david connell

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a minor obsession: faces, “ooh la la”

a minor obsession: faces, “ooh la la”

04/27/2012 · by davidconnell · in music/design/arts

Why listening to Faces’ “Ooh La La” brings tears to my eyes and make me thinks of the past and the future.

superman, a dream transcribed

superman, a dream transcribed

04/20/2012 · by davidconnell · in fiction

I drive through a Pennsylvania valley, rimmed on each side by Appalachian foothills. To my right in the near distance is a family farm: a cornfield, a red barn, a silo and a white clapboard house with a red brick chimney.

orson welles, herman melville and led zeppelin all got together and took ‘shrooms

orson welles, herman melville and led zeppelin all got together and took ‘shrooms

04/14/2012 · by davidconnell · in music/design/arts

Alex Itin’s multimedia interpretation of Moby Dick, starring Orson Welles, Led Zeppelin and Herman Melville. Along with other Moby Dick art that has inspired me to read the novel.

why i so love “texting guy almost runs into a bear”

why i so love “texting guy almost runs into a bear”

04/13/2012 · by davidconnell · in environment, music/design/arts

This scene could only happen in America, where we’ve protected enough wilderness for black bears to still exist, while at the same time crowding that wilderness with dense suburbs.

up against it

up against it

04/10/2012 · by davidconnell · in fiction, five sentence fiction

Up against the wall on an empty street, the cold cutting through my leather gloves and wool cap. I’m on my way to the job, the tie round my neck pinching, my earbuds blaring the Pogues and a last drag of the cigarette thrown to the gutter.

matt damon to star in anti-fracking movie

04/06/2012 · by davidconnell · in environment

John Krasinski (“The Office”) and Rosemarie DeWitt (“Mad Men,” “United States of Tara”) have signed on to the film. Director Gus Van Sant, who shot “Good Will Hunting,” “Milk” and “Finding Forrester,” has signed on to direct the film, which is in pre-production, according to IMDB.

video: a little part of it in everyone…

video: a little part of it in everyone…

04/05/2012 · by davidconnell · in music/design/arts

Laura Marling sings Neil Young’s “The Needle And The Damage Done.” Great version and a nice stop-motion animation video that pretty much nails the meaning of the song. Produced by Jack White.

video: wes anderson directs a sony commercial

video: wes anderson directs a sony commercial

04/05/2012 · by davidconnell · in music/design/arts

Film Director Wes Anderson’s commercial for the Sony Xperia mobile phone.

“dirty levi’s and the land of old myths”

02/10/2012 · by davidconnell · in marketing/advertising

Veda Partalo, planning director for Fallon ad agency, views American marketing through American values to subtly change the Cadillac image.

video: field notes: red blooded on vimeo

02/04/2012 · by davidconnell · in music/design/arts

Field Notes releases Red Blooded notebook to its standard line, available Valentine’s Day and every day thereafter, with a sweet pop-up video from one of their own — a love letter to his wife.

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Director of Digital Marketing for Ocean Conservancy -- husband and father of 2. You can read more about me here.

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what i read

  • A List Apart
  • All Songs Considered
  • Altucher Confidential
  • Andrew Sullivan
  • Anil Dash
  • Babbage (The Economist)
  • BoingBoing
  • Brain Pickings
  • Daily Icon
  • Daring Fireball
  • DesignNotes from Michael Surtees
  • Dustin Curtis is a Superhero
  • I Believe in Advertising
  • inessential.com by Brent Simmons
  • kottke.org
  • Laughing Squid
  • Lifehacker
  • MayDayBlog (Brendan May)
  • Must Read Soccer
  • NeuroTribes
  • Open Culture
  • PandoDaily
  • parislemon
  • Scobleizer
  • SplatF
  • Stereogum
  • Swiss Miss
  • TechCrunch
  • The 99 Percent
  • The Conservation Report
  • The Fox Is Black
  • The Loop
  • The Run of Play
  • Think Outside In
  • Tweetage Wasteland
  • Uncrunched
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