Jake Ludens’ Mental Environment

Advertising, Politics, Literature, Thought, and …. I forget.

Entries for December, 2008

Internet Intelligence #2 – GreaseCar.com

I saw my first vegetable oil powered car yesterday. It was a small red truck with the URL www.greasecar.com I checked out their website and the first thing that I read was their tag line “Save Money! Help the Environment! Reduce America’s need for foreign oil!” This might be the first time I have ever [...]

The strange things people say

Today was a day full of shopping and overhearing things that were really out there, but I’ll get to that in a minute. First of all I would like to thank everyone who came out last night to our first Friday get together. While we didn’t make it too late of a night I was [...]

First Friday Early Post

Wow, this is strange making a blog post so early in the day. It is First Friday here in Las Vegas and the weather is great in comparison to what I hear it is like back in Wyoming today. For any of you who are not familiar with the Las Vegas First Friday events, check [...]

Idea Overload Disorder, or “I, OD” as it is known.

I honestly think I have come up with my very own disorder. Now I just need a good pitch for the pharmaceutical companies. I know, I will use my real life story as the basis for my marketing pitch. Here it goes.. “Do you ever find yourself spaced out? trying to do five things at [...]

Logo Lounge and 1936 Typography

Today while I was working on one of our client’s new websites and in between Twitter posts and IM’s, I came up with an idea for a new project. Don’t worry you will all get a glimpse of it soon. With this new idea I needed to come up with a new logo and I [...]

Toys, Twitter and Today’s Advertising

All I have to do is post this photo and many of you are going to go crazy remembering all the great things you have gotten for the holidays over the years. Are you ready? Ok to be honest I just wanted Jason’s ADD to really kick in tonight. (you’re welcome Jason!) This is a [...]

End of 2008 – Time for 30 Day Blog Challenge part 2

I am down to the last few minutes here of day one of a second 30 Day Blog Challenge. This time it shouldn’t be as difficult to accomplish one post a day for 30 days since I have no travel plans this month. So here we go… This past weekend I helped my brother clean [...]