News, Views & Clues
Sonic ‘Secret Weapon’ Ad: Summertime Fun!
Caught a glimpse of the new Sonic ad today while watching a baseball game. It was one of those times I wished I had a TiVo on this particular television. So instead, I poked around on online and found it posted on YouTube. The ad, called “Secret Weapon,” is very funny. See for yourself! What I found out in the related videos is that... Read More →
Inkling: Innovative e-Textbooks for the iPad
Talk about innovative… Check this out! Matt MacInnis, a Nova Scotia native, Harvard grad, and former Apple employee (eight years), has founded a company called Inkling that mades digital textbooks for the iPad. One of the company’s breakthrough offerings, as mentioned in a Bloomberg/Businessweek feature, is called Brooker Biology which features... Read More →
Nike’s ‘Write the Future’ Scores Big Time at Cannes
“Write the Future,” the blockbuster Nike spot created out of Wieden & Kennedy, Amsterdam, that imagines the potential future of various soccer stars should they go on to win the World Cup, took home the Film Grand Prix at the Cannes International Festival of Creativity. A post by AdAge’s Ann Christine Diaz delved into details... Read More →
Giving WSJ’s Henninger a Mulligan…
The headline of the Opinion piece (Of Mulligans and McIlroy’s Miracle: Politics is the mulligan that put us $14.3 trillion in debt.) in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday caught my eye. Eagerly I read looking for the mulligan connection. Alas, towards the end, this paragraph appeared: “Perhaps this is why politicians play so much golf.... Read More →
Stop Apologizing Already: We Admire Your Spirit & Civic Pride…
San Francisco Chronicle writer, Scott Ostler named Vancouver ‘Fans’ the Knucklehead of the Week. Glad to see that he put single quotation marks around the word fan because the group of troublemakers that took over the streets of downtown Vancouver after the Canucks lost to the Boston Bruins on Wednesday night certainly were not hockey fans. Rather,... Read More →
HBO’s Treme: Food Focus, Art Imitating Life…
Last Sunday in The New York Times, there was an interesting story about how the focus on food in this season’s HBO show “Treme.” One of the story lines this year follows a New Orleans chef, Janette Desautel, as she tries to make a go of it in New York (post Katrina, Desautel’s, her New Orleans restaurant ran into financial... Read More →
Audi Helps Put LeMans Endurance Race in Perspective…
Two time LeMans winner Allan McNish appears in Audi’s first 3D ad in the U.K., “A Day in the Life of an Audi Driver.” The spot, directed by Passion Pictures’ Chris Hemming and featuring illustration by Tim Marrs, premiered on Saturday May 28 before ITV’s coverage of the Champions Final between Audi-sponsored Man United... Read More →
Too Much Fun: Morgan’s Post Walk-Off Interview…
Jim Rome was right. This interview is well worth watching. The guy gets the game winning hit in the bottom of the 9th (vs. the Mets). Interview highlights: 1 – He didn’t know it was the game winner. 2 – The “T” sign is for his alter-ego’s Twitter (Tony Plush) 3 – And to wrap up the interview, he says, “Awww,... Read More →
Dewing Skate Pinball…
David Kiefaber of AdWeek’s AdFreak pointed out this really cool creation: The Mountain Dew Skate-Pinball park in New Zealand. He wrote how Mountain Dew partnered with skateboarders Haimona Ngata, Brett Band and Mike Bancroft to build a skate park in New Zealand that resembles a giant pinball machine. They even got a local band (AC/DC sound-alikes... Read More →
Mad as Hell: Grand Rapids Fights Back with Lip Dub
Grand Rapids Michigan’s “Mad as Hell” moment has been captured in a nearly 10 minute video that has garnered over 2 million hits in just one week. It all started with a story in Newsweek that had Grand Rapids ranked 10th in a list of dying cities in America. Note: New Orleans got first place honors followed by bankrupt Vallejo, Calif.... Read More →
Pearls on Career Path…
Today’s Pearls Before Swine strip is a keeper. Anyone who has worked a corporate job with that feeling that “there’s more to life than this,” can relate. ### Read More →
30 Ballparks in 35 Days? A Computer-Aided Roadtrip…
A story in The Wall Street Journal’s Sports section (yes, they have one) caught my eye. Written by Jared Diamond, it talked about a summer road trip where a fan can visit the ballparks of all 30 Major League Baseball teams in a mere 35 days. Sound exhausting, right? Think about how mind boggling it would be to plan such a venture. Has your... Read More →
