Sunday, March 18, 2012

Iceland wants to be your friend

This is basically the coolest thing we've ever seen.

Iceland is on the internet, and it wants to be your friend.

Here's a recent post on the country's official blog:

[[posterous-content:pid___0]]A whole country (including the President!) winning at social media.

Nike Air Max... The Hamburger

What happens when your brand is so big you're encouraged to set aside some marketing budget for artists to 'interpret' your most famous products?

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The Nike Air Max Hamburger, that's what happens.

Created by Olle Hemmendorff, to be viewed along with 7 other Nike collabs at Sneakersnstuff, Stockholm

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Vytautas Mineral Water: It's Earth's Juice!

First, there was Powerthirst.

Now, there's Vytautas... The Lithuanian Mineral Water.

via Pants

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Darth Vader playing the bagpipes on a unicycle

As the top comment on YouTube rightly says: 

Close the internet. The peak has been reached.

via Loasby

Got bike?

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Monday, March 12, 2012

(Video) Skiing ain't what it used to be

When you grow up snowboarding like I did, it feels a little strange watching as freestyle skiing explodes like Gremlins in the cake mixer.

But to deny what's happening on two sticks these days would be ignorant... Especially after seeing what these lads get up to in Legs of Steel: Nothing Else Matters.

As the Vimeo description reads: Crank up your speakers and hit full screen.

or, if you'd prefer a shorter ski video that's still sick as hell...
Say hello to Bobby Brown.

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Stayin' alive ain't as hard as it looks

Vinnie Jones at his best in this clever short film from the British Heart Foundation, showing three simple steps to saving a life with Hands Only CPR.

or, if you prefer the watered down American version...

Friday, March 9, 2012

More than just a Tiny Story

London based director duo Sebas & Clim wanted to find a new way to illustrate the fundamentals of storytelling using just a dot, a line and a single word.

The result is everything Dieter Rams could have hoped for.

via FastCo.Design

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

In search of Lionel Richie

[[posterous-content:pid___0]]via BauBauHaus

(And... Just for good measure)

(Video) Holding Creative Directors to ransom

As the views from our previous post continue to go a little bit bananas, we thought it might be nice to show the other side of the creative coin.

A young creative team in Melbourne were looking for work at an ad agency. Instead of taking the usual boring path (Click here to send us your CV), they tried something a little different.

Well played, and congratulations lads.

View their creative portfolio here

Artist makes his mark at Clemenger BBDO, Melbourne

We don't know who did it.

We don't know who asked him (or her!) to do it, or what the brief was.

We don't even know whose office they did it in.

All we know is, this artist took an opportunity to decorate the offices of 'Australia's Agency of the Year' to share their, somewhat negative, opinion of advertising.

Point made.

Bean Ergonomic Mouse by Rene Lee

There are too many reasons to list why this is a brilliant piece of design.

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So instead, we thought we'd just post the beautiful illustrations of the Bean left & right handed ergonomic mouse and if you want to know more, check it out here

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via Behance

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Monday, March 5, 2012

(Video) Jamie Oliver talking dirty

We don't normally post naughty videos at That's Ace, but come on, it's Jamie Oliver.
Just a heads up, it's kinda NSFW

via a flood of emails

How to use Google

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via Stef

Sunday, March 4, 2012

The story of 'Keep Calm and Carry On'

A short, beautifully photographed film about how an English propaganda poster that never went into production became a true icon of the 21st century.

via The Cool Hunter

Porcelain knuckle dusters

A good deal cooler than the 'Original Thug Mug'
Waaaaay cooler than old mate from West Philly

"Is it illegal to carry brass knuckles in my book bag"?

Carry some of these, young man!

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Thursday, March 1, 2012

(Video) While my ukelele gently weeps

If you can make it past the over-zoomy camera work, Hawaiian ukelele superhero Jake Shimabukuro summons the guitar gods for this breath taking Beatles cover.