Largest and smallest stop-motion films

Here are some stop-motion films shot with a Nokia N8.

The first one is the LARGEST stop-motion film shot with a Nokia N8:

"Gulp" follows a fisherman fishing for sand fishes.  One fish becomes bait for a much larger fish.  Three Nokia N8s were set on a crane to capture the sand artists who drew this ocean scene.  Watch the Making Of film:

Here's the SMALLEST stop-motion film shot on a Nokia N8 using CellScope technology:

"Dot" shows a slumbering figurine who finds her nap is interrupted when the landscape starts unraveling.  She runs through the miniaturized land trying to avoid the destructive thread.  There are nice little touches in the scenery such as pencil shavings used for ocean waves.

Dot stands at 9mm and they used a 3D printer to "print" out resin copies of the models.  Here is a Making Of film:

 

Larger than life marionette show

Here's a video for Royal de Luxe, a French street marionette company.  They performed their new show Giants Royal de Luxe in Nantes, France:

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This is the film Being John Malkovich come to life.  The attention to detail with these mechanical marionettes movement is phenomenally impressive, from the batting of the eyelids, to the realism of each step. Towards the end of the video, it shows the team jumping off the platform in order to pull the ropes of the extremely tall marionette.

Bottled water plants

Here's an ambient ad for Desani bottled water in Canada:

Topiary plants were shaped to looked the bottled water. 

 

Nervous nail biters? You know this much is true...

Here's an odd ad for Argentinian herbal spirit Fernet 1882:

It appears there's a large field filled with 1882 nervous individuals.  The crowd becomes overjoyed when large versions of objects they can chomp on in order to temper their nervousness, such as a pen cap, are flown in by helicopter.  When the helicopter takes the chewed up pen cap away it's kind of hilarious.  

Scary ads

Here are a couple of frightening ads.

The first one is a traveling ambient ad for AMC's The Walking Dead:

A truck with bloody limbs coming out of the back was seen driving around at Comic Con 2011 promoting the second season of the post-apocalyptic TV show. 

The second ad is a commercial directed by Rob Zombie for Woolite:

It's hard to believe the horror-movie film directing, heavy metal playing rocker would direct a commercial for a detergent. 

Seafood aquarium

Here's an ambient ad from Thailand for LG's SolarDom microwave:

They created robotic versions of cooked seafood for food court aquariums in Bangkok.  Robo fried mackerel, grilled saba with soya and deep-fried shrimp swam like real fish in the tank to show how LG microwaves can cook food fast so that it is "Ready to Eat."  

Flying high above

Here are a couple of ads that are up in the air.

The first one is from Thailand for Big Bloom bubble gum:

They took a pink "marker" balloon typically found in front of shopping centers and fashioned it so it looked like a large bubble, attaching a life-sized child dummy.  It's pretty good way to get attention, yet it is a little creepy.  But it does have a large potential for a media freak out.  Remember the whole balloon boy fiasco?

The second one is from India for the artificial sweetener Sugar Free:

I like the idea of having an ad floating above, but for this particular execution they could have developed a stronger tagline or modified the concept.  It's a shame to have an attention-getting billboard that doesn't really say anything.  

The connection of a "lite" sweetener with a "light" advertisement seems like a mixed metaphor that doesn't really make a strong enough connection to the product.  A viewer might look at a big floating sign and never see the product identification, tagline or bother to make the effort to read it.  Like guy illustrated above, who appears to actually be looking at the ad, the potential customer may be in a bad angle where reading the sign might be difficult.