Earlier this week I was mesmerized by two young adults playing Madden NFL 09 on a big screen at the neighborhood Best Buy. The experience was a lot more fun than watching the Skins-Giants snoozer on NBC last night, even with analysis from Madden hisself. This Sunday, ESPN merges video game graphics with real-life analysts […]
Ah, I’d rather go to the Apple site for the Mac-PC ads. Microsoft’s lame campaign about nothing is about as creative as watching Bill Gates try on shoes.
The Wall Street Journal launches its new luxury magazine this weekend with coincidental choices. Its advance cover-story wraps a model in newspaper (with a self-referential nod to The Journal) in a piece about fashion’s fragile future. Perhaps not the metaphor intended by a newspaper. But, look, inside .. isn’t that you-know-who? Before she was picked […]
Australia’s The Age demonstrates why newspapers needn’t be boring. Nor parochial. They just need creativity. And maybe video.
A scramble intersection stops all traffic. Pedestrians cross every which way. Tokyo has one. So does Toronto, at the corner of Yonge and Dundas streets. Everything about this makes my head spin and drift inward in wonder: the compression of movement and mass through time lapse, the blink and it’s gone, the birds-eye view, the […]
The news media is taking heat for reporting on politicians who lead or want to lead the country. The president doesn’t like it. John McCain, who ought to be grateful for the vetting, doesn’t like it. Bill O’Reilly doesn’t care for it. But Sarah Palin shows she can take it. The GOP has found its […]