Ann
In 1984 as a young creative secretary (the only relentlessly cheery goth in existence by the way) at BBDO, I cannot begin to describe the excitement I felt on first seeing Ridley Scott’s launch commercial for Apple’s Macintosh. Though created by Chiat Day, BBDO was distributing the film internationally so we were sent a copy of it soon after its debut during Superbowl. All that anticipation and drama was so revolutionary and, of course, heralded a product destined to change the way all of us work. Still gives me goosebumps.
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Ben
I love this Starburst spot that was forwarded to me by the lovely (and very talented) Dave at Work Club. Everything about it is odd – medieval meets modern; man plays boy; ingredients are sung over and over in a high pitched voice by someone wearing a lace ruff. Not really surprising it’s had over 5 million hits on YouTube – and now I’m a little lad who love berries and cream.
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Fern
I hear everybody is talking about this so it’s not an original or surprising choice, and to be honest it’s not especially groundbreaking work but because I never could stand the pretension of the original Guinness dominoes ad, especially after they tried to make us conquer complicated challenges just to get a sneaky look at it here, and because it’s the sort of sweet clever, quick little gem I like to see when browsing on youtube, because the fart noise is very realistic, because I spend every morning falling over all the flytipped MDF furniture in my street, and because it features an inflatable sex toy, my choice for the month is this Pot Noodle film. It’s worth at least one hee. Maybe just the one, though.
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Hattie
A clever idea here for the new AEG-Electrolux ‘silent’ washing machine.
A decibel meter is fitted above The Foundry boozer at the junction of Old St/Great Eastern St, at which police cars spend all night showing off their annoying new sirens (did you know that legislation dictates the old ‘two tone’ sirens must be replaced with the new ‘directional’ sirens known in police circles as the ‘wail’, the ‘yelp’ and the ‘piercer’?).
The poster site displays the current noise level of the street on LED screens – interestingly it has been much noisier at nighttime with all the police activity (70-90 decibels) than during the day. (85 decibels is the legal decibel limit for the workplace.)
Anyway, it has me appreciating peace and quiet when I get home, the last thing I want is the piercing, yelping or wailing of hoovers, Pete on his ‘kaoss pad’, or the washing machine – maybe I should get one of those AEG silent ones ...
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Riccardo
Everybody talking about the Monkey on the drums. Ha ha ha they say! So fucking funny.
Now comes the new one.
Trucks.
At the airport.
Racing.
With music by King Freddie.
I don’t get it.
This advert cost over £1 million, I am so angry I need to hurt myself.
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