have sold off since the U.S. presidential election, despite continued worries about politically motivated violence.
Pyromaniac’s Manual
This is an artbook from Polish visual artist Ada Zielińska whose work apparently “seeks out or stages acts of demolition, in order to capture the power inherent in disintegration.”
From the publisher’s introduction to the book:
Once you decide to literally set things on fire, Pyromaniac’s Manual will guide you safely through the process. The best fire is a controlled one, as the author points out, and getting hurt is not a success. Don’t forget to collect your trophies (such as selfies with “victims”), though.
Pyromaniac’s Manual marks an end to a 5-year long project that became one of Ada Zielińska’s trademarks, as well as a form of therapy for the artist. Regardless of your pyromaniac experience, the publication may come in handy in a number of everyday situations such as family road trips, Sunday strolls in a park or simply sitting patiently on your bookshelf, waiting for the right moment.
We wish you an enjoyable pyromania experience.