Insane what some people will pay for art.
Against a backdrop of reeling financial markets and nervous investors, Sotheby’s and the British artist Damien Hirst forged ahead with “Beautiful Inside My Head Forever,†a highly publicized auction of 223 works, all by Mr. Hirst and all made within the last two years.
The first session’s total was $127.2 million, above the high estimate for the entire sale, $112 million.
Longish. Some funny stuff but they’re trying too hard. Apple recently had a banner ad on NY Times that was funnier. It was an editorial for how the PC was getting frustrated – with his own picture. But here’s the second commercial from Microsoft.
Hat tip to Mac Daily for the video.
Old news story about bankruptcy hammers stock. But what was interesting to me was the little glimpse at what Google’s Crawler is trying to find:
But Google said the only reason its search engine “crawler” bothered with the story was that it was listed on the Sun-Sentinel page of most-viewed stories — and with the weekend date on it, instead of the 2002 date.
To the crawler, “it was a new item that said, ‘Hey, look here,’ ” Google spokesman Gabriel Stricker said.
The show Seinfeld starting out a bit rough, the characters needed to mesh together and the show in the beginning was too much stand up routine rather than creating situations where the characters got involved in ridiculous scenarios. This ad looks more like a rough draft, not polished and needs a lot of work. Don’t think this will challenge the Apple ads. I think there’s potential though, but more tinkering is needed. I just like Gates and Jerry in an ad together. They need Larry David to add some clever and funny angles to it. You know, a bit more Curb Your Enthusiasm. How much is Jerry getting paid, try $10 million per ad. Take a look.
Check out TechCrunch for more on the ads – an email that went out to Microsoft employees saying the ad is just an ice breaker.
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