May 2012
20 posts
April 2012
20 posts
“We’ve become accustomed to a new way of being “alone together.” Technology-enabled, we are able to be with one another, and also elsewhere, connected to wherever we want to be. We want to customize our lives. We want to move in and out of where we are because the thing we value most is control over where we focus our attention. We have gotten used to the idea of being in a tribe of one, loyal to our own party.”
—The Flight From Conversation - NYTimes.com
The Web is What You Make of It
Nifty little ad by Google to promote all the ways in which Chrome is integrated into the web. What I like about this ad is its use of story to show the features of Chrome. Very nice.
Hillman
“I don’t think an artist does well without limitations.” - Hillman Curtis
HILLMAN from Hillman Curtis on Vimeo.
“The usage of Facebook on mobile devices like smartphones and tablets like the iPad has grown dramatically. According to their IPO filings, over half of Facebook’s 800 million registered members use it via mobile. Unfortunately Facebook makes no money on mobile yet and continues to struggle to find ways to monetize it. As we move away from the large number of CPM based ads shown next to content on the website when viewed on a computer to the much shorter interaction times on mobile devices, the number of ads that can be shown will be orders of magnitude lower — e.g. Facebook cannot serve one full screen ad in between each picture the user views on their smartphone.”
—from Facebook’s Achilles’ Heel | Digiday
Tell more stories
This moving spot from W+K is a great example of why storytelling is the most powerful form of advertising. It’s time for brands to tell more stories.
“A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. I feel no obligation to deal with politics. I do feel a responsibility to society because of going into print: a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down. Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.”
—E. B. White on the Role and Responsibility of the Writer | Brain Pickings
It's Not Crazy, It's Sports.
Dan Wieden on Creativity
The Best Cardboard Arcade Ever Made
I never watch these types of videos…but I watched this all the way through. Amazing.
It's Baseball Season! Chicago Rivalry.
