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This Week in Love: PEMCO Commercials
Posted by: leelefever on February 3, 2012- 10:07am
Categories: commercial, humor, insurance, seattle, Week in Love
This Week in Love is a series of blog posts where Sachi and I share what we love. Browse the archives and follow @weekinlove on Twitter.
This Week in Love: PEMCO Commercials
It's not often that we're prepared to come out and say that we love a series of insurance commercials, but these are near and dear to our hearts. They're commercials for Seattle-based PEMCO Insurance (with DNA Seattle) and part of a campaign called "We're A Little Different. A Lot Like You."
Why we love them:
Wherever you're from, you know the things that make that region unique. You know how people think and what they do. Seattle and the Pacific Northwest is no different. Most people have notions of Seattle that involve rain, coffee, computers, grunge music, etc. But there's a second level of culture that only the locals see.
This series of commercials has done an amazing job of plucking those little bits of culture out of the NW and portraying them proudly in commercial form. They're a little embarassing, but that's what it all about. We think you'll find them to be funny and endearing snapshots of what makes the NW the NW.
Here are a few 30 second samples:
As always, This Week in Love is not a paid advertisement. We have no connection with PEMCO aside from loving the commercials.
Don't miss the next Week in Love. Follow us on Twitter @weekinlove.
It's That Time of Year: Zombies in Plain English
Posted by: leelefever on October 14, 2010- 5:00pm
Categories: fun, Holiday, humor, plain english, video
Once again this year, Sachi and I are concerned about your brains. To avoid any problems, please watch this video:
This video is now our 4th most viewed with 1.25 million views and 4,600 comments. If you're looking looking for answers on zombies, Darren did a bit of research recently.
Also, bonus zombie video for the song "Re: Your Brains" from one of our favorites, Jonathan Coulton.
But seriously, watch out for your brains this Halloween!
The Woot! service (known for their one-day, one-deal offers) has always been know for their light-hearted and fun communication style. It's a quality I love to see in companies. Any company that's prepared to be a little silly and not take itself too seriously has an opportunity to find loads of adoring customers and fans on the web. In the context of boring corporate announcements, these companies seem like the life of the party.
Thanks to their business model and adoring fans, Woot! was recently acquired by Amazon. So what do they do in the face of being acquired by a huge corporation? They make their announcement in the form of a rapping monkey. I love it. It tells the story, it's clever and fun and it feels like something Woot! should do.
If that's not enough for you, check out the hilarious email from their CEO.
Via: Laughing Squid
Zombies in Plain English - Protect Your Brain this Halloween
Posted by: leelefever on October 14, 2009- 5:00pm
Categories: Common Craft Video, fun, holiday, humor, zombies
It's that time again folks. If you're worried about your brain this Halloween, Zombies in Plain English can help!
If only more people would take this seriously.
We made this video about a year ago to help make sure our fans protect their brains during the scary Halloween season. Enjoy!
You can help protect the brains of others by sharing this video using this code:
Thanks to Mary for making me crack up at this flipchart-based comedy skit by Demetri Martin, a young New York comic that also appears on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Hope it makes your Friday a little funnier.
On a similar theme, you might also be interested in Jessica Hagy's Indexed - a blog that makes clever use of index cards.
Lastly, My ingenious friend Bre Pettis, a Seattle boy and school teacher who is now living in New York, has a pilot TV show coming on the History Channel called Hacking History. His first show is about Tesla. The pilot shows on September 26th at 9pm. If we all watch, maybe it will be picked up. Go Bre!
The yin to Common Craft's yang:
I wish I knew more about this, the YouTube pages offer little info.
Thanks to Paul Ingram and Ryan Turner for the pointers.
Updated: Here it says "This is a hoax video produced by Rockwell
for a sales meeting. See also:
Turboencabulator" Thanks Bill!
Found at Garage Billiards and Bowl in Seattle.
Via Laughing Squid and Andy Baio at Waxy.org, who is creating digitized version of old VHS tapes.
This makes me wonder if people, 12 years from now, will look back at our videos and laugh, saying "Hah! Can you imagine? That's what they thought blogs and RSS were all about! Sheesh!"
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