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Next Favourite Japanese TV Ad

Smartphone! Starts at 3:50 here.

Jazz Party

Art Ford's Jazz Party (1957). That's Johnny Windhurst on trombone, Coleman Hawkins on sax, and Mary Osborne on electric guitar. Eight-and-a-half minute version of "I've Got a New Baby" at 2:05.

Antivirus God Power

On top of being possibly the coolest TV ad of all time, this Norton Antivirus commercial solves the problem of how to represent computing processes visually: theatre.

Japanese TV Ads

I swear, if there were a channel with nothing on it but Japanese advertising I'd leave it on all day.

Pride (プライド)

Pride is an 11-part Japanese television drama about a hockey team. See the first part of episode one here. (Via Tofugu.)

Lotta Hitschmanova

To Canadians of a certain age Lotta Hitschmanova's documentary-style commercials for the Unitarian Service Committee are as familiar as Hinterland Who's Who, as is the location of this plaque at 56 Sparks Street, Ottawa.

John Candy Explains 3D

John Candy shows Elwy Yost how to make a 3D horror film for $5000 in this 1982 interview from the TVO archive. He then plays Eugene DeWitt, a filmmaker so deep in his craft that he no longer puts film in his camera.

Frank Sidebottom's Proper Telly Show

In colour in repeats.

Yotsuba and Pitagora Suichi

Yotsuba&! volume 6, page 99. Sample Pitagora Suichi.

Moyashimon, the Drama

Moyashimon, the microbial manga, is now a live action TV show. Okay, the microbes are animated.

Kouji love to brew.