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A video trip down to memory lane: the Youtube Time Machine

Kris Hoet — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:30:05 +0000

The YTTM offers an interesting way to watch videos from a specific year in between 1860 and 2010. Pick a year and choose one or more categories (video games, television, commercials, …) and you get a video that fits the selection.

Let’s find out what happened in 1973 – the year I was born in case you were wondering ;)

[Via The Denver Egotist]

Cute girl has a catchy dance

Kris Hoet — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:05:54 +0000

I have seen this little ad about 3-4 times now and I agree. It’s cute and quite funny actually. I think the guys/girls of Samsung Mobile did a quite good job on this one. Like.

Also check out the website that goes with it: http://galaxys.samsungmobile.com/

Maybe the Windows Phone 7 team should take a look at this as well. I would really love to give the new WP7 a swing once it’s released to market, but it’s not their ads that made me want it. Really not.

Pac-Man: the human stopmotion edition

Kris Hoet — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:08:54 +0000

Some inspiration for my ex-colleagues at Kinepolis? Stop motion video of a Human Pac-Man Performance by Guillaume Reymond, the 5th video of his GAME OVER Project.

“PAC-MAN was played by real human-beings sitting in a cinema: it’s the 5th video performance of the GAME OVER Project from the French-Swiss artist Guillaume Reymond. This stop-motion video was shot and played for the new ProHelvetia’s programme GameCulture at the Trafo cinema (Baden, Switzerland) on August 28th 2010. This giant game was played by 111 human pixels that has moved from seat to seat during more than 4 hours…”

[Via laughingsquid]

When everything else fails…

Kris Hoet — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:04:00 +0000

Every office should have a couple of those don’t you think?

[Via Brandflakes for Breakfast]

That’s what wives are for!

Kris Hoet — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:53:34 +0000

BoredPanda lined up 25 vintage ads that would be banned today…

Sexism, racism, … they’re all in there. The times they are indeed a-changin’.

Powerpoint slides are like children

Kris Hoet — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:45:00 +0000

Made me smile.

[Via LitmanLive]

Find all 57 business clichés in this picture

Kris Hoet — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0000

It was actually created as a Holidays greeting end of last year but stumbled upon it while cleaning up some files on my computer. ‘Think outside the box’ and find all clichés hidden in this picture. ‘Low hanging fruit’, ‘Mission critical’, ‘Drink the Kool-Aid’, … those are only a few examples. Enjoy! You can download it here.

And in case you have no idea what all this business jargon means? No stress, you can still unsuck it here.

Become a fan!

Kris Hoet — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:40:05 +0000

You’re doing it wrong ;)

What are the odds?

Kris Hoet — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:34:30 +0000

Same country (same city even), same campaign idea, different brand, different agencies… 10 days apart. Like I said, what are the odds? Do like the idea though :)

[Via adland.tv]

Now that’s what I call targeting

Kris Hoet — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:56:45 +0000

Wanted: experienced security personnel.

[Via @heldenmerk]