The latest in Lexus' series of Actively Safe commercials managed to give me the creeps very effectively:

No, really...where was the dog during the crash?

Here's a new riff on the Lexus IS-F commercial we saw last week with Jim Sloyan:

I have to say, I like the first one better, though it is nice to understand what Sloyan is saying this time round.

I've featured a variation of this Lexus UK commercial before, but I like the concept enough to show it again:

It might be missing the rain footage of the first version, but any invisible automobile video is good by me.

There's been a lot of interest in just what song is playing in the recent Lexus Pebble Beach commercial, so I decided to look into it.

First off, here's the song in question:

As for the answer, the company responsible for the music is Robot Repair, specifically composer Kael Alden, who is also a member of the band Faded Paper Figures.

Now, according to a Faded Paper Figures blog post, there is a possibility that an extended version of the song will be released on iTunes, but there's nothing definite at this point. I'll be following this and will post if anything comes up.

(If you're interested in a short MP3 version of this song, some enterprising soul constructed a non-voiceover version and uploaded it here.)

This is, without a shadow of a doubt, the weirdest Lexus commercial I've ever seen:

A creepy man chasing a crying princess while riding a stick horse. Sure it's a fairy tale, sure it's a child's imagination, but if I saw this as a kid I would have been completely freaked out.

Though the Lexus IS-F's national advertising campaign is limited strictly to movie theaters, dealers were also given a commercial made up of three of the 15-second ads. Here's one for Lexus Stevens Creek, located in San Jose:

They work really well sewn together like this, the end result is very impressive.