If you are looking for some costume inspiration, check out these pics I snapped last Halloween at New York City's Halloween parade. If you are ever in NYC for Halloween, do check it out. It was an amazing experience.

Oh Sarah, how you entertain us (and scare us). See her here in all her glory brought to you by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, Biscuit Filmworks USA director Clay Weiner, editorial by Spotwelders and vfx by A52. Full credits here (love that they gave her a copywriter credit).

Head Gear Animation has just completed two follow-up spots to their 2007 campaign for the rebrand of the Detroit Institute of Arts. The two new spots are Son of Hatman and Thinker. "The look is comprised of simple black and white drawings, cel-animated and composited in After Effects and was developed to appeal to a very broad audience...so, sophisticated but not elitist, artful yet droll. Basically, come to the museum to get inspired people!" Says Head Gear director Julian Grey. Watch the 2007 and 2008 spots on the Head Gear site here. Full credits for this year's campaign are here.

Check out the great spot that Dancing Diablo created to open the Boards Summit, held last week in NYC, and showcase it's sponsors. Nicely done. Thanks to Beatriz for the link.

Part TV commercial shoot and part PR stunt, this past Sunday Carnival Cruise Lines dropped the world's biggest beach ball on to a Dallas street. The two three story-tall balls got in the Guiness Book of Records, on the news and there is a TV campaign to follow. There are rumors of another Carnival larger-than-life stunt happening later this week. CBS video is here (you'll have to watch a show promo first).

I recently saw the Canadian documentary Sharkwater, and until then, I was not aware that sharks were facing extinction. I was happy to see this great creative for the SharkProject out of Y&R Frankfurt. The SharkProject is an initiative to raise awareness about the threat of shark extinction, centered on “finning” – a practice in which the shark is caught, their fins cut off and the rest of the animal thrown back to the sea. View the amazing mailer here. Scooped from advertising/design goodness.

Eight years after the "Wassup" spot for Budweiser was a viral success, the Wassup guys are back in this short film in support of Obama. This spot broke late last week and was produced pro bono by Believe Media and directed by Charles Stone (directed the original "Wassup") with support from vfx house MassMarket, Union Editorial and Sound Lounge. Wassup 08 was added to YouTube on Friday and at the time of this posting it was already up to 1.3 million views. Watch it on YouTube. Full credits are posted are here. More info on wassup08.com.