The tech world went in to a love/hate mini-frenzy today over the release of Tag Heuer’s $1,500 titanium Connected Watch developed with Google and Intel. This black on black fashion statement by Mill+ director Nicholas Weigel leaves no doubt about the ambitions Tag harbors for their luxury Android time-piece. [Watch]
After its spectacular run on the festival circuit, Montreal directing duo Fluorescent Hill (Mark Lomond and Johanne Ste-marie) just sent us “Migration,” their Super 8 mini-documentary capturing the enigmatic behavior of lovable and otherworldly creatures in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. [Watch]
So here’s the thing: the love interest is nubile, naked, flies a broom, and her octopus-wig doubles as her chaperone fending off the lusty advances of an undead, one-eyed old pirate captain while three also-undead sailors hang around playing musical wingmen. [Watch]
IKEA’s new store in Cheras, Malaysia is about to become the retailer’s best known location thanks to this brilliant, absurdist romp from Paris-based Stink director/mixed-media artist Louis Nieto through BBH AP powered by clever lyrics and a killer track from Fuse Adventures in Audio. [Watch]
The debate over the pros and cons of creative spec work at Stash’s Style Frames conference in 2013 ended with the unofficial two-word consensus: necessary evil. Toronto ad agency Zulu Alpha Kilo strongly disagrees, and produced this clip to make their point. [Watch]
London director/designer Jesse Collett graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2014 on the strength of this low key but technically adventurous short film he describes as “an ethereal, multi-dimensional mashup of real and animated elements.” [Watch]
