Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Critiquing the Kindle Commercial
This strikes me as a combination of a Corona and Apple commercial. Beach scene, check. Catchy toon, check. No obnoxious voice over telling you about the product, check.
It's a good idea, the eInk screen is a huge selling point for the Kindle and it works much better on a beach than say an iPad. But the first time I saw it I thought it was backwards. It should have started with the shot from behind them to make it look like a Corona commercial and then zoomed in over their shoulders to reveal the Kindle and then passed them into the horizon (which matches with the lyrics).
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