Archive for the ‘Broadcast’ Category

Tie Or Die: A Made-for-TV Contest

What began as mere Facebook boasting between two coworkers about tie collections quickly escalated into a daily style duel to run the full month of October. Perhaps it was NBC that told the story best during their live interview with the Tie Or Die guys this week.

How to Write Your Own Baseball-Themed Sausage Commercial

So on the eve of my beloved Phillies kicking off their second straight NLCS against Larry King’s Dodgers tomorrow night, I thought I’d share a little viewing tip for fans who—like me—find the TBS announcers to be a little, well, limp: run the hometown audio feed from your iPhone’s MLB app through some speakers while [...]

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,” [...]

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