If chocolate is sexy, then ganache must be its lewd, lascivious cousin. By Mother, London.

This is for the ladies… Slick-bodied gents croon and melt female hearts to the tune of Up Where We Belong.

Fleggaard, a German store, has gotten in trouble by women’s rights groups for their controversial ads featuring naked women (sorry boys, I’m not even going to link it). This shifts the balance of power back to the ladies, right?

Maybe. It’s an ad for laundry detergent. From ettf.

Some mysteries are never meant to be solved. Unless you’re the type that welcomes destructive Ostrich-riding businessmen into your home.

You’ve seen Logorama, last night’s winner of the Oscar in this category… now here are the rest of the Oscar nominees for Animated Short Film (w/the exception of  Wallace and Gromit). Engaging and fun and all under 8 minutes, they’re worth it for the animation alone. Stolen from idsgn.

The Lady and the Reaper

Sleeping Beauty

French Roast

Watch these fun ads for Coke Zero, which advertise the website my buddy Dustin created at the huge agency behemoth that is CP+B.

You see, in this industry, we support our friends. Dustin, this means that the next time our puny little agency creates a five-second black and white spot for our local public access channel, we expect some reciprocal blog love.

It’s nominated for an Oscar, it’s created by three true ad men, and it features perverted Pringles, a homicidal Ronald McDonald, a gay Mr. Clean, and over 2500 brands come to life. What’s not to love?

But watch it quick; I had to fish overseas for a high quality link because it keeps getting taken down.

Want to learn more? Boards has a great interview with the creators in advance of this weekend’s Academy Awards.

Leo Laporte from TWiT interviews Wieden + Kennedy geniuses Craig Allen and Eric Kallman about everyone’s favorite Old Spice ad. Don’t have 20 minutes to spare? Here’s the gist:

- This ad is done with set trickery. The bathroom is lifted by a 50 ft. crane off of a half-boat set. He then sits on a contraption that slides him over a horse. CGI only comes into play when they’re splicing in a fake hand that spits diamonds and when they’re painting out part of the contraption in the final shot.

- The shoot was done on the 57th take on the 3rd day.

- Isaiah Mustafa is the actor. He’s a true man’s man… strong arms, deep voice, and a former professional football player for the Seattle Seahawks.

From the W+K blog.

Rube Goldberg is channeled in this incredible video from a band getting more attention for their videos than their music.  Kind of like R.Kelly, who went from “the guy who did I Believe I Can Fly” to  “the guy who peed on an underage girl.”

How did this video get made (the OK Go one, not the R. Kelly one)? Four total months, 60 people, and 60 takes over two days.  Wired.com has the scoop.

BONUS: The other OK Go video for the same song. Also great, but not quite on the same level.

An ad that ties the remarkable true story of Roy Sullivan, a man who was struck by lightning seven times and someone with every right to hate nature, into an ad about being environmentally-friendly. I see what you did there.

Trolololo! From Videogum.