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On April 8th, 2009 I posted a cool music clip by Oren Lavie here on my blog. Today I received an email from Canada asking me to check a video clip… Well, if you agree with me that Oren Lavie’s video clip is amazing you will love this on:

“Fix” by Jean-Paul De Roover

Jean-Paul De Roover is a solo artist from Thunder Bay, ON, Canada. This is a stop animation music video that his photographer girlfriend Shannon Lepere shot for his song “Fix”.  It used over 2,022 still photographs and over 600 bandaids!

You can check Jean-Paul’s website via: jeanpaulderoover.com and his girlfriend Shannon’s website via: shannonlepere.com.

Enjoy!

I haven’t seen such a cool music video in a long time, I had to share it with you:

“Her Morning Elegance” by Oren Lavie

Wikipedia states about Oren Lavie:

“Oren Lavie spent his youth in Israel.In 1997 his play Sticks and Wheels and his production of it were awarded the main prizes at the Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre. The production played in Tel Aviv during 1998. In that year he went to London to study theatre directing at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). After his graduation two of his plays were produced in various London theatres. They already contained several songs written and composed by him.

In 2001 Oren Lavie moved to New York where he tried to make a living by means of various jobs and where he focused on writing songs. When they had piled up he went to Berlin (2003) and started to do recordings, working as his own producer. His first album, The Opposite Side of the Sea, was completed in 2006; it was released in Europe in January and February 2007. In 2009, his stop motion style music video, “Her Morning Elegance,” achieved significant popularity on YouTube,receiving over 4 million hits.

Oren Lavie names his musical predecessors as Tom Waits, Jacques Brel, and Leonard Cohen. At the core of his melody-oriented compositions there is always the piano or the guitar with his singing, enriched by string arrangements (cello solo, quartet, chamber orchestra) and various, mainly non-electronical instruments added occasionally, giving each of the songs a unique style and color.

Also check out Lavie’s own website: OrenLavie.com

Het Parool is a leading daily Dutch newspaper and this year they started their own tv channel on www.Parool.tv! Last week they interviewed me, after the official Launch Party of AceJewelers.com.

Alon on YouTube/Parool.TV

For the Dutch readers, please also visit: Parool.TV

As written here before, I love cool advertisements and commercials, hereby come cool car commercials: Triple C rating
European Elegance: Audi RS6 2008 - “Gymnastics” TV commercial
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=2zg8Un4zbd0]

American Power: Michael Bay’s Commercial Chevy Cars Carrier
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=_UTMDcS-on8]

An oldy, but a goody: Every boys dream > Porsche
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=KRbzJ0L1Zn8]

If you have a favorite, please do share!

A very interesting documentary about Jews in the Middle East, called: “The Forgotten Refugees”.

In 1945, there were up to one million Jews living in the Middle East and North Africa outside the Palestine Mandate - many living in communities dating back more than three millennia. Today, there only remain several thousand.

Who are these Jews?  What precipitated their mass-exodus in the 20th century?  Where did they go?  And why don’t we know their stories?

[googlevideo=http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-693217217048940768]

I love cool adverts, especially commercials made on film. I will never forget when BMW launched the BMW Movies website in 2001 and had independent (famous) movie directors create short movies where a BMW car is the main character. Unfortunately, the website is off line, but you can find may of them on YouTube, one of my favorites is “Star” directed by Guy Ritchie, and starring a BMW M5, Madonna (Yes, Guy Ritchie’s wife) and Clive Owen:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1dYv_gKTA8]

But also make sure to check out: “The Devil“, featuring James Brown and Clive Owen, made in 2002 and “The Hostage” directed by John Woo (also made Hollywood blockbuster “Face/Off”).

A book that made an impression on me is “The Tipping Point” by Malcom Gladwell and I believe that the directors of the folling amazing commercials also read this book:

New Ford Focus - “Beautifully Arranged”

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4y272NI7J8]

New Honda Accord - “The Cog”

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGngcQb_0qg]

Guiness Beer - “Tipping Point”

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMzoWqnTb5I]

What is your favorite commercial displayed here? Mine “The Cog”, but I find the Ford advertisement very elegant and fun. Last, but not least, the Guiness advertisement is also very breath taking! If you have any favorites, please do share

I have been asked by a leading insurance company, Turien & Co. to advise their customers about the value of watches and jewelry. See the movies in the digital magazine from page 34 till 39:

http://www.turienmagazine.nl

NOS made on online TV report of the event “Juwelen in het Amstel” yesterday at the opening, where Ace Jewelers is presenting itself:

http://www.nosheadlines.nl/forum.php/list_messages/7079

See my security advices on local Dutch TV:

http://www.rtvnh.nl/asxgen.asp?item=StudioAmsterdam2007%2Fstudioamsterdam%5F20070508%2Ewmv&start=500

Onder de mom van: Any PR, is Good PR…

Kopen de zangers Guillermo en Tropical Danny in hun nieuwste clip “Kerstvakantie” hun sieraden bij Ace & Spyer:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is6WySGz8MI]

Guillermo en Tropical Danny: http://www.toppertjetoppertje.nl/

-Alon

PS: Geloof niet alles wat je op TV/Internet ziet, wij hebben niet zulke lelijke verkopers en zeker niet die lelijke kettingen