Every Sunday, during my complicated dose of caffeine, I'll share three powerful ideas worth holding onto. Some will be ads — or about advertising. Some about design or fashion. Others: art, illustration, animation, motion, audio, cinema, books, or any big idea that stands the test of time. You get the idea.
IDEA 1: Mayonesa Hellmann’s
This 2008 Hellmann's spot from Argentina shares devastating truth about food, love, and the people who feed us without ever asking to be remembered for it. That's not advertising nostalgia. That's craft. The best Mother's Day content doesn't announce itself. It just makes you feel something you weren't ready for. weren't ready for. 20/10.
IDEA 2: The 400 Pound Odyssey
Christopher Nolan spent decades trying to shoot an entire film on IMAX. The problem was always the same: the cameras were too loud. Actors performing intimate scenes had to shout over machinery. On Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy was unconsciously pushing his performance to compete with the camera noise. For a director obsessed with emotional truth, that was unacceptable.
So he called IMAX and gave them a challenge. They responded by building something entirely new — a 400-pound acoustic enclosure that silenced the IMAX system enough to shoot dialogue, whispers, grief. They named it the Keighley, after David Keighley, Nolan's IMAX mentor of 20 years who passed away just as post-production wrapped. He saw the final dailies before he died.
The Odyssey — out July 17 — is the first feature ever shot entirely on IMAX film. The lesson isn't about technology. It's about what happens when you refuse to accept the limitations of the tools and build new ones to honor the story. Nolan is sick.
IDEA 3: 100 years of wonder
King Charles didn't send David Attenborough a card. He sent a film — a handwritten birthday message relayed by wildlife, animal by animal, across the countryside — delivered in time for Attenborough's 100th birthday celebration at the Royal Albert Hall.
The best tribute to someone is one that reflects how they see the world, not how you see them.
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From Antes de que llegue el Brief (ADQLEB) Podcast
On the latest episode, I sat down with Gabriel René Rodríguez Rovira — Director of Digital & Technology at De La Cruz / Ogilvy. We talked about 20 years building at the intersection of creativity, strategy and tech, the projects that put Puerto Rico's tourism on the digital map, and why the traditional agency model is broken.
Link below if you want to listen while you scroll.
→ adqleb.com/gabrielrene
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