Anthill Magazine

Call it a cliche. Call it gratuitously opportunistic. Call it what you will. But we know that whenever we run a post featuring a new, popular or funny commercial, your clicking fingers get awfully itchy. (Don’t deny it. We have the stats to prove it.) Hence, here they are, the best and worst of the Super Bowl ads for 2012 (according to Anthill).

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In hindsight, this was a match in some mad, musical heaven: those wacky, inventive rockers OK Go and the over-the-top oeuvre of Super Bowl commercials. Partnering with Chevrolet, they pilot a specially outfitted Sonic through the California desert to bang out a version of their song “Needing/Wanting.”

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Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead is 66 years old. James Hetfield of Metallica is 48. Never too old for rock ‘n’ roll, right?
Or, apparently, too young. Welcome to the heavy-metal pantheon, Juliet Childs — a product of Queensland, all of 8 years old, and a bonafide music sensation.

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So you’re stumped. Up against the wall. That brilliant achievement — that beautiful, iridescent idea — is stuck somewhere in your head and you can’t pry it out. In this video, one of most creative journalists around finds an amazing way to express the rewards you can earn from sticking to your convictions and logging some hard work.

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You’ve seen better flash mobs than this. We’ve seen better. But here’s what makes this video, done for a corporate end-of-the-year meeting, so awe-inspiring: These are accountants. Accountants. Wow. They can do our books anytime.

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An unfortunately high percentage of us have been in this position — a dustup with an office colleague, often triggered by one person touching another person’s refrigerated food inappropriately. But how best to mediate these disagreements? Do the words “Pokemon trainer” ring a bell? Psy-attack!

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Not only do Australia’s small and medium enterprises 70 percent of the nation’s workforce, but they’re more likely to employ your Aunt Mathilda than that industrial behemoth down the street. That’s just a couple aspects of a snapshot of the little companies than can, as snapped by the SME Association of Australia, a nonprofit support organisation.

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Does a tight, strict deadline jump-start creativity or quash it? This video by Kreativ, a Hungarian marketing and communication magazine, takes a forceful side on the question. A group of young students is given 10 seconds to draw the face of a clock (nice subject choice, no?). The kids are then get 10 minutes to draw the same object. The difference between the results can’t help but bring a smile to your face.

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How about this for a goal: Try something — anything — for 30 days. It turns out that’s the perfect time-frame for giving anything a shot, says Google SEO expert Matt Cutts in this clip from a TED conference. He took a picture a day, rode a bicycle to work, cut sugar out of his diet and wrote a novel. Not all at once, mind you.

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“Friday”? Srsly, Australia? Yes, sadly, that ultra-bubbly Rebecca Black music vehicle that makes all right-minded people want to spontaneously combust was the nation’s most viewed “community” video in 2011, according to the tastemakers at YouTube.Stay classy, Australia. (And don’t forget to watch the second video. It’s barking hilarious!)

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