This won’t be much of a shocker for people who know me and know dwell magazine. I like to style myself a designey, modern, cool-stuff kind of guy (and I am, really), so I naturally thought dwell would be for me. I subscribed, cheap, and got a year’s worth. This last week, I managed to […]
Thinking of Valentine’s Day, I remembered this billboard I saw a number of years ago in Omaha. It’s for a jewelry store in town, the world-famous Borsheim’s, and it’s the first jewelry ad I’ve seen that I find at all compelling. The imagery is greeting card trite, but the tag line, “Of this you are […]
While on vacation in Florida, we passed a billboard that had a very cool car on it, at a downward angle, and the tag line read, “Real Cars are Powered by Gravity.” In the corner was a Hot Wheels logo. I thought that was awesome. Then, a few days later I saw something pass by […]
I know, you’re not all torn up about this. As a further refinement of my blogging efforts, I’ve decided to stop hosting ads on this site. Especially Google’s context-sensitive AdSense ads. Turns out that a blog as eclectic as this one is a bad fit for contextual advertising. I’m open to ads in the future, […]
Just heard George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue on the radio, and I immediately wondered what a United Airlines commercial was doing on NPR. Seconds later I realized that it was a performance of the Gershwin piece, not an ad. I don’t watch commercials anymore, with TiVo in the house, but United’s campaign predated my TiVo […]