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If you haven't watched this 12-minute film about hand-painted billboards and the few people left who make them, do it now. And watch in full-screen mode to capture it in all its glory. UP THERE from The Ritual Project on Vimeo. Courtesy of Mother New York with support from Stella Artois. …
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By David Burn
Super Delicious Ingredient Force from Taco Bell is an interesting new example of content meets advertising. This isn't brand sponsored content, it's long form advertising made possible by the Internet. Typically a four-minute piece on Taco Bell's products would fail to grab me, but the copy here is pretty good, and the framework of an old 70s animated comic book works well. Brain Morrissey of Adfreak, says it's not …
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I'm in my office, but it's 70 degrees and sunny in Atlanta today. So seeing this in my in-box, from the makers of my bike, gives me a smile: It's part of an e-mail that offers a free helmet when you buy a new bike. I like when brands reference topical events. But maybe that's just me. …
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Here's a picture from the official White House Flickr stream showing a draft of the speech President Obama gave about health care to a joint session of Congress in September 2009. (Click on the image for a close-up look.) As a writer, I've always liked Peggy Noonan's What I Saw At The Revolution as a really good look at what Presidential speechwriters go through. I'm sure there are other good books like that. …
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By David Burn
In my experience, blogging doesn't pay well, but it does have its perks. One of the perks is people like to send you stuff. Sometimes very cool stuff, as was the case when The Escape Pod sent me a commemorative plate. Today, the UPS man rang and at the door I found a poster tube with three awesome wall-sized Wacky Packs inside. The gift comes from serial entrepreneur, John Doffing, who's working with LTL PRINTS, the …
I had the honor of joining Angela Natividad and Bill Green on the AdVerve podcast, where we discussed plagiarism in advertising. Coincidentally, AgencySpy had a take on the subject yesterday in response to a blog post from Mike Wolfsohn at High Wide & Handsome. So it's a topic of discussion and debate amongst lots of people lately. …
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