Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Moby! The Musical, Part II.

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This morning, while most of you were still sleeping, I had a 6:15 meeting with Cy Bliskin, the Broadway producer who is interested in the mu...
Monday, August 3, 2015

Story fucking scaping.

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There's some drivel, and drivel is probably too kind a word, on Agency Spy this morning from an agency on the art of Storyscaping. A...

Quiet.

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We hear a lot these days about driving highly curated content and story-telling conversations across channels in the new media landscape. ...
Friday, July 31, 2015

Advertising lessons from Jonas Salk.

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In about 1952, Dr. Jonas Salk had pretty much developed a vaccine against poliomyelitis. No one today realizes how horrible polio was. It ...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

A hot morning in New York.

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A thick soup has settled on top of New York. It's main ingredients are sweat, stink, moisture and carbon dioxide. That slurry is heated ...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

A strange night in the Tempus Fugit.

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A lumpy old man was sitting at the bar as I entered the Tempus Fugit. He wore a fedora, without irony, a rumpled grey suit, and an off-whit...

Selfies and advertising.

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I'll admit, I have never taken a selfie. But I can't help but think that selfie culture has taken over lives. This is a mindset ...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

The copywriter who came in from the cold.

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Intrigue at the office. Makes me think of how much advertising is like a bad spy story. Alliances, affairs, double-crosses. To that end: ...

A morning, early.

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It was an early morning, like before 6 early. Late yesterday, I got an email about a pressing assignment. Not a pressing assignment like I...
Monday, July 27, 2015

What's happened?

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I spent the first 32 years of my career not having heard the following words that for the last five or seven years I've heard dozens of...