I had been casually thumbing through the Arts & Leisure section of the Sunday New York Times when I came upon this story: “NIght Flight”? That’s the same name as a book by one of my guys, St. X (Antoine de Saint-Exupery). The gist of the story was that Clarence… more »
Archives for June 2011
Sonic ‘Secret Weapon’ Ad: Summertime Fun!
June 27, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Caught a glimpse of the new Sonic ad today while watching a baseball game. It was one of those times I wished I had a TiVo on this particular television. So instead, I poked around on online and found it posted on YouTube. The ad, called “Secret Weapon,” is very… more »
Inkling: Innovative e-Textbooks for the iPad
June 25, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Talk about innovative! Matt MacInnis, a Nova Scotia native, Harvard grad, and former Apple employee (eight years), has founded a company called Inkling that mades digital textbooks for the iPad. One of the company’s breakthrough offerings, as mentioned in a Bloomberg/Businessweek feature, is called Brooker Biology which features a 3D… more »
Nike’s ‘Write the Future’ Scores Big Time at Cannes
June 25, 2011 by Leave a Comment
“Write the Future,” the blockbuster Nike spot created out of Wieden & Kennedy, Amsterdam, that imagines the potential future of various soccer stars should they go on to win the World Cup, took home the Film Grand Prix at the Cannes International Festival of Creativity. A post by AdAge’s Ann… more »
Giving WSJ’s Henninger a Mulligan…
June 25, 2011 by Leave a Comment
The headline of the Opinion piece (Of Mulligans and McIlroy’s Miracle: Politics is the mulligan that put us $14.3 trillion in debt.) in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday caught my eye. Eagerly I read looking for the mulligan connection. Alas, towards the end, this paragraph appeared: “Perhaps this is… more »
