by Jason Fox | Dec 6, 2010 | Advertising |
Fact: After four months of airing, this spot still cracks me up even though half of it uses a really annoying sound effect.Fact: I must raise yet another Official Shaking Fist of Jealousy, this time to The Martin Agency for almost always hitting it out of the park...
by Jason Fox | Dec 5, 2010 | Idle Chatter |
I hate the holiday season. Wait, where did my ironic quote marks go? Okay, found ’em: I hate the “holiday season.” Back in the olden days of the early 1970s, the holiday season was a catchall phrase denoting Thanksgiving, Christmas and New...
by Jason Fox | Dec 3, 2010 | Advertising |
The beponytailed wonders at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners have produced a very nice spot for Logitech’s new Revue set-top box (you know, to connect your TV to directly to LOLCats). Featuring Kevin Bacon as a man obsessed with Kevin Bacon, it is by equal...
by Jason Fox | Nov 17, 2010 | Uncategorized |
About a month ago, Microsoft unleashed a new wave of marketing offensives touting mobile phones featuring their newest version of Windows 7 specifically (one hopes) engineered for smart phones. (I’ll pause here so you can write your own joke about any phone...
by Jason Fox | Nov 1, 2010 | Idle Chatter |
Age is relative. And not just in the Einsteinian astronaut-traveling-at-near-light-speed-returns-home-to-find-his-twin-brother-is-now-his-grandpa way. For example, given predicted advances in robotics and super glue, I’m probably only one-third of the way...
