What does it say about the loss of play in our culture that it takes an automobile company to bring it back?
This summer, somehow, I ended up seeing more films than I have in the past five or six years combined. Since most of these films were from the summer-blockbuster variety (Star Trek, Wolverine, GI Joe, etc.) I ended up seeing many of the same trailers over and over. I feel like I’ve already seen some of those films, even though they haven’t been released.
However, it might have been before District 9 (which was super-intense, by the way; I’m stressed just remembering it!), I saw this lovely trailer for Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are:
I wanted to pick up on a thread I started yesterday on my posterous account (I know, a tumblr and a posterous? Microblogging overkill!)…
The music nerd in me (combined with my undergrad marketing background) always notices when indie-ish bands are featured in commercials. While I suppose lots of the folks who are working on Madison Avenue are either in my age cohort or younger and, therefore, probably have similar tastes in music to me, I am often confused (and a little put off) by their choices in background music for ads.
This commercial for Absolut Vodka features a Joy Division/New Order song, Ceremony:
[Note: I’m picking up on a thread, Third Way Thinking, that I started awhile back – talking about third culture leaders and finding the groove]
James Choung shared a great quote from Roger Martin in The Opposable Mind this morning at our San Diego Asian American Minister’s meeting:
Risky Business
I have been extremely blessed to volunteer for Justice Ventures International for the last year. I’m excited to see where this partnership leads and how I can continue to contribute to the great work JVI is doing around the world. As my friend Charles Lee says, “Compassion must be more than just a re-tweet.” I want to work towards compassion & justice around the world in tangible, even sacrificial, ways — to venture, to risk, in becoming a better expression of God’s love.
headsparks* 