Jesus! Not only does sitting kill us, it can also cause hemorrhoids, constipation, colitis, appendicitis and colon cancer. Well, sitting on the toilet, that is. Apparently, humans are supposed to squat when they poop. Stanford scientists say so. And because of this finding, we now have the Squatty Potty, a stool to place your feet on while sitting on the toilet so as to mimic the squatting position.
Apparently, squatting aligns the colon properly and relaxes constricting muscles making it easier to, well, poop. Via.
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Hey, we didn't lie. The top of the alien's head is, well, topless, right? Anyway, here is a really goofy new commercial for Budget Direct, an Australian car insurance company that used to have an equally goofy commercial that featured a woman singing about Budget as if it were the Tar-Jay of car insurance.
The new commercial, created by Hulsbosch, is just like the old one. It features an alien doing the Tar-Jay/Boo-Jay thing just like the woman in the original. Why the shift to aliens? We have no earthy (or galactic) idea. All we can figure is the creatives were bored and just finished watching a cheesy 1950s sci-fi movie. Goofy seems to be the overriding vision and mission of Budget Direct so we guess the new commercial does the brand justice.
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It is confirmed. Humans are wild animals with very strange habits. This new campaign from Chiel and production company six01 use the nature documentary approach to examine the "tabitat" of the (obsessively) connected generation.
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Maybe it's just us. Maybe were just really easy. If you're a guy and you're at a party and a hot woman sits down next to you and gives you the "do me" look, do you really need to consult a talking phallic tiger for motivation? No. We didn't think so.
But, apparently, the guy in this Tiger energy drink commercial needs a bit of convincing.
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- This weird little Mentos video with an oddly catchy tune aims to garner support for a proposal that would solve Singapore's land crisis.
- These McFlurry-loving women need better lipstick.
- IPG Mediabrands has launched a new unit that further blurs the line between media and creative agencies. Called Mediabrands Publishing, it will create videos and other quick-turnaround content for marketers that will live in the physical and digital worlds. The digital content will be distributed on websites and social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Vine.
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This BBR Saatchi & Saatchi Israel-created commercial for drugstore chain Super-Pharm features women dressed as lobsters, a guy who dances with the sun...and eats it along with Blue Man Group-like dancers who stand in for ocean waves. All of this activity is set to a very Charlie Chaplin-like silent film.
It's weird for sure but it's also a breath of fresh air. After all, how many more CVS-style price and item ads can you stand to watch? This is the third of a planned six ads for the chain.
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Continuing along its path of Barton F Graf 9000-inspired quirkiness, Little Caesars is out with another commercial oddity entitled Cast. In the ad, a man realizes he has no money in his left pocket. So...he reaches into his right pocket...by breaking the cast that is holding up his right arm. Now that's pizza dedication of you ask us!
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OK, right up front let's be clear -- this is not a real ad. However, the message it sends -- sharks are attracted to blood -- is well demonstrated. The "ad" appears in the very rotten film Movie 43 and is for Tampax. It urges woman to make sure their tampons don't leatkso, ya know, they don't get sniffed out by a giant shark that will tear you a part with spooftastic, Jaws-style hilarity.
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It would be so awesome to work in the Japanese ad world. All their work is so whacked. Can you imagine writing a creative brief for this stuff? Can you imagine concepting this stuff? Shooting it? Showing it to the client?
With Japan's apparent fixation with sex (seriously, just go search for a few sex-related videos) we guess it makes perfect sense that this ad for Energy Noodles which, it seems, gives guys hard bodies, also gives them super sturdy hard ons.
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We'd venture it's a sure bet the brand McAfee is none too pleased with a recent video released by founder John McAfee in which he trashes the software he created because the people who have run the company without him for the last 15 years have "fucked it up."
In the video, he hilariously reads profanity-laden emails he says he still receives even though he is no longer associated with the company.
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