Archive for the ‘funny’ Category
The Way Girls Are
Leave a CommentA rather humorous short film about how a 8-year old attempts to understand the fairer sex through his observations and encounter.
Painfully Obvious Photography Tips
Perhaps it’s a reaction against the endless photography tips or ‘rules’ like the Rule of Thirds – Ivars Gravlejs compiled a series of painfully obvious tips for better photography – those shown above are just 3 out of a whole lot more. Though I must say (perhaps it’s the psuedo-artistic “I am cooler than you” vibe in me speaking out) I do prefer some of the “wrong” ones occassionally.
The collection here.
Diving in Football
For those of us who watch football (soccer) we’d probably be very familiar with antics known as “diving” (in the context of football (soccer) is an attempt by a player to gain an unfair advantage by diving to the ground and possibly simulating an injury, to appear as if a foul has been committed. Dives are often used to exaggerate the amount of contact present in a challenge.)
Just found this video to be quite amusing – shows how the seemingly inexplicable, spontaneous fall to the ground could perhaps be explained by a sly sniper:
PostSecrets through History
Postsecret is a well established site/gallery of postcard-sized images posted anonymously to unveil a secret or a shared confessions in art form.
Collegehumor took the idea and created similarly-styled postcards for the people involved in significant historic (or historically fictional) moments of mankind – what would they have sent if they had something to confess and have access to postcards and Postsecret. Some examples:
Head here for a few more!
Efficient Cow
Say all the economic commentary you want with the tw0-cows joke – this is my favorite!
Scrabble Advertisments
Here’s a series of TV advertisements for scrabble – featuring (fantastically) quirky creative & art direction. The concept is quite cool too:
Different words accidentally encounter during a Scrabble game, giving by chance birth to a world as unexpected as enchanting. Picture a board of Scrabble at the end of a game: words that have nothing to do with each other are crossing and overlapping, to the point that they sometimes tell a crazy story ! Our creative idea is to turn this fabulous potential into images. Everything will be executed by different illustrators, in order to come out with the best diversity in the possibilities offered by SCRABBLE.
by Ogilvy and Mather Paris.
[via advertolog]
The Honest Scammer
We’ve all become quite acquainted with the Nigerian scammers – attempting to cheat naive people into wiring money over to some dubious overseas account in exchange for the hope of some grand sum of inheritance, business, etc.
But this “Mr. Robert Dutu” gotta be one of those with (at least the appearance of) some honesty – even while he attempts to scam:
This is just a part of the conversation -check out the full transcript: it includes gems such as
Mr. Robert Dutu says: and i know my God will forgive because i pray to him to replenish the pockets of my clients with double of whatever they loss
It’s quite funny to see the intelligent conversation even as Mr Dutu still attempts to get Mike to wire money over, despite knowing that he’s not a most-likely prey. Can we say, professionalism?
“The Front Fell Off!”
Came across this rather funny satire:
Would this be how politicians/CEOs/legal departments/PR/whoever-else brush off problems and responsibility in the event of an accident/crisis?
Facepalming Brokers
With the economy going bad this most-useful blog springs: a site dedicated to chronicling various brokers doing the face-palm – just what you need on the ‘hopeless’ slide for your Powerpoint deck.
Tiny Art Director
Kids have the most imagination. Kids are honest. Kids aren’t afraid to say the darndest things. And that, seems to make a kid to be just about the perfect candidate as an art director.
Artist/illustrator Bill Zeman started a blog chronicling his attempts at fulfilling his daughter’s brief and art direction. For instance:
I’d say his illustrations are definitely up to the mark – but alas, it seems his daughter has a much more stringent/eccentric/random set of criteria. Perhaps not too far apart from real, grown-up art directors too. Check out more examples over at Tiny Art Director.
He’s collected enough of it to make it into a book -
If you’re interested, get it here.
