Entries from May 2009

Monday, May 25th, 2009

A Little Bit Reimagining the Movie Experience

Rian Johnson, the writer/director of Brick, has a new movie out called The Brothers Bloom, and it comes with a pretty neat idea: I’ve never heard of anyone doing this before, and Johnson admits the same at the beginning of the commentary. But for the man who came up with the idea to make a [...]

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

today’s awesome ad award goes to:

I noticed this last night in a window of a corner store in my neighborhood and thought it was great. I’m not a native Spanish speaker but English wasn’t my first language either, so I understand what the message means beyond simply understanding what the words mean. If you don’t know Spanish, what “Te extrano” [...]

Monday, May 18th, 2009

“Taking Woodstock” Trailer

Lemme tell you…. If you’ve ever put on a music festival, you will appreciate this: “You have a permit, right?”

Monday, May 11th, 2009

Boldly Going Where…. Culture Would Eventually Follow

It first occurred to me as I was watching the trailer for Star Trek: First Contact, back in March. The cast seemed so typical of the racial and ethnic diversity reflected in the TV shows we’ve all been watching for years now, like Lost… and Heroes… It seemed completely natural for 2009, and yet what [...]

Monday, May 4th, 2009

Do you know what you’re saying when you say “Social Media”?

Suddenly everyone wants Social Media. While traditional media budgets have kept shrinking in the wake of the recession, according to recent Forrester Research, “53% of marketers are determined to increase their social media budget, and 42% will keep it the same, a total of 95% of marketers are bullish on social media marketing.” Just two [...]