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Note: the cool links are at the end of this post. Most of this is just me ranting about how much I hate Flash (and I didn’t even go into its nonintuitive interface, how it fails because it tries to do everything, how it sucks worse than Java did in the 90s, etc etc etc). [...]
So here’s a quick update, just so that you Arafat Kazi completists can get your full share of this gracious brown man that you love so much. “What we talk about when we talk about loving brands” on The Next Great Generation. Interview: Paolo Bacigalupi talks about The Windup Girl on The Boston Phoenix. Originally [...]
I have a soft spot for Radio Foorti. When I was a copywriter at Bitopi, I worked on the pitch team for the brand and I got an unrefusable offer (2.5 times what my salary was then) and I became the first fulltime employee for a station that had a name and nothing else. Working [...]
Here’s my resume. (includes links to work)
My buddy Aldis and I entered an ad for the Hatch Awards. It was for Gustbusters, which are like, the apotheosis of umbrellas. I sent them an email with the Gustbuster comic a week ago, and I got the best possible response–a warm, personal reply from their president, and a package containing four motherfuckin’ Gustbusters. [...]
When I learned that Paolo Bacigalupi was going to be at Readercon, I arranged for events to transpire which led me to cover the event for the Boston Phoenix, with a free ticket for yrs truly. I also spent over an hour asking Paolo every question I had about The Windup Girl, which is like, [...]
TLDR: The villaging effect is the transformation of a large population into what are effectively small communities tied by interests and locality. On the one hand, a mutual interest helps over-ride geographical limitations (by enabling you to order the best messenger bag online). On the other, these same mutual interest groups help you find the best offerings in your localities.
Wieden+Kennedy pull the marketing stunt of the year.
the best Parallel Lines short, embedded for your viewing pleasure.
Woot is sold to Amazon, Nellie Wu talks oysters (she is an oysterhead), and I discuss the Philips Parallel Lines campaign a few months later than everybody else.
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