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Novel Campaign
British phone company hires ex-pick pockets to slip phone cards, money into people’s pockets.
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Rumor Season
It’s rumor season. That time when consumer electronics companies, and even a not-so-consumer, not-so-electronic firm, especially those with rabid fans, release new products for Christmas.
These firms possible, probable, and completely improbable product releases are anticipated with tremendous fervor, dissected in excruciating detail, debated, praised, panned, and, having been ground, the rumor mill churns on, looking for the next big release.
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By No Means Entitled
I believe that everyone in America but a selected thousand should be compelled to accept a very rigid system of morals—Roman Catholicism, for instance. I don’t complain of conventional morality. I complain rather of the mediocre heretics who seize upon the findings of sophistication and adopt the pose of a moral freedom to which they are by no means entitled by their intelligence.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, giving voice, through the character of Maury Noble, in The Beautiful and the Damned, to the Eastern Establishment (p.456, Library of America).
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Is it working?
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Sharpness
“What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?” — W. Eugene Smith
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Do You Have Plans for Expansion?
“Yes. We have suspenders in the catalogue.”
– LL Bean on his plans, quoted in Time by way of NPR Other interesting bits: Read the rest of this entry »Sep 1, 2009 Comments Off
Worth a Look
Qi Lui takes on Google. Interesting profile/puff piece in the NYT.
Y&R helps out with pop-up ad agency
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Y&R helps out with pop-up ad agency
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Unusual Business of the Week
Man converts antique fire engine into mobile wedding chapel.
