I think it’s useful to see how things work. It helps me appreciate what I’m looking at and it also lets my mind wander to areas of creativity I wouldn’t have found on my own. Like, prisms – they’re awesome. They bend light, guys…mindblowing. Needless to say, I was stoked to learn how the animation was conceived and executed for the music video of “We Come Together” by Goldfish. It’s inspiring and daunting at the same time. Look at just how much effort was put into this 3:00 little movie …

Music is an essential component of my job as a copywriter.  But there’s a lot of debate among copywriters on the subject of listening to music while working.  Some claim it’s too distracting.  Some claim they can only listen to instrumental-only songs.  But my problem is that I can’t seem to get any work done if I’m not listening to music.  I end up zoning out and listening to everything else around me, which usually includes: office chatter, ambulance sirens, lots of honking, fire alarm testing (happens a lot), drilling …

The Internet is amazing. No, really, I’ll show you why. So, Death Cab For Cutie is releasing a new album on May 31st called “Codes and Keys.” To promote the album, they performed the first ever one-take, live, online music video for the first single of the album, “You Are A Tourist,” today, Tuesday April 5th, at 7pm EST. (Woah, that was a mouthful. Lisa Ling would be proud, I bet.) Anyway, I watched it all unfold in rapt excitement just a few minutes ago.
The conclusion: pretty good.
I mean, I …

I stumbled into this video by Cassius and their new song “I love you so”. Granted it’s not the most creative or fresh use of an iPhone, yet it’s still pretty.. well pretty. And you can download it for you phone and play with it yourself. Enjoy.
Click on the pic to go to the video.

- Julissa Ortiz

This guys are actually pretty incredible. A lot of people edit Youtube videos making music with them, but in this case, they get videos that are about to get really popular on Youtube, transform them in music and then sell ‘em on iTunes Store. On which by the way they ranked #63 last week and today they are #38.
And since they make money out of other peoples video, they make sure to share their income with the those guys. The Dodson family and Antoine (stars of “Bed Intruder”) also go …

What is social media good for but those narcissists that insist on letting everyone know how cool they are by checking in to absolutely everywhere on foursquare and letting everyone on FB know what they are doing? Marketing of course, and I don’t mean those stupid get skinny quick ads on facebook.
Two weeks ago some friends and I met up for dinner and to see Lydia, the band.
We arrived at Lincoln Hall (One of Chicago’s finest venues) and all of us check into four square. I got some adverture badge, …

So I finally got my gas-masked mug into AgencySpy last week! Not exactly the ideal circumstances to be mentioned on AgencySpy, but at least it’s not because of being fired from some high-profile post, or being anonymously called-out by co-workers for being an insufferable douchebag…
This weekend was beautiful. The air was breathable, the temperatures comfortable, and Muscovites seemed to be flocking out into the streets again. On Friday night I saw a solo performance by Alexander Hacke (of Einsteurzende Neubauten) at a very cool little bar/café called Ikra- It was …

I bumped into this great type treatment to Nina Simone’s “Feeling Good”, created for the MFA Design program at School of Visual Arts. Great song plus great type equals an enlightened mind. Enjoy.

- Julissa Ortiz

Joaquin Phoenix finally gives away what the hell he was doing trying to rap and looking like he was on lsd the whole time.
Almost 2 years after started being a weirdo he comes out with what everybody kinda knew already, a documentary directed by Casey Affleck. “I’m still here” comes out September 10th and still nobody knows what its about.
I don’t know about you, but I’m interested to know what all that HUGE marketing around him and his personal life will bring.
- Philipe Diao

I saw a side of Moscow that I loved this weekend. After a few weeks filled with drunken racists, bumbling, thuggy policemen, outrageous prices, horrible air quality, record breaking heat, and crazy working hours, I had my most enjoyable experience in Moscow so far, Saturday at the Afisha picnic. Afisha is a local magazine that’s like Moscow’s version of ‘Time Out’ or a free weekly magazine. They do this huge ‘picnic’ every year, and supposedly it’s always a big deal. I went with a few friends from work, and apart …