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The Barkley Family is back for Subaru, in time for Superbowl. Via adweek: The first new spot, a :60 titled “Puppy,” is the best of the lot, showing a tired Mr. Barkley driving around at night with one of his pups, trying to get him to sleep. It’s one of those themes that just instantly […]

#WomenNotObjects is trying to change the advertising industry’s landscape. Via mashable: On Nov. 18, 2015, ad executive Madonna Badger Googled “objectification of women” as part of a campaign called #WomenNotObjects, turning up years’ worth of sexist ads that hypersexualize and objectify women’s bodies for marketing. In a new video released this month, the campaign spotlights […]

Rapper and activist Prince Ea uploaded ‘Dear Future Generations’ last year for Earth Day, and the video went viral. We’re a bit late to the game, but we love it. You can still donate to his Stand for Trees campaign here, or alternatively, there’s also the Rainforest Trust, an ultra-transparent charity along similar lines. Prince […]

Did we just find the ninth planet? Above, Caltech’s Konstantin Batygin, an assistant professor of planetary science, and Mike Brown (one of the main reasons Pluto was demoted), the Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of Planetary Astronomy, discuss. From Caltech news: Caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated […]

Japan has now brought us air bonsai, because, why not. More: Despite the visual beauty and life-giving nature of plants, there’s always been one main problem with our vegetative friends: plants can’t fly. A small company called Hoshinchu based out of Kyushu, Japan, recently set out to fix the problem that evolution forgot by inventing […]

It’s Superbowl ad season, and Pokémon has come out with a surprisingly strong, Nike-esque showing that places their most popular characters in real life. The massively popular game is celebrating its 20th anniversary, with a Pokémon 20 fan site featuring fan mail from its many fans, and on Feb 27 Nintendo will relaunch Red, Blue […]

This ad for Intel called ‘Experience Amazing’, for digital and tv, apparently took mcgarrybowen over a year to make. Fitting the iconic Intel jingle into Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, it’s targeted at millennials: It will attempt to show consumers a side of the brand they’re not familiar with—specifically, how its technologies don’t just hide in motherboards, […]

Legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog has made a film about the past, present and evolving future of the internet: Lo And Behold: Reveries Of The Connected World: A provocative and illuminating documentary produced by NETSCOUT, a world leader in real-time service assurance and cyber security, LO AND BEHOLD traces what Herzog describes as “one of the […]

Monocle went in search of new-generation animators who don’t follow the hi-tech pack… via the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and South England, and sat down with them to go behind the scenes with people like Vera van Wolferen, Lucie Sunkova, and Daisy Jacobs. The videos looked at their process, animation techniques and why they favoured […]

Dutch production company Studio Smack imagines what your branded dreams might look like when infected by branding (and of course Coca-Cola would be into this new tech first): We see ads everyday and everywhere. They have become part of our life. While some people try to avoid seeing ads, advertisers keep finding new ways to […]