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More from the Dead Space ad campaign

Unlike these moms, this mom thinks Dead Space 2 is hilarious.

Relatedly, here's solid looking gameplay footage from the upcoming iPhone version:

Via these sites.

*Buy Dead Space toys at eBay.

Totally bizarre commercial for The Last Story

Here's a few commercials for upcoming Wii game The Last Story. The first couple are mundane, showing lots of gameplay and movie footage. But at 1 minute in, the third commercial features live actors in bodysuits, I'm guessing they're showing off the fighting mechanics. Via these sites.

Fairy tales about renewable energy

Chris Buzelli painted several fairy tale images with renewable energy themes for a calendar for Entega. He has artwork on sale at his site, and a few paintings on sale at Gallery Nucleus.

*Buy pin-up calendars at Amazon.

Running through a subway train (and more)

Some fun films from Never Hide Films (which is sponsored by Ray-Ban):

Running through a subway train.

Stop-motion animation courtesy of a photocopy machine.

A guy powers a light show with static electricity. Via these sites.

*Buy sunglasses at Amazon.

Fake butter packets

Mudra planted fake butter packets to promote Nutralite.

*Buy Las Vegas Vintage Graphics at Amazon.

Dead Space 2 - - Your Mom Hates This

Fun ad campaign for Dead Space 2, a series of videos of "moms" being horrified by the game. Because "a mom's disapproval has always been an accurate baromoter of what is cool." Here's a making of video:

And here's one the videos just focusing on a particular mom:

Via.

*Previously: Dead Space 2 demo playthough.

*Buy Dead Space toys at eBay.

Improved flyers

Cardon Webb spruces up flyer advertisements:

You can see more at his site, and he also has lots of other work, like these book cover concepts for Oliver Sacks:

*Buy Fly by Night: The New Art of the Club Flyer at Amazon.

Link roundup

1. Roger Ebert says, "'The Green Hornet is an almost unendurable demonstration of a movie with nothing to be about."

2. Promotional video for Thomas Allen's paper cuts.

3. An assertion that Starbuck's new logo, with its softer, rounder shapes, will be "more acceptable in interdependent and collectivist cultures--often found in Asian countries, such as India and China--than in Western countries, which tend to have a more independent or individualistic culture." (The article doesn't actually show any logos from companies popular in those countries.) Via.

*Buy Thomas Allen: Uncovered at Amazon.

Green Lantern's Ring, perhaps?

One of Nike's promotional stunts surrounding the national championship game:

Lightwave International uses over 200Watts of full-color direct-diode and OPS lasers to brand Camelback Mountain for thousands of fans at the 2011 Fiesta Bowl. These images were photographed from the Bud Light Fiesta grounds at sunrise.

The face of the mountain, approximately 2 miles from the laser projectors, becomes a canvas for a laser light show during the festivities. Projected images include massive versions of 'JUST DO IT.' The Oregon Ducks 'O' and the Nike Swoosh. The projected images are many hundreds of feet wide and using the world's largest full-color entertainment lasers.

*Buy laser pointers at Amazon.

Those Oregon Ducks uniforms

Before

and after the game promotional images by Wieden + Kennedy for Oregon and Nike

Here's a long explanation (defense?) by Nike about why the uniforms looked that way.

*Buy mascot bobbleheads at Amazon.

Monet and Van Gogh x Global Warming

Monet and Van Gogh x Global Warming by DraftFCB. Via.

*Buy Fly Now!: The Poster Collection of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum at Amazon.

Link roundup

1. Olympic champion Rulon Gardner is on The Biggest Loser this season.

2. The Daily Show mocks San Francisco's Happy Meal toy ban. Via.

3. Gawker takes a look at the way Justin Bieber's manager asks young girls to promote Bieber to their friends.

*Buy Happy Meal toys at eBay.

Diesel's trashy super heroes

Check out Diesel's Fresh and Bright Super Heroes, an advertisement for Disel underwear.

Women Laughing Alone With Salad

A gallery of Women Laughing Alone With Salad. Via.

Leftovers 2010: King Kong's footprints

David & Goliath left huge footprints in the sand on Santa Monica Beach, complete with a crushed lifeguard vehicle, to promote the new King Kong 3-D attraction at Universal Studios in Los Angeles.

*Buy King Kong toys at eBay.

Office snowball fight kit

Office snowball fight kit by Barker Gray.

*Buy Cubicle Warfare: 101 Office Traps and Pranks at Amazon.

Link roundup

1. I really liked Broken Angels, the second novel I've read by Richard Morgan. It's a little tough to describe, basically imagine a tale of WW2-era profiteering featuring a Humphrey Bogart like character, if Bogart's character was a genetically modified super soldier. But the cover, which you can see at Amazon is embarrassingly bad.

2. The good news: EA says expect less in-game advertising in the future. The bad news: expect more microcharges since those have proven to be highly lucrative. Via.

3. Funny comic by James Kochalka. After reading it, you'll want to know what he looks like.