I don’t usually repost other people’s advertising commentary, but in this case it’s about an ad that I also happened to see at the same time as the author (left), but was unable to look at it long enough to articulate my own reaction due to the reasons described below. It was written by Jason [...]
Writing about the aftermath of the public outcry against Tropicana’s packaging redesign earlier this year, which ultimately led to the OJ cartons reverting back to the original art, I mentioned Mountain Dew’s “Dewmocracy” campaign — an interactive, story-based online game which resulted in 3 new Dew flavors designed and developed virtually entirely by fans. Tropicana, [...]
Some love from One+, a magazine for the global meetings & events community, which selected me as a featured PSFK Purple List Member in their November Branding issue: More: …of the full article here. …on PSFK here. …on The Purple List here.
Can’t believe I didn’t realize this before. Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” (2009): Marilyn Manson’s “The Beautiful People” (1996): Well, she ain’t no Britney when it comes to the dancing, so…. Also, people have kept making the Madonna connection, but I just don’t think that’s accurate. Madonna was never trying for creepy. Shocking, sensational, yes, but [...]
In college, we film students had a certain sense of disdain and smug superiority towards our TV-major classmates. Miramax, along with the whole independent film movement it was spearheading, had just hit it’s apex while we’d been in high school, and the late 90′s / early 2000′s saw the releases of such epics as The [...]
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