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Old Spice: The Man Your Man Could Smell Like

Jamie Huskisson — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:00:33 +0000

Old Spice is typically a brand most men (at least here in the UK) see as an ‘older men’ brand. Something you smell on your Dad or Granddad but have never thought about putting on yourself. This is why I was surprised to find the utter brilliance of an ad entitled “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” on YouTube, the latest in advertisements advertising the re-positioning in market of the Old Spice brand. Is this probably the greatest advertising campaign for deodorant out there today? Judge for yourself:

There are several things brilliant about this advert:

The excellent tag line added to the description: “We’re not saying this body wash will make your man smell into a romantic millionaire jet fighter pilot, but we are insinuating it.”
If you’re a woman, you’ll now look at your boyfriend and think “why are you not more manly you woman scented body washer?”
He has a boat, but he was just in the shower a moment ago
He has tickets to your favourite thing you want to go see
They turn to diamonds
He’s on a horse

As an added benefit, they also have Men focused advertisements which encourage Men to switch things up with their deodorants. Here’s “Different Scents for Different Gents” which covers this very well.

Like the adverts? Watch the full set on YouTube or on their official site’s video section.

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Music Lessons

Jamie Huskisson — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:23:40 +0000

Seth Godin just posted a rare video of himself doing a full presentation. This presentation is on the music business and takes place at Columbia Records.

The video messes up around eight minutes in, but is a fantastic listen in the background. If you haven’t read or don’t own a book by Seth Godin and are serious about business, I suggest you go about buying Purple Cow and giving it a read.

Update: Seth has taken the video down due to it stopping itself eight minutes in, but has placed up a PDF transcript of the talk online which is well worth a read.

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A lesson brought to you by a six year old

Jamie Huskisson — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:11:43 +0000

The beauty of this video is that your expecting a typical cute performance from a six year old on a reality television talent show. What you get is the best damn singing performance by a young kid, and your jaw on the floor. She has never had a lesson, and learnt from singing with a £40 karaoke kit. And has apparently preliminarily agreed to sign a seven figure deal from Simon Cowell already, what can I say? She deserves it.

The lesson for freelancers and wannabe developers/designers here is that natural talent goes a long, long way and being self taught can be a good thing.

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The most shocking, brilliant advertisement you’ll see this year

Jamie Huskisson — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:53:40 +0000

Absolutely stunning in both the delivery of the message and the twist itself. “Shocking Anorexia vs Boulimia” is a brilliantly presented advertisement and definitely delivers the message well.

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Apple support engineer fired for writing the best poem ever written

Jamie Huskisson — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:53:39 +0000

It’s a small break from my usual posts, but I found this video absolutely brilliant. If I was fired for doing what this guy did, I’d upload it for over 500,000 people to view too.

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Best presentation I’ve seen yet

Jamie Huskisson — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:05:56 +0000

Saw this one over at Guy Kawasaki’s blog this morning and loved it. Much better than the normal business lecture and simply flowed awesomeness all the way through. I particularly liked how they measure their success in awesomeness.

If you want a video about the passion of making ‘Web Apps’ instead of the business of it, this one is for you:

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Vote for Mitch Hedburg

Jamie Huskisson — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:31:25 +0000

http://www.comedycentral.com/events/susd/index.jhtml

You can vote at the link above once a day for your favourite comedian – for me, Mitch is easily the funniest. I have the full special and I’ve watched it a good four or five times – the man is simply a legend.

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One hundred impressions in four minutes

Jamie Huskisson — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:27:51 +0000

The guy gets a little desperate for people to immitate near the 80-90 mark, but up until then he was pretty spot on. Only 3-4 voices are questionable – and then still, 75 out of 100 is reason enough to hire him.

Also – have to ‘give him props’ for his flow, he didn’t stutter once and barely stops to take a breath. This must be one hell of a video to get for an audition for say voice actor on Family Guy, eh?

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HEY TEACH! Brilliant college prank video

Jamie Huskisson — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:25:53 +0000

Brilliant prank.. absolutely love it – and even wanted to join in near the end :)

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Stephen Colbert on Science and Technology

Jamie Huskisson — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 17:08:09 +0000

He’s not done much that I’ve laughed a lot at (or at least seen through YouTube and the like – we don’t get his show in the UK), but this is brilliant:

Quotes from the video that I loved:
“Anyone who knows me knows I am no fan of scientists. Anybody who dedicates their life to searching for an answer other than ‘God did it’ is no friend of mine”

“Take Sharp who have introduced a new 108″ flatscreen tv. Don’t want to say what this would be amazing for – but it rhymes with pornography.”

“Yes the iPhone has given the nerd community its hardest collective wood since Princess Lea wore a bronze bikini. But you haven’t engorged me Apple – I am flaccid with rage!”

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Masi Oka from Heroes interviewed on Leno

Jamie Huskisson — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:47:37 +0000

Not only is this guy playing the coolest character on Heroes, he also did the code for all the Lucasfilm Special Effects. Pretty damn funny interview. Check out the little ‘_____ in a box’ homage he does to Timberlake in the beginning! Classic!

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