Archive for the ‘TV’ Category

Adventure Time

October 17, 2007

Okay, if you haven’t seen this you are in for a treat. “Adventure Time” was a short kids’ animation created for Nickelodeon’s “Random! Cartoons” – a stand alone animated episode that has since outshined its series competition (just check out the number of views on youtube!). It concerns the adventures of boy wonder Pen and his magical dog friend Jake and without further ado, please check it out:

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Glass and a Half Full

September 13, 2007

Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate is the unlikely product behind a brilliant new advert launched during the Big Brother 2008 UK final. Like most good adverts it is simple and poetic, featuring an emotional gorilla drumming along to the Phil Collins song “In The Air Tonight”. It is written and directed by Juan Cabral, the creative mind behind the award winning Sony Bravia advert.

Don’t read too much in to it, in Cadbury’s words “There’s no clever science behind it – it’s just an effort to make you smile” and make us smile, it does. A higher res version can be found on the campaign’s official site.

Review: “Imprint”

July 11, 2007

imprint

“Imprint” is Takashi Miike’s entry to the “Masters of Horror” series that ran in early 2006. His entry was banned in America, but aired over here in the UK on a little channel called Bravo - however not wishing to line Rupert Murdock’s pockets (and not being able to afford to, even if I did) I missed it. Finally, and with great anticipation, I managed to seek it out.

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