Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo. There’s an art to storytelling and Ira Glass is clearly a master of the craft. In his own way, so is David Shiyang Liu, whose typographic rendering of Glass’s approach brings another layer of art to the story. An energetic, elegant and captivating little film…
As the inimitable Gregory House, MD would say: everybody lies. From the whitest of white-lie equivocations to the most truly mendacious assertions (we heard plenty of those in the past few months), lying comes to us as easily as breathing. Or speaking. According to Pamela Meyer, the average person is lied to 10 to 200…
What do men want? My god, what do they want? Two TV spots and one print ad answer the question with occasionally ribald humor and verve: Tools that make “bleeping sense.” (Rockwell). Room to crouch without singing soprano. (Duluth Trading Company) And a 130 mph speed limit. (Electronic Arts) Proof that men (and women) want–and…
As Gerald Ford might have said, “Our long national nightmare is (almost) over.” Eighteen months of increasingly rancid and, in some cases, mendacious campaign advertising are now coming to a merciful end, sparing us more of the same until the Congressional races two years from now. Still, citizens face one more test of their civic…