Wieden + Kennedy London claim to have created the smallest stop-motion animation ever for Nokia. And ‘Dot’ was all shot on the N8 phone. Find out how they made it here.
OkGo set the bar pretty high with their first few music videos, and they’ve called …
A catchy wee ditty about the modern scourge that is ‘The Dickhead’. And a potential anthem for the upcoming New Zealand Fashion Week.
Old Spice is back (twice) and this time one of the apparently numerous superspokespeople gets real and employs the services of a laser-enabled …
Tammy Davis fronts a campaign for a company called Iwi Kireme (a subsidiary of the quite entertaining Next Level Maori, apparently) that hopes to collect “our finest genetical little wiggly guys in order to create a better race of Aotearoians mingled with magical elements”.
Masculinity is …
Lionel Richie remixes himself for (and possibly sells his soul to) Walkers crisps.
Jack Black pans Orange in a spoof Gulliver’s Travels trailer for Orange.
Bud Light’s take on the consequences of the swear jar.
Arcade Fire, Chris Milk and Google’s …
It’s pretty hard to get any weirder than the Skittles tree boy ad. But this one comes very close.
It’s all about targeted magazines at the moment. And you don’t get much more targeted than Ancient Gravies.
For those of you …
From the beer that brought you ‘Big Ad’ (and also the ill-fated ‘Tingles’ earlier this year) comes this glorious triumph, this remarkable tour de force, this gripping romp from Clemenger BBDO Melbourne and Kiwi director Paul Middleditch that shows blokes engaging in pubbish activity in slow motion. Simple …
The homages have been flooding in online for the Double Rainbow man. And, as StopPress is a passionate fan of Zippy, George, Geoffrey and Bungle, this is certainly one of the best (other passionate Rainbow fans like us have probably already seen the ridiculously innuendo-filled ‘unseen’ episode).
Vimeo …
Little Sister films, a group of film-makers based in Christchurch, proposed the idea of an interactive YouTube ‘pathfinder’ horror adventure to Hell Pizza several months ago. And this is the pretty cool end result (there’s also a year’s supply of pizza up for grabs).
If Facebook …
An amazing stop-motion stroll across America captured using a Canon 5D camera. Dreamed up by Peter Cote, director Sam Griffith and the Conscious Minds Productions crew, they approached Levi’s jeans for sponsorship and products to use during the shoot and set out on the mission on 17 …
Das Boot 2: curse of the randy cetacean.
Everyone loves Lego. And now, with this awesome augmented reality technology, you can love it just that little bit more.
A possible contender for the next Cadbury commercial?
How to be a good winner; scholarly Old …
After a very busy few days, the Old Spice Guy says goodbye. For now…
DJing: It’s obviously a spiritual thing. Or perhaps just a senility thing.
Celebrate the ordinary and learn how to become a Dull Man; a collection of awful library books; Diesel says …
If you liked Muto, then you’re up to twelve times more likely than normal people to like this, the new, ridiculously time-consuming and fairly amazing real-life animation from the Blu Blu collective called ‘Big Bang Big Boom’.
New sport: extreme rainbowing (and the unbridled enthusiasm …
The man your man could smell like is back for the latest Old Spice spot with what could be a small case of ‘that difficult second album’ syndrome.
If you’ve always wanted to dress up as a prawn, egg, carrot or fish, then you’ll …
Now you too can pay homage to the supreme winner of the Magazine Awards.
LOTR meets the soothing sound of the vuvuzela.
The path to musical greatness.
Apparently, this is called Epic Trolling and it gives online nerds nerdgasms; Sarah Palin is remarkably stupid …
Come with us now on a nautical journey into the belly of a terrifying beast as we tell the tale of the many-tentacled killing machine known as the Kraken, which lives on whales, sailors and spiced rum.
John Clarke’s take on the BP oil spill …
Coke have a bit of a goal-scoring giggle with Wayne Rooney and Gavin and Stacey’s James Corden.
Want to find out what your competitors are up to? There’s only one real solution: the roving shrub.
50 impressive fake impressions.
One …
Steve Jobs introduces the Death Star. And more iPad tomfoolery, this time with our old friend velcro.
The second installment of the Olympus PEN series. 355 pictures were taken, printed in billboard size and shot again – and the video was produced with the Olympus PEN itself …
With all that earnest talk about engagement, authenticity and honesty, social media is certainly very fertile ground for parody and ridicule – and also for shysters, snake oil merchants and pettifoggers like Brian.
The mascots for the London Olympics have been revealed. And Wenlock and Mandeville look like the …
Taika Waititi warned everyone that his kinda-new, but mainly just rehashed music video for the Patea Maori Club’s Maori electrofunk classic Poi E would be either average or terrible. And while it does include some of the action from the outstanding Thriller/Poi E mash-up seen at …
The perfect remedy for a bad case of wind.
Google being awesome. Again. And here’s how they did it.
When geeks, meat and swords collide (particularly impressive is the meat-filled boot slicing).
The ancient art of meeting men, news geek nirvana, ze planes …
Are you sick and tired of seeing infomercials that offer moderately useful products? If so, then you should watch these infomercials for completely useless products (and make sure you get yourself a handy Hawaii Chair). It’s a tribute to the power of human thought. But don’t …
We always seem to be dishing out warnings for our raunchy videos (you marcomms folk are so precious) and, once again, we’re heading swiftly down the slippery slope towards the lowest common denominator this week. There’s gyrating, thrusting, writhing and exploding. But it’s also an amazingly well-made …
A warts and all look at the pitch process. Warning: contains adult themes, primarily a scary man dressed up as a grape chasing children while saying things like ‘I’m going to grape you in the mouth’.
Some Egyptians would do anything for love. Except that …
Absolut vodka seem to quite like creative types (as can be seen in their latest campaign). The hard liquor purveyors enlisted the help of a few ‘creative visionaries’ a while back and got them to produce a film or two about what life would …
They don’t call him the world’s most interesting man for nothing. They call him that because he lives vicariously through himself and can speak French – in Russian. And for those who need a little bit more interestingness, he’s got plenty to go around.
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Perhaps this catchy Czech number is destined to be the new trololololololol?
One of the controversial Carlton Draught ads. Want to know what a weenis is? Of course you do. So find out here.
An old Mobil Oil ad in glorious stop motion. And spoken in …
Penis graffiti and prophylactics collide head-on. Warning: animated genitalia with human characteristics and raunchy cartoon sex scenes involved (speaking of genitalia, check out this, perhaps apocryphal, tale of an Italian power company with an unfortunate name).
If we ever get a new flag, surely Justin Brown …
The Wellingtonistas they are not pleased with the idea of the tacky, unoriginal textual adornment slated to grace their proud hillside. And there’s almost no better way to gauge that rage than by waiting to see how long a Downfall-meme will take to crop up (not long …
Last week we posted a story announcing the five finalists in Tourism New Zealand’s ‘Your Big Break’ competition, in which budding film makers from around the world were asked to submit a three minute video that best captures New Zealand’s youthfulness.