Posted in Film, New Ideas, Video on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you haven’t yet seen this video, you absolutely must. Right now. It will make you smile, it will make you happy, it just might renew your faith in the future of humanity.
It’s a student-made music video to Black Eyed Pea’s “I Gotta Feeling,” and it is all done in one [...]
Posted in Advertising, Business, Film, News, Public Relations on May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When the big summer blockbusters hit, the average citizen is as unlikely to notice as if an atomic bomb went off in their living room. Typically the movie is accompanied by promotions by fast food, candy, soda, beer, chips, car companies, cellular phone carriers, vacation destinations… the list goes on and on. And on the [...]
Posted in Advertising, Film, Humor, Television, Video on April 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The BBC loves an April Fools Day prank, and this year they wanted penguins to fly. Take a look:
And of course, the “making of,” which doesn’t go into a lot of detail but does show how much effort went into this fun spot, which did dual duty as a prank and [...]
Posted in Advertising, Film on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In a fascinating experiment with the phenomenon of too-much-info movie trailers, a movie critic writes his review of the movie “21“ based solely on the movie’s preview. Using only the information released by the studio (including the characters’ names found on imdb.com), he was able to review the entire story arc, take a well-educated stab at the [...]
Posted in Film, New Ideas, Television, Video on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As a regular listener to a variety of NPR shows, I have heard a few from the series This American Life, though since they’re on the weekend it’s typically on a long car ride which is convenient considering the show lasts a full hour with a single theme but several linked stories that can ramble [...]
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