This post get hit every year since posted right before Christmas.

The only way you could have NOT seen this flash is if you only just now signed onto the internet. This is the best viral piece Burger King never did. It was funny then and it still cracks me up.

Viral is not even a solid term for this. When something is turned into a clip on Family Guy, that is mass viral.

Think of it, some guy makes a funny clip years ago and tonight it shows up on T.V. in cartoon format.

Click on the image to see the now famous flash.

Sure FG is 90% pop-culture spins but Peter doing the BK guy cracked me up.

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This cracked me up. It certainly has no nudity but the point is not lost in the cartoon-like masking.

This was found over on Creativity Online:

Diesel bangs the drum (and other things) for its worldwide Dirty 30 party.

Originally done by SFW Porn, Diesel borrows the motif for it’s upcoming anniversary, making sure its XXX birthday invite stays Safe For Work.

Credits
Agency: The Viral Factory
Director: Keith Schofield

This is worth watching if only to realize that JC Penny did it. Watch it and tell me if the brands you work for, or like would have done something like this. Good for you JC Penny.

Thanks M for the link.

The graphics are just amazing. I don’t play the Skate games but my kids do and Skate 1 was impressive but this looks like another level of complexity.

Pretty damn funny commercial from Stanley Steemer. “Stop it Toby,” too funny.

When I was still in Kansas City, I would order things from Archie McPhee. Now that I’m in Seattle, Archie McPhee is only about 20min to 2 hours away depending on traffic.

Today I got the Collector’s Edition #75 in the mail today.

It really is a must see store in Ballard, which is one of my favorite towns outside of Seattle. Great restaurants, great stores and best of all Archie McPhee. It’s also the town that all the fishermen from Deadliest Catch on the Discovery Channel enjoy at Lockspot Cafe.

Don’t forget to check out squirrelunderpants.com, it’s on the cover.

Follow the link for a bizarre video that just makes me want undies for all the naked squirrels out there.

Little more on Archie McPhee from Wikipedia:

Archie McPhee is a Seattle based novelty dealer owned by Mark Pahlow. Begun in the 1970s in Los Angeles as the mail-order business “Accoutrements”, in 1983 it opened a retail outlet dubbed “Archie McPhee” after Pahlow’s wife’s great-uncle.

The company’s line expanded from rubber chickens to glow-in-the-dark aliens, bacon scented air freshener, and hula girl swizzle sticks. It became a popular Seattle tourist destination while maintaining enough counter-cultural credentials that Ben & Jerry’s Wavy Gravy ice cream was introduced at a party on the premises in 1993.

Its kitsch appeal received further national attention from the “Librarian Action Figure”. In 2002 Nancy Pearl told Pahlow over dinner that librarians like herself “perform miracles every day”. Pearl later posed for a 13 cm hard plastic doll, and librarians from all around the world registered their dismay at its “amazing push-button shushing action!”

Pearl has gone on to author two books as well as an international tour and the release of a “delux” edition of her action figure and Archie McPhee has since featured in Scientific American’s “Technology and Business” review and Time Magazine’s fifty coolest websites of 2005.

The buzz about the BlackBerry Storm is all over the place for about 2 weeks and it’s only going to get bigger.

It’s being called the iPhone Killer but so was the G1. Based on watching 2 hours of prime-time TV last night, I’m guessing that the Smart Phone market is about to drop millions of advertising between now and Christmas. I saw 8 Smart Phone commercials in 2 hours. iPhone showed 3, G1 showed 3 and BlackBerry showed 2.

I will be posting most of them here in the next day or so.

Some people will do anything to get the new BlackBerry Storm, even get a tattoo of one with “iPhone Sucks” under it.

I’ve seen this commercial before and it really caught my attention for obvious reasons.

… it really gives the viewer a way to vividly visualize the concept of “The Human Element” 

CINEMATIC in many respects too

I got an email (thanks Renee) that had about 25 jpg and gif files of really bad classified ads and story headlines and turned them into a quick video.

It’s thrown together so you might have to stop the video to read some of them.

I have a love/hate relationship with Ikea.

No matter what I buy from them, something is missing. I get the table and it only has 3 legs, I buy the shelf system and it is missing a shelf…it’s just how it happens with me and Ikea.

I do love that they have some cool stuff that’s affordable and the big bonus, Ikea is only about 15min away.

This commercial from Ikea is a drastic departure from the commercials they had running in the PNW. It’s a strange almost spooky feeling to it and I like it. “I’d keep an eye on the girl, I think she suspects something,” is a great line.

I hope they continue doing these and don’t revert back to the bad yellow vw bug commercials.