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The Best Commercial of Super Bowl XLVIII: Puppy Love
The Super Bowl isn’t just a time for the top athletes in America to shine, it’s also a time for the top marketing and advertising teams in the world to really flex their creative muscles. This year, I believe that the best commercial to come out of the Super Bowl is Budweiser’s commercial, “Puppy Love”. […]

USA Tour Day 2: Sultana Bar
Williams Arizona is a small town an hour south of the southern rim of the grand canyon. The town is probably accustomed to seeing the frequent wary traveler enroute to the grand canyon and looking for a place to rest along the way. The town is home to about 4,000 which means that if every […]

USA Tour Day 2: Joshua Tree
The first time I heard of Joshua Tree was when U2 released their album of the same name in 1987. To date, it’s still one of my favorite U2 albums and the iconic images in the album sleeve have been embedded in my psyche as the avatar of the band. It wasn’t until I left […]

Bruno Mars and Ellen Prank a Nurse
Ellen DeGeneres teamed up with Bruno Mars to prank an unsuspecting nurse on her show, Ellen. The pair teamed up by having Ellen feeding Bruno Mars the words to say to the nurse, while Bruno executed her coached words with hilarious conviction no matter how ridiculous the subject matter. I especially enjoy when Bruno Mars […]

USA Tour Day 2: Sonic is a Social Experiment
Growing up in New York City, Sonic was similar to Big Foot. The ever elusive eatery evaded me throughout the better part of thirty years while taunting me with their ubiquitous commercials. After seeing the commercial for what must’ve been the 1000th time, I finally decided to research and find out where the nearest Sonic […]

USA Tour Day 1: Joshua Tree
Driving through the west entrance of the Joshua Tree National State Park at 11 at night feels like you’re driving into the belly of a very cold and extremely vast beast who immediately engulfs you in her darkness and solitude. The landscape becomes a panning mass of shapes and panic quickly sets in as you […]

Anti Slacking PSA Will Literally Blow Your Mind
Europe has been known for scare tactics aimed at warning their youths about the dangers of drunk driving and texting while driving, but what about the dangers of slacking and skipping school? In this PSA, we see exactly how detrimental the effects of playing hooky can be. Warning, this video is not for the feint […]

Shakira and Rihanna’s Booty Battle
Shakira released her new music video for “Can’t Remember to Forget You” from her self entitled tenth album “Shakira”. The song features Rihanna, and the music video features some serious booty shaking from both parties. In what can only be described as a violent booty battle, the chart toppers shake their money makers at each […]

Fan Reacts to SuperBowl Tickets
What happens if you give your mom, a lifelong fan of one of the teams in the coming Super Bowl, end zone tickets to the game? A little bit of disbelief? Some shock? A couple of tears? How about all of the above. 30 years ago, Youtube user Mike Harris’ mom missed a game because […]

America Petitions to Deport Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber is back in the headlines after being arrested while reportedly drag racing on a residential Miami street early Thursday morning on January 23rd. He was charged with driving under the influence, resisting arrest, and driving with an expired license. While any civilian would find these charges to be quite serious, Justin Bieber smiled […]

Racism On How I Met Your Mother?
How I Met Your Mother is winding down it’s final season with less than 24 hours left until Robin and Barney’s wedding, an event which will undoubtedly set the stage for the meeting between Ted Mosby and his future soul mate. As the episodes wind down, one episode is receiving negative media attention tainting what […]

New Electric Skateboard Feels Like Snowboarding
For all you snowboarding fans out there who wish you lived closer to a slope that was open all year round, a company called “Future Motion” has just the thing for you. The company has created an electronic self-balancing skateboard that replicates the physics of snowboarding on fresh powder. Their Kickstarter Campaign allows you to […]

Music Video Photoshops Singer in Real Time
Boggie (Csemer Boglárka) is a Hungarian singer who recently decided to tackle the entertainment industry’s obsession with image in her new music video for Nouveau Parfum. In the motion graphics heavy music video, Boggie appears without makeup and as time elapses, we see that she’s in a Photoshop-esque program that is being manned by an […]

Hipster Remake of American Psycho
Most people who watched the classic movie “American Psycho” remember Christian Bale’s portrayal of Patrick Bateman, a New York investment banker with a penchant for brand names by day and murder by night. Among the more prominent scenes is a scene in which Patrick Bateman nearly has a panic attack after studying a colleague’s perfect […]

Hilarious Conference Call Spoof
If you’ve ever been part of the corporate world or any office environment for that matter, then you’ve undoubtedly experienced the dreaded conference call. You’ve dealt with the late attendees, the people dialing in from cafes, the people having trouble dialing in, the attendees with crying babies and dogs in the background, the dropped attendees, […]

Daryl Dixon Encounters Zombie in Real Life
What would Reedus do? No, it’s not a religious campaign, Norman Reedus plays fan favorite Daryl Dixon on the hit AMC show “The Walking Dead”. For fans of the show, I’m sure many have wondered how they would personally adapt to a post apocalyptic world filled with zombies. Based on Norman Reedus’ bad-assery on the […]

A Shirt That Shapes Your Fat Into Muscles is the Best Ad Ever
Is this the best ad campaign ever? Click the above picture and give it a minute. Once upon a time, Old Spice was a brand of aftershave that, while smelling decent, was largely reserved for old men with no originality. I still remember smelling the old white bottle my dad had in his medicine cabinet […]

Man and His Dog Celebrate Each Other With Matching Shirts
What do you do if you love your dog, your dog loves you, and you want to show the world just how powerful the bond between man and animal can be? Obviously you wear him on your shirt. According to Instagram and Twitter (http://instagram.com/grenadelegs, https://twitter.com/chrisbowser) the man is Chris Bowser, a veteran who was hit […]

1981 News Report Imagines the Future of Internet
Imagine a day when the news is consumed through the computer via a phone connection. Well, it didn’t pan out quite as archaically as that, but close. This news reporter envisions a world where data is easily accessible through computers and even talks about an initiative taken to subscribe current computer owners in the Bay […]

ASU White Fraternity Throws “Black Party” in Honor of MLK: Is It Racist?
CBS reported on a fraternity at ASU, Tau Kappa Epsilon, that threw a party to celebrate MLK day by having a “Black Party”. Basically, the members of the fraternity decided it would be a good idea to dress in the most stereo-typically black outfits possible. Replete with sports jerseys, bandannas, rolled up pant legs and […]