this guy again

i wrote about this guy in a previous post. i think this is either the owner of the company or the writer. this must be a bad joke. as an internet marketer, i would love to find out the click through rate of this campaign.

this guy again

now he’s showing up on facebook - and notice how the ‘dislike’ button is no longer there so i can’t even vote him out. has anyone EVER clicked on these banners? i for one haven’t - but then again i’m not a big on clicking on banners and it’s my business to create them. go figure.

we do a lot of work here at the visual mercenary group and many times it’s of a corporate nature. we really don’t mind, because we try to put creativity into everything we do. actually this past year we’ve been pretty busy but haven’t put up any of our new work on our online portfolio, nor have we written any blurbs about the project here on our blog. so i’m setting myself the task of writing a post a week on our past projects before, as we all know, the speed of the internet makes them defunct. there are already a couple of promotional micro sites we’ve done that are offline. but i digress…

ferndance

there are times that some of our projects are of a purely creative nature. through our association with the wesport academy of dance - whose website & blog we’ve designed and programmed - we have been introduced to many individuals and groups in the dance world. one of them is ferndance run by choreographer david fernandez. last month we put our two newly purchased sony ex1-r hd cameras (yes our credit card company was thrilled that day) to good use by shooting a short promo piece for david at the rehearsal studio at the mark morris center in brooklyn. we’re editing the video and will post it soon, but i just needed something to write about and thought i’d tease you with a couple of photos.now i know you’ll come back because you really should see these beautiful and talented ladies dance.

ferndance

I haven’t written anything in a long time. so right now, i’m writing this on my iphone using the wordpress app that I’ve actually had for the past year but never used. one of the reasons that I think I’ve taken so long to write is because, not being a writer, i’ve been placed certain standards on myself as to what a blog entry should be or not be (damn you social media and your undefined wild west)

last week though, I saw the movie Julie/Julia. if you know, it was an oscar nominee in a few categories. i always thought it as a chick flick from the ads (kinda was but on a totally different level). anyways, the main theme that i got out of it was simply: inspiration. and sidebar: truth be told, the acting was superb too.

so, in this post there are no photos or text links, nothing that i’m forcing myself to produce just for social media’s sake. just a bit of transparency into what’s on my mind today. after all, I’ve been talking about transparency all day so I may as well start it here and now.

I was saying that I think it’s important for clients to actually know a little more about individuals/companies they work wih in order to forge better relationships. by using social media, whether it’s twitter or linkedin, it becomes a means to an end. as long as the work gets done, if my clients know I enjoy a full bodied cabernet with my dinners, all the better.

but hey, if you’re shady to begin with, you’d be hiding anyway. yeah talking to you west VA mining companies. that’s all for now.

and happy birthday lauren cook.