Quick Takes: 10/13/06

Posted by Chris

October 13, 2006

A few things that need to be seen but I don’t have the time to give each of them the attention they deserve.

James has a great tower online ad for Michael Gondry’s The Science of Sleep.
Pete Stein has a very interesting read on ceding control to the consumer over at iMedia Connection.
Along those same lines Mack Collier (who I’ve been missing lately because he’s now so popular) calls “bullshit” on those marketing types who think they’re embracing the community but who, in actuality, are full of talking points and little else.
Kevin Kelly puts the Borat madness in some perspective in terms of recent movie publicity stunts.
As you can see from this screenshot at Random Culture, The Weinstein Co. is advertising The Grudge 2 on NBC’s video portal, but once again the repetitive ads get annoying quickly.
Tom can now make Lego-shaped ice cubes.
I love that Google has now fully integrated Writely, which I have been using for while, and its own Spreadsheets feature into one Office-like package.
AMC will stream the trailer for The Grudge 2 on its website as part of its Horrorfest promotion.
Jeremy Pepper returns from the dead.
If someone wants to buy me a Darth Vader USB drive I’d love them forever.
Chicagoist teaches us how to write like David Mamet.
The Copyranter has some problems with the blood drive posters for Saw III.
Kate decries the lack of subtlety in the new poster for Blood Diamond.
Check out the new trailer for History Boys.
Chicago filmmaker Joe Swanberg will be creating the in-house trailers for the next SXSW festival.
You can watch the first three minutes of the independent featuer Shoot-out here.
Freedom Writers has a trailer which you can check out.
Kirk waxes poetic over the re-launch of the Fox Atomic website.
David Armano went to a recent Rolling Stones concert here in Chicago and tells us what Mick and the boys can teach us about marketing.
Steve Hall loves the Borat MySpace page.