Grrl Still Kickin'

Dear Mr. Prime,

We have received your accident-claim reports for the month of June—they total 27. I regret to inform you that GEICO will not be able to reimburse you for any of those repairs. I feel that I have sent the same letter to you once a month for the last six months, and I am now sending it again.

Since becoming a GEICO customer in January of this year, you have reported 131 accidents, requesting reimbursement for repairs necessitated by each one. You have claimed not to be responsible in any of them, usually listing the cause of the accident as either "Sneak attack by Decepticons" or "Unavoidable damage caused by protecting freedom for all sentient beings."


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A Letter to Optimus Prime From His Geico Auto Insurance Agent

Mixing cinéma vérité-style footage of a Johannesburg township and CG footage of what could be a tougher protocol droid cousin of C-3PO, South African born director Neill Blomkamp makes a compelling short film called Tetra Vaal.
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The folks at Stride Gum get it when it comes to advertising online.
Instead of the usual Whack-A-Mole ads, or some weird faux-punked webcam ads
I see everywhere, they have the brains to show a guy dressed as a robot doing the robot dance moves!
Pure entertainment.

I saw their animated ad on the front of Myspace.com today,
and did something I never do with online ads.
I CLICKED IT TO SEE MORE. *gasp*

Their site is really entertaining. The video surveillance section alone made me chuckle aloud. And they have a Battle of the Bands contest where you create your own band from their animated selections like a Thermin player, tuba player, beatboxer, tap dancing ukulele player, washboard player, cowbell hitter, drummer, guitar players, keyboardist, flutist, steel drummer, pright bassist, and of course THE DANCING ROBOT himself -- Jonathan Robostein -- who sounds a lot like a old skool Nine Inch Nails sequence. Sweet!

I called mine DROIDZILLAS!

Good stuff. I hope more advertising firms are inspired by these kids.
Check it out.

Eerie vids of Actroid Female Robots

Here's a very impressive short, animated film showing what would happen if gigantic robots were used in WW II. The humans looks real and the action is fantastic.

The short black and white propaganda commercial at the beginning is interesting too.
Watch it here:
Mechs in the II World War

It would be great if someone in Hollywood would make another movie like Sky Captain tried to do, but have it be just robots. Like Transformers meets Pearl Harbor.