marky mark's response!

as it turns out, mark wahlberg himself did not enjoy the SNL skit as much as i did. this is an interview on jimmy kimmel live.



calm down mark, it's all in good fun. he must really talk to animals, and that's why he's so worked up...
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say hi to your mother for me, alright?

this post has no real purpose, except to provide you with the video of the most hilarious skit i've seen on saturday night live in some time.

i've been watching for the last three seasons off and on, mostly on for the last two since kristin wiig's emergence. her stuff is the most consistent, with andy samberg's digital shorts a close second - and then every now and then, samberg will bust out a gem like this.

the impression is dead on.


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reinventing the stop sign

i'm a media person, so not everything discussed in the below video is stuff i deal with on a daily basis. but, through the experiences i have had in the industry so far interacting with account and creative folks .. it's pretty damn funny.


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THE blob

watch this video a half dozen times. the height on the launch, the kicking the legs mid-air, the back flop, the fact that she's probably 10 and crying when she comes up?

like a fine wine, it gets better with age.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

also, the video is obnoxiously huge, and covering up some side-bar information .. but worth it i'd say.
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it's not a party without guinness (apparently)

this clip has been up on youtube for four months, and has 300,000 views. it's not the definition of viral per se (this ray ban viral video has 3.6 million views in a year), but it's gotten some decent exposure. i, for one, have had it forwarded to me by two friends in the last three days.

imagine if advertisers would go out on a limb more often and do something like what guinness did here. i've seen some of these 'never-made-it-to-TV' ads on youtube before, and they're usually a hit.

what does this say about this type of risque advertising? that people would like it more than the crap that's jammed down their throats? or does it not matter, because the realities of both the ad industry and society just don't allow for it to happen?



UPDATE: youtube pulled the clip. i hope you had an opportunity to see before it went MIA, but if not, here's the rundown. a naked woman (clearly on all fours) is slowly rocking back and forth, with a bottle of guinness resting in the small of her back. about 30 seconds in, a male hand from behind the woman reaches for the bottle, takes a swig, and let's out a refreshing 'ahhh.' 10 seconds later, a male hand from the front does the same. the tagline 'guinness: share one with a friend' comes up, then a third hand from the bottom of the screen reaches up for a sip, and the tagline continues .. 'or two.'

apparently the aforementioned 'realities of society' are responsible for pulling it down.

my question is - what the hell was the third hand doing down there?
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w+k on twitter

my agency is constantly twittering, and i have been loving when whoever is responsible for the updates tweets about what's been "found". the list of five or so "found" links pops up every day or every other day. the most recent batch included an awesome digital campaign for nokia's new game emulator here, a youtube clip of what is probably the most advanced (and horrifying - more on this in a minute) robot i've ever seen here, and some other really cool stuff. follow @wiedenkennedy and check it out yourself! it's also stuff that - at least for me - might never have been found otherwise. maybe that's part of why twitter is so cool ... i'm still trying to fully get on board with twitter, although i'll tell you - it's growing on me already.

so to this robot. apparently this dog was created by boston dynamics. there's a scene in this video where a person KICKS this dogbot pretty hard, and the thing catches its balance. it then proceeds to trudge uphill in the snow, walk over a huge pile of cinder blocks, and leap its way across a warehouse.

now, by no means am i some kind of "robots are going to take over the world" theorist, but i think robots could take over the world if this continues. seriously? pretty soon, the only thing these machines aren't going to be able to do on their own is think. that's what's keeping me comfortable with these advances in modern science and technology. but once they can think ... alright i'm kidding. i'm not that nervous about it. but is it that big of a stretch for it to happen in a bunch of years?

first post .. about ten years late

for some reason today, i'm feeling inspired. i've been at the new job as a digital planner for almost three months now, and i think i'm getting pretty good at understanding the landscape. but, not having a blog, del.icio.us, twitter, etc. set up at this point in my life (and at this point in the digital timeline) is pretty ridiculous of me.

my inspiration started this morning with the below video. i watched it and by the end, realized how much time and effort went into it. (seriously. think about how that video had to be done.) then, i got in one of those moods where i was like alright, i'm about to do something productive. i went on a reading streak, and on mediabistro i stumbled upon a bit on this girl, a journalism major at NYU. talk about inspiration. this girl is younger than me, only halfway through college, and has completely shown me up.

well, no longer. (actually .. yeah. still shows me up, totally.) i have a blog. i have a del.icio.us. i have a twitter. and it may take me a while, but i'm going to do my best to turn this blog into a worthwhile destination.


MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.