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UP THERE: a story of advertising painters

This is definitely one of my favorite short film documentaries. Although I work primarily in digital advertising, it was really interesting and inspiring to see the amount of work that would go into a hand painted building advertisement. Hats off to Stella Artois for sponsoring such a creative and ...

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6 Reasons to oppose ACTA

6 Reasons to oppose ACTA ACTA locks countries into obsolete copyright and patent laws. If a democracy decides on less restrictive laws that reflect the reality of the internet, ACTA will prevent that. ACTA criminalizes users by making noncommercial, harmless remixes into crimes if "on a commercial scale" (art 2.14.1). Many ...

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Innovation In The Cell Phone Industry

What is being creative? Well... this is. I love videos like this! Even though, typically, products like this never get released, they help push the limits on what is possible. Only thing missing is a manufacturer willing to take the risk on something this different.

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Protect IP Act / Stop Online Piracy Act

The Protect IP Act (PIPA) is a U.S. Senate bill introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy. Along with its House counterpart Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), the bills are designed to provide the government and copyright holders with powers to block access to “rogue websites dedicated to infringing or counterfeit goods,” ...

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Facebook further embraces advertising agencies with Facebook Studio

Facebook has recently launched Facebook Studio, a site dedicated to showcase advertising campaigns that utilize Facebook as the central mean to reach consumers. I think this site is a great resource to gain knowledge on other successful campaigns and help spark inspiration and creative ideas for new ad campaigns ...

HTML vs Flash tip for the Interactive Producer

Managing website development can pose some challenges when on the account side of the project, especially when you don't always have immediate access to creative web developers. The Interactive Web Producer will run into challenges posed by both the creative design team and the web development team throughout the ...

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De-constructing the animated Google logo

When I first saw the aquatic looking Google logo, my first instinct was to figure out how it was built. People were tweeting that it was built in Flash, but a simple right click could tell you otherwise, and others thought that it was built using Google's favorite language - ...

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Online marketing | 2011 Super Bowl Ads

The Super Bowl is one of those events that bring this nation together under a common interest - Football. And every year there is hype over the commercials that will be played during the game.  Not too many years ago it would be all the talk on radio stations about ...

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‘Is advertising evil?’ Recent article by an advertising agency.

I am a huge fan of Grip Limited and their blog Big Orange Slide.  They recently posted an article titled 'Is advertising evil?' which discussed the arguments for and against advertising.  I left a rather lengthy (not usual for me) comment that I think ...

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Web Producer and Object Oriented Programming

As a web producer, it is important to understand the short and long term goals of a website or application and plan for scalability.  Recently I have been working mostly with managing the development of large Flash based applications and came across an ...

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3D AS3 flash carousel

My latest flash component I'd like to showcase. Take a look at the Demo or feel free to download the source files.

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AS3 Flash audio player sound wave

You can view the demo below, or download the source files here This was built using OOP, so the player class files are found under com>audioplayer>main. Your browser does not support iframes.  

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Building a portfolio website using ActionScript 3 and OOP

I’m currently working on building a simple portfolio site in Flash built all in AS3 code utilizing Object Oriented Programming techniques. I will post the source code and a link to the demo site for anyone interested, but my hope is to outline what a flash site structure should look ...

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last.fm tag cloud

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Running a second WordPress loop alongside the main loop

Wordpress comes standard as a site with one blog loop, header, sidebar, and footer.  But what if you want to run 2 blog loops on the same page?  Well, there's an app for that... errr... function for that.  It may seem as easy as copy and pasting the while loop ...

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Feature on Instant Shift

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