Beautiful stories are being told as the recent DSLR wave of filmmaking has taken viewers and filmmakers by storm!

C3Stories was no exception when the Canon 7D was used in the production of All Gifted: The Meet and Greet, then again with Pete Chatmon of Double 7 Film to do the post production of The Bridge: Velvet Rope: Girls’ Night Out, shot exclusively on the Canon 7D by Leyla Tatiana Rosario.

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My pal Adam Lisagor, famously of Put This On and You Look Nice Today, wrote, directed and starred in this ad for Flipboard, a sweet new iPad app that’s taking the web by storm. What a talented guy!

Been looking through the Boards Mag list of Top 10 Directors for 2010 and stumbled upon this ad. Interesting in being provocative, telling a story, and having a message. Thoughts?

What?

Pretty much the most salient point of information a person can know about me is that I love depictions of giant robots trashing cityscapes. It’s a leitmotif that comes up in almost all of my creative endeavors, and it takes earnest determination for me to produce art that doesn’t depict it. This is so much the case, that I actually am currently in possession of green screen footage that I shot with my friend, the very talented Laine Rettmer, that was for a spec commercial that has almost the exact scenario as the above animation. I’m now kind of pissed that we never finished making it, because we shot it more than a year ago. This is pretty awesome, though.

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(Via Creativity)

A fun little viral piece from Samsung showing the perils of falling in love based on profile pictures alone!

That last post was a bit lewd for my tastes, and I just discovered that my friend Mackenzie Fegan directed a video response to this Dodge Charger commercial that apparently aired during the Super Bowl. Hey Dodge, what decade do you think we’re living in? Awesome video, Mackenzie.

USA Today has their poll, but we have ours. Take a look at some of the most enjoyable ads we saw during Superbowl XLIV (that’s 44 if you’re not from ancient Rome). This Superbowl was the most watched TV event in history, pulling in 106.5 Million Viewers. Dayum!

AUDI definitely produced a winner with this A3 TDI Clean Diesel spot. A perfect mixture of social relevance delivered through a comedic device. More commercials after the jump…

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