A brilliant ad by YouTube - quite confusing at first! Take a look.
via Marklives.com
Archive for the ‘Tomfoolery’ Category
Cry of the Dolphins
Famous Knots of the World
The knots we’ve all tangled by accident but couldn’t possibly do if we tried… A great ad campaign by Ford advertising that Bluetooth now comes with every new Ford model.
via Gizmodo
Small Advertising
Flies, equipped with banners? An ingenious, viral campaignl!
The agency “Jung von Matt / Neckar” came up with this clever and unique concept. 200 flies were tipped at the Frankfurt Book Fair, with advertising banners for the publisher “Eichborn” and sent through the halls.
The banners were attached to the insect with a special, unharmful wax. The wax comes off after some time, including the residue from the banners.
Gucci Beats iPhone App
Ever wish your iPhone could look as good as you do in that Gucci suit with those matching Gucci loafers? Well, it still can’t…. But your iPhone can be laced with the Gucci Beats! Luxury brands have seen a bit of trouble amidst the recession earlier this year so they are vamping up their marketing efforts to move some serious product this holiday season. Gucci’s answer? Create an app for one of the worlds most popular hand held devices of course!
How the world wakes up to Twitter
GoodMorning! is a Twitter visualization tool which shows about 11,000 tweets collected over a 24 hour period between August 20th and 21st. The tweets were harvested to find people saying ‘good morning’ in English as well as several other languages.
Nintendo Flashbacks
With thanks to the almighty and all powerful YouTube we came across this expose on a craze now long forgotten. Beneath the cobwebs of Playstation 1 and Xbox lies the distant memory of Nintendo, “a world when video games were a wild sensation looking to take hold.” What a blessing the rapid progression of technology is!
The Hand from Above
Using the BBC’s Big Screens, which are installed in various UK city centres, the Hand From Above playfully transforms passers-by. “Unsuspecting pedestrians will be tickled, stretched, flicked or removed entirely in real-time by a giant deity.”
“The BBC Big Screen is fitted with a CCTV camera, linked into a computer that runs the software then outputs to the screen. The software picks a person based on their proportions and how apart they are from other people, then tracks the blob over time using optical flow.
