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This Blog Sucks

2009-03-08T20:57:00.001-07:00

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The World's Worst Logos: Coincidentally All For The Same Thing

2009-01-29T12:59:00.001-08:00

I like #30. It's aztec and it makes me want to eat Totinos pizza rolls.

Safety. An Important Thing.

2008-12-10T08:16:00.001-08:00

Note to self

2008-12-01T13:22:00.000-08:00

You rarely get inspiration from sitting on the couch.

With a Slanket on.

My increasing concern for the state of my relationship with meat Vol I

2008-11-21T13:50:00.000-08:00

Growing up I had a very healthy relationship with meat. I lived in a meat eating house, with meat eaters. I ate meat everyday, sometimes more than once. Meat and I were a-ok.

Somewhere along the line, things shifted. Maybe it was the increasing number of vegetarian friends I've made/lived with, or my change in taste, or this: http://bacontoday.com/turbaconducken-turducken-wrapped-in-bacon/ , but I just don't care for it the way I used to.

The thing is, I'm not concerned about the fact that I'm consuming less meat, but that everytime I eat something, meat-centric or otherwise, I think about it. I would guess that on average I think about meat approximately 66% more of the time than I used to.

(based on arbitrary reasoning and numbers I made up).

Existential Crises and Other Self Discoveries Volume II

2008-10-02T15:18:00.000-07:00

Why is it that when I'm concepting and suddenly reach an idea that's decent to good, I then give an exhausted sigh of relief and then spend the next hour on the internet?

Distrust

2008-09-30T16:47:00.000-07:00

Should be expected for those who are too extensive with their list of personal interests on facebook.

Existential Crises And Other Self Discoveries Volume I

2008-09-30T16:03:00.001-07:00

Mostly all people don't think I'm funny. I think I've been able to mask it for a while with my plan of only maintaining friendships until they are about to realize it and then never speak to them again, but suddenly the comic demands of my new job have completely exposed it to my coworkers once and for all.

And since I can't quit or get fired, I need a new trick. I've already Googled "How to pretend that you're funny to fool your coworkers." Any other suggestions? Thanks.

I'm Changing

2008-08-15T11:53:00.000-07:00

I thought for some reason moving to New York and getting a job would be enough to shake me out of the lifestyle and style-style I had for the last two years and open all the doors I need for my next one, but it's not.

So much like that guy I saw in the elevator at work who's toupee was a different color than his below the ear hairline, I need give myself an upgrade. A new haircut, new furniture (like a real bed) a new computer eventually, new music, new interests and even new friends that might not be in advertising. WHAT!!*!&^@@^!. Yes. Not in advertising. WHAT@#*&^!^!@1!. Not in advertising.

Oh.

Slate, don't you dare

2008-07-28T10:21:00.000-07:00

The ice cream man runs away from children. And other ice cream men.

2008-07-18T07:31:00.000-07:00

He comes by my apartment about every hour. Even at night when he switches from "do your ears hang low" to a remixed nightime club version. There are two of them actually. There's the nice guy who takes his time with the ice cream and serves it with a smile, and mean one who doesn't speak but gives fast service and is $.50 cheaper. I prefer this one.

When I'm bored I do things like

2008-07-14T16:43:00.001-07:00

get a job. woops.

I pressed 9.

2008-06-24T14:56:00.000-07:00

Remove me from the calling list.

When I'm bored I do things like

2008-06-24T14:28:00.001-07:00

Would it be wrong

2008-06-22T14:53:00.000-07:00

to name your child Ice Cream Sandwiches?

Today I eat chips for dinner

2008-06-21T16:31:00.000-07:00

Because I can. That's why.

I'm I going to enjoy it? Yes.
Am I going to regret it? Yes.
Am i going to feel bad about myself? Yes. But not right now.

Anyone Want to Buy a Car?

2008-06-20T09:24:00.000-07:00

On July 1st I'll be leaving good ole Richmond and moving with Slate into our new, surprisingly decent apartment in Williamsburg. Brooklyn. Not Colonial.

That being the case, I need to sell my car.

Since I've never sold a car before and don't really know how to do it, it would be very helpful if one of the two of you that read this blog would just buy it from me. It has four wheels and a steering wheel, and it looks kind of like the picture only not at all. Oh and it has a sweet tape deck. Price is very negotiable, but I prefer more money than you want to pay.

Thanks!

Today I paid $10 so I could write on this blog

2008-06-12T12:22:00.000-07:00

The internet's not free you know.

When I'm bored I do things like

2008-06-08T15:02:00.001-07:00

Learn the entire dance sequence to Thriller.

Attn: Creative Directors

2008-06-07T19:01:00.000-07:00

I know it's a risk to hire a junior. What if they oversell and under perform? What if they lack the ingenuity that comes from years of experience? What if they smell bad?

It's ok. We've all been there.

Why, just today I took the risk of ordering coffee from what I thought was a reputable coffee shop, Shockoe Espresso.

Mistakes happen.

The problem with blogging

2008-06-06T07:11:00.000-07:00

Is that people expect you to write something they want to read. Any day now that will happen.

Fanta

2008-05-27T09:44:00.001-07:00

Dear Nature

2008-05-26T11:07:00.001-07:00

I actually enjoyed spending some time with you yesterday, though painful at first I quickly adjusted to you. Your not so bad. I actually think i might like to spend some time with you again in the future. Thanks for the memories.

Until we meet again,
JD

A taste of the real world...

2008-04-13T21:08:00.001-07:00

For the first time in a long while I feel like I've awaken from a deep dark adcenter burnout and smackdown. I think I'm going to have a book,and I think I may have a future. I think I may have a life soon and maybe even a job. I also think I need to ride this high out as long as I can before I get slammed down again. Hence this post.

If Vanessa Huxtable went to Brandcenter...

2008-03-23T09:50:00.000-07:00

She'd be a whiny little B*- the whole time. Everyone would hate working with her cause all she would do is complain. Except she'd always bring Jello pudding pops for everyone in her meetings cause she would get them free from all her fictitional father's endorsements. We'd like that. We'd also like it when she'd organize everyone together on the stairs and have us perfrom lip syncing routines to James Brown and Ray Charles songs for Boyko and his wife. Although she would always get jealous when Sruti would steal the show with her lip syncing and dancing solos cause she's so adorable. No one would notice Vanessa again til the next pudding pop meeting came around. If Vanessa Huxtable went to Brandcenter.

If Michael Bolton went to Brandcenter...

2008-03-17T15:29:00.000-07:00

He would be the best singer there. Besides Anthony. His soft rock ballads would cruise through the cafeteria air, filling everyone's eardrums with sweet melodic pleasure. He'd also be the best brand manager to work with because he'd sing passionate love songs about each of his brands for presentations. Everything would be going along swimmingly until he was put in a group with Capocelli and they spent the entire time arguing over who had the best hair, which would eventually end in tears with both of them, until they stopped crying long enough to look deeply into each others eyes and fall maddly in love. Their love would overpower them and he would stop singing at school. He'd convice her to drop out and elope at his cabin in wyoming where they would eventually have 4 kids. All with wild curly hair and gut wrenchingly fierce tenor voices. No one would miss him. If Michael Bolton went to Brandcenter.

Tales From My Childhood Vol I

2008-02-29T19:37:00.000-08:00

In second grade my mom drove my two friends Adam and Megan and I to the mall where they were auditioning contestants for America's Funniest People. The one hosted by Dave Coulier aka Joey Gladstone from Full House. Not to be confused the America's Funniest Home Videos which was hosted by Bob Saget, aka Danny Tanner, also from Full house, making distiction between the shows annoyingly difficult and meaning for both of them to exist even more inane. We weren't planning on auditioning, just spectating. But in the car ride we decided to try and come up with something hilarious to audition with, and we would wing it. We ended up singing a remixed rendition of "Stop in the Name of Love" with lyrics alterd to "Buckle up in the Name of he Law." A PSA about driving safety. We auditioned. It wasn't funny.

OK but seriously...

2008-02-29T18:24:00.000-08:00

Stop saying sort of.

If Kris Kross went to Brandcenter

2008-02-27T09:34:00.000-08:00

They'd be an inseparable duo of copywriter and retirwypoc. Not because they would work well together but because no one else would want to work with either of them cause they write everything so that you can only read if you hold it up to a mirror. Plus they would present everything in rap. Rick would conclude that they're dyslexic and hire Gaurav to tutor them because he knows english better than anyone else here. At least that's what it said in the mailer. The three of them would join forces and with some sort of twisted magic and nonsensical rhythm they'd create a book that somehow wasn't wickedy wickedy wack. If Kris Kross went to Brandcenter.

If Cookie Monster went to Brancenter...

2008-02-27T09:18:00.000-08:00

He'd be disgusted by the lack of cookies the new building offers and develop an affinity for consuming massive quantities of fake ads. He'd stand at the color printers and wait till a delicious fake ad was printed and then ravagingly consume it with a noise that could only be duplicated by Tim Gordon's vocal chords. Soon no one would be able to print anymore and Leslie Buker would get into a huge fight with him in the print room. Rob would intervene and the room would erupt in chaos with yelling screaming crumpling and eating and would eventually end in giggling amongst Leslie and Rob. Cookie would continue his craft and ignore them. If Cookie Monster went to Brandcenter.

If Jessie Spano went to Brandcenter

2008-02-26T21:16:00.000-08:00

She would constantly be saying, "There's never any time!" and would get all doped up on caffeine pills so she could stay up late and work on her fake ads that are due the next day in Wayne's class. She'd have a nervous breakdown and Nick would come by and say "hey what about this idea." And she'd suddenly realize that their friendship was far deeper and more meaningful than fake ads. She'd then come up with a radical repositioning campaign for Buddy Bands and Wayne would ask her if it's a "reminder campaign." We would laugh and talk about what happenend behind her back. Then Josh would call her "mama" and she'd get all huffy and slap him. If Jessie Spano went to Brandcenter.

Feeling blue? Just think of a happy place.

2008-02-10T08:50:00.000-08:00

It's time to play what's the caption?

2008-02-03T20:28:00.000-08:00

"Before you push him, can I borrow a quarter?"

The best thing that's happened today...

2008-02-03T09:55:00.001-08:00

Kudos Goodby and North Kingdom

2008-01-12T14:00:00.000-08:00

This is why I love advertising even more than Mario Party.

A review from Contagious:
Web developers have been reveling in the potential that broadband's
faster load times offer. The California Milk Processing Board
stretched the frontiers of the web with gettheglass.com, built by
Swedish whiz kids North Kingdom and backed by an integrated
campaign from Goodby Silverstein & Partners. The site boasts
beautiful graphics that wouldn’t be out of place in the latest
commercial games releases coupled with a compelling narrative,
urging gamers to overcome a series of challenges while moving along
a board game grid towards a life-giving glass of milk. The site boasted
lengthy dwell times of up to 30 minutes at weekends and deservingly
gained a Gold Cyber Lion at Cannes. See Contagious 11 for a full
review and demo of the site.

Play it at: www.gettheglass.com

Bravo Taxi

2008-01-11T20:49:00.001-08:00

One of the 'goodest' ideas I've seen in a while.

www.15belowproject.org

On Architecture...

2008-01-11T20:01:00.000-08:00

Artists are told to be inspired by three things. Art (duh), fashion and architecture. I've never really been inspired by the third, and always hated looking at buildings. They're buildings. Big deal. But after my trip to London and Paris this break I've had a breakthrough. That yes, buildings are just buildings on their own. They are beautiful on there own. But for the first time ever was actually able to be inspired because of the environment they create. From the culture architecture breeds.

London was extremely clean. Pristine. The people were flawless. There are no ugly people in London. No sweatpants, pajamas, track suits or ill fitting sloppy clothes. Everyone was polished and put together. The street fashion trendy and forward but never forced. Tailored designer jeans, hot shoes and boots, and not a single nylon jacket. Just coats. And impecably tied scarves. And all of this was a function of the architecture that surrounded them.

Now, I don't know anything about architecture technically, but I did feel something when I was in that city. Everything was low. Old. beautifully sculpted with solid angles, checkard patterns, light colors. All of this somehow reflected the people, or rather the people reflected it. Polished, quiet, dignified, light, yet beautiful and well put together.

If this is making any sense, please continue reading.

In paris, the buildings here were more fragile, decorative. Points and curves. Round corners and wrought iron rails. It created a much more gritty, raw yet beautiful and incredibly rich environment. The people were much more diverse, more unique and distinguishable. The ugly were ugly, the good looking beautiful. The dress, dark. Eclectic. Rough, but with polished shoes. And so was the environment they lived in. Gritty, rugged, to the point, blunt, ugly beautiful, breathtakingly beautiful.

To beat a dead horse, New York: Obnoxiously tall, loud, dirty, macho, strong, ever adapting, confident. Buildings or people?

So I feel now what architecture means to an artist. At least my interpretation. It's not about the buildings on their own and how beautiful they are. Everyone can see that side of it. It's about the reflection onto us as it creates the environment we live in and breeds the culture we adopt.

You get the idea, hopefully.

I get it. Duh.

Resolution

2007-12-29T16:10:00.000-08:00

I've for most of my life been motivated by guilt. If I don't do something, I fear regret and feel guilty until I do it. In advertising we use this "device" often. Mostly in cases of charity, non profit services and excercise equipment. But what if you didn't have to feel guilty about eating fourteen pounds of Christmas cookies in order to start working out? What if you donated and participated in save the world charities without Sally Struthers or Al Gore. What if you were inspired to create change. Oooh, breakthrough. Not really. I know it's not a new concept in advertising, but in our personal lives, maybe it is. If you can eliminate the need to feel guilty about something in order to motivate change, than maybe you can prosper easier. So my new years resolution is to search hard to find motivation through inspiration rather than regret. We're reminded all the time to get inspired with our work. And if it makes our work better, it must work for other things too. I've also heard it prevents becoming a jaded pessimistic asshole.

But side effects may also include overoptimism like this guy.

Hmmm. Get pumped 2008 it's time to get inspired.

From the Vault..

2007-12-21T17:59:00.001-08:00

To See

2007-12-20T16:25:00.000-08:00

This break I decided to stay in Richmond for a week before going home for the yuletide season, so I could get work done, think about my book, my future plans, work on ads, photoshop, concept, etc.

Now the time has come. But without TV, a car that's on the fritz and only some part time internet, procrastinating has been difficult. So, I watched some movies.

Great to go into blind. And really great casting of someone you will have nightmares about. Best to watch with a loaf of bread smuggled from Panera and a good companion.

A collection of amazingly written, edited and directed vignettes about love in Paris.
A must see if you're into lots of directors, love and Paris. A must not see if you don't know how to read or don't have a soul.

The first story I've seen in a while that doesn't follow a predicitable line. Don't know if I like it, too many traces of Wes Anderson in it when it wasn't just his movie, but an amazing cast and well written. Overall, enjoyable.

No.

Next on my list: Juno.

It's time to get up CPBear

2007-12-19T11:14:00.000-08:00

wow. After about 64 hours of sleep this past weekend, I feel like I've finally caught up after last week of only shutting my eyes for a few hours to dream about photoshop and killing myself. But after getting some good rest and putting my book aside I've realized that I'm extremely behind on everything else. So it's time to restart some things, like running, blogging, trip planning, christmas shopping, reading emails, eating whole meals of food and breathing normally. Yep, it's springtime again everyone. Time to feel like a real live person.

The best thing since Ren & Stimpy

2007-12-09T11:17:00.000-08:00

Dear Creativity

2007-11-17T17:25:00.001-08:00

I miss us. I don't know why you left me. Why you stormed out of my life and left me with ideas that I couldn't even sell to AppleBees. I thought we had something good together. I thought you loved me. Please come back to me. I should have never cheated on you by calling The Hills a good show. I know better now. I promise I'll be more original, more inspired. Please come back. We belong together. Like Bonnie and Clyde. Like Claire and Cliff Huxtable. Like Britney and Doritos.

I'm a YouTube star!

2007-11-07T18:49:00.001-08:00

Snide comments

2007-11-03T17:34:00.000-07:00

I have a problem. But, I've done a little research and now I know who to blame for my disorder.

Revenge of the authentic nerds

2007-10-20T18:14:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago I shamlessly rented "Blades of Glory," hoping to get a laugh. I knew it wasn't going to be good cause everyone told me it wasn't going to be good. But I spent 4 dollars on it anyway. And it wasn't good.

But that really didn't disapoint me. Besides the terrible writing, what disapointed me was that the casting just didn't work. After seeing Jon Heder as Napoleon Dynamite, I just couldn't watch him in this role. I think it's because he just seemed so authentic as that other character. I really thought Jon Heder WAS Napoleon Dynomite and I had a hard time separating the two. It led me to the conclusion that if you really want a good movie, you have to be authentic with casting. So from now on, I think only nerds should be aloud to play nerds.

Then I unearthed this treasure as the best an purest example of my point. This is REAL nerd genius. Not that fake Jon Heder stuff:

Dear running,

2007-10-15T14:43:00.000-07:00

I hate you. You take up too much of my time and way too much of my energy. You make me want to puke.

See you tomorrow,
Jillian

The Amazing Maize Maze...Amazing

2007-10-08T14:46:00.000-07:00

This weekend I had the pleasure of experiencing one of my favorite pastimes. Getting lost. Which, is fun for about 45 minutes, but when it's 90 degrees and sunny outside and you have pasty white english skin like mine, an hour in a corn field with no know way out can be a little testing on your patience.

Here's a picture of me just before I gave up.

It's a bird, It's a plane, It's.....BrandCenter

2007-09-24T13:14:00.000-07:00

If you didn't know already, BrandCenter is not about creating advertising. It's about saving the world. "We're not here to change the world, just how we advertise to it" is dead. Now, we are changing the world. One fake campaign at time. I'd write more about this, but I have to spend my time concepting for how to change the world's dialogue about religion, how to launch BrandCenter, how architecture saves lives, and how to end global warming. And then I'm going to sit and write about how good I feel about it. And make a map about it. Sorry, I don't make ads anymore. I create culture. I change things. I'm a hero. A real live fake hero.

Today In School Today

2007-09-03T13:35:00.000-07:00

School starts tomorrow. Ok, it started last week, no, two weeks ago. But with all the welcome wagon hoopla, labor day festivities and no major assignments I'd say it starts tomorrow. And like all other new years, it's time to make some resolutions. This year I've decided to post them so that anyone reading this can keep tabs on me, or follow my lead. Whatever.

#1. Relax. No one's lives are at stake here. And even if you really screw up, you can always take out more loans and go to law school.
#2. Work smart. Remember that time and your brain are your most valuable resources. Don't completely waste too much of either.
#3. Don't eat like a 14 year old boy going through puberty. Try to eat at least something healthy everyday.
#4. Use the stairs at Adcenter. It's only one floor fatass.
#5. Take at least one weekend gettaway trip outside of Richmond. Your book will still get finished if you miss two days.
#6. Take what proffessors and other students say, chew it, taste it, and spit it out. Your gut will usually know what's best to swallow.
#7. Don't hate on group members. Unless they kicked you in the face. And even then, you probably deserved it.
#8. Enjoy the last nine months you will have at this bizzare place with these bizzare people. For in many ways, it's better than having actual clients.

Signed, JD

End of post.

Happy Birthday Mom!

2007-08-27T14:38:00.000-07:00

Your birthday is on the Internet.

AdCenter! Try it! It Works!

2007-08-08T09:59:00.000-07:00

I've noticed a lot of posts about the anticiaption of the new class arriving, and how exciting it is, and how anxious they are to meet them, mentor them, or be mean or nice to them. Perosnally, I haven't concerned myself with it that much becuase didn't really have a mentor. I had someone assigned to me, but I never talked to them and they never talked to me. This person was probably the best mentor I could ask for and I'll tell you why. YOU HAVE TO FIGURE THIS OUT ON YOUR OWN.

That's the point. And therefore, my one and only piece of advice I will give to any first year, mentee or otherwise is:

TRUST THE SYSTEM. Don't agrue with it, complain about it or feel like you're above it. You are here because you want to learn and the people here are the people you learn from. Including yourself. You may feel like you're wasting your time doing Coz ads, or listening to Wayne tell you to push it, but you have to do it in order to realize at the end of your first year that you actually did learn something because you acquired the skills needed to do the super cool work that you thought you would be doing when you first got here.

Even Picasso painted a whole butt load of fruit bowl still lifes before he became a cubist master.

I'm just saying.

Survey

2007-08-03T07:18:00.000-07:00

Three weeks til school starts. Who's ready? And more importantly, who's not coming back, Dana? And the big question, did the summer burn you out or fire you up?

All I want for Christmas...

2007-08-01T13:40:00.000-07:00

Notice how the river runs through him! Amazing.

Fashionably Confused+Today's Video=Yes

2007-07-31T23:28:00.000-07:00

So yesterday I went to lunch in SoHo when I stumbled upon a "fashionista" that grabed my attention. Now, the fashion scene is predominately owned by the 80's revive hipsters or the quasi Eddie Sedgwick 60's throwbacks. Sometimes a mix of both with a boho twist or a twenties flare. Huh? Exactly. With these rules it seems anything goes as long as you hit up one of these categories and are conscious of doing so. However, upon what I whitnessed yesterday, it seems the rules may not apply. Or, they may already be dated.

This girl was wearing Wrangler jeans circa 1990, a tucked in turquoise T-shirt with animal illustrations printed on it, and solid black saddle shoes. At first glance, I steroptypically and critically thought, hmmm, tourist from iowa? But as she stood in line at the pizza place with her seemingliy hipster co-worker, I thought maybe not. Maybe she's actually a little ahead of the curve. Maybe she knows something we don't. Maybe this is beyond what's ahead in the fashion world. Maybe...she's perfectly on the border between what's considered dated, ugly and out of style, and what's just over the horizon and will soon be funneling down to department stores 3 years from now. After all, if you're already wearing what you see in the stores than you're already outdated right? Maybe...

Then I ate my pizza and wished i had new clothes. But to curb my confusion, here's the video of the day, that to me never goes out of style.

Blackle, the Green Google

2007-07-31T07:30:00.000-07:00

For David Byrd and other greenies, check this out:

It saves watts of electricity by having a black screen instead of white. Cool?

Procrastination Nation

2007-07-25T08:50:00.001-07:00

Why is it that every time I get assigned a project I need to do everything besides start the project before i start the project? Like how I'm writing this blog entry right now instead of concepting for the print campaign I just asked to be a part of yesterday?

Non-Traditional Advertising Can Be Cumbersome...

2007-07-23T07:20:00.000-07:00

This weekend Kacey and I stumbled upon a non-traditional branding marketing advertising street teamed event for Vitamin Water. We got to play Vitamin Water Plink-O for great prizes like a free sample of chapstick or a trial size bottle of triple x pomegranete and blueberry blended Vitamin Water. And, I won the grand prize! Now for someone that never wins anything I was extremely excited. Until I found out that the grand prize was a bucket full of 8 Vitamin Water bottles, coupons, chapstick and a t shirt that i had to trek 30 blocks uptown to my apartment. But I think the advertising worked cause my sore arms today are a constant reminder of how great Vitamin Water is. I think that was the message, right?

Here is a picture of Kacey and I at the event:

What constitutes a successful internship?

2007-07-16T12:18:00.000-07:00

So I have about a month left and for the most part it's been a really good experience, personally. I've worked on some major brands, a big pitch (some of my work is in testing for it right now), I'm starting to make some money that will stay in my bank account for more than a few days and I've gotten a really good feel for how this agency operates. Yet, if asked whether or not I think they would offer me a job after this, I'd have to say I really don't know. I don't really know if I've done anything that's job offer worthy. I don't know if I've contributed anything to the agency that another art director couldn't. I don't really know if I've proved myself enough to be remembered by, reffered by or praised by anyone here in the future. At least not any more than the other art directors or some of the other interns. It makes me wonder, what is a good internship? Is it better if you have personally gained from it? Or is it better if the agency and the people you worked for gained from it? I'm starting to think it's the latter.

Umm, yeah

2007-07-15T18:19:00.000-07:00

Today, at work today

2007-07-09T15:06:00.000-07:00

I had to find a picture of a blonde Japanese woman in pigtails dancing at a Jamaican take-out restaurant. I really wish they'd give me some harder tasks, I mean c'mon. E.Z.!

Video of the Day

2007-07-09T07:17:00.000-07:00

D.A.N.C.E by Justice

For all you designery illustratory art directory cool types

2007-06-28T12:33:00.000-07:00

If you ever have $180 laying around and you don't know what to do with it, either send it to me or buy this book.

I found it laying around at work and I'm in love.

Check out the website:
http://www.designedtohelp.com/

This isn't CATS

2007-06-26T13:36:00.000-07:00

So I've just gotten a new assignment: Tidy Cats. I repeat: Tidy CATS. Nothing could be worse than cats. I'd rather work on Tidy Clowns. I've spent the past two days trying to figure out why cat lovers love their cats and I still can't figure it out. What do people see in those things? I'm completely stumped and have hit an offical slump. I will never be a cat person and even if I can somehow come out of this assignment with some work that doesn't make fun of cats or their owners, I still won't like them. In fact, the only cat I had really ever known was the one my parents had when I was little.

His name was Lucifer.

One of my fav music videos

2007-06-14T08:28:00.001-07:00

Microsoft is cool?

2007-06-14T07:43:00.000-07:00

www.clearification.com

You Tube...more like Poop Tube

2007-06-13T07:23:00.000-07:00

So I spent almost my enitre work day yesterday surfing You Tube for some really funny, smart, good stuff to get inspired by for the TV spot I'm working on and I came to one BIG realization. You Tube is really not all that. Yes, I'm a hater and I'll tell you why.

There is so much crap on you tube that isn't remotely smart, funny, entertaining or even interesting. Maybe I've just become a snob since I'm in advertising, but where is all the really cool, creative user generated videos? I thought bad homemade creative went out with Bob Saget's Americas Funniest Home videos.

Come on people.

Yes, You Tube is remarkably innovative and is a great idea for it's time, and we've all laughed at vids like "The Landlord," or gotten famous for pretending to be a homeschooled 15 year old, but it's time to move on. And by move on, I mean demand better.

Stay with me people.

If some company like say a big entertainment /media company developed a video sharing site that focused on creativity, I think there would be a strong enough niche to battle with the Tube. A site where videos are filtered and judged by respectable creatives in the industry. A site that's a little more discriminating and challenging for people who seriously want to make good stuff. A site where you couldn't put up a video of your three year old god daughter dancing to "My Humps" in the back seat of your car no matter how "cute" you think it is.

I'm just saying.

R.I.P. Sopranos but cry not, AMC has "Mad Men"

2007-06-11T09:57:00.000-07:00

This July there will be a new series on AMC about the ad world of the 1960's. From AMC:

Mad Men is AMC’s provocative new original series from writer and executive producer Matthew Weiner of The Sopranos. Set in 1960 New York, Mad Men pulls the viewer into an unexpected new world - the high-powered and glamorous “Golden Age” of advertising - where everyone is selling something and nothing is ever what you expect it to be.

I think it's worth checking out-looks a lot like the Sopranos. Too bad I don't have a TV.

Check out the trailer

Still At Work...

2007-06-07T17:34:00.000-07:00

Ok, so I started my internship on Monday, and I'm pretty much still here. It's already been a lot of work, but it's going pretty well, although I've been nervous the entire time because I don't know if I'm doing anything right. But on the bright side, I'm being treated like an actual art director. And by art director I mean someone who art directs. And by art directs I mean someone who directs other people like designers and illustrators to make my artwork so I can lay it out. And by lay it out, I mean make real ads.

Blogging, or Gastrointestinal Discharge?

2007-06-03T14:36:00.000-07:00

Is it just me, or does "blogging" sound like some sort of really gross disorder you never want to experience. "Sorry I couldn't make it to the game today. I've been blogging all morning."