by Andrew Herkert | Aug 4, 2022 | Content Trends, News, Visual Storytelling
Why do people believe weird stuff? Is it an innate trait? Is it learned—nurtured by life events that, over time, create an intensely skeptical (or perhaps intensely credulous) mind? Or is something else at play? I’m not writing this to shame...
by Andrew Herkert | Mar 30, 2022 | Content Marketing, Content Trends, External Communications, News, Visual Storytelling
Like seemingly everything during the pandemic, visual storytelling has required modulation and caution to continue to function as usual. Most long-term emergencies have this effect—with the gravity of the situation comes a new standard for what is appropriate...
by Andrew Herkert | Mar 10, 2022 | News, Visual Storytelling
Wars don’t do well in photographs. It’s hard to add nationalism or glory to a burned-out building, and a pickup truck shelled into oblivion doesn’t send an uplifting message. This is part of the reason why the Vietnam War ended when it did: TV cameras kept...
by Andrew Herkert | Mar 8, 2022 | Content Trends, External Communications, News, Visual Storytelling
Visual storytelling at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing has had quite a job in front of it. The last few years have been taxing at best and crushing at worst, and political divides have added more difficulty to the Beijing Olympics. So how have promoters...
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...
