Sorry I have not been updating the site very often as of late. My brain is in complete holiday mode. I'm taking off for some sun and sand and probably will not update glossy until 2008. Wishing you all the best for the holiday season.

Royale has created this three minute experimental short for Flaunt Magazine's 9th Anniversary DVD (sponsored by Diesel). View the spot and a bit about the creative concept here. Nice work. Thanks to Alex Gorodetzki at Royal for sending my way.

Wieden+Kennedy London has created a fun festive online Christmas card at wiedenswood.com. I just created the glossytree but am concerned about having to water it everyday as I think I might have forgotten to feed my beta fish today (kidding...well, feeding now).

This is last week's news but I was too busy at Christmas parties to check it out until this AM. As a big fan of the Whopper (one of my dirty little secrets), I love the concept of campaign; no Whoppers for a day. I would have loved to seen this taken nationwide though; with no Whoppers anywhere for a day. Congrats to CBP on a great idea.

I love these Reitman's ads out of Taxi, Toronto. Three of them have been on Canadian television over the past six months; a barbecue scenario, a bus stop and this airport security one. I have never seen these spots posted anywhere online (and believe me, I looked), I'm assuming it's some sort of problem with ACTRA (our SAG) and no internet buy. As bad as the quality of this airport spot is (taped of the TV), I'm posting it. Bon Voyage.

A look at what goes in, what goes out, and how everything we swallow gives the environment a case of indigestion. SuiCycle is a lively, multi-textured animated short created specifically for the 2007 Design Politics exhibition in Santiago, Chile: a forum for “visual ideologies” comprised of the best issue-driven design work from around the globe. Scooped from Computerlove.

Blacklist's Nanospore are back (see Coke spots a few posts below) this time shaking things up with the XMerator for XM Radio. Agency is Lowe, New York. Full credits here.

Have a few moments to spare? Check out and vote on AdFreak's Freaky Ad Moments 2007. A great selection of ads and a really entertaining diversion.

In a co-production with Psyop, MassMarket utilizes both live action and CG to create these two slick, shiny and festive Infiniti ads. Click here for the full scoop on how they were made. Agency is TBWAChiatDay, Los Angeles. Full credits are posted here.

Blacklist newbie Holbrooks picked up two silver awards at YoungGuns this past weekend for their short film t.o.m.. They won both in the student category, as the film was made in their final year at the International Film School of Wales, and in the professional category for animation. Congrats to Tom, Daniel & Matt.

Comedienne Alice Lowe stars as electro-sex rapper Kitty Litta in "Sticks and Balls", director Jacqueline Wright's highly-suggestive 2007 short for Super 8 film fest, Straight 8. Amazing. Enjoy. Scooped from Boards.

Remember is the latest for the NBA directed by Biscuit's Noam Murro via Goodby, Silverstein and Partners, San Francisco. The spot plays homage to a day every Celtic fan will never forger; the day Kevin Garnett was traded. Music is "Day After Day" by Badfinger. Full credits are here.

If you are in Toronto over the next three weeks, be sure to keep your eyes open for a Canadian first - billboards projected on to buildings that come to life and interact with each other. Fido, a Canadian wireless provider, created the billboards in conjunction with Bos, Toronto to celebrate the holiday season and promote wireless video calling. They feature a man and a woman each projected onto separate buildings. Initially both are static and then suddenly the young couple begins to interact with one another. Check out a video of the billboards here. Full credits are here.

Seen an ad lately that is a complete rip-off of another ad? Of course you have. AdLand's Badland has a great selection of commercials that look like other commercials, logos that look like other logos, thoughts on trends in advertising and just some plain ol' bad ads.

Here's the latest Zune Arts Film, this time from Blacklist's againstallodds. Watch Intergalactic Swap Meet here. Full credits are here. Stockholm-based Againstallodds was founded by Derek Picken (CD) and Josh Thorne (EP) in 2003. Want to see more of what they do? Go here.

These two new spots for Coke's new grip bottle are so cute (and I mean that in a very good way), that I may never eat octopus again. Directed by Blacklist's Nanospore. View Grip here and Voyage here. Agency is Publicis Mojo, Auckland, NZ. Full credits are here.

Repping company Resource has launched Treesource, an organization that will donate to various charities, the first being Tree People, on the behalf of their clients. To promote the launch, two web films have been created, both made out of bits of recycled paper, by option-g and 2todesign.com. View them here & here. Full credits.

"Forgotten Meat" is not that piece of roast chicken that you left in the bottom crisper that has taken on a life of its own, it's the latest spot by Biscuit director Aaron Ruell for Cook's Ham. Agency is Bernstein-Rein, Kansas City.

Stash 39 is out this week and is filled with goodies from the world of animation, motion graphics and design. Psyop's Orangina via FFL Paris is on the cover, along with some "making off" stills on the inside. There are also a couple of great short films in this issue; "t.o.m." by Holbrooks, who were recently signed to Blacklist, and Trevor Cawood's "Terminus" which was screened at TIFF. Complete details on issue 39 are here and you can watch the issue trailer here.

This slick Volkswagen ad won bronze at the 2007 Epica Awards. Agency is DDB Milan. Photography by WINKLER + NOAH.

The second annual Marque Awards were held in Toronto this past Thursday night and Lowe Roche won the agency of the year award for their work on campaigns for the Toronto Zoo, Nokia, Audi and Stella Artois. To view the winning campaigns and a retrospective of Lowe Roche's work go to hurryupanddie.ca.