by Andrew Herkert | Nov 12, 2021 | Content Marketing, Content Trends, News, Scribology, Visual Storytelling
The critics need you to know that Dune is big. Jackson Piercy calls it “massive in pure scale and in box office revenue” and Manohla Dargis calls it a “work on a large scale” and extols the “monumentality of [Director Denis] Villeneuve’s world building.” ...
by Andrew Herkert | Oct 28, 2021 | Content Marketing, Content Trends, Creativity in Business, News, Scribology, Visual Storytelling
The meteoric success of “Squid Game” is unparalleled in quite a few ways. Netflix is certainly happy with it—“It’s only been out for nine days, and it’s a very good chance it’s going to be our biggest show ever,” NBC quoted the streaming platforms co-CEO Ted...
by Andrew Herkert | Sep 16, 2021 | Content Marketing, Content Trends, Creativity in Business, Sales, Visual Storytelling
In conversation, we regularly use expressions without really knowing their origins. “That’s the ticket,” “put your foot in your mouth,” “bite the bullet”—researching the meanings and origins of these and others can sometimes provide surprising revelations. ...
by Andrew Herkert | Sep 14, 2021 | Content Marketing, Content Trends, Creativity in Business, Sales, Visual Storytelling
There’s something inherently weird about reading an article that purports to seriously examine humor. I think it’s in the bloodless effort to analyze humor with exacting, almost scientific language. Like this from Universal Class: “Humor events are defined...
by Andrew Herkert | Aug 18, 2021 | Content Marketing, Content Trends, Creativity in Business, Sales, Visual Storytelling
If you’ve ever watched the special features on a DVD or Blu-Ray of a film you enjoyed, you may have been introduced to Hollywood storyboarding. This tends to take the form of a series of single, hand-drawn frames, designed to give the filmmakers an early idea of what...
by Andrew Herkert | Jul 30, 2021 | Content Marketing, Content Trends, Creativity in Business, Visual Storytelling
There aren’t a lot of wholly unique takes to have on the space flights of Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos, so I won’t really pretend that I’m creating one here. Typically, responses are somewhere on the spectrum between “Billionaire joyrides are foolish” to “These were...
