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The nightmare returns as Netflix and the Jim Henson company prepare a 10 episode Dark Crystal prequel series… looking good! Via Rolling Stone: Netflix and the Jim Henson Company are prepping a prequel series to Henson and Frank Oz’s 1982 fantasy classic, The Dark Crystal. The new series, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, will […]
From the director of Snowpiercer comes this intriguing new Netflix-only film, Okja, about corporate waste, monsters, and other stories. Via the Guardian: An Seo-hyun gives an outstanding performance as 13-year-old Mija, who has grown up with no parents, looked after by kindly grandpa Heebong, played by Byun Heebong (who was in The Host and also […]
Old Spice wants you to help teach its robot kraken how to live life… Anyone else think this is quite likely going to end in tears? Via Adweek: Want to spend 15 hours this weekend teaching a giant eight-tentacled robotic Kraken sea beast how to navigate the squishy steps from adolescence to adulthood? Old Spice […]
Casillero del Diablo has the most elaborate ad campaign for a wine we’ve ever seen – titled the Wine Legend, set up to look like a film. We saw it this weekend in prerolls before John Wick and for a moment, almost thought it was a film with a really silly premise. Great series. For […]
Did you know? there’s a pattern behind colour names around the world in our languages, particularly in the first colours we choose to name. Via Vox: In 1969, two Berkeley researchers, Paul Kay and Brent Berlin, published a book on a pretty groundbreaking idea: Every culture in history invented words for colors in the exact […]
ICYMI: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is coming out in August, and as Fifth Element fans, we are super excited. Via Polygon: Created by writer Pierre Christin and artists Jean-Claude Mézières in the 1960s as a French serial, the comics went on to have a long life in both other languages and […]
AlmapBBDO has a clever new campaign for Getty’s audio catalogue, splicing audio into a classic silent film, Nosferatu. Check it out! Via Adweek: For its client Getty Images, the Brazilian agency has spent the last few years making in-depth, academic use of the company’s massive assets (most of us don’t even make it past the […]
The Fraktur bag for IKEA has become so viral, there’s now even a workout that involves it, thanks to Reebok trainer Andrew Connor. Via People: People have managed to turn the iconic IKEA Frakta bag into boots, wallets and even crop tops, and now Reebok trainer Andrew Connor is demonstrating how they can be exercise […]
In this Monoprix ad campaign called Label of Love, a boy pursues a girl in a 4 minute cinematic film using… packaging labels? Via DesignTaxi: It seems that romance somehow regularly blossoms from French supermarkets. Not long ago, Intermaché launched a funny, amorous ad that demonstrated how far a guy would go to win a […]
Words Hurt is an interactive music video by Romain Chassaing, a “Choose your own adventure” that moves into bizarre territory. Check it out here. Via Short of the week: A Choose Your Own Adventure styled interactive music video, Romain Chassaing’s immersive new video for Naïve New Beaters track Words Hurt lets its audience decide on […]