WEEKEND TRIVIA – of dubious brand names
My hometown Duesseldorf doesn’t really bristle with too many exciting cultural landmarks. But on weekends, it seems to inhale bus fleets carrying herds of senior citizen tourists that spend their...
View ArticleAlfred Hitchcock – a commercial director?
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (1899 – 1980) was beyond doubt one of the most visionary personalities the entertainment industry has ever bred. His movies are narrative masterpieces and “tutorials” for...
View ArticleNUMBER OF THE DAY
Total number of spaces where you can stand around clinging to your 20-pounds-cocktail in the bar of the SANDERSON Hotel in London on a Friday night without a sinister-looking, ear-plugged giant...
View ArticleQUOTE OF THE DAY
Recommendation: The tv commercial idea should not be executed. (Last page of the focus group test results)
View ArticleGOOGLE DISCREET VIEW
A little off-topic, but this is just too funny! A couple of months ago, Google‘s web mapping service GOOGLE MAPS launched a new feature: GOOGLE STREET VIEW. A panoramic street level environment lets...
View ArticleNUMBER OF THE DAY
Number of minutes before the projector broke down at the “Music Videos International” screening in the course of the OBERHAUSEN SHORTFILM FESTIVAL. The first 87 minutes however contained inspiring...
View ArticleTHE F-WORD, REVISED.
A couple of months ago I told you about a senior citizen bus travel provider who didn’t seem too aware of the impression it might leave to typographically abstract the two diacritic dots in his family...
View ArticleBOOORING!
A meme. Well. I was never gonna take part in any of those blog chain things. But because I like sneaker-seb and because he was the one who tagged me and because that movie that’s just on TV really...
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