I love muppets.

Posted: July 31st, 2008 under Advertising/Marketing.
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Do you ever find you take your work home with you? Or better yet you live what you do? Take a look at the life of someone who lives with this very affliction and try to stop laughing. It’s GRRRRRRREAT!

Posted: July 28th, 2008 under Everyday Life, Advertising/Marketing.
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Someone somewhere needed to fill a void in their lives, and they needed that void to be filled with poorly animated cats singing “Joy Joy Joy.” Is it funny that we like to see animals take on human qualities? Is it funny that we dress up our pets like people and our kids like animals? Apparently it is. Try not to at least smile when you watch this.

Posted: July 15th, 2008 under Everyday Life.
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Here is another Death Cab for Cutie video made at the same time they did the hilarious MTV promos. (If you missed the promos pan down a few posts.) Death Cab for Cutie’s “No Sunlight” off of the Album “Narrow Stairs” showcases the band in all of their whirly ball action. Trying to beat kids at a game that is part track-ball and part go-kart, and losing in the process miserably. The ending even feels a little “Officey” to me. Clever, retro, modern and fun.

Posted: July 13th, 2008 under Advertising/Marketing.
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If you are in a creative industry, you know how hard it is to get something good through. By “good” I mean, not completely diluted from your original idea, not forced, and not tampered with. (If you shutter at the phrase, “make the logo bigger” than this is especially for you.) Death Cab for Cutie for the last album “Plans” opened it up to directors and artists. They would put out a DVD of every song off the album accompanied by an original video created not by them, but of Directors and Artists that wanted to work with them. The makers of the video could do anything they wanted within reason, and the band members were not to appear in it. So Directions was released and was a very progressive experiment. Rob Schrab was chosen to do the song “Crooked Teeth” and I think it is one of the best video’s period. It’s sad that the label didn’t release it as the bands “official” video when the song became a single because it is that good. I also included a mini-making of to see how it was done. Schrab’s work is original and expressive and kitschy at the same time. it of the Directors/Artists design with no tampering. Kudos to the band who can create great music, but fall short in my eyes when it comes to videos. It’s not their fault most likely as there are too many cooks in the kitchen when it comes to band promotion at big labels. The key? Let directors, artists and creatives do what they do, and you can get original results.Check out more of Rob Schrab’s work www.robschrab.com

Posted: July 11th, 2008 under Advertising/Marketing.
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Radiohead is a very cerebral band, and they just do things differently. Their fans do things differently too. Case in point, the first video is Radiohead performing their song “Nude” from their album “In Rainbows.” The second clip is from a guy who recreated their song “Nude” by using old and outdated machines and then filmed it. Cerebral. You can hear it developing loosely at first but it really tightens up after a minute or so. It’s pretty elaborate, and obviously took some time to set up. So where does someone get an idea like this, and then muddle around until they solve it? Sometimes it seems I have trouble squeezing in things I need to be doing like dishes and mowing the lawn… “Oh honey after dinner I was going to recreate my favorite bands song using things we were going to donate to goodwill okay? And then I’m going to record it. And then I’m going to film it. And post it.” I don’t know how he did it, but it’s pretty fantastic.

Posted: July 8th, 2008 under Music.
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A good message we all have to hear once in awhile. It’s inspiring and shows you what it takes to succeed. Perseverance.

Posted: July 5th, 2008 under Advertising/Marketing.
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