Ask The Spirits II Connects You With the Dead

Just in time for Halloween, TAMBA Intrnet has reprised its 2006 Halloween effort with Ask the Spirits II, a Ouija board-style game that answers your questions about dead relatives and other ghoulish type inquiries. That's really all there is to it. Give it a go.

Sony Bravia Thread Spot Drapes Ancient Tombs with Rainbow Shroud

We were skeptical about how many more ways Sony would be able to push its swath-everything-in-color manifesto for the Bravia campaign, but at this rate, we're pretty sure it could go on forever.

Y&R, Egypt is responsible for this pyramid and thread spot. It's appealing -- even without a Rolling Stones tune -- but it also filled us with a sense of dread. How many takes did this require? Who cleaned up all those spools?

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Photoshelter Monetizes Pictures, Adrants Has Dirty Mind, Little Else New

LOL. So PhotoShelter's PR people emailed to say it's running a casting call for its image collection, which helps photographers make profits on pictures. If you register before November 5th, you could get 85 percent of transaction proceeds in your first six months.

There is really nothing funny about that, or about anything PhotoShelter is doing to promote this effort, but the PR guy who wrote to us started his letter with some generic line like, "I came across your site and thought you might be interested..."

And, partly because we think it's complete swill when somebody claims to "come across our site" before diving into a pitch, Steve emailed me and snarled, "Don't you hate it when people cum all over our site? I mean it's messy, man! It's mean! It's rude!"

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Bet You Can't Do This With Your Cereal In the Morning

Everyone plays with their food from time time time. Perhaps, because what's on the plate isn't very palatable. Maybe it's the result of nervousness while on an awkward date. Maybe one too many martinis were consumed prior to dinner and one more bite of food will, assuredly, turn the stomach into a launch vehicle for its contents. But how many people play with food just to make a commercial?

OK, so a lot of people do but this Leo Burnett Toronto-created, Head Gear Animation-produced commercial for Kellogg's All-Bran Guardian goes far beyond pushing food around with a fork or styling it for a photoshoot. In this commercial, the food becomes the makings of a video. Enjoy.

TurboChef Perhaps Promises More than It Can Deliver

We really hate it when lame music gets in the way of our ambient in-the-zone iTunes mix. But that's really the only beef we have with this microsite for TurboChef, which in all other respects is suspiciously too cool to be kitchen appliance-related.

The Oven Reinvented was put together by mono and it gives demonstrations on how the TurboChef cooks food. We watched the asparagus segment about six times. While cooking, the food sort of floats in midair while lasers shoot through it from both directions.

It's so Teleportation Pod Meets Wolfgang Puck.

In its pressie, mono calls TurboChef "15 times better" than the typical "me-too" luxury appliance. We're not really sure how the agency arrived at the number 15 but we're guessing it's probably similar to the way we pretended to count the number of times we saw the asparagus segment. (Actually, we only watched it once.)

Radiohead Thinks its Fans Can Set Prices Just Fine, Thanks

Radiohead, which according to Chuck Klosterman is somehow both over- and underrated as a band, has decided to take a stand against third-party online music dealers (cough-cough-iTunes) by letting fans decide what to pay for its latest album Rainbows.

Manager Bryce Edge explained, "We're prepared to take a risk and we might come out looking very foolish. But we believe if your music is great, then people will pay for it."

The 10 tracks are available on the Radiohead website and costs allegedly vary from nothing to 100 pounds (not the weight; the currency). In fact, we can't even open it because it keeps crashing from the mad rush of fans trying to get to the goods.

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Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears Career Paths Differ Dramatically

It's almost impossible to remember, given what's happened between now and then, but Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears used to be on the same track career path towards stardom. Obviously, things have changed over the past several years for the former Mouseketeers.

For Spears, it's been mostly for the worse. For Aquilera, it's been a smooth sail so it isn't a surprise she comes of as the elegant lady she is in this latest celebrity perfume campaign for her namesake's fragrance. Yes, Aguilera had her slutty 'Dirty' period but she's settled quite nicely into the blond bombshell category and appears happy to stay. Spears (who has also done her fair share of fragrance commercials), well, let's not dwell but, rather, enjoy Aguilera's new commercial.

Fila Spot May Convince Non-Athletic Parents to Keep Jr. in Booties

We were actually surprised here. This spot poses as a home video taken by a proud father of his baby's first steps. If you've ever witnessed a child walk for the first time, you know what a triumphant feat it is - and that it doesn't last long.

That's the first thing that sticks out.

The kid seems to be walking for an impressively long time with the dad following closely behind, cooing in paternal awe. Then they get to the front door, and POW! -- the kid's off like a shot! Pops couldn't keep up if he wanted to. The ensuing mayhem made us LOL.

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DDB, Sydney: Golden Arches > City Sunrise. Seriously. What?

Either McDonald's gets off on the idea its golden arches could surpass sunlight, or somebody at DDB, Sydney is fucking wild about Egg McMuffins. (They are compelling sandwiches.)

Variations here and here. It's like some starry-eyed Nikon hobbyists couldn't decide which angle they loved best so they decided to pass all three favorites off as a tri-variant print campaign.

Are we supposed to compliment the photography?

Agency.com Employs Zoom Feature to Explore British Airways

Agency.com has just prepared a new online campaign for British Airways. Visit Upgrade to British Airways to get the gist.

Using both flash and HTML, users click on the logo and find themselves zooming ever nearer to teeny weeny little images that seemingly make up the bigger picture. Once you get as close as you possibly can to each element, you learn a neat little fact about the British Airways experience.

In the same way the Tin Man subsite loops after about 10,000 scenes or so, images are repeated without hurting the effort much -- meaning you could pretty much sit there clicking forever.

If Tin Man and British Airways are any indication, it seems like Ad-ville is developing a preoccupation with ... what could you call it? Immersion? Digging deep? Life in macro? Vertigo?