May 1 2012
Apr 20 2012
Conchita, debemos to speak totalmente in English…
Doña Josefina Counsels Doña Concepción Before Entering Sears (by PoetryFoundation), an animated poem by Maurice Kilwein Guevara
Feb 28 2012
Pronunciation Book vs Pronunciation Manual
YouTube channel Pronunciation Manual, a parody of the Pronunciation Book channel, offers completely unhelpful examples of how to pronounce words.
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Feb 21 2012
Penguin Books Animation - Is That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellos (by penguinbooks)
David Bellos, author of Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, talks about translation, how we make ourselves understood and the strange variance in language between countries, cultures and people, as well as explaining how anyone can cope without the words for Left and Right, using only a tarantula.
Feb 4 2012
Wordpharmacy, a temporary literary pharmacy in Berlin.
An exhibition by Danish writer and artist Morten Søndergaard equating the structure of language with pharmaceutical products. Ten medicine boxes, each representing one of the ten word-groups. Each box contains a leaflet that functions as an instructional poem, guiding the reader’s ingestion of the given word group.
Jan 25 2012
The appaling work habits of David Ogilvy, including...
I have never written an advertisement in the office. Too many interruptions. I do all my writing at home.
Letters of Note: I am a lousy copywriter, 1955 letter from advertising legend David Ogilvy
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