A History Of The World According To Getty Images

A short documentary that you can dowload or watch online:

The film explores how image banks including Getty gain control over, and then restrict access to, archive images – even when these images are legally in the public domain. It also forms a small act of resistance against this practice: the film includes six legally licensed clips, and is downloadable as an HD ProRes file. In this way, it aims to liberate these few short clips from corporate control, and make them freely available for viewing and artistic use.

Licensed under aCreative Commons 0: “No rights reserved” license.

The Good Room – Frank Chimero

Another brilliant talk from Frank, this time on the (im)balance between the commercial and the cultural web.

Remember: the web is a marketplace and a commonwealth, so we have both commerce and culture; it’s just that the non-commercial bits of the web get more difficult to see in comparison to the outsized presence of the commercial web and all that caters to it.

This really resonates with me:

If commercial networks on the web measure success by reach and profit, cultural endeavors need to see their successes in terms of resonance and significance.

Why you will regret using Vimeo. « Boagworld

This is the reason why we chose Vzaar for hosting the videos on the Reprieve website.

Cadbury Dairy Milk - Glass and a Half Full Productions Video transcript

Remember the video of that Cadbury's ad I linked to a while back? It turns out that there's a transcript of the video on the website.

YouTube - Anti-Piracy Ad from The IT Crowd

This is absolutely brilliant. I've often wondered what luckless ad agency was suckered into doing those ridiculous anti-piracy films so wonderfully lampooned here.

Cadbury Dairy Milk - Glass and a Half Full Productions

I have no idea.

The Observer | OMM | 'Does music still matter? Yes ... and no!'

Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, and Beth Orton get together to dance about architecture.

Banned Xbox 360 Ad

Fairly amusing and strangely unbanworthy.

Ads of the World | Daily Creative Fix

An extensive collection of adverts that somehow don't seem as annoying when gathered together like this. You could spend hours here.