For $10,010, ten pizza-loving romantics can purchase the $10 Dinner Box Proposal Package from restaurant chain Pizza Hut for the purpose of proposing marriage.

The $10 Dinner Box Proposal Package includes:

Fitting all of these amazing items into one package echoes the feat pulled off inside the new Pizza Hut $10 Dinner Box, which includes a medium one-topping rectangular pan pizza, five breadsticks with marinara sauce and 10 cinnamon sticks with a sweet icing cup in one box for only $10.

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Fast food chain Jack in the Box is now serving the Bacon Shake, a limited edition bacon-flavored milkshake made with “real vanilla ice cream, bacon flavored syrup, whipped topping and a maraschino cherry”. It’s part of a bigger campaign called Marry Bacon which asks, “If you like bacon so much, why don’t you marry it?”. The campaign includes a bacon-centric Tumblr feed, a purchasable bacon tuxedo t-shirt and more.

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Super Bowl watchers in North Platte, Nebraska got the first look at the latest Old Milwaukee beer commercial starring actor and comedian Will Ferrell. The ad, which only aired in Nebraska, shows Ferrell slowly walking through amber waves of grain until the end where he stops and opens up a can of Old Milwaukee. Our recent post, Will Ferrell Creates Unscripted Old Milwaukee Beer Ads For Free in Various Midwest Cities, described his curious involvement with the brand and rounded up all the local commercials he made that we could find.

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Here’s an extended version of The Avengers Super Bowl commercial. The film hits theaters on May 4, 2012.

Here’s the full-length version of Needing/Getting, the new music video by OK Go that doubles as a Super Bowl ad for Chevy Sonic (we posted the teaser trailer last week). The ad is part of Chevy’s Let’s Do This challenge.

OK Go set up over 1000 instruments over two miles of desert outside Los Angeles. A Chevy Sonic was outfitted with retractable pneumatic arms designed to play the instruments, and the band recorded this version of Needing/Getting, singing as they played the instrument array with the car. The video took 4 months of preparation and 4 days of shooting and recording. There are no ringers or stand-ins; Damian took stunt driving lessons. Each piano had the lowest octaves tuned to the same note so that they’d play the right note no matter where they were struck.

On top of working with Sesame Street on mixing primary colors, OK Go is starring in a Super Bowl ad (which doubles as the music video for song, Needing/Getting) for the 2012 Chevy Sonic. The teaser trailer has been released and so far we know that it involves one car (a Chevy Sonic, of course), 288 guitars stuck to a fence, 55 stranded pianos, 1157 homemade instruments and a singer that is a “professionally trained driver”. The full video will premiere on February 5, 2012 during the Super Bowl.

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Graphic and identity designer Adam Ladd asked his 5 year-old daughter to describe what she sees when she looks at various brand logos, giving a fresh perspective on corporate identity.

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Three remote control people-shaped flying devices were released over New York City recently as a marketing stunt to promote Chronicle, an upcoming film that follows three teenage boys who can fly. The stunt was conceived by viral marketing company, Thinkmodo, who were the folks behind the iPad Head Girl promotion. The film opens in theaters on February 3, 2012.

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First it was Matthew Broderick reprising his role as Ferris Bueller for a 2012 Honda CR-V Super Bowl ad and now, just released, is Transactions, another Super Bowl ad but this time starring Jerry Seinfeld. In this one, real-life car enthusiast Seinfeld tries to bribe his way into the first 2012 Acura NSX delivery from the dealership. There’s a few fun cameos including The Soup Nazi and (fellow car enthusiast) Jay Leno.

Remember that Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Super Bowl teaser ad we posted about last week? Well here’s the full version of the commercial which celebrates the launch of the 2012 Honda CR-V. The ad features Matthew Broderick reprising his classic role of Ferris Bueller and it was directed by Todd Philips (The Hangover & The Hangover Part II).

Director Dougal Wilson created this visually delightful spot for Danish Butter brand Lurpak. The spot was specifically made for their Lurpak Lightest Spreadable product and celebrates the joy of healthy cooking. It was produced by Wieden+Kennedy.

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In “Microwaves Ruin Everything,” a microwave oven destroys a variety of items, from a watermelon to a bottle of champagne. The video is an ad for Moe’s Southwest Grill. As the ad helpfully warns, do not try this at home “especially if you like to see, smell, hear, touch, talk and breathe.”

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Actor Matthew Broderick is back as his character Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) in Coming Soon, a ten-second Super Bowl teaser ad posted by chuckachucka2012. We look forward to see what “Ferris” will be advertising on February 5, 2012, aka Super Bowl Sunday.

We hate to be such a tease, but on a day like today, we just have to. Stick it out until the Super Bowl, or take a “day off” on Monday and catch the big reveal.

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The commercials have only aired in the Quad Cities of Iowa and Illinois and have been posted online from folks recording their actual televisions.

As the Old Milwaukee slogan says, It doesn’t get any better than this!

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Thanks to Chip Beale for the tip!

Dogs bark The Imperial March (Darth Vader’s Theme) from Star Wars in The Bark Side, a Volkswagen ad scheduled to air during Super Bowl XLVI.

UPDATE 1: The dog in the AT-AT costume at the end of the video appears to be Bones Mello, the popular AT-AT dog that we have posted about previously. It turns out that Bones’ owner Katie Mello was never contacted by VW, they instead appropriated the idea for the costume without giving Katie any compensation or attribution.

Here’s a statement from Katie (she also posted an update on Facebook):

That is not Bones in the VW Superbowl commercial. We did not know anything about it until the day it aired. We have received no compensation from anyone. We are all very sad and disappointed about the whole thing. More than a little flattered, but still sad and disappointed. Thanks again to all of the Bones Mello supporters out there. He loves each and every one of you unconditionally.

- Katie Mello

UPDATE 2: The VW ad ripoff has been picked-up by Jalopnik and Dogster.

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AMC’s hit television show, Mad Men, is promoting their upcoming fifth season with this minimalistic one-sheet teaser poster. The show returns on March 25, 2012 with a much-anticipated two-hour premiere.

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A Year of Sun with Mr. Persol is a fun retro-styled animated commerical directed by Kevin Dart and Stéphane Coëdel for Italian eyewear brand, Persol. The short was produced by Passion Pictures in London through advertising agency, Winkreative. You may remember that Kevin Dart and Stéphane Coëdel also collaborated on the short animated film Yuki 7: Looks That Kill that we posted about in August 2011.

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Julian has created this parody Pabst Blue Ribbon beer commercial that pulls in footage from David Lynch’s cult classic Blue Velvet showing Frank Booth (actor Dennis Hopper) ranting about Heineken (it’s for pussies) and extolling Pabst Blue Ribbon.

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To promote their new braille menus, South African fast food chain Wimpy distributed burgers with sesame seed braille buns to three centers for the blind. The promotion was by South African creative agency MetropolitanRepublic.

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Filmmaker and commercial director Jesse Rosten created the parody commercial for Fotoshop by Adobé, which is a humorous and satirical look at “society’s standards of beauty” and the beauty industry.

was watching TV one sleepless night and stumbled upon an infomercial for some beauty product. The commercial showed before and after portraits, that to my eye, looked like the same photo just photoshopped. I laughed to myself. Then I made this video.

Here’s a behind-the-scenes film of the making of Fotoshop by Adobé:

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“Shake On It” is a humorous ESPN commercial about the wagers between fans of rival sports teams (and what happens to the loser of the bet).

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David Prosser of Studio AKA directed and designed Good Night, an imaginative animated advertising spot commissioned by McCann Oslo for Norwegian oil and gas company, Statoil. The piece, done in both live action and animation, has a young girl asking her father what he does for a living which then goes into a fun undersea romp as he explains he is a “treasure hunter” for a “treasure” (oil) that the whole world needs.

Skwigly recently interviewed Prosser about this piece. Here he describes his inspiration for the style and content of Good Night:

I was keen to include cross over in the transition from live-action to animation so there are objects from the girl’s room which are reflected in the animation and vice a versa (if you look closely you can see the troll and the octopus!). The world had to be playful enough to reflect the young girl’s imagination and not too dark, yet be reflective of the apparent dangers of the ocean and the obstacles that have to be overcome in this intrepid line of work. They’re is also layers of 2D animated objects and loose 2D linework throughout the animated world, an element that hopefully harks back the that of a childlike drawing, slight naive imperfections that give a depth to the spot and also an element of my signature.

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Santa Claus embraces technology in a new Apple ad, using Siri to help out on Christmas Eve.

A group of pranksters in Prague converted a massive rotating billboard into a three person merry-go-round (video). The prank was filmed by Vladimir Turner, and bravely undertaken by Vojtech Fröhlich, Ondrej Mlady, and Jan Simanek (making-of video).

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photo via Ondrej Mlady

“Politicians Under Video Surveillance” by Spanish art collective Luzinterruptus is an art installation in which 75 fake security cameras were clustered around political candidate ads in Madrid. The installation occurred on November 19, one day before a Spanish election. We recently wrote about another work by Luzinterruptus: Radioactive Control, Installation of 100 Glowing Figures in Hazmat Suits.

For our installation Politicians under video surveillance, we carried 75 fake security cameras with us, of the type which detect movement and possess an intermittent red light and we trained them on the advertising used by the parties in their electoral campaigns, observing from close up the faces that were touched up for the photos, of the politicians elect.

photos by Gustavo Sanabria

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