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Toyota: Knives

A Toyota driver displays superior reflexes as he dodges an onslaught of knives.

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•MODERNISTA!'S NICK SIMMONDS DEAD AT 47> Modernista's Amsterdam office is mourning the sudden loss of managing director and co-managing partner Nick Simmonds, who suffered a fatal brain hemorrhage on Friday, June 27. He was 47. Simmonds began his career in advertising in 1982 as an account manager at Allen, Brady & Marsh in the UK and later joined Publicis, London before moving to Amsterdam to work for Wieden + Kennedy in 1997. In 2006, he joined Modernista! as managing director and co-managing partner of the agency's newly-opened European office. A funeral will take place at 2pm on Tuesday, July 8 at St. Michael's and All Angels Church in London. A reception will follow the service at Roehampton Club. Friends in Amsterdam will also celebrate Nick's life at Café Thyssen (Brouwersgracht 107) on Saturday July 12 at 4pm. Both are open to all of those who would like to attend.
http://www.modernista.com

•SETH MCFARLANE TEAMS UP WITH GOOGLE ADSENSE> Family Guy cartoonist Seth McFarlane has struck a deal with Google's AdSense program to produce and distribute a series of 50 two-minute animated webisodes. Set to debut in September, "Seth McFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy" will appear in lieu of banner ads on websites frequented by McFarlane's young, male audience and incorporate advertising, reports The New York Times. McFarlane - who will receive a percentage of ad revenue - said in an interview his "Cavalcades" will be "animated versions of the one-frame cartoons you might see in The New Yorker, only edgier."

•Q DEPARTMENT KICKS OFF "THE DIRECTORS SERIES" WITH KUNTZ> New York music studio Q Department has launched an invite-only "avant garde" evening of musical journeying called The Directors Series. The inaugural event on June 17 was curated by Tom Kuntz. The evening began with the MJZ director dragging a six-foot tall wizard on a full moon set as a signifier of his three-hour "musical journey" and ended with an impromptu drum solo by Michel Gondry. The next event takes place on July 17 and will feature Happy's Guy Shelmerdine. Other directors slated to participate are RSA's Ben Dickinson, Tronic, Marie Hyon & Marco Spiers of Psyop, Little Minx's Malik Hassan Sayeed, Hungry Man's Nanette Burnstein, Mike Figgis and Anonymous Content's Joseph Kosinski.
http://www.qdepartment.com

•EBELING TAKES ON ENVIROHYPE> The Ebeling Group founder Mick Ebeling launched a touring series of conversations with cultural and corporate big wigs at the Promax|BDA conference in New York last week with a panel called "Economy and Ecology: Massive Change in Corporate Branding". The hour-long discussion featured Coca-Cola SVP of Global Brand Marketing Marc Mathieu and Canadian design guru Bruce Mau discussing corporate environmental responsibility and economics.
http://www.theebelinggroup.com

The London International Awards has extended its deadline to Friday, July 11.
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