Archives for 9 April 2007
Art in Chunky Bits… “Prom Queen” & “Fledgling”
Grant McCracken, who I like immensely as both a blogger and a person, has written a lot about “chunky culture” and “chunky marketing” as evolutionary replacements for declining mass culture and mass marketing.
Two examples of this have recently hit the web, and both are pretty good.
First, Michael Eisner’s new company, Tornante, is the funding entity [...]
Yes, “October Road” is bad, but NOT for the usual reasons
If you’re the kind of person who delights in savage reviews, start Googling the reviews for “October Road” — the new ABC one-hour, post “Gray’s Anatomy” series. You can get a fair sample at Metacritic. I AM that kind of person, but the reviews seem wrong to me. Sure, the situations are unlikely and the [...]
