Diddy’s New NSFW Cologne Ad Is Basically Diddy Having Sex With Cassie

     

Diddy is getting back into the celebrity fragrance game after a six year absence. His new scent, called 3AM, will debut in a few days at Macy’s flagship store in Herald Square, and he’s marking its arrival with a NSFW advertisement directed by music video king Nabil. It features him and his longtime girlfriend Cassie living it up that’s meant to evoke the time of night the fragrance is named after. “It’s a time to have fun and push the envelope a little bit. It’s definitely an hour where you would find yourself with a young lady,” he told Style. “Anything can happen at 3 a.m., and in the video, you see a fantasy that’s in my head of what happened that night.” Later, he added: “That whole interaction has nothing to do with sex as much as it has to do with love. My concept is that love is the new sexy.” Watch the ad below and judge for yourself.

Kanye West - “Wolves” (Feat. Vic Mensa & Sia)

Kanye West launched his adidas Originals Yeezy 750 Boost shoes and YEEZY SEASON 1 “solutions-based” fashion line at an elaborate presentation for New York Fashion Week today, and he used the occasion to debut the opening track on his new album. It’s called “Wolves,” and features Vic Mensa and Sia. Cashmere Cat and Sinjin Hawke produced. Kanye’s entire fashion show is online now, and you can hear a studio-quality version of “Wolves” in it. It starts around 8m25s.

Watch an ad for the shoes below. They’ll be available in NYC this Saturday, 2/14, and worldwide on 2/28 at adidas Flagship Stores and select Consortiums. Additional styles will be announced soon.

Watch Kendrick Lamar’s Cinematic Reebok Ad

You know a rapper has reached a rarefied level of fame when a goddam sneaker company is enlisting him for a commercial. It’s not exactly a surprise that Kendrick Lamar is a star on the rise, but it’s still striking to see Reebok devote considerable resources to a three-minute ad starring the guy. Music-video director Anthony Mandler helmed the black-and-white ad, which shows Kendrick skulking through his Compton hometown and generally looking as iconic as possible. In the video, he recites a feverish a cappella verse. As far as I can tell, it’s unreleased, though I’m pretty sure I’ve seen him do it as a live freestyle or something like that.

Watch Chanel’s “Reincarnation” Short Starring Pharrell & Cara Delevingne

Pharrell is everywhere now, so why not opposite supermodel Cara Delevingne in a Chanel short film by Karl Lagerfeld? “Reincarnation” features the superstar duo dancing in an old-fashioned ballroom dressed up in splendorous formal attire. They also sing a very pretty duet that matches ancient pop stylings with a slick modern beat. Géraldine Chaplin also makes an appearance. The whole thing smacks of high-fashion beauty, as you’d expect from such a production.

The Who Announce Virtual Reality App

This year, the Who, one of the greatest rock bands of all time, celebrate their 50th anniversary. They’re marking the occasion by releasing the new collection The Who Hits 50!, which includes the not-good new song “Be Lucky.” And they’ve also announced plans for something that’s both backward- and forward-looking in some profoundly weird ways. The much-hyped virtual-reality headseat Oculus Rift will apparently be ready for commercial sale next year, and when it drops, the Who will have an app for it all ready to go. Before we see the Oculus Rift version, the app will be available as a smartphone and tablet app for Android and iOS. As The Guardian reports, the band and developer Immersive have teamed up to build a 3D world out of the band’s iconography, including its logo and old photos and images. Apparently, you’ll have plenty of opportunity to buy the band’s music while wandering around this environment. I hope this thing sells some music, since I can’t think of any other reason for it to exist.

Watch FKA Twigs’ “Concept Film” For Google Glass

FKA Twigs stars in and directs a new video called “#throughglass” that acts as both an impressive showcase for Tahliah Barnett’s dancing and a weird commercial for Google Glass, which is featured prominently in the visuals. (They call it a “concept film.”) Twigs is joined by an cadre of dancers who all have some crazy awesome makeup effects going on. The video is set to reworked versions of “Video Girl” and an unreleased Twigs track called “Glass & Patron.” Watch, via fkatwigs.glass.

Barely Legal Pawn, feat. Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul and Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul go into business together and this time it's legal…barely. Find out what happens when Julia Louis-Dreyfus becomes a client, trying to offload television’s most coveted item, in this video starring three Emmy Award winners.

Watch the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards live Monday, August 25, 8pm EST/5pm PDT.

A PMK / Paulilu Production

Starring: Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul and Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Written and Directed by: Paulilu (Paul W. Downs & Lucia Aniello)

Executive Producer: Joseph Assad, PMK•BNC

Producer: Jake Cassidy

DP: Chris Westlund

Nissan Rogue Comes in Handy When You're Battling a Marauding Band of Evil Snowmen

Next time you're caught driving in a winter storm, Nissan Canada wants you to be grateful you're only dealing with the natural elements and not a supernatural mob of malicious snowmen who are hell bent on destroying everything around them.

Unless you're driving a Nissan Rogue, in which case be happy knowing that if the evil snowmen do magically appear, you can use your all-wheel drive to plow through them like you're playing a less twisted version of Carmageddon, and save all the poor rubes driving other makes and models by letting them pile into the back of your roomy interior.

The creatures in this new spot, from TBWA Toronto, may happily remind Calvin and Hobbes fans of The Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons. More generally, it's a neat, fresh way for Nissan to dramatize the product's suitability for harsh weather conditions—full of entertaining moments like the angry snowmen beating the crap out of a snow blower with snow shovels, and the perfectly creepy head cock one offers right before getting pancaked.

Now all we want to know is where we can get one to keep as a pet.

Credits below.



CREDITS
Client: Nissan Canada
Agency: TBWA, Toronto
Executive Creative Director: Allen Oke
Creative Director: Rodger Eyre
Associate Creative Director, Art Director: Susie Lee
Copywriter: Jonah Flynn
Head of Broadcast: Nadya Macneil
Production House: Sons and Daughters
Director: Mark Zibert
Director of Photography: Chris Soos
Executive Producer: Liane Thomas
Line Producer: Neil Bartley
Editing: Poster Boy
Executive Producer: Michelle Rich
Editor: Mark Paiva
Editing Assistant: Johnny Okkerse
Transfer: Alter Ego
Colorist: Wade Odlum
Effects: Legacy Effects
Effects Technicians: Shane Mahan, Mark Killingsworth
Postproduction: The Mill
Producer: Jeremy Moore
Compositing Lead, Visual Effects Supervisor: Kyle Cody
Computer Graphics Lead: Jeff Dates
Visual Effects Supervisor: Andreas Berner
Executive Producer: Melanie Wickham
Audio House: Eggplant
Head of Production: Nicola Treadgold
Director: Adam Damelin
Engineer: Nathan Handy

Watch Bob Dylan's Super Bowl Commercial for Chrysler (Extended Cut)

A great many Super Bowl viewers were shocked to see Bob Dylan in a Chrysler commercial last night, but they really shouldn't have been. This was far from his first appearance in a televised ad, and it wasn't even the only time his music was heard in one last night (his 1966 classic "I Want You" appeared in a commercial for Chobani yogurt).

Back in 1965, a reporter at a San Francisco press conference asked Dylan what product he'd ever think about endorsing. The singer promptly responded with two words: "women's garments." It got a good laugh, but 39 years later he fulfilled that prophecy when he appeared alongside model Adriana Lima in an ad for Victoria's Secret. "Was I not supposed to do that?" he snapped at Rolling Stone the following year. "I wish I had seen it. Maybe I'd have something to say about it. I don't see that kind of stuff. That's for other people to see and make up what they will."

The 2004 Victoria's Secret ad – which used his 1997 song "Love Sick" — was Dylan's first physical appearance in a commercial, though back in the 1990s Richie Havens' cover of "The Times They Are A'Changin'" was used in an ad for a Canadian bank. Around that same time, Apple used a 1963 photo of Dylan in their "Think Different" ad campaign.

Last night's Chrysler ad wasn't even Dylan's first appearance in a car commercial. In 2007, he appeared in an ad for the Cadillac Escalade, and was even shown driving the sport utility vehicle. That angered many people, but it's hard to imagine that Dylan cared one bit. If anything, the negative feedback probably only encouraged him to do another one.

Messi vs Aliens (Messi joins as Captain of #GALAXY11)

Aliens have challenged Earth to one ultimate football game, and Leo Messi has been selected as Captain of the one team who can save us.

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Commercial With Lionel Messi (Watch Kids Sing Lorde’s “Royals”)

This is where I’d say “Lorde, Lorde!” if the “e” wasn’t silent. Lorde’s “Royals” has been just about everywhere lately, and now we’ve officially moved on to the Kidz Bop version. Well, not quite — kids do sing the song in this video, but it’s a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 commercial starring four-time defending FIFA Player of the Year Lionel Messi. No sign of the New Zealand teen queen, though. Here’s the plot:

A mysterious stranger arrives in a low income neighborhood and captures the imaginations of the children who live there. He is “The Developer” and the children view him with a deep suspicion.

I wanted to hate this, but both the kids and Messi are so irrepressibly charming that I couldn’t help grinning, and the kids do the song justice. It does have a certain nursery rhyme quality to it.

David Bowie - "Sound And Vision 2013" Official Lyric Video & Xperia Z TV Ad

Earlier this year, Sony used a new remix of David Bowie’s “Sound And Vision,” from his 1977 undisputed-classic album Low, in an ad for their new Xperia Z smartphone. Remixer Sonjay Prabhakar reworked the song from its original tapes, stripping it down to nothing more than voice and piano. And enough people liked the ad that an extended (though still less than two-minute) version of the remix is out on the internet now. It’s weird hearing Berlin-era Bowie get the unplugged treatment, since the prophetic use of studio-sound was a huge part of what made those records important. But “Sound And Vision” is a song with a certain uncanny power, and it loses none of it in this context. Listen to the extended remix and watch the ad below.

Xperia™ Z TV Ad - Sound, vision, colour, detail from Sony. Featuring music from David Bowie

Pilot Evolution

Martin Allais‘s fun cel animation spot for Pilot pens has been out for a while, but somehow never made it onto the main feed. Enjoy!

Note: NSFW around 0:38 if a momentary cartoon wang is not going to fly at work.

Guardian open journalism: Three Little Pigs

This advert for the Guardian's open journalism, screened for the first time on 29 February 2012, imagines how we might cover the story of the three little pigs in print and online. Follow the story from the paper's front page headline, through a social media discussion and finally to an unexpected conclusion

Gorillaz – “DoYaThing” Video (Feat. James Murphy & Andre 3000)

The video for the Converse-sponsored Gorillaz/James Murphy/Andre 3000 single “DoYaThang” debuted today, and it features creepily lifelike CGI versions of the various cartoon Gorillaz, all ambling around their absolutely disgusting hovel of a house. Gorillaz visual guru Jamie Hewlett directs, and the X-faced Andre clone shows up in all sorts of unexpected locations. It’s an extremely British little burst of surrealism. Watch it at YouTube.

To download the track, head over to the Converse site, and by all means do not sleep on the kickass extended version.

Unhate Campaign - The film

The official film of the Unhate worldwide communication campaign launched in Paris on November 16th and presented by Alessandro Benetton.

Versace 2011 collection for H&M

Versace gets the Champagne Valentine treatment.

Ellie Goulding - Music Runs Ellie

UK pop singer Ellie Goulding loves to run as much as she loves to sing. Nike Running collaborated with her to make a film about her music and her running while she was on tour in LA, NYC and London -- and training for a half marathon with Nike+.

The film is set to the Jakwob remix of Ellie's hit song Under The Sheets, to get the track go to Ellie's iTunes page, http://www.iTunes.com/EllieGoulding

Introducing Galaxy Nexus. Simple, beautiful, beyond smart

Galaxy Nexus is the next generation of Nexus devices co-developed by Samsung and Google. Nexus combines innovative hardware with the newest version of Android, 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, and the latest Google mobile services.

Sony - Two Worlds (Director's Cut)

This is from a stereo 3D Cinema commercial - youtube.com/​watch?v=9h0ZrMB1TI4

Making Of - vimeo.com/​30392783

Director Arev Manoukian
Production Company Spy Films
Cinematographer Bojan Bazelli
Music Clint Mansell (Black Swan, Requiem For A Dream)
Original poem, 'That's What I Heard You Say’, written and read by Leonard Cohen