Ryan Stoner — EVP, Director of Hating

My boy Stoneage been featured once before … but this time for a more significant reason than becoming freshly single (thus his included job title above). Ryan’s gone ahead and been interviewed/quoted in an advertising publication, one that us advertising folks are all relatively familiar with.
Although he doesn’t say anything too smart for being [...]

easy money

when i was in school, my roommate and i used to lie about our alcohol consumption, or having bought a car recently, just to be a participant in a focus group. it usually meant $75-$100 for an hour or so, of sitting around a table and having a “conversation,” which for me meant that [...]

Commonwealth X Nascar

What a strange brand move for the DC/Virgina ’streetwear’ shop Commonwealth.

I want to know more. How did all this come about? What’s the strategy?
Here’s a snippet from the Commonwealth blog, which alludes to a couple different possibilites:
“… we look foward to exposure of the Commonwealth lifestyle amongst the fans of racing as well [...]

In other Hollywood news..

Check out my all-star silent performance in this clip from last night’s episode of David Spade’s the Showbiz Show.
I was walking out of the Mondrian in LA on Monday, and they called me over.  I’ve done my share of ‘Man on the Street’ interviews, so I figured I’d help them out.  I actually didn’t do [...]

Unbelievable.

I know — it’s been basketball madness on my blog lately.  And it is a bit out of control.
Basketball = life right now, and our spots for the NBA Playoffs came to fruition.
David Blaine is one bad mo’fo.

In other news …

The new Comcast Ch 1 rebrand is well underway, and the website that we’ve come up with is what I like to call “dominant”.  Play around on it

Also, a Washington’s Lottery campaign I worked on in Seattle is getting rave reviews.  I’m not a copywriter and I know “advertising is perpetuating all of our societal [...]

AT&T of 1993

Here’s a series of commercials from AT&T circa the early 90’s, where they depict the future of communications. It’s interesting to see what they predicted would happen versus what actually has happened.  Have you ever tucked your baby in, from a telephone booth?

the glory days

Today marks the day we usher in a new era of nba fanfare. we’re about to take it back to the old school … ’cause AG’s an old fool, who’s so cool (If you wanna get down, let me show you the way). Woomp, there it is.
BOOM

Web 2.0

A cool summary of “Web 2.0,” and all sorts of other things Internet-related in under 5 minutes. The video successfully demonstrates (and validates) that web 2.0 is more than just the latest Internet-boom buzzword, or marketing hype. I think there really is functionality and change related to the term, and more important some [...]