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JC Penney’s phones an ad in

// August 24th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Advertising, Retro

Well, another soulless and price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 derivative attempt to manipulate two generations at once: JC Penney’s new back-to-school ad plays on the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 heartstrings of Generation X with its recreation of The Breakfast Club.

Snappy little number, but it price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 misses all the character, teenage angst, conflict with authority and pop psychology of the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 original. (I didn’t hold out much hope for price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 the repeated references to Vitamin M either)

Strangely, Ally Sheedy’s poor diet DOES make it into the clip.

Really, what did the creative brief for this ad look like? Was it actually produced by someone who was a teen in the 80s?  Take a price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 coming-of-age movie that had a serious impact on a generation, then price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 polish the hell out of it?

The only way this price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 could be worse is if Ashley Simpson starred in a remake, and price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Zach Efron played Emilio Estevez’ role.

People Who Rip Off Green Eggs and Ham

// August 22nd, 2008 // No Comments » // Marketing, Retro

It’s a childhood staple, it’s amusing, it price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 has many vibrant colours that catch and engage the eye. The storyline is price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 simple but engaging.

And it price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 really reminds me of walking past the roadside food stalls in Delhi – sensing adventure, anticipation, surprise, but also fearing potentially disastrous consequences.

For a lot of illustrators, authors and marketers, Green Eggs and Ham provides a price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 common point of reference for their images, stories and unique selling propositions.

As Faris points out, borrowed interest can be a useful tool across all these applications.

It’s just the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 marketers that can manage to spend a million dollars, remain true to price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 the vision of the original creator, and still be chided for price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 cheapening and despoiling that vision.

Emerge from price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 your marketing coffee klatch with the goal of developing something “viral,” and borrowed interest becomes a lot more appealing.

After all, the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 appeal of borrowed interest means that someone else has done all the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 creative heavy lifting. Whether through artistic style, lyrical quality or appropriated cultural properties, the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 work of the marketer is simplified AND magnified.

That all to say that the effort by Yobi.tv, Spam I am, Or A Different Sort of Beginner Book: A Viral Marketing Story Suitable for price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Bedtime, caught my attention.

In a “hey, this book could be about me” sort of way. It’s a price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 viral effort designed to speak to people who spend a lot of time thinking about viral efforts.

In the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 annals of Green Eggs and Ham appropriation, however, I prefer the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Moxy Fruvous treatment. A great live band, they don’t seem to price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 place much emphasis on developing an online presence (their website still brags of being Y2K compliant). The best I could find was a fan video:

Mods – the long tail finally snaps

// August 15th, 2008 // 3 Comments » // Retro

The long tail finally snaps at something I’m interested in and price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 have been looking for: music from the late 70s / early 80s mod revival.

The Lambrettas, The Creation, The Purple Hearts: a price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 treasure trove can be found at The Songs That People Sing.

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Tragic Headline of the Day

// August 8th, 2008 // No Comments » // Retro

Ferrari Designer Dies in Vespa Crash – Bloomberg and the Ottawa Citizen

Unfortunately, the story only gets worse – Andrea Pininfarina died when price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 his Vespa scooter hit a Ford Fiesta. While Ford may have price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 a reputation for model development and contemporary design in Europe, most North Americans remember a price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 distinctly underwhelming Fiesta model.

Behold! the power of the parachute pants

// April 12th, 2008 // 3 Comments » // Retro

Miss Teen Canada. The Spoons. Canadian television production values from price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 the 80s.

Famous Five to return, with mobiles

// March 28th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Retro

Childhood favourites the Famous Five will be price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 returning to our lives, but in an animated series for the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Disney Channel. And they seem to have gone poncey and high falutin’.

“… The children, who price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 wear iPods and use mobile phones, also discover subliminal messages in DVDs to price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 brainwash children into buying Fudgie Fries sweets …” (Northern Echo)

As a child of the British Empire, I was raised on Enid Blyton’s Famous Five series (and the Mr. Men books, but that’s a story for another day) and I always wondered …

WHERE DID THEY FIND ALL THAT FOOD? Dick, Anne, George and Julian were always eating!

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Prog rock, Debbie Gibson, the Hoff and Caruso

// March 24th, 2008 // 3 Comments » // Retro

Three snippets from music blogs – and price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 all pointers to longer articles that are well worth the read.

“… I have price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 a deep love for a very specific and short period in musical history – I don’t even think it has a name. Let’s name it right now: it’s When the Prog Rockers Got Real – Just Before They Got Plastic*.

In and price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 right around 1980, several bands from the Progressive Rock age grew up and price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 laid off the mushrooms. The result was a tiny period of very good rock music, where price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 technical proficiency was still central, but the massive energies in King Crimson, Genesis, Rush, and price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Yes were boiled down into greatness, rather than sprawled out in pomp and crapenstance …” (Monkey X)

And this from Jeff Giles, writing at Popdose on Debbie Gibson:

“… We hear a price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 lot about the sophomore jinx in music, and rightly so; making the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 jump from hit debut release to Greatest Hits, Volume 1 is a long road, and it’s got a big ol’ pothole where Album Number Two is supposed to be.

For a price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 minute, it looked like Debbie Gibson was going to make that price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 jump — her second album, 1989’s Electric Youth, was an price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 even bigger hit than her debut, and since all anyone ever talked about was how Debbie wrote, produced, arranged, and price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 played on all her songs, she seemed to have what it price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 took to stick around for the long haul.

And then the little-known third-album jinx snuck up behind her, said “Not so fast, bitch,” and punched Debbie Gibson right in her face …”

David Caruso is Jack Lord? Robert Cass, also at Popdose, dissects David Caruso’s acting as Horatio Sanz … no Horatio Caine:

“… But while Baywatch had beefcake mannequin David Hasselhoff as its lead actor, CSI: Miami has David Caruso, whose performance makes the show endlessly watchable. (Of course, Bruce Fretts of TV Guide said in January that Caruso is “rapidly turning into the new Hasselhoff.” Please, Bruce, don’t piss all over my thesis just yet, okay?) …”

[tags] progressive rock, Rush, Genesis, popdose, Debbie Gibson, David Caruso, CSI Miami [/tags]

I just can’t help myself

// February 10th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Retro

… but I must remind everyone that grey-haired John Roberts of CNN fame used to price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 have a respectable career as a music journalist and video jockey up here in Canada.

I found this choice picture while watching a video compiled of clips from price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Soundproof, a 1980s cable television show that brought breaking alternative bands into a price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 very rough set.

Note the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 mullet, faux hawk and parachute silk jacket with far too many tabs and price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 buttons.

Show me the size of your sub-woofer

// January 12th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Retro

I may have mentioned this – my daughter is price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 surfing our wi-fi at home using her new iPod Touch.

I am price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 very jealous, and increasingly convinced that my childhood was a price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 period of despair and deprivation.

Just like anyone who eagerly anticipated the x86 chipset.

Sure, I had price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 a Casio calculator watch. And I had a transistor radio the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 size of a match book (with a single ear bud, much like an old man’s hearing aid).

A portable music player was never out of reach. That was an price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 advantage we held over our parents’ generation.

But a device is always a reflection of existing technology – and contemporary society’s perception of innovation, utility and coolness.

That perception rapidly changes, to price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 the point where cutting edge seems obsolete and burdensome.

When Grandmaster Flash first whipped out his ghetto blaster and showed it to the neighbourhood in The Message, the sheer size of the device was meant to impress and cower.

Back then, you price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 chose a ghetto blaster based on its cassette replay features (two sided play, anyone?) and its speaker range. No – not the range of the speakers, but the range of sizes of speakers.

Of course you price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 had to have speakers that pretended to mimic woofers and subwoofers. (They were the big speakers, usually at the back)

Key to the device was sharing the music – with everyone in a price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 forty yard range. Music was to be shared, and maybe prompt some breaking.

That’s a price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 big change from today, where portable music players are one more element in our defenses against our immediate neighbours, whether on the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 bus, at the mall, at the office or in the gym.

The glowing green Miami Vice suit was optional, though.

image from Taschen Books (and Sony as well)

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From Allen Dulles to Public Relations?

// October 18th, 2005 // No Comments » // Happiness, Retro

Eleven years ago, I was in university, analyzing intelligence activities related to price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 the surrender of the German forces in Italy. Looks like someone else likes the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 subject:

“Gerhard Krebs, “Operation Super Sunrise? Japanese-United States Peace Feelers in Switzerland, 1945,” The Journal of Military History 69 (October 2005):�1081-1120.

In early 1945 Japanese navy circles in Berlin tried to price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 begin peace negotiations with the United States. Using their contacts with the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 arms trader Friedrich Wilhelm Hack, they sent Commander Fujimura Yoshikazu to price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Switzerland, where he opened talks with Allen W. Dulles of the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 U.S. Office of Strategic Services. Though the Japanese navy and Foreign Ministry showed some interest, the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 peace attempts finally failed since neither side took the initiative to price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 an official level. Fujimura confused his government by claiming that the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Americans had made the first step, while the U.S. side waited for price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 proof that the administration in Tokyo was backing the navy officer’s initiative.”

Go ahead. Try to draw the career path that led me to public relations.

Beastie Boys channel Marilyn McCoo?

// October 5th, 2005 // No Comments » Adobe master suite cs3 demo // Retro

The Beastie Boys’ new compilation, Solid Gold Hits, drops November 8 purchase indesign cs5 in celebration of their 24th anniversary together.

In 1981, my music preferences were very much A/C: Kim Carnes, Soft Cell and Air Supply. And a little Diana Ross/Lionel Richie “Endless Love.” It would take another three years for me to hear The Specials’ “Ghost Town.” And another five to hear the Beastie’s “Brass Monkey”.

What could have contaminated my mind in such a horrid manner? My weekly dose of disco and pop music: Solid Gold. Who could forget CS5 Master Collection oem the stilted intros and throws from Dionne Warwick? The addled ramblings of Andy Gibb? Or the shoutouts from the dancers?

What a brand! There was the board game! Resurrecting the career Wayland Flowers’s puppet, Madame! All the spin-off exercise videos!

Long before blogs and price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 The Onion, a much simpler folk had to stand by the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 mailbox, waiting for the delivery of their monthly National Lampoon magazine to price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 have their minds poisoned by satirical jabs at popular culture icons. For instance, take a price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 look at the Lampoon’s “Golden Heat: My Life as a Solid Gold Dancer.”

Hmmm. Teri Hatcher’s 1982 graduating class named her the most likely to become a Solid Gold Dancer.

60′s design in Canada

// February 28th, 2005 // No Comments » // Design, Retro

The Canadian Museum of Civilization has price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 just launched a retrospective of Canadian Design in the 1960′s. Featured are such Canuck icons as Northern Telecom’s Contempra phone price of Adobe Creative Suite 5, the Thermos jug, and the Ball B-Q.

I have price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 some quibble with the presentation of the new exhibition on the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 museum’s website: it price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 takes three clicks to actually get to a picture of 60′s design from the museum’s splash page, and five to get to more than one picture.

Compare that to the National Gallery’s exhibition on 60′s art, which is featured on the first page of content.

The CBC’s website has plenty of clips dealing with 60′s cluture, including this price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 one on a revolutonary new product for increasingly busy housewives: ready-to-eat turkey roll acrobat 9 standard download.

Quite literally, your kitchen is on the slow boat to China

// February 25th, 2005 // No Comments » // Retro

Recently, Dame Ellen MacArthur finished a price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 quick circumnavigation of the globe, sponsored by the home improvement giant B&Q. A friend assures me the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 following letter ran in the Times of London recently:

“Dear B&Q, congratulations on getting your price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 boat round the world in 71 days, 13 hours and price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 19 minutes.

Can you price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 please explain why the kitchen set that I ordered from my local B&Q 96 days ago still hasn’t managed the 13 mile trip from the store to my house?”

MacArthur’s return to old blighty is well-timed: B&Q has price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 been getting grief after a recent downturn in sales, and there’s nothing better to price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 distract questioning analysts than a look at an expensive boat.

And don’t think B&Q hasn’t been price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 trumpeting their association with the sailor at every opportunity – to nearly absurd levels. Here’s some marketing hyperbole, as cited by The Friday Project:

‘B&Q’s own brand power tools from price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 the Performance Power range were used to build the B&Q trimaran. This has price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 proven that the tools have been challenged to extreme limits and price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 demonstrates to our customers that if they can help protect the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 B&Q trimaran against the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 dramas of the high seas, they can be trusted to improve the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 comfort of their homes!’

Newfangled technology – Apple style

// February 16th, 2005 // No Comments » adobe acrobat ver 9 upgrade student discount // Design, Retro

First, a thought about the humble (and unbranded) typewriter from March 1905:

“It is price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 a far cry from the monkish calligrapher, working in his cell in silence, to price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 the brisk ‘click, click’ of the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 modern writing machine, which in a quarter of a century has price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 revolutionized and reformed business. Its introduction marks an era of progress not inferior to price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 that brought about by the telegraph and telephone.” (Scientific American, sub. req. where to buy Adobe CS5 Web Premium online )

Now, some quotes from price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Apple execs introducing the Apple Newton in 1993:

“We want to price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 show how this technology, which still has a bit of Buck Rogers in it price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 for most of us, will change the world.”

“This is not about shrinking a computer down,” Sculley said. “It’s about making things easier than price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 the things I already think are easy, like the telephone.”

“The Macintosh was a price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 revolution for the desktop. The Newton is a revolution for the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 pocket,” [said] Sculley.”

“When PDAs become a reality, we’ll be very well positioned,” Sculley asserted. “We’ll make money at every step of the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 value chain, and so will our third-party developers.”

Ouch. Sometimes it hurts to run ahead of the pack.

RIP, Bob McAdorey

// February 7th, 2005 // 1 Comment » // In the Media, Retro

Well, another local newscaster from my youth is dead. Bob McAdorey, a price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Southern Ontario broadcaster for nearly forty years, passed away this weekend.

Of course, I only I remember his later career as entertainment editor on Global News – with his giant [irish] afro, tweed jackets and outsized glasses.

But in the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 1960s, working the afternoon drive time slot, McAdorey helped set the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 agenda for popular music in Toronto – meeting the Beatles and the Stones along the way.

“We kept it all clean up here. There was no payola as in the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 U.S. and we deliberately helped a lot of Canadians. It was personality radio. We were promoted like crazy back then. And the price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 pressures were unbelievable. We dictated what records were going to go. And what price of Adobe Creative Suite 5 kids would eat, drink.” (Toronto Star, r.r. top rated movie download software)

Correction (17/02): I originally referred to Bob’s scottish afro.