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This how I feel about Sting playing the halftime show at the NBA All-Star game…

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Here's a strange video I made. For more strange videos I made, check out http://theallforloveproject.tumblr.com/

I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so I'm on my way home.

Bob Dylan

Netflix has revealed the initial casting for 'Making a Murderer - The Movie'. Looks like they nailed it...

#making a murderer #netflix

Among its subscribers were a small legion of user interface and user experience designers — one reason you see little touches of Rdio everywhere you look. It’s there in the blurred album art that you now see in the background of other streaming music services. It’s there in the translucent panes and gradients that Apple introduced with iOS 7. It’s there in the redesigned app for Pandora, the company that ultimately acquired it.

Why Rdio died | The Verge

There were a lot of things Ioved about Rdio but one of them was always it’s design. It was (and still is) always cleaner, more intuitive, and more appealing than any of it’s competitors.

Taxi's Thomas Kenny on how the ad industry is taking the wrong approach to the creative brief.

Column I wrote for Strategy on writing creative briefs, insight, and the need to solve human (rather than business) problems.

#advertising #creative #briefs #marketing strategy

Taxi's Thomas Kenny breaks down why brands have yet to adapt to the new social world.

An editorial piece I wrote that recently ran on the Strategy website.

Can someone please turn these paintings into a movie?

(via Incredible paintings of sci-fi suburbia will make you wish you were Swedish | The Verge)

This is a screengrab from the Apple website. Interesting to note that they don’t refer to their ads as ‘ads’ or ‘commercials’, instead opting for the elegant ‘Watch the film’ call to action. Small things count.

I also love how I can’t think of a recent Apple commercial that used voice-over or dialogue. One notable exception comes to mind and it happens to be my favorite ad (film?) from last year. And even there it’s not a traditional voice-over. The choice to opt-out of voice-over and dialogue is a brave one, but as evidenced by Apple recent run, it can be incredibly powerful. When all their competition is speaking to tech and specs, Apple is speaking to the heart.

#apple #advertising #film #watch

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Our experiences are a bigger part of ourselves than our material goods. You can really like your material stuff. You can even think that part of your identity is connected to those things, but nonetheless they remain separate from you. In contrast, your experiences really are part of you. We are the sum total of our experiences.

Dr. Thomas Gilovich, a psychology professor at Cornell University who has been studying the question of money and happiness for over two decades. (via parislemon)

Love the new ‘Made By You’ campaign from Converse. Worn in Chuck Taylors always look so much cooler than brand new ones anyway.

We've come to accept that there are natural places for commercial breaks; same thing for print. In the digital world, for some strange reason we decided early on to not put advertising in the user's natural activity stream, rather put it around the margins of the page. Essentially, we as an industry need to correct for that.

Why Branded Content Is Poised to Take Over | Adweek

If you look around the room and you’re the smartest person in the room, then you’re in the wrong room.

Lorne Michaels

Keep typing until it turns into writing.

David Carr The Collected Wisdom of David Carr -- NYMag

An editorial I wrote for Strategy on the need for simplicity in advertising. Oh, and I talk about Rick Rubin and Mick Jagger.

#advertising #strategy #rick rubin

Kind of cool. I always say, cooler than most politicians, not as cool as actual cool people.

Chris Rock on what President Obama is like in person.

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I started a new blog called The All for Love Project - it's pretty dumb, you'll probably like it http://theallforloveproject.tumblr.com/

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