Sussex Safer Roads Partnership PSA
One hell of a nicely-shot PSA: Sussex Safer Roads Partnership: Embrace Life. Via zefrank.
Great TV spots for Standard Life
I first saw a couple of weeks ago on TV a pair of advertisements for Standard Life, the first called "Beach" and the other "Crosswalk". As television ads tend to do only between many blue moons, these spots left me unexpectedly entertained and anxious to see them again. They feature a pair of easy-going insurance agents casually throwing about risk statistics in a couple of common situations only to find themselves taken off guard by a wholly-unexpected scenario at the punch line.
Conceived by Marketel (Toronto) and produced by Soft Citizen (Montréal), this campaign succeeds largely because the spots do not condescend to the viewer and are of high quality in most every respect: they are well written, well cast, well performed, well paced, and are simultaneously intellectual yet amusing to any audience.
It's especially exciting to see this type of work coming out of Canada.
New Zealand Book Council: Going West
Going West: a fantastic stop-motion short from the New Zealand Book Council ("where books come to life"). Via Gruber.
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Twittage
- Likely going to stop reading twitter now that it's broken via RSS. Workaround suggestions welcome. (Hoping that @nnw_Mac will add support!)
- Praise the l0rd; iOS 4.1 finally restores my iPhone 3G to its reasonably-snappy state of old.
- How do I get an RSS feed of the twitter accounts I'm following? Previously using /statuses/friends_timeline.rss but that broke yesterday.
- Words which irritate me: "price point" (just say "price"); "sign off on" (just say "sign"); "viral video" (just say "trendy tripe").
- Can #Apple not produce a goddamn display anymore without a piece of shit reflective glass in front of it?