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  • Hot Tub > Hangover

    you can dance if you want to

    I loved Hot Tube Time Machine. I hated The Hangover. Many critics are comparing the two, but the films are wildly different in their self-consciousness. The former knew it was stoopid while the latter thought itself clever. As A.O. Scott said in his review

    The undercurrent of misogyny and homophobic panic that courses through most arrested-development, guy-centric comedies these days is certainly present here. But unlike, say, The Hangover, which sweetens and sentimentalizes its man-child characters — allowing them to run wild and then run home to Mommy — Hot Tub Time Machine is honest in its coarseness and pretty tough on the fellows who are the agents and objects of its satire.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DCFPS58KYY

  • Sun Chips

    blame it on the sun?

    Last week I was at the Sustainable Cosmetics Summit. During a Q&A session, we discussed which companies can show their customers true sustainability. And while it’s not cosmetic, the example I shared was Sun Chips. Not because of their solar powered factory, but because their bags are now fully compostable.

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    So beyond any talk of green practices, their waste product, when in the hands of consumers, does not have to be waste. Actions speak so much louder than words. Can we see any other major CPG brands in the compost bin?

  • PIA

    where will we go from here?
    San Francisco, 2063.
    A service android brand-named PIA has replaced the majority of third tier labor in the United States. Hospital nurses, hotel workers and other maintenance driven industries all use the sleek, black-clad, human-organ powered machine to supplement their human workforce….
    when i dream, i see
    Desedo friend Tanuj Chopra was one of 11 filmmakers to tell a story for the new ITVS series Futurestates. Step into the world of PIA.

  • Haunted House

    Not sure if the sign was designed to entice or repel.

  • Blood, Bruises and Levi's

    Jumping into the wayback machine, here is a Levi’s spot we cooked up whilst bumping Motley Crue in ’05.

  • The Voice of God

    Newsman John Facenda was the famous voice behind NFL Films for almost 20 years. It was he who could make a mundane game appear to be a battle for the ages. I just learned that it all began by chance in 1964, when John was watching football at bar and he

    …started to rhapsodize about how beautiful it was. Ed Sabol, the man who founded NFL Films, happened to be at the bar. He came up to me and asked, ‘If I give you a script, could you repeat what you just did?’ I said I would try.

    NFL Films won’t allow us to embed but you can hear that stentorian voice here.

  • We. Are. Alive!

    Desedo fam Jordan and Brad went out to Red Rocks and shot this gorgeous commercial for McDonald’s. They worked with Abe Froman Productions and the ad agency R+W. The song, which is quite happily stuck in my head, is by Hungry Cloud.