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Don’t Answer the Door. They’re Wearing… Gloves.
[Hat tip to the Speak Coffee to Me blog's consistently brilliant selections in its Ad of the Week series]
The Nonexistent Kavalier & Clay Film
This is almost heartbreaking to watch — because the film it’s promoting (by director and cinematographer Jamie Caliri, of Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay) hasn’t (yet) been made. (And if you haven’t read Kavalier & Clay yet, well, now you’ve got one more reason to do so.)
Ad Du Jour: When Is a Take Not a Take?
From UK retailer John Lewis:
Okay, I Still Hate the Name “SyFy”…
…and probably always will. But this is a pretty damned impressive advertisement/trailer: It sort of compresses all the memes from the SyFy cable network’s distinctive bumper spots into a big ol’ nearly coherent 2:40 whole (and avoids the corny-CGI temptations to which the network’s special-effects guys all too often succumb in the actual programs). Nice. [...]
So Your Book Just Sits There, Inert?
(hat tip to Janet Reid)
Art, in Service to Commerce
…but first art, damn it: [As with the previous post, another hat tip to Janet Reid. What can I say? When the woman's on a roll, she's on a roll.]
Pagan Days
[Image at the right depicts Swedes celebrating Midsummer's Day in a maypole dance. I found this at sweden.se, "The Official Gateway to Sweden."] By tradition, June 24th is Midsummer’s Day. (So you know what that makes the evening of June 23rd, right?) It’s a public holiday in Quebec and a handful of countries in Europe [...]
I See
Speak Coffee to Me‘s most recent “ad of the week” is this glittering little diamond, a brief film (directed by Azazel Jacobs) “about looking at art.” A nice little fable for those who just don’t get the point of so-called non-representational art, it’s from the Web site of New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
Something Is Gained in the Translation
By John on October 28, 2009 | 7 Responses
RAMH has seen a boost in its site traffic over the last week — not in the number of visits to the blog, but in the number of pages read per visitor. Just as one example, over a 25-minute period last night 60 pages were “read,” all by one visitor: pretty amazing for a blog [...]
Posted in Advertising/Packaging, Everyday Life, Language, Running After My Hat, The Internet, The Online World | Tagged dealing with comment spam, spomments | 7 Responses