Friday, July 31, 2009

Jean Renoir.

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As I have noted previously in this Ad Aged, Jean Renoir probably has more "great" movies to his credit than nearly any other film ...
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Having beers with the holding companies.

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As a creative guy or more accurately a creative guy who is these days regarded as highly paid, I thought it made sense to get together over ...
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Thursday, July 30, 2009

The 90-10 rule.

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America, economists and financiers tell us, is in a post-industrial age. We are no longer the envy of the world because of factories like W...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Thinking about money.

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Maybe it's endemic to my generation--a generation raised by parents of the Great Depression (the first one) but I spend a good amount of...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Only in America.

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I will be the first to admit, I am educated, perhaps over-educated and more than a bit of a book snob. Nevertheless, I'll stop on occasi...
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Science over creativity. Again.

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In Sunday's New York Times there was a fairly large article called "Lab Watches Web Surfers to See Which Ads Work". http://www...
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Monday, July 27, 2009

Classics.

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Yesterday my wife went to a discount store downtown and bought herself a collection of outfits the likes of which Zsa Zsa Gabor would envy. ...

Dumb ad (strategy) of the day.

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Now that The Tour de France is over, it's time for some news about The Tour de France. It seems that Lance Armstrong has signed with a n...
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Sunday, July 26, 2009

It was hot today in New York.

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It was so hot today in New York, my cab driver was steaming vegetables in his turban and I was sweating like a Priest at a Little League gam...
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Saturday, July 25, 2009

Late breaking hotdog news and a metaphor.

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I just came across this in The New York Times. It seems that the Oscar Meyer Weiner mobile has crashed into a house in Racine, Wisconsin. I ...
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