According to Washington Post and Bloomberg, Six Flags, the amusement-park chain controlled by Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder, is selling seven of its 28 theme parks to Jacksonville-based PARC 7F for $312 million in an effort to improve its balance sheet. The seven parks to be sold are Six Flags Darien Lake near Buffalo; Elitch Gardens in Denver; Frontier City and White Water Bay in Oklahoma City; SplashTown …
Do You Harbor Any Resistance To Always-On Connectivity?
I just began instant messaging and texting last year. Aware of my new undertakings, Shawn--the publisher of this site--welcomed me to the year 2000. So I'm not an early adopter. I can deal with it. What I find interesting is people who resist altogether the watershed changes underway in technology and communications. USA Today lables these unique creatures "tech-nos." Some tech-no's shun e-mail. Others don't use the …
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Pepsi Can’t Sit Still
The Wall Street Journal reports that one of America's iconic brands is going through a late-life identity crisis. Scatch that. The story's really about loss of attention span. Or maybe it's about the Cult of New. You be the judge. PepsiCo Inc. is seeing its cans in a whole new light. For 109 years, the Purchase, N.Y., company has fiercely guarded the packaging of its namesake cola, crafting changes to its labels …
Hire Artists. Elevate The Work.
Gwen Yip is an art director from Hong Kong currently working on Yakult at Wieden + Kennedy in London. She has a blog about looking for (and finding) work in the London ad scene. It's adorable and I'm fascinated by it. In the frame above Yip shows us Michael Russoff, the Creative Director at Wieden responsible for bringing her on board. Here's the copy that attends her post: He likes my personal work where the …
Cranky Gets Crankin’
USA Today reports on a new search engine designed to appeal to users that did not grow up on the web. Does surfing the Web exhaust — and even exasperate — older people? The backers of Cranky.com are betting on it. Cranky is a specialty search engine designed to please aging baby boomers by processing every request from the perspective of someone who is at least 50 years old. This steadily growing demographic often …
Apple Ignores Trademark Law
With A Nod To Shepard Fairey
People love to bust on McDonald's. There's a long history of activism against the global burger dispenser. Ronald McHummer, the latest comer adds a subversive twist to their protest—a make your own McD's sign game. Here's why they're bothering: McDonald's often emphasizes its "long-standing global commitment to environmental protection and leadership." So why did they give away 42 million toy Hummers in Happy Meals? …
Ahm-SAH-leh
Amsale Aberra, a 52-year-old couture wedding gown designer -- and a native of Ethiopia -- is the new spokesperson for the MKX, Lincoln's first entry in the compact crossover wagon market. According to The Wall Street Journal (paid sub. req.), Ms. Aberra's New York-based wedding- and evening-dress house, claims annual sales of about $30 million. The Amsale label is in the same league as Vera Wang, another high-end …