You can’t learn about people in a job interview. They’re just going to kiss your ass and tell you what you want to hear. How are you supposed to know what your candidates are really made of?
Here’s an idea—I call it The Thuderdome of Death. The rules are simple: Two creatives walk in and only one walks out—with a job.

You put the weakest creative you currently have on staff against the candidate who wants the job. Give them both and assignment and a time limit and see walks out with …

Listening to the re-release of the Stones’ Exile on Main Street I am reminded of two things: a) how incredibly awesome a record it is, and b) what suck-ass reviews it received at the time of its original release.
Rarely, it seems, is great and important work recognized as such in its own time.
(Witness the work and lives of so many of the great masters of painting if you need proof.)
So here is an Oscar prediction for the future, based on the immediate past.
I hadn’t yet seen this year’s winner, The …

I like new technologies a lot. No, I am not a nerd.
But I really like to read about them, buy the ultimate stuff, work with them and entertain myself with them.
Probably that’s why something has been bothering me for some time in the movies and in some advertising films.
What happened to realism? Why everything has to look so cartoonish?
How many movies you have seen recently with beautiful cloudy pink and orange skies? Harmonic, symmetrical buildings in an impossible aerial travelling shot through a city? Fake backgrounds, movements, superheroes, monsters and …

I wrote this back when Sandra Bullock was known mostly for her acting instead of her cheating husband.
Sandra Bullock was on the Today show yesterday talking about how her movie The Blind Side was such a hit. She said it was because most of the decision makers in the studio weren’t that interested in the movie. No one came by to give their input or approval. Same thing for the classic movie, Fast Times At Ridgemont High. The studio execs were too busy caring about another movie they were anticipating …

I saw Food Inc. I thought it was a very powerful doc that lived up to hype.
It’s really well made, so much great info and it doesn’t come off preachy or hippie one bit.
They just show you the facts in smart ways, I really recommend it.
So it got me thinking… I’ve made a bunch of psa’s…
But are there any shops that are solely focused on clients that are helping to better us and the planet?
I’m going to start looking for them, if you know of any please let me know.
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And I thought advertising was the only industry where people
look at the work of the others and say: “I think someone did it before.”
Pocahontas vs Avatar, the mash-up video:
(Click on pic to see video)
- Fabio Seidl

I like to research how some creative guys work.
No, come on, not ad guys. I mean painters, comedians, musicians, artists. And most of the time, cinema directors.
I like to study their processes, their challenges, what they had to cut or leave behind, what they had to improvise.
I like to know how Coppola organizes his material, how Woody Allen crafts his characters, simple shots and sharp dialogues, what kind of problems that Scorcese has or what happens inside Pixar.
It’s just a hobby, nothing serious or nerdy: I buy some books, watch …

I missed the sign on the door the first time I saw this one.  (Video Embedded)

- Chris Soskin

Tron Legacy Trailer Embedded

For HD Trailer, click here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AwvuirSEAA
- Shannon McGlothin

Here’s a good way to start the week:

We all know people like this and wish they’d just come clean. Also I’m a big fan of site that lets you make a text into a “movie”… worth a look.
- Lee Margolis