New England Film Movement Blog tagged 'BBC'

The MFA Celebrates British Commercials

7FluidAH

The Museum of Fine Arts Boston is now holding a series of unique screenings entitled WORLD'S BEST TV ADS: BRITISH ADVERTISING FILMS OF 2007. The show, now in its 20th year, gives American audiences the opportunity to see how the British approach advertising.

According to the MFA web site, this year's exhibition includes "exploding paint over a whole housing estate for Sony, and a piece of computer-generated trickery that places Elvis Presley on the same stage as [...]

Oh, Snap! Web 2.0 is Destroying the World?

mdurwin

Andrew Keen was interviewed in today’s Metro Boston discussing who Web2.0 was ruining the Internet and culture in general. He states in his new book “The Cult of Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture”:
“millions of millions of exuberant monkeys … are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity,”

Original link: http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2007/200706/20070611/article_319089.htm

Keen rips apart use [...]