“You look aroused
You look awake
You are the light
Turned on”

Tom Vek. Alternative rock. See and listen: Aroused (from Leisure Seizure, 2011).

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“Not bad for two chords.”

Little Red, or “The Beach Boys meets The Strokes”. Indie/Pop/Rock.
See and listen: Rock it.

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“Total upload views: 51,977,386” (Youtube channel, October 17, 2010) The Guild: “A comedy web series about the offline lives of online gamers. Created by and starring: Felicia Day.”.

Above: Felicia Day, from her photoset on Flickr.

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“What you see is what you hear (no lip-syncing for instruments or voice). If you hear it, at some point you see it (no hidden sounds).”.

Pomplamoose. Indie.
Listen and see: Jungle Animal and September.

Above: Nataly Dawn in Telephone (from: Tribute to Famous People), detail.

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“The number was not conceived out of some desire to cater to the so-bad-it’s-good tastes of the Western YouTube generation, but in fact was meant to please Soviet audiences, who were capable of placing this routine, this man, and this song into a familiar context.”. (Justin E.H. Smith)

Trololololololololololo. This should be the new Rick Roll.

Above: Eduard Khil* singing I’m so glad because I’m finally back home (1976).

*Referred as: Edward, Eduard, Hill, Hil, Khil, Gil

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Centraal Beheer “is an insurance company sited in The Netherlands, famous for its campaign of TV commercials. These are short humoristic spots, generally without dialogue, in which something goes horrendously wrong.”. See, for example, Zweefvliegers (Glider).

Above: Acupunctuur (Acupuncture, 2006). From YouTube.

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Jozin z Bazin (Jozin from the bog, by Ivan Mládek for Czech Television, 1978).
The ultimate ringtone for your cell phone. From YouTube.

The Mirror. An advertising for people with eating disorders.

From Ads of the World. Music: Seaglopur by Sigur Rós.

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“Yume No Chikara.

Roughly translated, The Power Of Dreams.
You see, in Japanese you don’t say have a dream. You say see a dream.
Because what’s the point on having dreams if you’re not going to make some happen?”.
(From Dreams, Nick Gordon for Honda, 2005)

Impossible Dream (Ivan Zacharias for Honda, 2005).
Music: The Impossible Dream by Andy Williams (1968).

By Wieden+Kennedy.

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