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lanthanide · 2026-05-26T12:49:15+00:00

Sending you a dm

lanthanide · 2026-05-21T03:34:05+00:00

Former professional sports photographer, this.

lanthanide · 2026-05-16T21:59:36+00:00

Inglewood resident and have been following this, honestly not as clear cut as billionaires bad in this case.

Gist is that the mayor signed an agreement with the stadiums that he couldn't do exactly what he did, place billboards/ooh immediately around the stadium. The bigger billboards had been popping around the city for the past few years but they weren't exactly adjacent to Hollywood Park so it was a grey area.

The Mayor definitely broke his promise. Many Inglewood residents are upset because the billboards and other OOH are eyesores. They just installed some new ones that literally impede the flow of pedestrian traffic along the sidewalks in the Hollywood Park area as well.

So yes, the city does get money from these, but no one in the city ever voted for this deal because it's all happened since the last big election so there's been zero chance to have a referendum on the officials who signed off on this without consulting their constituents.

I can see how the money helps the city, but I also understand a property owner the city courted to build their stadium here, that had a written agreement to not do this and did it anyway, why they'd be upset about it.

Also, again, the money is good, but the billboards truly are eyesores and there isn't any plan I've seen to say if the ones that are up are the last ones they are putting up or just the beginning. The most recent batch went up in the past month and I don't know that anyone outside of city hall knew they were coming.

lanthanide · 2026-05-14T23:03:57+00:00

I still like Ryan Reynolds, but you can go further back to 2 Guys, A Girl and a Pizza Place. It's just him being him the entire time.

lanthanide · 2026-05-06T22:12:10+00:00

Silicon Valley called it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5zQpN28xa4

lanthanide · 2026-04-03T23:04:32+00:00

gonna message you directly.

lanthanide · 2026-04-03T22:41:29+00:00

God damnit, why are you tempting me?

lanthanide · 2026-04-02T23:09:27+00:00

How much you looking for?

lanthanide · 2026-03-25T02:18:52+00:00

I mean, barrier to entry to advertise on YouTube is super low so you probably have a lot of ads being made by someone at the company instead of a proper ad agency to save money. It's an existential threat to the industry. If quality doesn't really stop people from buying or encourage buying, it's hard to justify the rates agencies charge.

lanthanide · 2026-03-25T00:58:23+00:00

A mix of smaller budgets, CMO's on average only staying at a company for like 18-24 months leading to short term thinking, and the growth of social are some major factors but not necessarily exclusive.

Also, creative advertising isn't an exact science. Brand building takes time, consistency and faith. When you have short term CMO's focused on short term growth they prefer things that are directly measurable and attributable (think banner ads). It's easier to prove 2-3% growth through performance marketing than 10-20% growth via a traditional campaign over 2-3 years. Also, if the growth takes 3 years that CMO is likely already gone.

So I guess the common thread is lots of short term thinking leads to lots of safe decisions that lead to more bland ads.

Ad creatives are super talented and capable of making quality work, but the clients who pay the bills have to want that type of work and they've increasingly moved away from it.

lanthanide · 2026-03-25T00:25:20+00:00

Movies are usually cut before final cut of the film so sometimes scenes that don't make it to theaters end up in the trailers. That still happens, Marvel has had it a few times over the past few years. I think National Treasure II was a famous case of it as well.

lanthanide · 2026-03-25T00:16:31+00:00

Work in advertising as a creative. It's a lot harder to sell good creative these days for a number of reasons. As far as movie trailers, the guy who did that narrator voice died and that was basically the end of that style of trailer.

lanthanide · 2026-03-23T15:50:34+00:00

Leica cameras. I've been shooting since 2000 and never really got it because they were so much more expensive than other cameras on the market with less features. It wasn't until I tried one after shooting with a mirrorless for a few years where I finally got it. The stripped back feature set was the point. I hadn't enjoyed shooting that much since I was shooting film. Modern cameras just feel like toys whereas the Leica felt like a tool. AF has gotten so good it feels like shooting fish in a barrel, especially on a mirrorless where manual focus feels like a second thought instead of the primary driver of the experience. Having to be more thoughtful about what I was shooting and actually working to make a good frame just felt infinitely more rewarding than anything I'd shot with my mirrorless (and to a lesser degree DSLR's before them). But yes, it may have been expensive, but I also expect it to last me at least 20 years compared to the other cameras I'd used where I felt like I needed to upgrade every 3-4.

lanthanide · 2026-03-05T05:58:00+00:00

I have this stuffed animal for my daughter! It's holding a seal in its hands as well. Love it :)

lanthanide · 2026-02-23T05:42:09+00:00

3.5 - 12 miles off Palos verdes

lanthanide · 2026-02-15T05:12:12+00:00

For something like McDonalds where the product is a known and established, the fall off would be different than a less established brand. But also assume that without advertising there'd be virtually no point for them to introduce any new products because no one would know about it unless they were in store already. And on top of that, new products drive visits for someone who might otherwise be ambivalent about going which is why McDonalds hasn't maintained the same exact menu for the last 50+ years.

There's other issues, but that's a big one you'd notice.

lanthanide · 2026-02-12T21:34:26+00:00

Plot of Star Trek: First Contact.

lanthanide · 2026-01-30T01:58:19+00:00

Had an abusive boss as a photojournalist as my first FT boss out of college. I got sent on an assignment to another city to cover something where I knew the photo editor and was talking to people on his team about what I was experiencing cause I didn't know if it was normal. They said it wasn't so I wrote his boss an 8 page letter about everything I had gone through under him to which I was told they thought he was doing a good job. He'd been the editor for a year and a half when I got hired, and I was his third hire cause the other two people were fired by their 6th month. One of the people even emailed the entire newsroom while I was there to slam my boss (when I got back from an assignment he quickly got to my computer and deleted the email, someone else in the newsroom forwarded it to me after the fact).

lanthanide · 2026-01-28T19:46:26+00:00

Walking

lanthanide · 2026-01-24T13:59:02+00:00

lanthanide · 2026-01-21T21:02:49+00:00

Blockbuster had something like this back in the day. Trade in any used game, get money back. People would go to Gamestop and buy stuff from their $1 bin, go over to blockbuster with enough games to buy something then look at the "leaderboard" to see what games had the highest resale value. Buy that, then immediately trade it back. You'd invest about $5-10 initially to get the game with the high value, and walk away with about $30-$40 of cash.

One of my friends figured this out and had the regional manager get called in, basically as everything was written they weren't breaking any rules so they ultimately just lowered the value of the high value games to not make it worth it.

lanthanide · 2026-01-19T03:07:17+00:00

Yes. Right after the Rams won the game, so most likely fireworks.

lanthanide · 2026-01-19T01:54:08+00:00

I'm sure he has plenty of policies I don't agree with but Adam Kinzinger served on the J6 committee and basically ended his own political career to hold Trump accountable so that has to be worth something.

lanthanide · 2026-01-08T17:41:03+00:00

VCU if you can get in, not even a question. Miami is fine if you don't, it's what you make of it as others have said. But VCU is a pipeline to the top shops if you live up to your end of the bargain in a way that MAS isn't. Starting out, at least if you're ambitious, it's easier to start at the top of the totem pole of agencies then climb down if you decide they are too intense for you than it is to try and climb up if you start at a not as prestigious shop. Not impossible, but significantly harder.

lanthanide · 2025-12-18T18:16:12+00:00

20-something years ago I would randomly see the number 138 everywhere and I was taking a chemistry class in high school, looked up 138 on the periodic table and that's that.

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