Time for a little light relief. Brilliant mock-advertisement by Jesse Rosten.

Came across this – it’s an ad, but it’s still a nice little piece:

And here is the original it was copied from:

The Power of Words is a remake of the film Historia de un Letrero, which won the first prize in the short film category at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008. Thanks to Ivan Strahan in Donaghadee for the link!

In the early 70s, not long after I left the ground-breaking current affairs television programme Gallery, I was approached by an advertising agency who wanted me to front a multi-media campaign for a publication called New Zealand Heritage. I was on the bones of my bum at the time and the appeal of making what I imagined would be a quick killing was considerable.

New Zealand Heritage was an educational part-work, a sort of New Zealand encyclopaedia in instalments. The editorial board behind the publication was a Who’s Who of eminent New Zealand scholars. It was an entirely respectable enterprise. Read the rest of this entry »