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

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.

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 internal development piece by the talented motion graphics house, RealTime UK.

Purina ‘Adventureland’

The new ingredient in Purina’s wet cat food is LSD. Lots of it.

Pedigree ‘Catch’

A few dogs catch something. Though somehow through the miracles of ultra slow-mo and a great soundtrack, it’s more interesting than it sounds.

The Winner?

Pedigree has the better ad. But nothing beats a cat trippin’ on psychotropic drugs. Nothing.

Innuendo galore from Hanlon Worldwide Industries, Los Angeles. glossyinc has the scoop on the rest of this fine poster campaign.

Nike trots out their usual roster of megastars to remind us that everyone gets knocked down; it’s how quickly you get up that matters. Maria Sharapova, Lance Armstrong, and surprisingly, Rampage Jackson guest star in this crafty spot by Wieden + Kennedy, Portland.

Amusement Magazine is a quarterly, high-end French magazine devoted to videogames and the culture that surrounds it. You heard that right. Dubbed as the “Vanity Fair” of videogame pubs, the rag features smart editorials surrounded by beautiful, thought-provoking photography. This in stark contrast to in-your-face American videogame magazines, which are far less juicy couture and much more Randy Couture.

StArt Wars

An editorial called StArt Wars features characters from everyone’s favorite space-faring tale hanging out in Dubai. Why? Who cares why? It’s Star Wars and dammit, Star Wars sells magazines.

Made of Myth

Another editorial (Made of Myth) exposes the true origin stories behind some of the most popular videogames, including Sonic, Mario Bros, Pong, and Arkanoid. An excerpt from Tetris:

When Alexei Pajitnov first ordered a load of bricks from Karpov Abramtsevo’s workshop, workers there were wondering who could be interested in all those right-angled blocks. No one in 1985 could have imagined those concrete Tetriminos would become world famous and constitute Russia’s deadliest weapon against Reagan’s America.