JUNE 14, 2016|ENTERTAINMENT & HOLLYWOOD
Life Imitating Art Imitating Life
When Netflix launched its campaign for the new season of House of Cards by creating faux ads to have Kevin Spacey's character of Frank Underwood declare his intentions to run for office in real life, it was seen as a brilliant campaign and a criticism of the unchecked drama of the real life presidential campaign.
A story in the New Yorker added context to that theme by illustrating just how closely the HBO drama Silicon Valley actually mirrors the reality of the region it aims to parody.
Art has always imitated life, and vice versa ... but we are in the midst of something far more circular, where sometimes it is becoming hard to see where one ends and the other begins.
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A Short Backstory Of This Blog
This is a blog about non-obvious ideas. Originally launched on the Typepad platform in 2005 as the Influential Marketing blog, the stories at first focused mainly on digital marketing while Rohit worked at Ogilvy Advertising. In 2015 Rohit officially rebranded to the Non-Obvious Insights Blog and published his WSJ bestseller Non-Obvious. For the past twenty one years, this blog has coined new terms, introduced future marketing practices and inspired the next generation of non-obvious thinkers and marketers.
