Oreo Ad & The Front Door…

Creative advertising is NOT limited to the Super Bowl. Rather, if you pay attention, you’ll find some water cooler-worthy pieces of art that will have you shaking your head. For example, this ad for Oreo Fudge Creme cookies was shown during the Fight Hunger Bowl game. Though it was from June, it was the first [...]

2011 News in LEGO…

This is one I’ve been meaning to share. I think the original link came from the SiliconValley.com newsletter I receive. Anyway, check it out. The Guardian on Flickr has posted a LEGO take of news from 2011. Great stuff! ### The pepper spraying cop imagery was quite popular. Here’s a link to a meme.

What’s for Dinner? Creative Spin on Thanksgiving…

While most folks were settling into a traditional Thanksgiving meal, I had something way different in mind. My eclectic brain devised a mash-up that was quite good. It all started with a recipe for Ramen-Crusted Skate I saw in the first ever issue of Lucky Peach. I noticed we had some halibut in the freezer [...]

Things I Finished by Sarai: MUNNY & My Imagination

So far the focus has been on things that got finished during a particular week. But this time around, we’ve got a new twist — what if the finished “thing” was actually just the start? For Sarai Hoffman, that is the case of this week’s project — a doll that she breathed some life into. [...]

Fun clips from ‘The IT Crowd’

We’ve been watching “The IT Crowd.” A great suggestion from my friend Beth. Firewalls Explained… If you want to kill some time, there are all kinds of goodies if you click on this link. ###

Cool Tribute to Steve Jobs…

In the Sunday paper, Pearls Before Swine had a very cool tribute to Steve Jobs. You can find the Pearls cartoons online here. ###

Things I Finished by Sarai: A Cardboard Box Re-Purposed

In this week’s edition of “Things I Finished,” Sarai Hoffman talks about re-purposing a cardboard box to create something truly functional. *** Let’s be clear about this everything happened because I get distracted very easily and I have several empty cardboard boxes. My intent was to re-purpose these for my kitty to use as a [...]

The 2011 Rockettes Refresh…

The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, a holiday tradition in New York City, has got a new look to it. Well-known for featuring the Rockettes and their famous kick line, this year the director and choreographer Linda Haberman pulled off some technical and storytelling magic to bring the show into the 21st century. Some traditionalists may [...]

Cirque du Soleil’s Totem: The Story of the Costumes…

This links to the story of a very talented lady, Kym Barrett. She designed the costumes for “Totem,” the new Cirque du Soleil show. Her background is impressive — full of jobs like “The Matrix” trilogy and Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet.” The story talks about how the designer has the “luxury” of a year [...]

Murdoch Takes on Education Reform…

In an opinion piece appearing in The Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch, the chairman & CEO of News Corp. (which owns the Journal), talked about education reform. He opened by saying he favored the Steve Jobs model and referenced the “1984″ Super Bowl ad. “Our children are growing up in Steve Jobs’s world. They are [...]

Sappy-rado: New Chevy Ad Feels Weird…

Anew Chevy ad hit the airwaves. If you watched sports, you may have caught a glimpse of it. A little boy is playing with his “Tonka Toy” version of a Silverado truck — having created an imaginary world that supposedly mirrors his Dad’s (who just so happens to drive a Silverado truck).

Lateral Publishing Debuts at TechCrunch Disrupt SF…

At the recently concluded TechCrunch Disrupt SF conference that was attended by 2,000 leading technology innovators and investors and over 150 new startups, Red Staple, a pioneer of tools that enable independent artists to easily and affordably create digital packages for rapid distribution, demonstrated its new e-Book authoring tools — a breakthrough in the emerging [...]

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