Been to the Boros bunker last sunday. Haven’t been so impressed by art or architecure

in a long time. The bunker itself humbles you. And each room holds another surprise. It’s like a crazy-ass Disneyworld for art-lovers. Especially Olafur Eliasson’s work never ceases to amaze me. I’m not much of an art guy but this whole concept blew me away. Do yourself a favor and go there when in Berlin. Adman Boros managed to create a magical and inspiring place. Reservation is needed.

My favorite band this year I guess: Mumford & Sons, from London.
It’s pointless to write about how good they are just do yourself a favor and check out the official site, their myspace page, this little film or their first single Little Lion Man, which just might be the perfect song 2009. Cheers, mates.

Mumford & Sons // Gentlemen of the Road from Stay Loose on Vimeo.

Here’s some of the work of Montreal based designer/art director Julien Vallée - and I just know that Jake will absolutely fall in love with his stuff. I don’t want to give too much away so
check out his brilliant site, his amazing short for Artv or the type he created while being guided by Stefan Sagmeister.

Because Elias is currently in Berlin partying his tight little ass off and Jake lives the life of a

married gentleman it’s time to step up or shut up for me. Here is the Wednesday Link Dump

again (and because advertising is a bitch without the slightest intention to give me enough time

to post on a regular basis, most of it is pretty much obsolete, but anywhoo):

Stefan Sagmeister talks about taking time off (TED). You can start by taking half an hour off

and watch this.

Ricky Gervais at Jon Stewart. Almost an overdose of funny. How does the universe

not collapse when these giants collide?

Anthony Hopkins Barclays Big commercial. Because it’s a freaking classic

for every copywriter.

James Reynolds shot Last Suppers of people who are centenced to death.

Scary stuff.

Review: Vibram Five Fingers Classic. In your face, Nike. What ya gonna do now?

Awesome Project. Now that’s art I can get along with: “We’re leaving disposable cameras

around the world. People are picking them up, taking a few photos and passing them on, eventually

returning home - so we can tell their stories.” The Disposable Memory Project. 

Awesomness: Olympus Pen Story + download song for free.

And HERE’s the guy, THESE dudes stole the idea from to make an awesome film for Olympus.

More brilliant stop-motion film-action, this time with stickies.

Sweet: meat. Really nice biodegradable packaging concept for local organic meats.

By Chris Chapman.

More meat packaging, from Swizerland. By Schneiter Meier Külling.

Both via lovelypackage.com

Your client doesn’t like your ideas? Shrink his freaking head. National Geographic shows you how.

Making Of of one of my favorite films this season: Vaseline’s “Amazing Moisture”

Honestly, how could this not have been Sony’s biggest hit to date? It’s so disturbing I want one.

Read Steve Henry’s Blog over at Campaign:
“Creative Directors used to be the people who made a difference.
Now they’re just people who can be wheeled out for pitches to make small talk.
I’m surprised they don’t all want to  behave really, really badly.”

Mumford & Sons play well good music.

And live.

Also live and well good: The Avett Brothers. Via AOL/Spinner.com.

Guiness spot, kicks off new campaign and claim, rebuilds world, nothing less.

Watch the big-ass version HERE, plus pretty awesome making-of.

Utterly amazing: Face-off with a deadly predator: National Geografic photographer

meets leppard-seal, gets feeded with penguins instead of eaten his face.

Well, people you find at WalMart. I’m as speachless as you are.

The arcade concept. Don’t know what they are trying to sell but I’m buying it. Great film.

Anomaly’s Johnny Vulkan interviewed by German online magazine Gründerszene.de.

From August 2009, but still.

Each month, National Geographic magazine features breathtaking photographs in their

Visions of Earth section. What an amazing, disturbing world we live in.

I want to go out and see it.

The Art and Crimes of Ron English. Enough said. The rest you have to see yourself.

Randy Couture is the perfect testimonial - for basically everything anti-aging.

Freak of nature, is this his secret? And even if not, if you are 46 years old and still fighting

the best competition on the planet in a freaking cage, you are living proof that something is working.

If you don’t testimonial this guy, Nivea, I’ll do it myself.

Will humanity prevail? Probably not in the long run. Successors are already getting started

to take over: super smart rats. Stupid human scientists have signed our death warrant.

These ads are freaking me the hell out. Brilliant.

RVCA to support the Baddest Man on the Planet. Why are they doing just everything right?

Watch Showtime’s Fight Camp 360°: Fedor vs. Rogers HERE to understand what

the hell I’m talking about.

It’s been a tough few weeks but tonight I’m going for a beer or two.

Have a good rest of the week.

Cheers.

Brilliant presentation by David Gillespie. Via Nico Lumma.

Dropping knowledge like it’s hot. Thanks to the author.

Sorry, guys. I’m fighting the recession like a russian bear wrestler, so here just a quick round-up of the most interesting ideas and inspirational things recently. Enjoy.
Improv Everywhere does invisible dogs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9iq9gdeIE4

DC Shoes hyper-cool infomercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ7R_buZPSo

New ways to display complex data and connections:

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/

Is it ok? I say YES!

http://bestadsontv.com/ad_details.php?id=24536

Louis Vuitton brand extensions onto everything:

http://worldfamousdesignjunkies.com/bits/lv-obsession/

The Guitar Hero music video “Alan you are a guitar hero, trapped in a body of total zero!”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sZFoJapm64

more…»

Find more information HERE.

Via lundxy.com

Hailing from one of my favorite cities in the world, San Francisco, is Jesse with his outstanding blog Beerandnosh.com, talking about everything beer. And nosh. Guy’s a maniac about home and professional brewing, restaurants and cooking - and it’s a shame that I haven’t found an equally brilliant blog about food, beer and restaurants in Berlin. To see somebody being that enthusiastic about booze is always an inspiration. And makes me want to do something usefull with my life.
Thank you, Beerandnosh. You never disappoint.

There’s a lot of stuff going on at the moment. People leaving the office, others are coming to Berlin eventually, some people lose a shit load of money, others are gaining weight, frick, I feel like change too. Why not get some inspiration here:
Finally, Interesting is happening in Berlin. It’s called InterestingBerlin, obviously. Go there if you have time. Our supporter from the ol’ days Biggi Kaese will speak there as well so listen up, be nice and buy her a drink.

The fine people at Betahaus are doing their part of celebrating DMY International Design Festival Berlin tomorrow and it’s probably going to be awesome.

If you are in Frankfurt at the 20th go visit KarmaKonsum’s GreenCamp. I know that I would.

I think I mentioned it already but what the hell: Either Rich Franklin or Wanderlei Silva will absolutely, positively get KTFO on the 13th in Cologne, at UFC 99, The Comeback. Like always the audience will consist out of 90% complete meatheads but the fight card looks pretty darn great.

And if you, like me, can’t go to any of these events because you spend too much time in the office, go to David’s blog about “Sad-vertising” and read his IPA Diploma essay that got published in Campaign a short while ago. “It’s a fictional guesstimate at what the future looks like for brands… given trends for collectivisation, ethics and “We-actualisation” as he puts it. Sissies.

A team of three interns pitches for the Adidas Global Account. Click here for the Impossible Pitch. Nuff’ said. I hope they win. On the other hand, I don’t think they’d get any bonus on years end.