“What will not go away is the art of storytelling” Dan Wieden on the future of advertising.
Dan Wieden on advertising
A collection of things I find on the internet...
Apr 21
Apr 11
If you watch one thing today…
Apr 10
tigs:
More evidence of diminished cultural latency (via 100-Year March of Technology in 1 Graph The Atlantic)
Nice short film made for Nike Fuel Band - “Nike asked me to make a movie about what it means to #MakeItCount. Instead of making their movie, I spent the entire budget traveling around the world with my friend Max. We’d keep going til the money ran out. It took 10 days.”
‘You only live once but if you do it right, once is enough.’ - Mae West
‘Above all, try something.’ - Franklin D. Roosevelt
‘I never worry about the future, it comes soon enough.’ - Albert Einstein
‘One who makes no mistakes, makes nothing at all.’ - Giacomo Casanova
‘Do one thing every day that scares you.’ - Eleanor Roosevelt
‘In the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.’ - Abraham Lincoln
‘If I’d followed all the rules, I’d never have gotten anywhere.’ - Marilyn Monroe
‘Action expresses priorities.’ - Gandhi
Mar 27
Mar 23
“ Storytelling is joke telling. It’s knowing your punchline, your ending, knowing that everything you’re saying, from the first sentence to the last, is leading to a singular goal, and ideally confirming some truth that deepens our understandings of who we are as human beings. We all love stories. We’re born for them. Stories affirm who we are. We all want affirmations that our lives have meaning. And nothing does a greater affirmation than when we connect through stories. It can cross the barriers of time, past, present and future, and allow us to experience the similarities between ourselves and through others, real and imagined.
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TED talk with filmmaker Andrew Stanton of Toy Story and Wall-E fame on the clues to storytelling.
(via)
(Source: curiositycounts)
Mar 21
A beautiful short of a modern day Mad Man.
Mar 04
Tha latest mash up from Ithaca Audio.
Feb 18
“ The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
— George Bernard Shaw
Scottish artist Robert Montgomery’s street art in Shoreditch. (via The artist vandalising advertising with poetry - Features - Art - The Independent)
Feb 14
“ Insight comes, more often than not, from looking at what’s been on the table all along, in front of everybody, rather than from discovering something new.
Feb 07
10 Tips on Writing Well From David Ogilvy
The better you write, the higher you go in Ogilvy & Mather. People who think well, write well.
Woolly minded people write woolly memos, woolly letters and woolly speeches.
Good writing is not a natural gift. You have to learn to write well. Here are 10 hints:
1. Read the Roman-Raphaelson book on writing. Read it three times.
2. Write the way you talk. Naturally.
3. Use short words, short sentences and short paragraphs.
4. Never use jargon words like reconceptualize, demassification, attitudinally, judgmentally. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass.
5. Never write more than two pages on any subject.
6. Check your quotations.
7. Never send a letter or a memo on the day you write it. Read it aloud the next morning — and then edit it.
8. If it is something important, get a colleague to improve it.
9. Before you send your letter or your memo, make sure it is crystal clear what you want the recipient to do.
10. If you want ACTION, don’t write. Go and tell the guy what you want.
David
Feb 05
“ All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
“ We can pick our teachers and we can pick our friends and we can pick the books we read and the music we listen to and the movies we see, etcetera. You are a mashup of what you let into your life.
— Paula Scher, Designer
“ The crucial difference is that advertising is no longer the thing you do, it’s the story of the things you’ve done.
