VH1: BLACK HISTORY MONTH PROJECT

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Airside: The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency

In 2008 Airside were commissioned to create the opening and closing title sequences for Anthony Minghella's screen adaptation of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency starring Jill Scott, the first book from Alexander McCall Smith's best-selling series.

Since the story was set in Botswana the titles needed to reflect the film's location, as well as depict various narrative elements from the storyline.

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Photographer: Timothy Saccenti

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Kmart: AL Harrington Protege

KMart drops one of those cut-rate sneakers. Just in time for the economic crunch. Guess what I'll be showing up to the court in? I hope we can turn this economy around. BTW, I don't know what to say about this spot... I should watch it again. Hold on...


Um, yeah, uh what was I saying. The spot oh yeah, what had happen was...

OK. yeah, they did a commercial. It had graphics and stuff.




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Designer /Art director: Quinton Cameron

This is a brief glimpse into a massive talent.


Quinton Cameron can design...



Quinton Cameron can Art Direct...


Quinton Cameron can Illustrate...


Quinton Cameron can Concept ideas for your commercial...

(This is what they settled on, if I told you how dope his original idea was... some part of your inner dome would simply swell, fluids would seep, vision would blur & you would die.)


Quinton Cameron can even design your website...


...I believe I heard someone say that general market agencies can't find any talented African American candidates? Ooooooh, this is what Ralph Ellison meant by "Invisible Man."


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Quinton Cameron
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Design Inspiration: Daniel Edlen

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Boeing: Future President

This spot demonstrates some of the elegance and economy of really smart camera work. Sometimes, when you have a great idea and you remove all the fluff, you create magic. The production is so well done they only need like 8 notes (chords) strikes on the piano score. They created a mini instant joy-transference device.

"Malik Sayeed (former DP who shot lots of famous Hype Williams music videos and Belly, but now directs spots) did this dope Boeing BHM spot. Awesome in so many ways, but the fact that it's only two shots and is still cinematic is my favorite."

A rare jewel unearthed by: Raafi (great mining by a brilliant mind! Thanks two thousand)


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Boeing
Director, Malik Sayeed https://sites.google.com/site/mayuradocs/PinIt.png

New Apple Safari: Beta Love

Apple has introduced a new version of their web browser, Safari 4. Some new features include Top Sites which displays your most visited websites with a neat perspective design and cover flow in your favorite sites. Aaaaaand now your browser sucks!

P.S. My unashamed Apple love does not make me a fan-boy ( any self respecting Black man would never have that)... It makes me a Grown-ass-man-fan-boy!

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Dare I say it, the Government kinda rocks

The US Gov just put up a site to show us were the recovery money will go. Well, some will say, "what's black about it?" To that I would say, "you never saw this before!" The brother made it happen, that's all I'm saying. This level of transparency is unprecedented! For the first time in my adult life I'm actually... um, well... I'm not going to say it. That kinda thing still gets black people in trouble. https://sites.google.com/site/mayuradocs/PinIt.png

Adobe Shortcuts Posters

These are dope. I want one...

or two...


or three.

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McDonald's: MCC #6461: BHM 2009

Child Reaching For The Stars
Gospel Choir
Scratching DJ
Multigenerational Family
Graffiti Artist
Athlete
Singer and/or Spoken Word Artist
Graduate
Jazz Musician
Cute Baby
Copy Referencing Marches, Elections, Traditions, etc.

Mickey D’s covers the most BHM clichés in a single page.


Constant enlightenment flows from: MultiCultClassic

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MLK Dream Weekend

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Erwin-Penland, a Hill Holliday Agency, Greenville, USA
Creative Director: Andy Mendelsohn
Art Director: Nate Osbourne
Copywriter: Aaron Johnston
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Banana Republic: Ayo & Esperanza +

The new Banana Republic ads with Esperanza Spalding, Ayo, OK Go, Liz Phair, Dashboard Confessional and Sara Bareilles. Along with the fresh-faced new models, Banana Republic will be giving customers an iTunes gift card with purchase from February 17 to 26, redeemable for a free compilation of songs by the participating artists.

free music downloads are available here.

http://www.bananarepublic.com/citystories
and
http://www.youtube.com/user/bananarepublic


**UPDATE**

Live performances at Banana Republic stores on Thursday, Feb 26th:

· David Garrett - San Francisco (Grant St near Union Square)
· Tommy Torres - Santa Monica (3rd St Promenade)
· David Sanchez - NYC (Rockefeller Center)

RSVP here: http://www.brcitysounds.com

Tipped off @ Style Noir.

There's a good chance you may not know who these two treasures are so, here are a couple of videos.
Esperanza


Ayo
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Madea Goes To Jail: Movie Poster(s) (Update)

"Madea Goes to Jail" Locks Up Top Spot at Box Office

Tyler Perry's "Madea Goes to Jail" led the box office with a $41.1 million opening weekend ($20.236 per screen average), making it the biggest opening weekend ever for both Perry and the film's studio, Lionsgate. "Madea's Family Reunion" was Perry's biggest opening three years ago when it bowed to $30 million and a $13,688 average. "Madea Goes to Jall" has already grossed more than the $37.1 million "The Family That Preys" grossed in its entire run. The previous Lionsgate high was "Saw III" which opened to the tune of $33.6 million in 2006.

Made for less than $20 million, cheap by Hollywood standards, "Madea Goes to Jail" drew a younger, more diverse crowd than Perry typically draws. According to Steve Rothenberg, the studio's domestic distribution president, 35% of ticketbuyers were under 25, up from 18% for his last movie, The Family That Preys; 13% were Hispanic, up from 5%. The core audience remained African-American women.

Perry's seven films have combined to gross $300 million to date at the domestic box office.

Talked through the entire movie & got this story from Black Talent News.


Tyler Perry always does a lighter more ephemeral early version of his movie posters. This seems to be an increasing trend across the movie industry. This precursor to the "Jail" flick follows suite in that trend. It's captivating if not terribly misleading but, perhaps the whole point is just to get your curiosity piqued. It does just that. Below is where the mad-capped hilarity begins and for the movie going audience sake I hope it doesn't end there.



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Pepsi & Mountain Dew Throwback

Coming soon, Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback, sugar sweetened versions of the soft drinks with retro labels.

Throwbacks huh?

I think they are really regretting that new logo. They really, really wanna go the whole "New Coke – Classic Coke" route and get a huge bounce in sales after a rebrand/reformulate nightmare (sans the reformulate). I'm on to you Pepsi. The Carmel Colored Connoisseurs invented the remix. We know the game. We also put "throwback" into the lexicon of hipness you so casually toss around. Well, enjoy it we've moved on.

(These are just jokes... I'm here all week)


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Grey Goose: Black History Month

Grey Goose shakes up (never stirs) Black History Month with cool sips from a few movers and shakers of modern day Black History. Russell Simmons, Chris Rock & Serena William round out the cast of color commentators.



Here Rock shares his ultra-keen sense of what it is to be black in America. Chris says that "You can't beat the white man at anything... If you have six and the white guy has five, you lose. You have to knock him out... The true equality is the equality to suck like the white man... I want the license to be bad and come back and learn."

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K-Mart: Share Our World

K-Mart invites you to share your world for Black History Month. https://sites.google.com/site/mayuradocs/PinIt.png

WalMart: Black History Month Myspace Tribute

WalMart shares the BHM love by offering up a Myspace page that allows you to upload a video to share your views on what Black History means to you.

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WalMart Also gives you "OurVoice"

"Walmart understands that a big part of living better is knowing and understanding the value of the past. Year after year, we support you in learning more about groundbreaking African-American achievements, and your family history as well. Walmart believes every day is a great day to learn Black History."

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Beate Uhse Erotic TV: Child Lock

This is just damn good concept, design, cgi, color, composition, execution, animation, thinking, playing, writing, foreplay, good artwork, blog posting, art direction, producing, good TV, good creative, good cartooning & good bye!


Wish I did it!


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Kempertrautmann, Hamburg, Germany
Creative Directors: Mathias Lamken, Simon Jasper Philip
Production Company: Sehsucht GmbH
Director: Martin Hess, Ole Peters
Design: Martin Hess, Ole Peters
3D: Heinrich Löwe
Compositing: Martin Hess, Hans-Christoph Schultheiß
Producer: Stephan Reinsch
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Huggies Pull-Ups: Potty Dance

JWT – WTF! Why TF! Who TF! WT(M)F!?

Cyrus Mehri* can submit this commercial into evidence and rest his damn case. When did Sherman Klump knock-up SoulJah Boy and then go all pro-life on us and refuse to abort this abomination! I don't know what offends the most, the neo-Uncle Remus voice or the Hip-Hop whoring. I understand the scarcity of "Colored" opinion in the creative parts of the shop. We are working on that. But, couldn't they have at least run this past the Black guy in accounts receivable? Or what about the brother down by the door, you know the security guy. I know he doesn't really work at the agency per-se... But dude would have manned-up and and told you a lie through a seriously jacked-up smirk on his face. "Um, well yeah, it's... well, um, good, I-I kind like them glasses, yeah them glasses is tight. Is that Cool Rock-Ski from the FatBoys?." He's trying to throw you off. It's the first time you've spoken to him so he's more suspiciously surprised than anything else. There's really two things going on in the security guys mind; 1. Are you sh*ttin' him. You really dont see how bad this is? and 2. Why are you bothering him with this bullsh*t. But, it's the smirk guys, don't listen to the words, watch for the smirk! I'm smirkin' right now, it should speak volumes.

Well any ways, this spot is giving birth to an octuplet of asses! We're gonna need more diapers.



*One of the nation's top civil-rights attorneys and a man who has been dubbed one of Washington's most feared lawyers, has turned his attention to the ad industry's woeful diversity record.


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