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 [...]
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 [...]
New Old Spice commercial with “Ladies Love Cool James”. Coincidentally I make the exact same sound whenever a woman attempts to talk to me. Or anybody for that matter.
Web studios are producing tons of popular web content, and pulling in the big advertisers to back it up (CNN, Puma, Dr. Pepper, Nike, Doritos; to name a few). This recent article in AdvertisingAge shares the top five companies poised to blow up, as named by TVWeek, but it’s the smaller companies named to make [...]
While cruising around some web design sites–where engaging copywriting seemingly ranks somewhere near saturated fat content on some of the sites’ lists of priorities–I was pleasantly surprised to discover this wonderfully written and truly inspiring site, GirlEffect.org. Here’s a preview of the main video on the site, but I encourage you to visit the site, [...]
This new Web series is delightfully bananas, with sitcom-quality production values, and Neil Patrick Harris starring as the nice-guy supervillan next door. Harris could have ended up a Haim, Feldman, Cameron, or Jamal-Warner. But the “Harold and Kumar” cameo seemed to be his ticket out. Consider this series his connecting flight. Oh, and it’s a [...]
