Archive for February 11th, 2009
RSA director Jonas Akerlund and 89 Edit’s Chris Davis delve deep into Pink’s inner-struggle to find her identity in the most recent video effort for Sober, from her newly released album, Funhouse. The video starts out at a raging party in Stockholm featuring two versions of our hero Pink. One lives the rock star life, while the other watches the night unfold completely sober. We see her alone in a white padded room, dressed entirely in white[ READ MORE ]
The Coca Cola Heist commercial was developed as part of the Open Happiness campaign at Wieden+Kennedy, and was directed by PSYOP. The spot was aired during the 2009 Superbowl. The ad shows a young man sleeping peacefully on a picnic rug laid out in a beautiful countryside setting. Alongside him stands a picnic hamper and an enticing looking chilled bottle of Coca Cola. As the gentleman snoozes a lone ladybird signals that the coast is clear to a small swarm of bees to fly down and push the bottle of Coke into a waiting cluster of grass hoppers. Through various means carried out by an assortment of insects, the bottle is transported away and is replaced by a rainbow of butterflies simulating the iconic shape of the classic bottle. The butterflies disperse as the man awakes and reaches out for the drink[ READ MORE ]
A closer look at VES Awards nominee ‘The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian’. Each year the VES Awards recognize outstanding visual effects within film, animation, television, commercials and video games. The nominees for the 7th annual VES Awards were chosen earlier this month by panels of VES members who viewed submissions at the FotoKem screening facilities in Burbank[ READ MORE ]