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Shufflr Pligg CMS Exclusive: Todd Levin on How Conan O'Brien Got Screwed: Celebrities If you've ever seen a criminal standing before a firing squad and felt jealous of all the attention he was receiving, then you would have loved writing for Conan O'Brien. There was a ritual at rehearsals for Late Night: Every afternoon, the writers responsible for that day's comedy would enter the studio, file past Conan's desk, and position themselves behind the guest couch, standing shoulder to shoulder or seated on apple boxes. (Later, at The Tonight Show, these were upgraded to four director's chairs.) The arrangement was awkward but practical—it gave writers a good view of the rehearsal and kept them close to Conan and Mike Sweeney, the show's head writer, for notes and on-the-fly changes. It may have appeared as if the writers were enjoying a seat of entitlement up there, and when rehearsals went well, it was an incredibly entertaining privilege. They didn't even have the decency to hand out blindfolds.

12 Extremely Effective Guerrilla Marketing Stunts Nailed It:12 Extremely Effective Guerrilla Marketing Stunts Article by Urbanist, filed under Guerilla Ads & Marketing in the Design category. Ad-agencies are finding it more and more difficult today to get through to the average consumer, and marketing saturation only grows with every year. It’s for that reason that guerrilla ad-campaigns are becoming so prevalent in the industry. Here we take a look at some of the recent, most effective and ingeniously simple guerrilla marketing found since our 8-part series last year. Simple Ideas (images via onthegroundlookingup, gothamist, stephengates) It doesn’t take much to get a reaction from people when it comes to guerrilla marketing. Good For Any Purpose (images via geckoandfly, arrestedmotion, adofdamonth) Many public-awareness campaigns are using guerrilla tactics in their ads. It Shows Up in the Most Unexpected Places (images via pzrservices, whatsthecrack, myselectedads, parsons)

Blinkx Twine Birmingham Live! » Blog Archive » Magnetic Man & Katy B @ HMV Institute, 6th November 2010 I had been looking forward to this gig since it was announced. Before I got asked to review it I was already going as part of a friend’s birthday celebrations, and the night certainly lived up to my expectations. I haven’t been to a gig at the Institute for a very long time – I think the last time I actually saw a band there was when it had become the Sanctuary and Biffy Clyro were playing on their tour for their first album as part of Groovy Garden. To be honest not a lot has changed inside the venue but a lot has changed in terms of my musical tastes. Saying that I haven’t been to a gig where you actually need to use your ticket to get into the room in the venue after you have been to the toilet, but as a guess they must have had more than one event going on. Some of my friends and fellow DJ’s have been asking what has been going on with my music tastes recently but I would challenge anyone to not have got into the venue and started dancing regardless of what music they were into.

MarketingVOX - The Voice of Online Marketing Retelly Bill Murray on Ghostbusters 3, Get Low, Ron Howard, and Kung Fu Hustle: Celebrities When I arrived, he was standing alone in the corner of a New York hotel room, talking on a cell phone and wearing a ratty black polo, jeans, and yellow "tape measure" suspenders. I had been waiting for over an hour, which didn't seem like an unreasonable amount of time. Bill Murray famously does not give interviews—he's sat down for exactly four prolonged media encounters in the past ten years—and when he does, it's never clear what you're going to get. You just have to pray he's in a good mood. The very thing that makes Bill Murray, well, Bill Murray is what makes sitting down with him such an unpredictable enterprise. Bill Murray crashes parties, ditches promotional appearances, clashes with his friends, his collaborators, and his enemies. His career is known to most any fan of modern comedy: the years on SNL; the series of epochal comedies like Stripes, Groundhog Day, and Caddyshack. Bill Murray: How long do these things last? GQ: A lot. Digital? I dunno. I do. Exactly!

Marketing and Advertising News With Attitude by Steve Hall » Adr Filtatron - Moog app for iPhone or iPod Touch • Audiobus and JACK support for total integration with your other audio apps! Filtatron can act as a source, destination, or a filter for audio from other compatible apps. • MIDI Mapping for almost every parameter! Use hardware controllers or external sequencers to control Filtatron remoterl. Check the MIDI menu on the 'About' page. • Share files from the Samples directly to SoundCloud • Now supports landscape and portrait orientation on iPad. • Now supports iPhone 5 Import any song from your library into the hot rodded sampler that features unlimited length recording with overdub, looping, varispeed & reverse playback all at 44.1khz The heart of the Filtatron is a four-pole resonant Moog Ladder Filter-modelled after the same filter that gives Moog instruments their classic warm, thick character. The Pads are an intuitive performance interface giving you hands-on control of all the major Filtatron parameters. Sweeten your sounds with the feature-packed FX module.

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