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Ice cream shooting out of a man's jeans - hm, pretty weird!
Every single day, 1.8 million kilograms of the UK's plastic waste is exported to other countries. In this arresting footage, titled 'Downing St Disaster', environmental organisation Greenpeace asks and answers the question: What would it look like if that exact amount was dumped on Downing Street? Located in the City of Westminster in London - hence the 'Wasteminster' parody tag - Downing St houses the official residences an... Read More
Back in the Sixties, Spanish designer Paco Rabanne galvanised the French fashion world with his use of unusual materials such as metals and paper for his flamboyant clothing creations. You can see from this ad that his eponymous label - launched in 1966 with 'Manifesto: 12 unwearable dresses in contemporary materials' - is still in the business of surprise, and still on trend, not to say ahead of the wave... Read More
Fellow tennis legend John McEnroe makes a cameo appearance with his trademark "You cannot be serious!" exclamation as Serena Williams sees off a selection of ball-firing robots in this amusing ad for DirecTV. Attired as the superhero character Wonder Woman, the US player sets her formidable focus on overcoming the formidable-looking rogue machines, to promote the broadcast company's new streaming service of live ... Read More
UK workplace pension scheme People’s Pension drops comedian Joe Wilkinson into an ‘unfairground’ – a funfair where the games are stacked against the people playing them – as unlikely ‘Fairy Godmother’, complete with fairy wings and wand, to put things right. The organisation – which has no shareholders and reinvests surplus profits for the benefit of its seven million scheme members – says: "Pensions don’t always ... Read More
Wait, what? Only in a movie, of course. Here's the official trailer fo 'Sacrifice', due out on Netflix next month. While we all understand and make sacrifices in the normal course of events - in order to benefit others or achieve a greater good - the act of killing an animal or person to offer to the gods in propitiation is the defining premise here. A star-studded cast featuring Chris Evans, Anya Taylor-... Read More
A mini-movie around a dystopian couple - played by comedic actors Frida Homlung Bjørn Asgeirsson - who show us with some blackly witty twists just how obsolescence is built into modern products to keep us all buying more. See what you think of how the conceit is handled. It's not just a comment on what most of us would agree with, but a call to action by the Norwegian Consumer Council,... Read More
British clothing company Barbour - famed for its iconic wax cotton jacket - tells this gently amusing tale of connections lost and found through actors Idris Elba and Sienna Miller. Founded in 1894 in South Shields, in the north-east of England, the family brand is enjoying increased international sales, with operating profit for fiscal year 2025 rising 14.1% to £49.5 million ($67.6 million). The brand attributes the up... Read More
