Helping Your Small Business Find Its Voice
I’m a big fan of Nick Bertke, whose professional handle is Pogo. He’s a VJ/producer who creates songs using music and sounds from films like Disney’s Alice in Wonderland. Recently, Pogo hosted a contest inviting people to provide video to accompany a song called “Mellow Brick Road,” which uses audio from The Wizard of Oz. […]
One of the most valuable lessons of my career is one I learned when I was in college, interning for Michael Coleman at WZLX in Boston: Keep everything. I have archives with all my old scripts, and most of the stuff I’ve produced is still on file someplace (I’ve changed computers several times over the […]
Kevin Nalty of Nalts Consulting posted this spot for Intel over at his blog, and beneath that is my comment, taken verbatim from there: “Wow… What a fun spot! Viral or not, I’d happily watch that as an interruption to my regularly scheduled TV programming choices (which are becoming fewer and fewer these days anyway), […]
Have you noticed the recent surge in cello music in commercials? Facebook is the most recent offender — their video explaining their new “Messages” feature sounds disappointingly similar to several other spots currently on the air and online. Here’s just a mere smattering of similar-sounding background music which, to me, makes every ad blend together […]
I’ve been a big fan of Family Guy since its debut on Fox back in the late 90’s. Today, Seth MacFarlane debuted his YouTube channel, SethComedy. They have five videos posted so far, and the animation looks typically like that of Family Guy and American Dad, another MacFarlane co-creation. The subject matter is similar as […]