Archive for 'commercials'
Voyeur: HBO Makes New York Look More Exciting Than It Really Is. Again.
I was not fortunate enough to catch the building-side broadcast of HBO Voyeur, which is a shame, because it seems the only appropriate venue for the undertaking. The much ballyhooed project is basically an ambiguous commercial for the network - a four-minute looped reel of the sensational/mundane events that transpire one night in the […]
Posted: July 5th, 2007 under commercials, hbo, voyeur.
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Commercial Break: Sauce-Shillin’ Spice
Poor Spice Girls… back on the American radar for the first time in years, and for what? A forced tabloid coup d’état, Eddie Murphy’s bastard child and now pasta sauce. President Bush wasn’t the only surprise cameo on last night’s American Idol - Baby Spice, Emma Bunton, showed up in a Prego ad that […]
Posted: May 2nd, 2007 under commercials.
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Super Bowl XLI & the Emo Robot
The state of the televised commercials in the United States is a precarious one. While the Super Bowl used to be one of the few times a year we’d see the premiere of truly entertaining spots, the rapid growth of TiVo-culture and our decreasing attention spans demand dynamic commercials year-round. Generally speaking, commercials […]
Posted: February 5th, 2007 under commercials, sports.
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