Archive for December 2007
My Christmas wish
It’s a wonderful Ad agency life as George fights the good fight for all art directors everywhere who stand up against the big logos
Don’t forget about this great art director escape
God bless us, everyone!
Share (good content) with the whole class
As the designated audio / visual technician for all documentation of family gatherings I’ve become more intimate with online tools that let you share, distribute, mix, mash-up, compile, organize, and do other things you may never ever want to do.
Over the last decade we’ve seen the rise of photo sharing and printing sites like Shutterfly, for whom I just designed the full screen gallery player for and Kodak EasyShare, where I was on the team that branded, advertised, and designed the launch of the whole product line. Since that time we’ve seen the rise of youtube.com who 
just released a video remixer tool powered by Adobe Premiere Express. This follows the trend of such early sites as Dj Spooky’s Absolut DJ where you could upload mp3’s and mix tracks in real time and further realized by Old Spice’s Whensheshot.com commercial remixer, which I designed some advertising and promotion for.
So before and especially after uploading Christmas videos, photos, and music it seems there are alot of new companies in this space and all seem to be heading in the same direction. Here are just a few…
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This brings me to my point, and I do have one, why are people trying to invent there own player, uploader, sharer, finder, aggregator, or whatever. The ship has sailed on this race so lets try focusing on what content we’re uploading versus the mechanism.
Christmas lists
Santa isn’t the only one putting lists together. Every year this time there are cultural tastemakers giving us the best of the year list. This year is no different. That being said here is my list of lists but there are to many to list.
Pitchfork’s top 100 tracks of 07
Western wares
Ever since The Virgin Suicides title graphics Geoff Mcfetridge has been making more than just “cool” stuff. “Cause it’s really easy to make things cool, it’s really really easy, I see cool stuff everyday, ya know, and so it becomes uninteresting.” — Geoff Mcfetridge
Sony, Clio? No it’s 42 below.
I’ll drink to this. 42 Below vodka wins grand Clio for this step-by-step ad. Sure Saatchi & Saatchi is a giant global ad agency which usually means there creative is as exciting as rice cakes.But they really knocked this out of the park.
Link courtesy of Neatorama
