Saint Paul Living

End of 2007

I get crazy wicked-pissah excited around this time of year. I'm not excited over Christmas or the New Year though. I'm excited because the British Advertising Award show is at the Walker Art Center. The Walker screens it all month long, and each screening is always packed.

You get to settle in for an hour+ worth of all the best advertising that the jolly old United Kingdom has to offer. Some are funny as shit. Others are serious, and rather depresssing. Many are just slightly graphic - enough so that they're not really offensive, but too graphic for us Americans to air them.

Anyway, links to some of the videos on youtube are below. I didn't want to sit and creat 5 different posts by putting the videos on my blog. So, here are the links, in no particular order:

1.) The World's biggest prick. More Americans should see this one. Watch it! Go Greenpeace!

2.) Quite sad. 12 reasons not to drink and drive, sung to the tune of "The 12 Days of Christmas." It isn't too sad though. Watch it!

3.) A serious educational promo about smoking. Don't smoke! And Watch it!

4.) Hilarious. Frickin' Hilarious!. This shit is funny. So, the brits have this drink called "Irn-Bru." I have no idea what it is, but apparently everyone wants one. Even Snowmen. Watch it!

5.) Finally, the monkey. Brits have this brand of tea called "PG." And apparently there is the "PG Monkey." He's been around for 35+ years. He used to be a real live orangutan. They don't use a real monkey in the commericials anymore. But now they use a sock monkey. And they have a running plot between a man and his relationship with this sock monkey. In this clip, after leaving the man, the sock monkey returns home. There are hundreds of youtube videos about the PG Monkey. People love him and some people really really hate him. I love him. Watch it!

posted by Jason @ 6:23 AM