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Edward Heal is a multi-disciplinary designer based in London – who has some pretty cool cases – including this personal project “whole humans”

Memac Ogilvy in Dubia has produced an impressive series of banners for Panodil that almost makes you wish you had a headache. Really good idea and nice execution as well. Respect.

Click here to watch the banner in a new window. Make sure to check out the other two executions as well.

Carts of Darkness is a great hour long documentary about a small group of homeless people in Vancouver, Canada.

The narrative revolves around the extreme form sport they’ve developed that involves the carts they collect bottles and cans with, combined with the steep hills of Vancouver, resulting in speeds in excess of 70km/h.

More information about the film can be found at the director Murray Siple’s website.

Daredevil of movie is in the Europa Film Treasures archive.  amazing.

Europa Film Treasures is an online library of historically significant films from national archives across Europe, available to stream for free right from your browser. Watch films on the site, read about EFT’s founding, and explore the art of film preservation.

Take a tour with Flake TV to some of the finest street fashion stores in Paris including Surface To Air and Colette. Talking point: One of them has a chandelier made of crack pipes :-]

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The Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing wants to raise awareness for the dangers of driving under influence. Drivers should be approached as directly as possible but in a rather entertaining than shocking way. The long-term goal is to reduce the number of alchohol provoked accidents in Germany. A fleet of Volkswagen New Beetle is tuned with special car parts to become talk of the town: Wheel caps that looks like eyeballs play with the New Beetle’s organic forms and turn it’s silhouette into a human’s face with drunkenly revolving eyes. The promotional cars were used mainly at public events with a high con-sume of alcoholic drinks. They made people curious for the ministry’s information material handed out on these occasions. The promotion caused quite a sensation in the media. The national press reported on the events and even more important on the ministry’s information campaign. As a direct result the ministry noticed an increased demand for their information literature about driving safety.

Seen here: I Believe in Advertising

R/GA has launched a digital campaign for Pepsi tied to this week’s inauguration of President Barack Obama, where you can send your refreshing ideas to the new commander-in-chief.

Refresh Everything

The Danish photographer Simon Høgsberg has spent 17 months making a photograph with the dimensions of 100 meters long (100 m x 78 cm).

There are 178 people in the picture, all shot in the course of 20 days from the same spot on a railroad bridge on Warschauer Strasse in Berlin in the summer 2007.

We’re All Gonna Die – 100 meters of existence

keeping the snowboarding theme, a nice video with lovely graphics.

Burton has for many reasons always been a company that I admire highly and being that I think about the values and the entrepreneurial spirit of Plant quite a bit, I found these (Burton sponsored) videos from VBS.tv pretty inspirational.