Killzone army men

Destructoid received a package of Killzone plastic army men.

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Michael Vick as a minotaur by Simon Bisley

Michael Vick as a minotaur by Simon Bisley - -a Nike ad from several years ago.

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"Sex" on the Tangled banner

The word "sex" lurks in one of the banners for Tangled, which you find at at eBay. Via these fine sites.

Karate School

A few gems from Reddit:


Ad for a Karate school.



The Firefox.



Big slide.



Collar tag for cats.

Link roundup

1. Funny headline: "Homeopathy's Ineffectiveness Saves Lives." (As a demonstration, people ingested what should have been massive overdoses of "medication." But since the "medications" were homeopathic, they contained no active ingredients and had no ill effects.)

2. Even funnier, Zach Galifianakis's latest Between Two Ferns.

3. Conan O'Brien aired hilariously offensive mock Groupon commercials.

Cute kid recounts Commando in ill-conceived campaign

This is a video of a very cute boy describing the plot of Commando. Now the boy is adorable, and I'm preconditioned to like the video because I love the movie (the mall in the movie is the one I hung out in as a child - - it's since been completely torn down and rebuilt).

But.

The video is the first in a series called "Stop the pity. Unlock the Potential." The point of the campaign is to make people stop thinking of "war" and "genocide" when they think of Africa.

A video of a young boy totally enraptured by an extremely violent movie is probably not going to get the job done.



They couldn't find a cute kid that liked a Disney movie?

Wonder Woman vs. Medusa by Mike Allred

Motion comic by Mike Allred for the Wonder Woman line of MAC Cosmetics. Via.

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More Volkswagen Star Wars footage

Here's more footage shot for the Volkswagen Star Wars commercial. It says "making of" but it's really just more footage of little Darth Vader adorably failing to use the force.

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Diesel gave out knee pads

Happy Creative Services, Bangalore, India:

Task at hand was to come up with an in-store promotion idea to run along the 'Sex sells Unfortunately we sell jeans' campaign to help increase sales. So we created the Knee.J, a spoof sex toy of sorts to be given away to all customers that ran a bill above $ 150. One day from running posters and e-mailers, the stores saw an instant increase in walk-ins. Customers were all eager to get their hands on the Knee.J. What was meant to be a one-store activity got enough publicity to manufacture more pieces and take them across all stores. The sales picked up by 40% and customers were spotted kneeling for more.

Via.

Link roundup

1. From a long interview with Mike Mignola at BldgBlog:

I’m not going to do any stories that I don’t want to draw—and, for the most part, those are places that also just aren’t particularly interesting for me to write about.

It’s interesting, because the spin-off book from Hellboy—B.P.R.D.—is written by another writer. I have some involvement there, but the books are written by somebody else. You look at that book now, and the current storyline takes place in a trailer park. It’s entirely made of the places I have no interest in writing about—but the other writer doesn’t have my overwhelming love of the Gothic. He’s a much more modern type of writer, so we differ on our choice of locations.

But, now, a haunted bank? You know, that would be cool—but it would have to be a really, really old bank. And preferably a bank that’s been abandoned for a bunch of years, so you have cobwebs and things. I just like those old, spooky settings.

2. Videogum on all the articles about the kid in the Volkswagen Star Wars commercial:

Really, Internet? This seems lazy, even for you. I mean, I know that you’re basically built on a foundation of kittens wearing casts and lazy Star Wars references, but sheesh.

Exactly. Anyone know who directed the video?

3. "400 hungry wolves overrun Siberian town of 1,300."

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Clever Mad Men ad

Draftfcb turned a skyscraper into a Mad Men advertisement. Via.

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Go Daddy Puppets

This video gives a nice look at how Furry Puppet Studio made puppets for Go Daddy:



And here's two videos featuring the puppets in action:




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Kenneth Cole is apparently still making use of the uprising in Egypt

Kenneth Cole apologized for the Tweet, but apparently the same language was added to the window of Kenneth Cole’s SOMA location in San Francisco. (This has to be street art, right?) Via.

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Lil' Darth Vader

Enjoy as Little Darth Vader attempts to use Sith Lightning on his dog, and suffers other humiliations, in Volkswagen's Super Bowl ad. (Good ad for Star Wars costumes, not so much for Volkswagen.) Via.

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Popular tv shows, miniaturized

Lost, Breaking Bad, Mad Men and more as tiny dioramas by Steven Huybrechts. The video's NSFW on account of the Hung miniatures (and sound effects). Via these sites.

*Previously: Tennis ball island.

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Alabama is using a woman in a cheerleader's uniform...

Alabama has a livefeed showing incoming faxes from football recruits. A woman in a tiny cheerleader's uniform collects the faxes. Keep it classy Alabama. Via.

Honda Jazz commercial/iPhone app

The new campaign by Wieden + Kennedy London for the Honda Jazz is called This Unpredictable Life, and features a variety of strange creatures that fly past a wild landscape:




There's also a companion iPhone app that allows you to "catch" the creatures as the fly off the screen. Once you do catch a creature, you can play with it similar to Nintendogs:



Via.

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This sign apparently got Paul Maybury fired from Whole Foods

I pity the Whole Foods shoppers that didn't like this sign. (Update: it only sort of got him fired.)

On the other hand, this one might have been a little too adventurous:



And this one probably was a little offensive.

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Link roundup

1. This is one heck of an advertisement for Brooks Brothers non-iron shirts.

2. Is the price of chocolate about to shoot up due to trouble in the Ivory Coast?

3. A report that Erin Andrews bashed Nike during a telecast, and is now a pitchwoman for Reebok. Via.

Kobe Bryant in Black Mamba, directed by Robert Rodriguez

I guess he's fully embraced the ridiculous nickname he gave himself - - Kobe Bryant in Black Mamba, directed by Robert Rodriguez and starring Danny Trejo and Bruce Willis. Here are his latest shoes:




Here's the origin of the name:

Bryant started calling himself "Black Mamba" a few years ago, explaining to ESPN, "The mamba can strike with 99% accuracy at maximum speed, in rapid succession. That's the kind of basketball precision I want to have."

Here's Black Mamba by Joe Alterio:



And here's a Black Mamba t-shirt that sold out quickly:



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