It's like dinosaurs and the process of natural selection and extinction, the way I figure it. Cogent thought isn't disappearing, but the ability to express it is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_selection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction
Anything longer than a few minutes is verboten. Even the shallow advertising industry knows that; its ads are 15 seconds, generally, reduced from 30. PLEASE: Read this.
You will NOT turn to stone or perish. Farcebook won't go away. Comments you haven't read yet will still be there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFljpJdYRKM
Attention Span? WHO NEEDS IT?
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/advertising/2010-10-30-shorter-v-commercials_N.htm
I can't even remember what this is. Something drew my attention away. Just watch it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQJi4OBckj8
And then, this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSostBdBR04
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PQogX88yjg
Finally, on a totally non-related subject but nonetheless humorous:
I have to say I like the Budweiser video Chris... if only for the great acting. And I guess we know who Budweiser's market is: young men sitting on the couch hauling back the cold ones.
ReplyDeleteRe the Guess Who: I never really liked Laughing. Lots of other stuff by them: All of So Long Bannatyne, along with the album that has "Sour Suite" on it, Wheatfield Soul, and Share the Land.
I assume that's you Doug, though you didn't say so. Try this: these are 2 of my Guess Who favorites. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuc7isWmHYo
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