Archive for the ‘Broadcast’ Category

All depends on how you spin it

New Work: University of Dayton Commercial

The University of Dayton is a Catholic Marianist institution. Raise your hand if you know what “Marianst” means. The rest of you can watch our new spot, which attempts—with the help of Martin Sheen—to illustrate one of the qualities of a Marianist education. Specifically, the willingness to ask questions and help your fellow man. First [...]

Inauguration Redux

My new favorite form of on-line entertainment, Hulu.com, has posted an awesome series of all the inauguration speeches dating back to William McKinley, our 25th President. Now all they need are reenactments for Presidents 1-24. I particularly like to watch FDR’s speech since it is so familiar to present day occurrences.

Wasting the time of one Mr. Sheen

So we had an opportunity to work with Martin Sheen this afternoon on a TV spot. What a nice guy, as well as a damn fine American and one of my personal humanitarian heroes. I wish I had just had one of this man’s cojones. Of course, there’s his body of acting work, too: “Badlands,” [...]

Downtown Crossing Redux

Mr. A MEET Downtown Streets. I recently stumbled upon this archive of moving images. It is quite lovely. I have been going through a bunch of government sponsored instructional videos and came across “Pedestrian Crossing” put together by British Government Public Information Films. Its of Mr. A, ” a perfectly straight-forward kind of person” who [...]

Is this really their marketing strategy?

This set of logos for this year’s Emmy Awards was spray-painted on the sidewalk near my house. Is this really the embarrassing levels award shows are now sinking to in order to increase their viewership? I’ve tried to find more info as to the origin of this “guerilla-style” campaign, but have had no luck. Has [...]