VW “Senses”

This Volkswagen spot, for the “Eos” (available in Europe), is notable for being the first VW spot I’ve liked in a while that isn’t from CP+B. It’s from DDB/London, instead. Good job, guys.

Tip’o the hat to Scamp.

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New Track Added

Track #40 in the Music for Monkeys playlist, “Men In White Coats,” by The Dallas Guild (no relation to my Dallas, they’re from London). Enjoy.

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I have a SISTER?!

Thanks to the American Copywriter’s blogroll, I’ve found another ad blog based here in Dallas: Irene Done’s “Not Billable.”

She’s funny and she blogs like it’s going out of style (and at some crazy-ass times of the day).

Check it out.

2 commentsEmail Article Thursday, June 22nd, 2006 at 04:55pm Mack Simpson

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Dieste Harmel Cannes Do the Shortlist

Just received word that we have three spots that have made the shortlist cut at Cannes:

The two Bud spots that were shortlisted at the CLIOs (and won at FIAP) and a spot called “Reality” that recently made it on to the AICP reel in the Public Service category (a tough one). I’ll see if I can dig up a .mpg of “Reality,” so check back in later on.

You can view the Bud spots by following the link, above, earlier in this post, but here’s the new AICP-winning and Cannes-shortlisted spot, “Reality.” It’s a 28 meg .mov file, so you may want to open it in another window and go about your business for a while (don’t worry about the bandwidth (I have plenty), but still, please don’t hotlink directly to it from elsewhere):

Reality - English - :45

Credits on “Reality” include Patricia Martinez de Velasco/Roberto Sneider (directors, La Banda Films), Aldo Quevedo (ECD), Rose Gomez (AD/CD), Gabriel Gutierrez (CW) and Boris Nurko (producer). The spot was edited by Glenn Conte of Red Car/Dallas.

We’re keeping our fingers crossed.

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World Cup? Well, Crap.

Bruce Arena: showed me nothing.

Landon Donovan: showed me nothing.

We need to import a new coach; you can’t compete on the world stage with university-level tactics. And we need to field a team of eleven who knows what it means to leave everything on the field, every single minute of every single game.

Crap.

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