Roger Federer Stars in Nike’s “The Fly Swatter”

For ‘ultimate flexibility’, look no further than the Nike Free Trainer 5.0.

Archetypes 2013 – An AfrikaBurn Time Lapse Experience

a Mind blowing time lapse of this years Unforgettable Afrika Burn!

The SWEET LOVE CINEMA sharing the love. .

8 Bottles, 1 Jean. Levi’s Waste

baby&me – The New Evian Film

The perfect video for the mid-week blues, if this doesn’t get you smiling, then we don’t know what will.

A Boy And His Atom: The World’s Smallest Movie

A new film made by IBM researchers, which uses a small cluster of atomic particles to create a record-breaking stop-motion advert.

Dove Experiment Aims to Change the Way You See Yourself

They hired a criminal sketch artist to draw women as they see themselves and as others see them. Watching these women come face to face with the version of themselves in their mind and the version everyone else sees is extraordinary. It’s one of the most original and touching experiments to come from the Campaign ...

Old Spice’s Hilarious Parodies of ’80s Soap Ads

Old Spice just rolled out two new, fascinatingly bizarre ads for its Fiji Bar Soap. There’s nothing that screams the late 80′s and early 90′s more than those jazzy, overly up-beat commercials that were so ubiquitous for the time.

OMNITEL “Duel”

Yes, That Kind of Fast

HAPPY TUESDAY

Super-cute spot from BETC London for Cow & Gate.

PRADA – ‘CANDY L’EAU’ (FULL)

French love triangles have never felt as good as they do in Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola’s delightful short film.

Samsung’s latest Smart TV adverts, directed (separately) by Adam Berg and Romain Gavras

The Smart TV is intended to give viewers a cinematic experience. Voice commands and hand gestures don’t just allow you to control the viewing experience on the Smart TV’s, they also help you tame marauding hordes of wildebeests, aliens, Roman centurions, Maori warriors and American footballers.

Ask Your Doctor About Tacos

Depression Hurts, but Tacos loaded with beef and cheese make them the world’s most delicious antidepressant.

IndieLisboa: Noooo & Runaway

Hollywood is running out of ideas, come see something new!

Killing Cool

Killing Cool mobile app helps ad creatives help other creatives get over the death of their ideas.

Professional skateboarder, Eric Koston is so legendary, even Tiger Woods is talking him up.

In celebration of the release of Eric Koston’s second signature model from Nike SB, the Eric Koston 2, enjoy this new feature edit and catch a glimpse of Eric’s amazing ongoing roll through life, continually dropping jaws left and right for decades!

IBM’s Long-Form Content Shows Its Technology in Action

IBM is pioneering sensors that monitor seniors’ homes in real time—temperature, carbon dioxide levels and much more—and send the data to city workers, who can dispatch friends, family or emergency personnel as needed. This remote solution can keep a town’s social-services costs down as its population ages. IBM tested the system in Bolzano, Italy, and ...

PRADA CANDY BY WES ANDERSON AND ROMAN COPPOLA – EPISODE 1

Prada unveiled the first of a three part commercial for their new fragrance Candy L’Eau, starring Lea Seydoux as ‘Candy’ who starred in the fragrance’s debut campaign back in 2011. While it’s always nice to see the signature Wes Anderson quick pan, the film also has some knockout fashion and beautiful cinematography.

Orangina drinkers attacked by the human cannon ball: 0%

The orange drink is extremely good for you, say the world’s weirdest statistics

Shoes are Boring, Wear Sneakers

Converse has kicked off an international campaign that shows how shoes are just sneakers’ boring cousins.

The trouble is they taste too good..

Kellogg’s Crunchy Nut Granola Frightens Aliens away in a New Spot

A dramatic surprise on an ice-cold day…

To launch Turner Broadcasting’s series and movie channel TNT in the Netherlands a new dramatic piece of the now famous red button was shot in the quiet town of Dordrecht . When innocent passers-by dare to push the button, pure TNT-drama unfolds with a slightly new twist: close ‘participation’ of the public.

Carlsberg puts friends to the test..

If your friend called in the middle of the night from a poker game gone wrong. What would you do?

Paper? Pa-per? What the hell is that?

Paper isn’t dead, it’s the most important thing in the house.

The Art of Steadicam

Invented by Garrett Brown in the early 70′s, the steadicam shot  (or ‘steadishot’) has become one of the most dynamic and exciting forms of cinematography and is one of the most engaging visual techniques in a filmmaker’s storytelling arsenal.

You’re Never Too Young To Change The World

A great spot to an even better song.. Director: Tom Haines Producer: Jamie Clark DOP: Steve Annis Music: Alt-J ‘Something Good’    

So God made a farmer

To make this spot, Ram Trucks commissioned 10 photographers including William Albert Allard of National Geographic and documentary photographer Kurt Markus to create the images that form the commercial’s backdrop. Written by Paul Harvey          

Sony Xperia – Sound & Vision

Ad Agency: McCann, London Director: Tarsem Singh Music — Sound and Vision by David Bowie (Remixed by by Sonjay Prabhakar)  

The Jockstrap Raiders

Student Academy Award winning animated short film, The Jockstrap Raiders, is about a group of misfits during world war I.  Due to various abnormalities, our heroes are all excluded from the war. But, threatened by the invading German Kaiser and his army, they must learn to become a team and overcome their deficiencies in order to ...

Its cool to code

Perhaps its time we all learned a new skill….      

Festival of colours

Coming to Cape Town this weekend….    

SUMMER 2013 PLAYLIST

Click on the link to download our Summer 2013 mixtape.  Please remember to support artists – buy their music in-store or online!    

Qualcomm Snapdragon

Framestore directors Murray Butler and David Mellor in collaboration with agency Ogilvy created what appears to be an epic movie trailer for client Qualcomm. Read more about the production here.  

Natasja Fourie’s stills

  Groundglass director/photographer Natasja Fourie dares to bare more than most in her ever evolving collection of intimate portraits. Her work has been featured in various international magazines to huge acclaim, both in print and online. Click on the links to view more examples of her featured work. natasja-fourie natasja-maria-fourie

DC SHOES: Robbie Maddison’s Air.Craft

DC TeamWorks very first video: Robbie Maddison’s AIR.CRAFT. Filmed in a military service airplane graveyard in Tucson, Arizona this short film showcases Robbie’s legendary freestyle motocross skills.  

Muse ‘Supremacy’ by Terry Hall

British director, Terry Hall shot the latest music video for Muse in California just as they started their latest US tour.  The video features some of the best original surfing footage ever captured for a music video.      

Lurpak – Good Proper Food

Once again Lurpak takes the romance out of food advertising and serves us more good, proper food. Ad Agency: Wieden + Kennedy Director: Vince Squibb Production: Gorgeous    

Thomas’ Verraadplaas gets MK’s best video nomination…

The nominees for the 7th annual MK Awards have been announced and music video Die Heuwels Fantasties – Verraadplaas directed by our very own Thomas Ferreira has been nominated for the prestigious best video award. Voting will open from 1 February 2013 and close 8 March 2013. Voting can be done via MK’s website and facebook page, remember ...

Paperman, Disney’s Oscar-nominated short film

Released just in time for Valentine’s day, Paperman is a love story that brings back memories of Disney’s classic hand-drawn animation. Using a revolutionary technique called ‘final line advection’, the short film not only blurs the line between drawn and digital animation but also pushes the animation medium in an exiting new direction.

Groundglass director Melissa Silverman certainly knows how to cast….

Jennifer Laurence thanked MTV in her acceptance speech at the SAG awards this week for getting her first SAG role in these “sweet 16” “On-Air” promos which were both cast and directed by Melissa for the network. Have a look at Melissa’s latest reel at melissa-silverman-showreel Get More: Jennifer Lawrence, Movie Trailers, Movies Blog “>

TOYOTA RELEASES SUPER BOWL COMMERCIAL

Embodying the modern, stylish and smart characteristics of the all-new RAV4, Toyota’s new “Wish Granted” commercial starring Kaley Cuoco will make its broadcast debut on February 3.

Cool Unicorn Bruv – Short film

Awesome Short Film written and directed by Ninian Doff

Coke Chase

After having one of the most talked about campaigns for the Super Bowl least year with “Polar Bowl”, Coca-Cola is hoping for the same success this year. The 60-second teaser depicts three teams trying to get to a giant bottle of Coke — and asks viewers to help them via social media.  

Guinness – Clock

Ad Agency: AMV BBDO London Production Company: Gorgeous Director: Peter Thwaites Post-Production Co.: The Mill  

William Hill Football Passion

Directed by Peter Lydon      

The Phenomenal Handclap Band & Peaches – ‘Walk The Night’

Directed by Natasja Fourie – the official music video  

Coca-Cola : Are You Crazy Enough?

Coca-Cola invites us to engage in our own random acts of happiness and kindness with a new pro-social ad campaign, “Go crazy and do good for others.” Music is the Supertramp song “Give a little bit” Written and performed by Roger Hodgson.  

IKEA – All rooms become a bedroom

With soft fabrics from IKEA, all rooms become a bedroom.     Production Company: Social Club Director: Jesper Ericstam

Orange – Being There

  Advertising Agency: Marcel, Paris

Happy 2013 and a must see – 56UP

Wishing all our loyal followers a very happy and prosperous 2013! To kick off the year, here is the trailer for a must-see documentary by renowned director Michael Apted – read about it below.  Hoping is comes to SA soon.     “Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you ...