August 20, 2015 Who Does Advertising Serve? I’m catching up on some reading and came across this article written by Tracy Follows: “Cannes Lions: will advertising ever again be about the…
July 28, 2015 Beers & Billboards Project – Test Episode 0 (World Cup 2014) As some of you may be aware I enjoy craft beers and was also home brewing beer. The interest was shared with my good…
July 13, 2015 Kidzania: Innocent Fun or Capitalist Dream? I just spent some time in London for work, and a friend of mine who has a small child told me about this brand…
August 29, 2014 And Now For Something Completely Different Image credit: Wonderlane A few changes are coming up around here, and I have been looking forward to writing about it here; today is…
June 29, 2014 Saturday Streaming #2 It’s a day late but in any case here are my favourite videos from the past week. At the Cannes advertising event, or rather…
June 21, 2014 Saturday Streaming #1 Happy summer solstice everyone! I just realised I spent most of the longest day of the year working on a video edit for an…
June 15, 2014 Reverse Engineering the Gillette Manscaping Video In my last post, I wrote about the idea of celebrating the bottom of the ad barrel with a series of posts. Yesterday I…
June 12, 2014 Scraping the Bottom of the Ad Barrel: A New Series of Posts Image credit: midiman I haven’t wrote about advertising for a while, and given I’d like to ramp up activity around here I thought it…
May 25, 2014 What Do You Want To Do When You Grow Up? Metal Beard from The Lego Movie, voiced by Nick Offerman There are a few different things that inspired this post, starting with the fact…
April 8, 2014 New Experiences: Patron of the Arts Image credit: Sue Beatrice I came across a few of artist Sue Beatrice’s pocket watch sculptures online via an article online with some photos,…