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Liked Reducers - Airways.
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Liked 3 videos.
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Liked Little Black Boy.
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Shared Lydia Hawksworth!.
Cultural Ephemera
Direct connection
While the previous video was more of an internal self-promotion video for WFAA in Dallas, this video was a major ad campaign used during junctions and station breaks for Philadelphia’s KYW-TV. It is simply stunning – these promos have a futuristic, whimsical, avant-garde tenor paired with a bit of psychedelia. It might be [...]
Back when leotards told the story
Thanks to my inimitable friend Joseph, who has a penchant for finding all the weirdest crap that youtube has to offer, I have now watched this 1980 WFAA-TV (Dallas/Fort Worth) promo video eleventy times.
It is nuts how in 1980, mustachioed men in leotards were simply “court jesters” that told the story of TV ratings success, [...]
Privacy 2.0
I’m in a minor state of shock after discovering a website maintained by the St. Petersburg Times, for they have managed to turn crime into a glossy web 2.0 application – their succinct, concise, data-intensive packaging of criminal mug shots is simply devastating. Devastating because it manages to commoditize something that, to me, is an [...]
Board games as stylistic barometers
Board games used to be a major pastime of mine. Being an only child, and possessing a lexicon not particularly bespoke for a little tyke, I often had to play with my mother or Mervyn, the bunny rabbit (which usually means that I won, of course). But now that I look back on them, I [...]
Silvio Berlusconi has been running Italy since the 80’s!
Look at this advertisement. “We dedicate the new Casio FX-750P pocket computer to Silvio Berlusconi.” It would be one thing (although a weird thing nevertheless) to dedicate a computer to him if he had been president in the 80’s, but he was merely a media tycoon. I guess it would be like [...]
