A BIG BANNER appeared yesterday on MTV Headquarters Toronto. The 50 foot banner was part of The Ministry of Health's Stupid.ca campaign to prevent teens from smoking. Canadian band Silverstein joined in and did a performance on MTV Live. Youthography conceived and executed all logistics of the “building” living media installation, MTV's & Silverstein's involvement.

I just love the absurdity of it all. And the Emes chair is the cherry on top. Agency: Crispin Porter + Bogusky.    Director: Matt Lenski of Reginaldo.

Montreal-based François Chartier worked as an art director & illustrator for 25 years. In January of 2000 he left advertising & dedicated himself to a more personal type of art. I found this link to his work on Applied Arts.

Great new Five Alive spot via Leo Burnett, Toronto & Head Gear Animation. I'm a sucker for a good swashbuckler scene. Director: Julian Grey. Creatives: David Frederico & Morgan Kurchak. View it here.

To submit a film to Straight8 a director is sent an 8mm film cartridge to shoot on and then sends it back to Straight8 along with a cd soundtrack for their film. The first time the director or anyone sees the film is when it plays in front of an audience. This is Aleysa Young's Straight8 film, Blockhead, which was one of 11 chosen from over 200 films to be premiered at the 2006 Cannes International Film Festival.

The winners of the Global Student Animation Awards were announced last night by Stash magazine. The Three Legged Legs were the Animation/Best of 2006 winners for their Humans! spot. Three Legged Legs are repped in the US by Green Dot Films & in the UK by Rokkit.

Tomorrow night at 9pm TBS is doing their World's Funniest Commercials show. Among the "finalists" is Rethink's 1-800-Got Junk? commercial that utilized rat-vertising. You can watch it here. Directed by Reginald Pike's Brian Lee Hughes.

Ya, I can admit it, I love mobile phones. I'm not into a lot of gadgets, but I have to get myself a new mobile at least once a year. I currently have the Nokia 6111 but am looking for a new phone & found this site today. If you love mobile phones like I do, prepare to drool.

I was poking around on the interweb this morning & I found this intestesting "film festival" that directorial duo Happy are hosting -- fittingly called Happy Hour. Deadline for submissions is September 10th, event screening & party on Septmber 23rd.