Cool Marketing

I always appreciate a good advertising idea. Sometimes a clever marketing idea, well executed, can be an incredibly creative work of art.

One type of marketing that can be very effective is this type of viral marketing when it is done right. This one is done right.

A clever idea, well timed with the fiftieth anniversary of the JFK assassination. It makes the implication that the Magneto may have had something to do with the famous "magic bullet". For those not in the know, the allegation is that the one bullet that past through JFK's neck and into Governor Connally somehow changed direction to have caused the injury's that it did.

This is just a brilliant idea for promoting interest in "X-MEN: Days of Future Past" as part of the movie takes place in the 1960's. As well as the "documentary" style YouTube Video, they have a whole website to go check out. (www.thebentbullet.com). When done right this kind of advertising can make people unfamiliar with the movie or subject matter curious to see it or learn more, and makes fans of the X-Men movies even more ravenous and exited for this new movie. Well done!

Today's Blog Brought To You By The Letter "S"

Being born in 1967, my generation was the first that got to grow up watching Sesame Street. I have lots of good memory's of sitting in the living room watching when I was a kid. Every time "S" was one of the letters of the day, I would hope this segment would be on.

S...is for Superman

50th Anniversary of Doctor Who

50 years of Doctor Who. I have to say I am amazed by the popularity of Doctor Who, but I guess I shouldn't be. It's no different than the popularity of any other fantasy and science fiction genre right now. Everything that those of us that where geeks and nerds twenty or thirty years ago is now cool, popular and trendy. Just goes to show, if the idea is strong and the story's are good and well written it can go on for fifty years. and with a little luck, fifty more.

Happy 50th Anniversary Doctor!

Rememberance Day 2013

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh month. Take a moment of silence to remember how our freedom was paid for. To all our veterans, young and old, and the members of the Canadian Armed Forces still serving, as well as all their family's...thank you.

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.

The Last Post

Guy Fawkes Day

Happy Guy Fawkes day!

The Fifth of November 

"Remember, remember! 

The fifth of November,

The gunpowder treason and plot;

I know of no reason

Why the gunpowder treason

Should ever be forgot!

Guy Fawkes and his companions

Did the scheme contrive,

To blow the King and Parliament

All up alive.

Threescore barrels, laid below,

To prove old England's overthrow,

But, by God's providence, him they catch,

With a dark lantern, lighting a match!

A stick for a stake

For King James's sake!

If you won't give me one,

I'll take two,

The better for me,

And the worse for you.

A rope, a rope, to hang the Pope,

A penn'orth of cheese to choke him,

A pint of beer to wash it down,

And a jolly good fire to burn him.

Holloa, boys! holloa, boys! Make the bells ring

Holloa, boys! holloa, boys! God save the King!

Hip, hip, hooor-r-ray!"

English folk verse (c. 1870)