Blogscapes

We know you've been there.

You've got a creative brief on your desk, a deadline looming and that extra cup of coffee has done nothing but jangle your nerves like a four-hour trip to Chuck E. Cheese.

You're staring at a blank Word document. You've got thirty seconds to fill and enough "unique" selling points from the client to write a sitcom running to the first commercial break.

You try breathing through your eyelids like a lava lizard. You try transcendental meditation. You spend way too much time doing "research" on BuzzFeed. 

Then you try Museware.

Suddenly, the ideas begin to flow. You begin to get in the groove. Your fingers fly across the keys as streams of pure brilliance issue forth, the likes of which the world has not yet seen. Your spot wins a Radio Mercury Award and you pull down a sizable cash prize, which you use to finance your musical career as an R&B artist known simply as "MW" and start a clothing line selling diamond-encrusted belt buckles.

Strapped for a creative concept? Maybe you should try it.

The advertising world lost one of the all-time great minds and an inimitable voice. Hal Riney died yesterday at age 75. The full obit is here.

Hey there all you hipsters...you might enjoy this performance of a modern spiritual from the fine folks on the Lawrence Welk show.
Take it away kids...

...don't bogart that milkshake now, yah.

Amy Walker (no relation to Brent Walker) does a tour of 21 accents from the UK and Ireland to Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, Russia, France, Australia, New Zealand and around North America. Mesmerizing!

Here's a very cool site put together by Memphis resident Phillip Andrew Lewis. It involves field recordings around the Mississippi River. You can trigger a loop of each recording, then pan it and mix it as you see fit.

Are there possibilities in this for a client of yours?

(Thanks to Stinson Liles at Red Deluxe for the link.)