Archive for the ‘arts’ Category

A picture is worth…

March 23, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off

…at least one New York Times headline. The blog Line By Line is a “daily graphic capture of New York Times headlines.” Here are three of the entries with their accompanying source material. For Consumers, Clarity on Health Care Changes Stores Land in Gun-Control Crossfire Huge Deficits May Alter U.S. Politics and Global Power More [...]

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Sub-prime the Musical

March 18, 2010Jon Brooks 11 Comments »

Tip o’ the hat to Laura at EconomyStory for sending us Sub-prime the Musical. The site consists of a series of podcasts by a college student named Madison Koshy, who created them from research she did on the causes of the credit crisis. Naturally, she then wrote song parodies to illustrate the concepts she had [...]

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Fun With Photoshop III

March 17, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off

Our last post featuring the graphics of Mike Licht of NotionsCapital… Click on an image to see it full size. Fun With Photoshop I and II here.

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“Laid-Off” goes Hollywood

March 15, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off

In this final episode of “Laid-Off,” we find our hero Odd Todd trekking out to Hollywood to try his hand at creating a TV show.

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Living With Le$

March 10, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off

Living With Le$ is an online comic strip about a Wall Street money manager who loses his job and has to move back in with his parents. Start here then read all 36 episodes to date.

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If persons were treated like corporations…

March 9, 2010Jon Brooks 7 Comments »

Political cartoon from Kevin Moore’s In Contempt site.

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Tapping the zeitgest at USA Networks

March 8, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off

Anthropologist/marketer Grant McCracken thinks he’s found what’s driving the success of USA Networks’ programming. This post called “The secret script at USA Networks (aka the enmeshed male)” explains: I know you have watched something on USA Networks. After all, its a hit machine. It has given us “Burn Notice,” “White Collar,” “Royal Pains,” and “In [...]

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Lester & Charlie – Bailout Bandwagon

March 8, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off

Lester & Charlie lend their expertise to solving the financial crisis.

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More “Laid-Off”

March 5, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off

Time for another animated episode of Odd Todd’s “Laid-Off.”

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Fun With Photoshop II

March 3, 2010Jon Brooks 1 Comment »

Our second post featuring the graphics of Mike Licht, of NotionsCapital. Click on an image to see it full size. <a href=" See the first post of Licht’s work here.

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