Hasta La Creative!

This is kind of quirky. To promote AT&T’s Walkman Slider, BBDO/NY and production company ANONYMOUS tried building an association between fireworks and the phone’s blinky lights and slidiness.

Check out this :50 teaser for Vantage Point by th1ng. Vantage Point is a stock action film (premise: presidential assassination, ooooh) with a respectable cast (Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker).

Here’s an ad about a middle-aged paperboy working to get braces for his daughter.

You know how some people are fond of pointing out creatives often imprint themselves on the work they produce as if they were the only demographic in the world?

Arg! Get a load of this print ad for the Travel Channel.

“Watching anything but DIRECTV? Now, that would be painful,” croons the Misery antagonist with a trademark Stephen King psychotic expression.

Monster.com’s “Your Call is Calling” campaign has been a buzzkill since launch, particularly against CareerBuilder’s darkly funny “Start Building.”

But “The Stork” — a :60 spot by BBDO, NY for Monster — begets a bit of greatness.

Remember that suicidal GM robot? Imagine it’s refreshed, rehabilitated and ready to contribute to society again.

Here’s a spot called “Extraordinary” by TBWA\CHIAT\DAY and TEQUILA. In it, an Infiniti M twists around hand-drawn bends, somehow both away from the sun and toward it.

Here’s a pretty but slow-going spot from Ogilvy Paris. Ask yourself (while reclining in the idleness of the inherited rich): do you create the journey, or does the journey create you?