Come to think of it, I was much happier in 1981, when Ronald Reagan was President and the Atari 2600 VCS was all the rage. Of course, I was 9. Here's my Wednesday gift to you: Pork Invaders! …
When All Else Fails…Make A Funny
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Big Spaceship Wants To Beam Up More Credit
To be perfectly honest, I don't know much about the HBO "Voyeur" thing that won a lot of Lions last week. Seems that it involved a lot of production in all kinds of media. But apparently, an agency that worked with BBDO to produce the idea thinks it deserves more credit. From Ad Age: In an interview, Michael Lebowitz, co-founder and CEO of Big Spaceship, one of the shops instrumental in executing "Voyeur," criticized …
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I’d Like My Reward Now
American Copywriter left a telling comment on Gods of Advertising. Let's take a look: There are light and dark sides to everything. It’s good celebrate exceptional creative. But there’s no perfect way to do it. And without results attached, well, it’s really about what’s wonderful in and of itself, yes? Are scams a sin? Without question. But unlike poaching no one dies. And, while it’s easy to shake your head about …
More Than A Toy
Fred Wilson wants to get serious and break out of the 2.0 box. I am a bit jealous of friends who are working on finding and funding alternative energy or biomedical technologies that have the potential to address the serious problems facing the world. At times it seems that helping the web become more social, intelligent, mobile, and playful is not as impactful. The work that we do at Union Square Ventures can’t just …
Invent Something (With the Materials at Hand)
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Step Up to the Drafting Table
Alan Wolk wants to be an architect, not a builder. Me too. Years ago, when I worked at the legendary Anderson & Lembke, Steve Trygg (who started the shop) was fond of saying that “an ad agency can be the contractor or it can be the architect. And you always want to be the architect.” Wolk argues that typically ad men and women are not architects today. We’ve turned ourselves into the contractors. The guys who make …
The Door To Disney
The internet is a special medium for a number of reasons. For one, it devours content. It must be fed and fed and fed. Or it just peters out. Here's a story about it: The Walt Disney Company, concerned that its main Web site is not entertaining enough, is moving once again to overhaul Disney.com. It will be the second recent makeover for the company’s marquee site, which is still the top Internet destination for …