Archive for the ‘Love’ Category

I got invited a couple weeks ago via email to to a Smirnoff party happening tonight by High Road Communications. After all the @klout grumblings and discussion over free flights to LA or SF to “influencers”, I admit… I was a little disappointed – not to mention confused as to why – I didn’t “make [...]

Lemonade: The Movie

17, Jun 2010

Lemonade: The Movie. The synopsis: What do people who were once paid to be creative for a living do when they’re laid off? They get creative with their own lives. Lemonade is an inspirational film about 16 advertising professionals who lost their jobs and found their calling, encouraging people to listen to that little voice [...]

Molson Canadian’s got a good thing going with playing into our wee Canadian heart’s love for …well, us. It started off with the “I. AM. CANADIAN.” spot all us Canadians know probably off by heart: Then, during the Olympics, Molson did it again. This time, with epic LOTR/Requiem for a Dream music too! And now [...]

FIFA Fever is Hitting

25, May 2010

Thanks to co-worker Jeff for sending these around, you can tell FIFA fever is going to hit soon and hard. The Pepsi commercial is good: The FIFA 10 commercial is better: The Nike commercial is unbelievable: NIKE WRITE THE FUTURE – FULL LENGTH VERSION @ Yahoo! Video Gosh, do I love great ads.

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This. Is. Awesome. Great creative from Puma.

Got this e-mail in my inbox this morning. Smile, thanks. :D

I’ve known I’ve wanted to be in advertising since I was probably 14 or 15. I wouldn’t be able to explain to you why but I have always been drawn to the field. That said, I never really pictured myself working in digital advertising when I was younger and thinking of the big, awesome advertising [...]

To be totally transparent here, I wrote a very similar article for an internal blog here at Publicis Modem a couple weeks ago. This isn’t the same article copied and pasted, rather I took the logic and arguments I used there and applied them to the blog post below. As that blog is not a [...]

I stayed late at work last Friday, way late (for a Friday, I mean!) just because I had to watch the rest of this video I found, somehow. It’s from the DICE Summit 2010. The speaker is Jesse Schell, a Professor of Entertainment Technology at Carnegie Mellon University and this was his talk on “Design [...]


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