Ad hoc by David Martin

Target’s 2011 Summer Theme. Pictures of Matchstick Men by Status Quo (1968)

TC Bank - Dream Rangers. Created by Ogilvy Taiwan. 3 min 11 seconds. Exceptionally well done television creative.

The Power of Words. 1 minute 48 seconds.

My sense is this was inspired by a legend, one associated with the great ad genius David Ogilvy. Here’s the backstory via The Blake Project blog:

During one of his morning walks to work in New York City, David Ogilvy encountered a man begging with a sign around his neck.  The sign read: “I am blind,” and, as evidenced by his nearly empty cup, the man was not doing very well.  Ogilvy removed the man’s sign from around his neck, pulled out a marker and changed the sign to read, “It is spring and I am blind.” He hung the sign back around the beggar’s neck and went on his way. On his way home he was pleased to notice the vagrant had a full cap.

Noreena Hertz: How to use experts — and when not to. TedSalon London 2010. Economist Noreena Hertz says relying too much on experts can be limiting and even dangerous.

Fight For Your Right - Revisited. Trailer promoting the upcoming Beastie Boys release. Very well done. Fair warning: NSFW, language

Gary Kasparov: Making Mistakes in Chess. “…very often we are not playing just our game we trying to play the game from both sides”