I'm Lost For Words

Japanese TV ad for Saints Row 2... ahhhh... ummmm... errrr...

There's another one over at Kotaku and for comparison here's a US TV ad for the same game.

Toshiba Uses Bullet Time v2.0 To Sell TVs

In this world of viral marketing it's good to see a viral-type advertisement that looks like a lot of time and effort went into it. The video below is a Toshiba ad which builds on the techniques of bullet time, so well documented on The Matrix DVD, by introducing HD video cameras to replace the still cameras.

Engadget says "a circular rig with 200 Gigashot HD camcorders and 20,000 gigabytes of data later, they created this little number, which mixes full motion video, Matrix camera moves and a healthy dash of hipsterism." Hipsterism dammit, HIPSTERISM!

Enjoy!

Freaky New Xbox 360 Advertising Campaign

...and I don't mean freaky as in the David Bowie sense, more in the Hellraiser sense.

Video (ignore the "Error" if you see it, just click on through):

I'm A PC

As a sort of follow on from the Jerry Seinfeld/Bill Gates ads comes this new angle on PC advertising (remember, PC isn't just Microsoft, it's everyone except Apple... which apparently doesn't make personal computers). According to the new ad lots of people have PCs, who would have guessed!? I'm a PC and I don't have a beard.

Cute LittleBigPlanet Billboards, Collect 'Em All

Ever since I was a young'n I've loved miniature stuff so when I saw these tiny LittleBigPlanet "billboards" on Kotaku I just wanted one. Take a look at the details on the little billboards there. Tiny ladders for the sackboys and sackgirls to climb up, miniscule (but fake) lights poking out at the front. So cool!

They're all part of a marketing campaign for the soon-to-be released Playstation3 puzzle building/solving game with 100 1,000 of the mini billboards being planted (literally) around major US cities.

To quote Kotaku, "They were first noted in an eBay listing. Some lucky guy wandered outside of his work one day to find one of these tiny signs planted in the nearby dirt. After doing a bit of research he discovered it was destined to be pitched and instead got his hands on it. It was labeled 99 of 100."

After a brief eBay search I found it but unfortunately it's currently sitting on $112 USD with 2.5 days to go and the description says 99 of 1000 (not 100). Ahwell, they're still cool and makes for an interesting marketing campaign. Gets those chubby, pasty gamer kids outside into the sunshine and makes them use their hidden package hunting skills for something outside of a GTA game.

Check out some of the other designs available over at Kotaku.

Tim's Crap of the Day

Tim tells me this is on display in Brisbane. I wonder where the Bangkok one is.