Archive for the 'Video' Category
November 23 2010
Dear John…
posted by Ana Samways at 10:57 amRemember this 1980s ad for a bygone technology? This Kiwi classic for BASF cassette tapes used a catchy tune performed by NZ jingle king (and former member of The Underdogs) Murray Grindlay and ad industry diva Jacqui Fitzgerald — an adaptation of the 1953 Jean Shepard/Ferlin Husky hit “A Dear John Letter”. Pioneering NZ filmmaker Tony Williams directed, creating a Korean War/M*A*S*H* setting and using a Wellington quarry as a stand-in…
November 23 2010
Comply With Me
posted by Ana Samways at 3:31 amA delicious parody with all new lyrics for “Come Fly With Me,” following the much criticised US airport security “enhanced pat downs”.
(Via Boingboing.net)
November 17 2010
Three Pigs and Other Choice Links
posted by Ana Samways at 8:29 am
Three Little Pigs reworked: A new, less likely to offend version of the popular story has made its way into US classrooms….
More after the jump…
November 16 2010
Youngest Fashion Designer Has Speech Impediment
posted by Ana Samways at 8:34 amNovember 12 2010
Wellington: A Love Letter
posted by Ana Samways at 9:54 amThis guy just raised the bar for “I’m-leaving-town” emails….
This was sent around colleagues at Weta in Wellington (by headband guy Jesse Lewis-Evans) and forwarded to us here. Delightful!