Why Don't People Read More ?????????????

Does anybody read anymore? Seems like everyone used to have a book or two in the cue and were always finishing a good book (or two). Thet were quick to offer a recommendation, happy to suggest a new title, would love to talk you through their latest find. But now, no one talks about books, or new writers or reading in general.

When did we all stop reading? And when you stop to consider that there's actually more digital content (including e-bookshttp://www.ebooks.com/).

Does anyone have the new Sony Reader?http://products.sel.sony.com/pa/prs/index.html

Pictures I Like.............

Pictures with no people (or animals) in them. (See examples above and beside). Technically, I should have said photographs. Photos without people demand your attention, maybe more so than photos with people. They allow you to put yourself there. There in the place. Right there. They also force you to focus on a time and place without critically scrutinizing the people, what they look like, what they are wearing, why their face is all scrunched up yadda yadda yadda.
People. Places. Things.

Give Credit Where Credit Is Due.......

Singers / Songwriters who do NOT get enough credit............

Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
Shawn Colvin - A Few Small Repairs
Brandi Carlisle - The Story
Roseanne Cash - Black Cadillac
David Wilcox - East Asheville Hardware

I Have Been To The Future............

It is intense. It is more than you thought it would be. It is spectacular. It is almost ready.
You really should go.


(It's in California).

A Great Idea......

.....does not care who had it.

It can come from anywhere, anybody, anytime. No one has an exclusive on good ideas. Some of the best come from some of the most unlikley people and places.

Creative Directors should come up with ideas, copywriters and art directors should too. But what about the lowliest AE, the haggard producer, the road weary sales guy, the receptionist

Stop. Look. Listen. Ideate.

"Quotes"

"The way to be a bore is to say everything"
-Voltaire

"No one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American people."
- H. L. Mencken

“The difference between the forgettable and the enduring is artistry”
– Bill Bernbach

"Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century."
–Marshall McLuhan (1976),
Canadian social scientist (quoted in Robert Andrews, The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations 1987, p. 5, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul).

"Since Life is Short and the World is Wide, the sooner you start exploring it the better"
- Simon Raven

Where do bad ideas go to die?

Ever stop to consider just exactly where all those really bad ad ideas go to die? (Besides airing within late night syndicated reruns of your Mom's favorite TV shows?). There must be boatloads laying around somewhere. Look under your bed, in your closets, dump out those file cabinets, unload the trash can.


Maybe, just maybe, there should be a Bad Old Ad Idea Factory. They could take all those lame ideas, dust them off, put on a fresh coat of paint, maybe spiff em up with a few adjectives and adverbs, add a new and improved burst and "refurbish" them so that they can be good, like new ad ideas once again.


After all, everything good has already been thought of. Right?