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Sony Foam City.

For me, I think the Sony Foam City sank, not under 460 million litres of foam that was used, but under the weight of expectation that Balls created.

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balls, commercial, cyber-shot, europe, foam, handycam, high definition, miami, simon ratigan, sony, streets, tv

Get your own (remote controlled) Knight Rider car.

I sure hope the Firebox.com site accepts international credit cards (update: oh baby, yes they do!) because I am so going to order the remote control K.I.T.T. car as soon as I can. It talks and has that snazzy, retro, swooshing red sensor light in front!

Speaking of Knight Rider, I wonder if they’ll show the NBC Knight Rider TV movie here in Singapore…

[Via Cool Hunting]

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80s, car, culture, david hasselhoff, kid, kitt, pontiac, pop, retro, tv

Wednesday, 13th February 2008

The Flyboys of Lafayette Escadrille.

Spending all day at home on a work day recovering from bacterial tonsillitis is not really that much fun because the medication makes you all woozy and daytime TV makes you want to throw up. And yet somehow, I ended up watching the rather entertaining Flyboys from start to finish on HBO.

The story is revolves around the enlistment, training and aerial fighting of the volunteer American pilots who served in the Lafayette Escadrille during World War I. The movie is a little long and the effects are not the best but the aerial combat scenes are great. This flick would make a good addition to any war movie buff’s DVD collection.

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dvd, hbo, movies, pilot, tonsillitis, tv, war, zeppelins

Wednesday, 6th February 2008

Nokia N82 TV commercial: Fairytale.

A nice script and great music makes the Nokia N82 TV commercial my favourite ad on TV at the moment. No thunderous, momentous, great, big, bad ass idea, but the sense of imagination and wonderment is just great and it gets better with every viewing. Nice work on the ad by Lowe Singapore, though I have to say the N82 storytelling microsite is rather underwhelming.

A close second on that ever-changing list of current favourite TV commercials is for another Nokia Nseries product! The Nokia N81 commercial has a nice tense, pacing background music which I wish I could use for my morning run warm-ups. That and the talking cartoon head in the arcade game console (at around the 27 second mark) are two things that I keep looking forward to seeing every time this ad comes on.