Monthly Archives: May 2015

What happens in Vegas, doesn’t stay in Vegas anymore.

 Illustration Minky Stapleton “Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.” Jim Morrison Over a hundred years ago, in the 1980’s, there used to be a television show called Dallas. Now, when I was growing up, it was so popular that restaurants on a Tuesday evening would close because nobody went out. The entire country watchedContinue reading “What happens in Vegas, doesn’t stay in Vegas anymore.”

Mad men never die. They just change their business card.

“Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.” Bill Bernbach Recently there have been a whole lot of articles in the trade about the demise of Mad Men. They relate to the television show and allude to the end of advertising as we know it. The argument isContinue reading “Mad men never die. They just change their business card.”