Mysteriously, advertising works. Lots of you sent in this link to the Olympus m:robe 500 ad from last night’s Super Sports Event, featuring a creepy dancing guy with bizarro pop-locking computer-edited grandparents (the second disturbing old people pop-locking video in a month). I don’t think much of m:robe 500—it’s a low-end camera in a too-large MP3 player—but Olympus is certainly entering the market with a… maybe not a splash, but whatever it sounds like when you throw millions of dollar’s into a network executive’s hot tub.
http://www.jalopnik.com/cars/adspromotions/index.php#ok-ok-well-post-on-the-gene-kelly-vw-golf-gti-ad-032168
Product Page (Here There Be Flash) [OlympusGroove via eHomeUpgrade]
David writes:
Give credit where credit is due—the people behind the Olympus ad pioneered the style in the video for Late at Night by Futureshock. See the whole video here: http://www.ne-o.co.uk/fshock.html. It’s one of the best I’ve seen in the past couple of years.
