Eberg: Inside Your Head?
You all have seen this iPhone ad that aired during the Oscars a few weeks ago (at least you better have seen it). It's surely among few others in a short list of truly great TV ads from the past…
Continue Reading →Apple TV: Who Wants One?
By the way I phrased the title of this entry, many of you may (understandably) think that we're about to hit you with an Apple TV drawing or contest. Sorry, that's not the case-- this time at least. The reason…
Continue Reading →Budweiser Genie
At the beginning of this Budweiser commercial, you may think that it's going to be the sequel to the Axe commercial we saw a few months ago. But instead of thousand bikini-clad women running through the jungle toward a guy…
Continue Reading →Pii: Building Peace Through Children
The Peace Initiatives Institute is using a mix of TV advertising, animation, and activism to make a difference in regions dealing with social strife. It's the first organization to combine TV ads with comprehensive in-class teaching to teach young children…
Continue Reading →Television is Two-Faced
The last time I was at Costco, I picked up the 60-roll pack of bathroom tissue, a 10 pound bag of trail mix, and 6 tubes of Crest Whitening. What I'm getting to here, is Costco is not the place…
Continue Reading →Abstractor
From the creator of the Bubble Project, Ji Lee, comes to us a new and novel way to make art out of your idiot box (television): the Abstractor. The instructions of this home-made art project are best described by Ji's…
Continue Reading →WEdia.tv
For over a year now, WEdia.tv has had a simple aim concerning a complex problem: to gain more television exposure for the many humanitarian crises transpiring throughout the world. Working with the assumption that ratings-driven media outlets -- which are…
Continue Reading →Flipper Nation
When the dot-com bubble burst back in 2000, we saw a few satirical looks at the whole ordeal, pointing out how preposterous it was that people thought they could sustain such an inflated stock market. Six years later, many believe…
Continue Reading →edoc laundry does CSI
Last spring we covered edoc laundry--they were then an up and coming indie apparel company based out of Seattle. Well, now they are taking off, and are about to get some major press on a major TV network. They originally…
Continue Reading →Jamie Oliver Does Good
In the past twenty years, Jamie Oliver (a.k.a. The Naked Chef) has made a "pukka" evolution from a rock and roll drummer--to a chef--to a T.V. personality--to an outspoken children's health advocate (in case you were wondering, "pukka" is Jamie's…
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