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Ad-Killers

Advertising is just plain rude, disrupting our vistas, our entertainment, our quest for enlightenment with self-serving messages from a company or organization. We The People have put up with it for about a hundred years, but it’s time to take

Wrestlers_Hort_Center

Ad-Killers

Advertising is just plain rude, disrupting our vistas, our entertainment, our quest for enlightenment with self-serving messages from a company or organization. We The People have put up with it for about a hundred years, but it’s time to take

Google: From Awesome to Awful by Ruth Zamoyta

Google: from Awesome to Awful

Back in February Google was the #2 “most desired brand” among women, and the #7 most desired brand among men, according to a consumer research study commissioned by Forbes. Both men and women claimed that Google is desired because it inspires

Google: From Awesome to Awful by Ruth Zamoyta

Google: from Awesome to Awful

Back in February Google was the #2 “most desired brand” among women, and the #7 most desired brand among men, according to a consumer research study commissioned by Forbes. Both men and women claimed that Google is desired because it inspires

sanpellegrino

Deviant Marketing

April 18, 2012 ~ These days consumers curate the advertisements they want to watch, read, or listen to, so if brands want to be heard, they have to be deviant. Not morally deviant, but deviant in terms of product development

sanpellegrino

Deviant Marketing

April 18, 2012 ~ These days consumers curate the advertisements they want to watch, read, or listen to, so if brands want to be heard, they have to be deviant. Not morally deviant, but deviant in terms of product development

Fredrick 1

Art Happens ~ With or Without a Job

October 21, 2011 ~  Frederick, a field mouse in the eponymous children’s book by Leo Lionni, sits by while his friends scurry about, storing nuts and grains for the long winter months that await them. In their hovel, the mice

Fredrick 1

Art Happens ~ With or Without a Job

October 21, 2011 ~  Frederick, a field mouse in the eponymous children’s book by Leo Lionni, sits by while his friends scurry about, storing nuts and grains for the long winter months that await them. In their hovel, the mice

integrity

Choosing a Consultant: Integrity

October 1, 2011 ~    It’s inevitable. Sooner or later you’ll need expertise—you’ll need to outsource. Whether you are a company looking for a communications consultant, or a homeowner remodeling your kitchen, you meet with several people and discuss the

integrity

Choosing a Consultant: Integrity

October 1, 2011 ~    It’s inevitable. Sooner or later you’ll need expertise—you’ll need to outsource. Whether you are a company looking for a communications consultant, or a homeowner remodeling your kitchen, you meet with several people and discuss the

glass

Jean Valentine’s Break the Glass

May 10, 2011 ~  The function of poetry is conveyance. Everywhere in Jean Valentine’s collection, Break the Glass, are currents along which vessels flow. Words are permeable canoes—themselves the map—carrying cargo from cosmos to cosmos. The world inside of that

glass

Jean Valentine’s Break the Glass

May 10, 2011 ~  The function of poetry is conveyance. Everywhere in Jean Valentine’s collection, Break the Glass, are currents along which vessels flow. Words are permeable canoes—themselves the map—carrying cargo from cosmos to cosmos. The world inside of that

tebaldi

Magnum Opus: The Met: Live in HD

May 5, 2011 ~    Opera harmonizes the best of many art forms: vocals which are trained to a point so extreme it seems unnatural; orchestral music written by immortals and played by masters; the striking visual beauty of lavish

tebaldi

Magnum Opus: The Met: Live in HD

May 5, 2011 ~    Opera harmonizes the best of many art forms: vocals which are trained to a point so extreme it seems unnatural; orchestral music written by immortals and played by masters; the striking visual beauty of lavish

metropolitan-museum

The Big Bang: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Erupts in Cyberspace

Bound by a city ordinance that prevents it from physically expanding, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has erupted within the infinite expanse of the World Wide Web, blasting particles of information and activity in every direction.  Through the creation of

metropolitan-museum

The Big Bang: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Erupts in Cyberspace

Bound by a city ordinance that prevents it from physically expanding, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has erupted within the infinite expanse of the World Wide Web, blasting particles of information and activity in every direction.  Through the creation of