[Found via Everyday Observations of Regular People]

The New Orleans Museum of Art from March 2 to June 8, 2008 is holding a forty-year retrospective of the work of George Rodrigue, maybe Louisiana’s most famous contemporary artist. Rodrigue is most famous for his “Blue Dog” paintings. The exhibit will feature nearly two hundred paintings, sculptures, and prints.

It seems that for the past several weeks more than a few people are little upset (that would be an understatement) by this Absolut print ad that shows the borders of the United States as they were many centuries ago (or close to it). The campaign was produced by Teran/TBWA, Mexico City.
Some wingnuts have suggested […]

I am not a fan of April Fools jokes. Not by a long shot cause most are, well not very funny. However, Google seems to be able to pull off their jokes more often then not. And a case in point is their AdSense for Conversations. Google explains at their Inside AdSense blog:
Now, in just […]

Here is an interesting question posed by Dorothy Sayers in an article titled The Lost Tools of Learning:
Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy throughout Western Europe is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement and mass […]

Pentagram Partner and Creativity 50 Honoree Paula Scher has an interesting interview with Creativity Magazine where she outlines how she believes advertising has improved recently, but nobody in the design community seems to care and/or notice.
I’m not sure that the graphic design community as a whole is paying any attention to this. I don’t see […]

I am totally confused by MSNBC’s running reruns all day yesterday and today. I mean I get there are college football games on and who can’t want to watch a Monk marthon for the 50th time, but people are off work and maybe a few of us are news junkies.
I kind of thought MSNBC was […]

As I’ve mentioned in the past Gilbert Arenas (aka Agent Zero) is one of my favorite sports figures. I mean he even writes his own blog that isn’t filtered by some PR flak. Well I guess when my parents asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I said Agent Zeros TS Lightswitch Gil EA […]

Well this is an interesting story. CNN is going to open up an I-Report hub in the virtual world of Second Life. For those of you not in the “know” Second life is a three-dimensional virtual world pretty much created by users. I personally have never understood the all the “buzz,” although I admit I’ve […]

Google has released their ‘07 Zeitgeist report. Basically an analysis of all their search results to give you a picture of what folks are doing on the intertubes. Always an interesting read.

Brillant, brillant art work. More samples are here at Deviant Art.

If I could find some of these online I’d buy it in a second.

The new Cohen Brother’s movie, No Country for Old Men (NYT review here), is set to open nation-wide on November 21. The movie is an adaptation from Cormac McCarthy

This is just great. Chris Anderson the Editor in Chief of Wired Magazine and the author of The Long Tail has had it with PR flacks and he is fighting back. I’ll let him explain from a recent blog post of his.
I’ve had it. I get more than 300 emails a day and my […]