Music Monday - for snow leopards

Bruno Aveillan is back at it (I've posted a number of his awesome commercials here and here in the past), and has made a thoroughly cinematic commercial for Cartier - starring a most gorgeous blue-eyed leopard -

Synchronistically (and before seeing this commercial), I did a little photoshop manipulation of this wintery scene with my lovely faery-niece....

(and maybe when this wedding stuff is all over, I may be able to actually get back to *painting*!  Maybe this?)

More Bruno Aveillan inspiration -

And since I am apparently on a Youtube roll, Bruno Aveillan continues to construct amazing visual worlds in television commercial form (and win copious awards). From the mythic to the sublime:

Here's a very cool live-action Nintendo-spot put to classical music and featuring a super-model 'conductor':


Why won't this guy make a feature-length sci-fi movie already????


This feels reminiscent of Andy Goldsworthy (one of my favorite ephemeral environmental artists):


Haven't we all dreamt we could fly? Maybe not with cell-phones...


I *love* the visuals in this one! Wow. What amazing interaction with feathers, flight and floating...

And speaking of inspirational hair product commercials...

-albeit for different reasons. This series of atmospheric and mythical Thermasilk ads were done by the insanely talented French commercial director Bruno Aveillan. I have loved every thing I've seen him do. Such completely engrossing visuals - telling entire tales and building complex worlds in such a short period of time. Complete with super models...

This one feels like the visual love-child of Phantom of the Opera and Sweeney Todd:


Fairy tale..


Faery:


This is a low-res version, but it has always seemed like the *perfect* ad to me. Such great imagery, music and edited so tightly:


Here is a longer, higher res version of the same. Again, great visuals, but not as much punch as the shorter one: