A Week of Internet Goodness

I've been really slack in blogging recently, so instead of fretting about it, I've decided to do one post a week on Fridays (unless I really can't wait with something). So here's the first week. Enjoy.

Thanks to Guy, for that. 

Handy VLC tricks, like recording your desktop and downloading YouTube videos. 

John Lewis' 2014 Christmas ad, by Adam & Eve, makes me tear up - again - but I did think it was going to be worse. I did think it was going to go full Calvin and Hobbes, which would have ruined my computer, but thankfully it didn't. 

Russell Brand meets Blur.

Snoop Dogg likes to grow giant vegetables, apparently.

The world's first first person POV action film. 

Like Eminem and The Beatles? Try 'em mashed up together. Sounds mad, but it works. 

You remember Catvertising? John St., the agency behind it, is back. It's super fucking fast content creation. 

It's the analogue digital version of leaving a crap in a brown paper bag on someone's doorstep and setting fire to it. Or something. 

The weirdest thing you'll see this week, I guarantee it. 

John Lewis Christmas 2013

Almost as anticipated as Christmas itself (maybe not), it's another lovely spot for John Lewis this Christmas. It's Disney, it's Watership Down, it's best mates, it's Christmas, and it hit me in the feels. It's also Lilly Allen and Keane. By, you guessed it, Adam & Eve/DDB.

Something I particularly like about the John Lewis Christmas ads is that they never use the same tagline when they easily could have. You might argue it'd make for a more memorable brand, but instead they opt for a new one each time, which makes each spot stronger. 2011 was 'For gifts you can't wait to give', 2012 was 'Give a little more love this Christmas' (in my mind, not as strong as 2011 or 2013), and this year we get 'Give someone a Christmas they'll never forget', which is reminiscent of 2011. I wonder when in the year they start work on the next one. Probably around now.

John Lewis - The Journey

Another super Christmas advert from John Lewis from Adam & Eve, DDB, though not as good as 2011 (could it ever have been?). Quite reminiscent of The Snowman, but favourably so, in my opinion. Serious childhood Christmas nostalgia.