Think Different
Okay, so where am I? I’m preparing creative briefs, artwork that will be presented, and the structure for meeting notes that are due after each meeting. I go to more meeting than you do, guaranteed. Illustration by Andrew Joyner I’m often astounded, but not principally shocked, at what a terrible job meetings do at their stated […]
The Ad Biz: Office Stabbings and Media Guy Origins
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” This is the famous passage from the Statue of Liberty poem. New Colossus and its famous last lines have become […]
The Berlin Wall: Visiting the East Side Gallery
West Berliners crowd in front of the Berlin Wall on November 11, 1989, as they watch East German border guards demolishing a section of the wall in order to open a new crossing point between East and West Berlin. Nearly thirty years, the Berlin Wall aka the most famous—or better stated as infamous—edifice of the […]
40 Hours in Cabo San Lucas
Okay, so where am I? Once a destination stops for priests and pirates alike whom voyaged from faraway lands to serve God or pursue their treasures down the southernmost coast of the Baja California peninsula, Cabo San Lucas has something to please everyone. Sportfishing, snorkeling, world-class golf, divine spas, appreciation of fine food, and all […]
SUMMER LEARNING: Spelling, a Quick Guide
I was born in 1968, meaning when I was in junior high school (yes it was junior high school back then, not middle school), computers were word processors with green characters and manual typewriters ruled the day. If you grew up at around the same time, you probably remember typing class, where we learned some […]
The Things We Think and Do Not Say
Okay, so where am I? I’m watching the the “Help Me, Help You” scene from Jerry Maguire for the 2,000th time. 22 years after the release of Cameron Crowe’s great movie and this scene never gets old. It’s the perfect embodiment of working with a stubborn client that needs to hear the truth and doesn’t […]
Old Works. Great Memories. Part II.
Back in 1992, a young Media Guy teamed with an old art critic to dive into some amazing work at the Australian National Gallery. Here’s an excerpt from one of my favorite passages and works. Jackson POLLOCK United States of America 1912 – 1956 Blue poles 1952 oil, enamel, aluminium paint, glass on canvas OT […]
Legends
Okay, so where am I? I’m up so so late brainstorming on a new Smokey the Bear campaign for our friends at the USDA Forest Service and I was thinking about my former Tarzana neighbor, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (née Meghan Markle), would be struggling to stay awake if I were the Queen of England […]
The Summer of Superheroes and Margrét, My New Favorite Amazon Model
I know the world is a lunatic cesspool full of bad people, but why do we need so many superheroes? When I was a kid, even until 1989, we got by with the Big Two: Batman and Superman. Now, I am getting all geeked up for Ant-Man and The Wasp (a sequel no less to […]
BURGER KING: You Should Have Called The Media Guy!
Okay, so where am I? I’m waiting by the phone hoping Axel Schwan, the Global Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President of Burger King, dials me up so we can discuss their latest brain fumble. I mean, the FIFA World Cup is a great event to center an advertising and marketing campaign that will inevitably […]
