- ARCHIVE / advertising
- mad men: the carousel
AMC’s first scripted drama ends its first season in style.
Say what you will about Mad Men. That it’s paced all wrong, that it’s too morally ambigous, that its depiction of Madison Avenue in 1960 is either too inaccurate or not accurate enough. All of these are up for debate, but this much is not: that [...] - $8 green beans
Could they possibly be worth paying that much?
It’s a good question, because that’s precisely what I did yesterday when I picked up a jar of Mean Beans, produced by a New York company called Rick’s Picks.
I had seen this particular item on the shelf several times before I bought it. Each time, I picked it [...] - errol morris commercials
In the right hands, advertising can be an amazing thing.
Witness for example these Errol Morris commercials for Full Tilt Poker. I’m in love with with this one in particular, featuring Chris Ferguson.
“Sometimes making the right move isn’t enough. But there’s always another hand.”
Words to live by.