Bridgestone’s Lucky Dog ad is hilarious and beautifully executed, but for some reason it never made its debut at the Super Bowl as planned. Directed by Kinka Usher, who has experience with special effects (Mystery Men) and dogs ("Yo quiero Taco Bell" commercials), I’m pretty sure no animals were harmed during the shoot. Find out the secrets of how it was made to look so real from Joey Tomatoes at blip.tv.
It was shot in Orvieto, Italy, (north of Rome) one of the most breathtaking towns in the world. If you go there, stay at La Badia, a 6th century abbey transformed into a hotel.
La Badia
I had one of the best meals of my life there — mushroom crepes with wild flowers, roated white beans, prociutto and melon, bruschetta, local white wine, and a rose liquor for desert — eating flowers and drinking roses beside a roaring open fire — it was otherworldly.