My favourite spot of the Super Bowl is Parisian Love Story for Google created by 1stAveMachine's Aaron Duffy via Google Creative Lab. So simple. So good (always the case). Great work Aaron xo.

According to USA Today's Ad Meter, the Snickers spot, via BBDO New York, starring Betty White was the best spot of the Super Bowl. It was directed by MJZ's Craig Gillespie with visual effects by MassMarket. Full credits.
My friends at MassMarket also did VFX on a few other Super Bowl spots including Emerald Nuts, Cars.com and Vizio, featuring Beyonce and edited by Paul Martinez at Arcade Edit.

AdVerve released their 17th podcast today - this one dedicated to PR for advertising and is full of great tips for what to do and not what to do. Thanks to Angela for giving glossy (me - Shannon Stephaniuk) a shout out. xx

It's my birthday. I love my birthday - probably because I love when things are all about me (I admit it). The other reason is because when I was little my mom used to put on killer BD parties - KILLER. So to this day I always get excited in anticipation of my birthday. Anyway, thanks to Sean at Rooster for sending this amazing link my way (also all about me - my pic in there).

My friends over at AdLand have posted a great cheat sheet for this year's Super Bowl ads. AdLand also has an archive of 38 years of Super Bowl spots (wow). Kisses to Jane & Ask.

There are three commercials made for this year's Super Bowl that won't be aired - they've been banned. The first is this spot for ManCrunch - so many gay-hater comments on YouTube (not that I'm surprised, but shame on those people). And I LOVE this spot for KGB. And finally, this Go Daddy spot is banned too. Seems there shall be no reference to homosexuality or heads up asses during the Super Bowl. Just a lot of men running around in really tight pants slapping each other on the ass. Story scooped from The Denver Egotist.

Congratulations to director Joachim Back for having his short film, The New Tenants, nominated for an Oscar. More info and view the trailer here - and Vincent D'Onofrio is in it (LOVE). Back is repped by Partners Film in Canada.

To and support The Heart Truth, Blacklist's Pistachios have created these two very cute spots for Diet Coke via W+K Portland. Fit and Summit begin airing tonight during American Idol. Full credits are here.

I love Lego! Fashion Week is probably the last place you'd expect to find a Lego-based project, but to raise money for charity, four unique Lego pieces, each created by a leading fashion designer, will be auctioned during London Fashion Week later this month. See full story on Creative Review's blog.

If you are in Toronto over the next ten days, I urge you to go see Invisible City - a National Film Board of Canada, Industry Pictures and Shine Films’ award-winning documentary directed by Oscar nominee Hubert Davis. Invisible City (view trailer) won the Best Canadian Feature award at the 2009 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. The film traces three years in the challenging lives of two teenage boys living in Canada’s largest social housing project, Regent Park in Toronto.

Royal Cinema
608 College St. West, Toronto
416-534-5252

Friday, February 5 at 7 pm
Saturday, February 6 at 4:30 pm and 7 pm
Monday, February 8 at 7 pm
Tuesday, February 9 at 7 pm
Wednesday, February 10 at 7 pm
Thursday, February 11 at 9:15 pm

Gearing up for the ads for the big game, Creativity has made a list of what they think are the top 20 Super Bowl ads of all time.