April 2009
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WatchFigure and Ground at a Baseball Game. I went to Busch Stadium last Saturday to watch my daughter’s grade school class sing God Bless America before the game. The experience reminded me that each of us experiences the world in a unique way. Here’s a short clip that captures my roving mind’s eye.
(Crowd noise was captured at the game on an iPhone, then mixed under track created on...
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The Burger King Taps The Ass in Surreal Kids Meal...
Burger King’s new Kids Meal commercial is a mind-boggling mix of Sponge Bob characters, go-go dancers, and a creepy sex-offender-looking Burger King obsessed with ass size.
As these screen caps show, BK gets to have it his way with a squad of school girl garbed vixens with phone books stuffed into their tight shorts. He oogles, measures and paws nubile hiney, as Sponge Bob and Patrick...
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You Made That With An iPhone?
Despite all the great media-creation software I have for Mac and PC, I keep getting pulled to make stuff on my iPhone. Here are a few examples from my dedicated blog.
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"More Than Just A Piece of Meat" Campaign From...
If anyone doubted the prescience of Idiocracy’s vision of American society, this new commercial and advertsing campaign from Hardees should crown Mike Judge as the new Nostradomus.
In thirty seconds, the spot juxtaposes images of Padma Lakshmi devouring a big greasy burger, with wrist licking, finger sucking, up-skirt shots, cleavage close-ups, and finally the...
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The Personal Hell of Group Collaboration
“Committees don’t make art. They make artists kill themselves.” Jessica Hagy at VizThink Conference
Face-to-face collaboration in a group setting is one of the must painful aspects of my job. Although processes created by people like Dave Gray and Nancy Duarte have improved the experience, I still put such meetings in the “painful necessity” category of dental exams...