I don’t just dabble. I play with fire.

(insights from a BURN intern: By Paige Weber) As the newest BURN victim in the agency’s much desired summer internship program, I have gladly taken on the role of Fire Starter, literally. (I won’t bore you with the story of how I tried to set the studio on fire while burning business cards.) Pyromania aside, [...]

We’re all doomed!

BURN’s Jeff Berney recently presented a pep talk to his fellow AAF-KC members on the many wondrous things that are destroying the advertising industry. While mostly tongue-in-cheek, you can tell by the nervous audience laughter that some of his points hit a little too close to home. Enjoy! Let us know what you think of [...]

Who has two thumbs and loves paper? This intern!

(insights from a BURN intern: By Kathleen Euston) If you read my last entry, you know I quickly discovered that agency interns are often asked to do things slightly outside of their comfort zones, i.e. role playing an astronaut or running down Oak Street chasing the ice cream man (Jeff has a hankering for bomb [...]

Men are idiots.

That’s what you’d think if you watch commercials these days. It used to be that women were the helpless damsels in distress who required saving from brands and the men who introduced them to those products they couldn’t live without. Then, as it should, that chauvinistic thinking disappeared (for the most part). But it was [...]

No means no. (A guest blog by our bff Misty Stocksdale.)

There are 120 two-letter words in the English language. These little guys are plain, simple and unembellished. They are short and sweet, and they pack a lot of punch. They’re easy to spell, they’re easy to write and they’re easy to say (for the most part). Your run of the mill “to,” “at” and “do” [...]

I’m thankful for crappy ads.

This posting is dedicated to the Snuggies, the obnoxious used car salesmen, the brilliant companies with a we-don’t-mind-looking-cheap-so-yes-we-had-the-local-TV-station-produce-our-ad mentality, the ads that dominate the airwaves at three in the morning and all the other really bad ads of the world. To you I give thanks. Yes. Crappy ads are the bane of the advertising industry. [...]