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amazing! the whole tri(lego)logy told in 2 minutes and 13 seconds. FTW.

so adrian ng finally threw in the towel and bade farewell to bates141. in case you’re still squinting, yeah, he’s actually nowhere in the pic above (hey there’s a bevy of lasses, need we even explain the choice of pic? hello?) anyway if you do miss him we’re pretty sure there’s plenty on facebook albums and you can always holler… he’ll be bumming for awhile apparently. oh yeah, they also sent out this vid as the invite for the drinkies… eerily accurate characterization according to some…

you may not be as cultured (or pretentious as some may say) to ever have watched the 2004 movie “downfall” about hitler’s well… downfall, but popular internet culture insists that you must have at least seen one incarnation of the “angry hitler” parodies. from xbox live to conan leaving the tonight show to the alternative watchmen ending, the dude’s put out about all sorts. while my personal favourite is the one where hitler gets mad at grammar nazis (lol) the latest hot remix is undeniably the latest one after “downfall” producers issued youtube nasty court letters ordering them to remove all parodies.

will free speech and fair use prevail? or are we doomed to this DMCA dictatorship?

p/s oddly enough, the director of the movie is a big fan of the spoofs/spinoffs. go figure.

hmm is this gonna shift the drunkards, sorry we meant malt appreciators, from the cozy finnegan’s midval to, er, next door where these boozeworms are trying to recreate the successful formula they cracked at the curve? not that the bates bargain hunters haven’t been shamelessly sneaking off to spaghetti grill every other day anyway, heh. we shall, hic, see.

tx to beryl and some others for sharing some of bates tvc work, old and/or new (more to come). we’ll be highlighting them in the reel section soon, but all the same we’ll dig out some random ones for a peek from time to time since it appears that even the agency’s own staff don’t seem to know what work it produces. this one’s for an f&n dance competition.

thanks to kulturpop for highlighting our new hero, big river man. over fifty, overweight, drinks like a fish and capable of eating a horse (no kidding, he actually eats horse burgers), how does one explain the big-hearted-big-bellied martin strel’s amazing swimming feats in the world’s longest – deadliest even – rivers? we salute you, mr strel. we LOVE you. if 100 plus ever needed an “outdo yourself” role model, this guy is DA MAN. or perhaps gab would suit him nicely too.

they’ve done it again. while some still won’t admit falling for the gmail paper prank in 2007 (not to mention the other april fool’s day stunts they pulled off every year) no doubt everyone kept their eyes peeled as the clock sighed its last seconds away at 2359hrs on march 31st. true enough, as of 1am (central daylight time) april 1st, the google name on it homepage was replaced by topeka. yeah, frigin topeka as in frigin topeka, frigin kansas, no shit. LOL.

okay, for the ones who sleep most of their waking lives, some time this year the mayor of topeka (yup the capital of u.s. state kansas) announced his city’s name change to google. that’s right boyos: google, kansas. why? why frigin not, right? well, apparently the gesture was in line with their his bid for topeka, sorry, google, to be chosen by google to try out some uber fast (like 100 times faster fast) fiber optics broadband network.

so in honor of that, and in a move not unlike john travolta and nicholas cage in face off, google’s candy-colored facade suddenly spelled topeka to all unsuspecting surfers. hey, after all the said mayor himself said: “don’t be fooled. even google recognizes that all roads lead to kansas, not just yellow brick ones.”

no shit. you go, mayor.

did you? since tnb didn’t sue anyone, what’s your excuse now? heh. check out these before & after pictures from around the globe. yeah, yeah, malaysia’s twin towers is the first mention. give yourself a candy.

for the six nations final, a nike ad by w+k celebrating the france-england rivalry.

nice one from puma. we luuuuuuuurve it!