Oreo’s Wonderfilled Ad Campaign is Wonderful!

During the weekend, a new Oreo ad campaign broke that was quite refreshing, especially compared to the Super Bowl “Cream or Cookie” debate. And the double stuffed Oreo lick-off with famous people (i.e. the Mannings) years earlier sticks in my mind, but not in a good way. So when I heard about the Oreo campaign [...]

GEICO Gecko Writes Guide to Life…

So the GEICO gecko wrote a book… a 164-pager to be exact. Don’t get caught up on the numbers though. Seems like there a many pages of illustrations. The book, “You’re Only Human: A Guide to Life,” is retailing at $11.95. Amazon Prime customers can obtain it for a mere $8.41. The Kindle version is [...]

Wandering Mind… Literally

A link to a video which was part of a campaign promoting “World Creativity and Innovation Week (WCIW)” just crossed my desk. Too bad it showed up a week late. Apparently last week (April 15-21) was designated as “the one week in the year for everyone, at the same time, to be open to and [...]

SonicMadness: Not a Skateboard Ad Garners Attention…

I am notorious for having sports on as a background task as I work.  Today, while watching March Madness hoops, I caught a glimpse of a Chevy Sonic ad where the car was doing skateboarder tricks. Say what?? I dropped everything and searched YouTube to find it so I could hear and see the complete [...]

Visible to the Eye — Works of Literary Graffiti Artists…

Check this out…  My brother discovered a post on literary graffiti. This Little Prince reference is awesome.   I want a stencil. Thanks, Pete! ##

Jedemi Icons Unveiled…

Thanks to the prodding of Red Staple Lori, I have been busy moving scripts I’ve written (The Jedemi Chronicles) to iBook format. My stories have ample opportunities to engage the reader on a number of levels.  Lori suggested I have icons inserted which would indicate areas where the readers can learn more. For that task, [...]

Need for Speed: Notable Quotable from Pixar’s “Maverick Director”

Steve Pond’s column for The Wrap (Pixar’s Maverick Director: How I’d Tweak Our Formula for Success) had an awesome notable quotable: “…I came out of TV animation, where you work on the kind of schedule where you don’t have time to doodle. It was a really good testing ground, because it makes you go with [...]

New Lincoln Motor Company Campaign: Impressive Change of Pace

While perusing The Wall Street Journal I came upon a full page ad that posed an interesting question: Does the world need another luxury car? 2.5 inches below it, in a smaller font, appear the words “Not really.” They got me. I had to stop and read. The first thing I looked for was a [...]

Boomerang: iPad Mount & Stand Charms Kickstart Donors

This is pretty darn cool. A company called XVIDIA has come up with a really fantastic product. If it works as conceptualized, these things will be selling like hotcakes. It’s called Boomerang and it is being touted as “the first ever all-in-one iPad mount and stand.” I learned about it at Kickstarter (with a nudge [...]

Gangnam Style Video & The Thunder Connection…

You probably heard by now that Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ has become the most viewed YouTube video of all time with over 803,760,000 views (that’s since July 2012). No doubt many are repeat views, but still, that’s a huge number! “Gangnam Style” has taken a life of its own. People from all walks of life are [...]

Notable Quotable: Director Julie Taymor…

“The Lion King” is returning to San Francisco for a run that lasts through the holidays. In a story by Chad Jones of the San Francisco Chronicle, director Julie Taymor was quoted saying the following: “Almost nothing is original in this world. “It’s how you put things together and how you use them that makes [...]

Telling Stories in a VERY Unique Way…

When I read the New York Times Book Review of Chris Ware’s “Building Stories,” I found myself scratching my head. He did what?? Ware created a graphic novel, called “Building Stories,” that comes in a box containing 14 pieces: four newspaper-like broadsheets three magazines two pamphlets two standalone strips one four-panel storyboard that will remind [...]

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