Over the last few years I’ve become more and more interested in advertising and marketing. Last year a friend of mine got me hooked on AMCs “Mad Men” a show about the golden age of advertising produced by the same guy who did the Sopranos. Fast forward to Full Frame 2009, and the film called “Art & Copy”
This film tells the stories behind the stories with real life Don Drapers, “Art & Copy” pulls the curtain back on such ads as Apple’s “1984″ and Nike’s “Just Do It.”
With characters such as George Lois there is never a dull moment. Lois is responsible for the sky rocket of Tommy Hilfiger and the original MTV campaign. Hal Riney’s 1984 Presidential ad told of a morning in America, and helped elect Ronald Regan. Following his cutting edge proclivity, Riney’s company has an amazing website that you can control with your web cam.
“Art & Copy” lets you on top Mount Olympus to see the Gods at work. If you have ever wondered what manner of genius creates the iconic adverts of pop culture or loved last years “Helvetica” or watch Mad Men, then”Art & Copy” is perfect.
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival began today! I have been looking forward to this four day peregrination through the real life for a while now, and its FINALLY here!
I set out my outfit last night, cleared out my bag of all unessential festival weight and laid my head down to wake up today. I did just that, then fell back to sleep…then popped out of bed 30 minutes behind schedule!! DAMN IT! I through on a graphic tee and slung my trendy Macbook Pro heavy bag over my shoulder. I pushed my truck Red Thunder to the limit of a shaky 75mph storming towards Durham 45 minutes away.
I got here to find that the parking deck across the street is undergoing some repair and is at half capacity and now FULL! I was able to sweet talk my way in to the Full Frame Volunteer parking and set out to get my pass.
Imagine this…Your a struggling artist walking the streets head hung low. You repeat the same mantra in your mind over and over: What to do? What to do??!? While walking near the river so see a pile of rocks and you ejaculate “THAT’S IT!!”
A few days ago Patrick badgered me about starting a blog together. Not the first time, infact I’m sitting next to James “Irish” D. who also wanted to start a blog, as did my friend Tim. It just so happen that Patrick has an uncanny amount of diligent time wasting on his hands and he put in all the leg work to make it so. Thus the birth of “Patrick and Shawn are Awesome”.
This now brings us to the competition:
We emit so much awesomeness here at PSAA, that two fairly somewhat cool girls have decided to scratch at our faces and began a blog them selves. So, I quote Kirsten Dunst and say “Bring it on!” We welcome the two of you to this super highway information web internets.com!
Here is the declaration left on one of our posts. I want to give this full coverage.
“Dear, pataickandshawnaaeawesome.gay,
WARNING:
We use our words carefully as we are aware of how much power they wield. Try not to stumble aback as they hit you full force…This is about to get personal.
That said I think we’ll let the Blog speak for itself.
This evening began typical enough. I got home after some delicious homemade spaghetti at my grandparents house and Mr. Dempsey phoned me. Not uncommon, we tend to hang out taco bell in hand and take in some recently downloaded digital goodness, or take in one of the only late night dwellings still open in Raleigh…Wal-Mart. Last week, in the fever of boredom, James and I randomly bought air-soft guns and glow in the dark pellets. With my 100,000,000,000 lumen flashlight to charge the radium embedded spheres made for a fun time that night. This night seemed to begin on a similar journey, that is until Mr. Dempsey decided he wanted some coffee at 11pm. This gave our duo something to do. Instead of merely finding a 24 hour McCafe or any “ol’ fill’n station”,
A dear friend of mine just reminded me of one of the best childhood shows that we both shared. Before Survivor or the other over budget under written show The Amazing Race ever where thought of there was is jewel. “Legends of the Hidden Temple” was complete with a sage statue named Olmec who explained the secrets within each temple and the cryptic clues of the ruins. Teams like the silver snakes and the purple parrots each show involved challenges that these new shows only glean from such as walking over planks in boiling smoke covered moats. I would shout at my TV as the last team puts together the silver monkey. Like a real life video game, team members collect life pendents for use in the final stage. Finding episodes of “Legends of the Hidden Temple” on the internetz is why I love google so. The ABSOLUTE BEST PART IS ENTERING OLMEC’S TEMPLE!!! Enjoy!
Davy Crockett is most known for his stand and death at the Alamo against Hertz and Enterprise. Recently I learned that Mr. Crockett’s name was lent to another bad military idea: The tactical nuclear device M65 Recoilless Rifle aka “The Davy Crockett” It was never used in combat because of a design oversight. The Davy Crockett had a range nearly 3 miles. The problem was if the wind shifted the soldiers that launched the M65 tactical nuclear warhead, would be be within the nuclear fall-out. Luckily it was only tested once, and the military big wigs said…oops. In the video above, look out for a famous politician.
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival began today! I have been looking forward to this four day peregrination through the real life for a while now, and its FINALLY here!
