Had a cold on my last sketch day. But today the gang and I got out to do some drawing at lunch. These are some of the people having lunch today at Jason’s Deli. After that I drew some spaceships.

When you have a bunch of people around it’s good to take advantage of all the different gesturing going on.

Here’s my idea for turning your lunch bag into a place mat. You could print inside the bag to make it even more fun!

Could we waste less paper if our food bags did double duty?

What new marketing fun could be made by printing in the bag?

How much paper could we save by not having place mats?

I won’t always pick up a penny, especially when face down.

But I’ll pick up this cool looking pen, I just found.

I like thinking about all the doodles, notes and name it’s written down.

Now it’s my turn to take this writing instrument to town.

1. Anybody can do it.
2. Reach, what ways are we building to get our content to the audience simply.
3. Engagement with your audience.

How much smaller and faster can it get when it comes to producing content? I would flip if I had to wait 2 weeks to view what I just recorded. How about you?

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1. Dude, Where’s my Car?
2. Donnie Darko
3. The Thing Directed by John Carpenter
4. Miracle Mile
5. Colossus “The Forbin” Project. Don’t wait for Ron Howards version
6. Run Lola Run
7. The Butterfly Effect
8. May
9. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
10. Duel
    
11. Ghost dog.
12. Lady Killers with Alec Guinness
13. Marathon Man

Oh and yeah I made it 13 because of Halloween!  BOO!

Now about the summit. What a night! A lot of energy and hope being brought to Chicago last night. Great speakers and a lot of motivation. With the idea of people working together and figuring you how we can become the New Media Capital. This was just a preview to what is coming in Sept.

There is already a lot going on in this town but an event like this will start linking up the individuals and companies that want to get it done and get more out of the work they are doing. CNMS08 is putting the world on notice!

My first talk is with Marilyn McConnell, Director of Sales for Pixel Brothers. I think she knew the night went well too.

“Veoh wants to move beyond the PC to mobile devices, and is putting a lot of resources behind developing its behavioral ad targeting platform for video.”

You can read the full story from TechCrunch here,

Yeah I want “behavioral ad targeting” and so should you.   Here’s why… 

As a consumer I tired, TIRED of seeing ads that have nothing to do with me.  I never want to see Comcast, female hygiene products, hair-loss pills, or male enhancement drugs.  Why should I?  It’s a waste of time for me it’s a big waste of money for the advertisers.  I do want to see ads that know what I want.  I might not always buy it but I’ve got a greater chance of doing just that.

As a content creator, it would be great to have ads that is relevant to my content or might be relevant to my viewers.  That way it enhances the content and they are less annoyed by commercials breaks.

A few notes:

1. It really does have to be relevant ads.

2. You can’t share my profile with my friends or make it public, (no one cares what I just bought online)

3. The ads have to be different than repurposed commercial breaks.  I just watch something that was 2 minutes long.  The commercials shouldn’t be longer than what I just watched.

This will be a whole new.  I know people will resist this and think it’s weird or creepy.  But I want to know where to sign up so hey get my commercial feed just right.  I think once people see how much better things will be more people will adopted it. 

Filmaka.com also has a nice selection of international shorts that are worth checking out.

But after I thought about it, these are good words to live by. I hear all the time you shouldn’t try to do something you should just do it. But sometimes you don’t know if you want to do it if you don’t try… But the truth is even if you are trying, you are doing more than the person who isn’t trying anything.

Maybe they should put fortunes under these lids?