Scenes from MIPCOM

Me: "So the new formats weren't so fun?"

Stuart: "No. Although I guess I liked the idea of the men who've secretly admired a woman for a long time going on a date with that woman dressed as a rabbit. Oh, there's also the one where you try to stop a bull by grabbing it by the horns."

Meanwhile, on Twitter: "If you see the half-naked Wiccans pitching the sex cooking show we recently got pitched, DO let us know."

Suckling from the Milk of the Lion

I'm back at Cannes for the Lions and have posted my first piece on AdVerve, basically a few moody jokes and a quick survey of what came in the goodie bag. (The title of this post is a play on the bottle of anise that came in a box labeled "Lion's Milk." The tambourine was also inside. I do not know why.)

Follow along on Twitter or AdVerveBlog for updates.

I'll also be conducting interviews in tandem with AdForum for its Red Carpet series. My first interview took place this morning with Paul Price of Creative Realities (follow AdForum's coverage for that, or I'll update you later). Off-camera, Paul told me about 3D technology that will manipulate the moisture in the air to produce tactile holograms -- so maybe next year at SXSW, Tupac won't just be in concert, he'll be sweating all over the front row.

What an exciting world we live in.

Also, forgive the long delay between posts. I've been on vacation! I saw my family! It made me feel like Fievel.

Catch Us at MIPTV.

I'm at MIPTV to liveblog the sessions alongside The Guardian's Stuart Dredge and Fearless Leader James Martin. Here is our first-ever videoblog. More to come, and I'll be doing them, so huzzah for experiments!

This afternoon we'll be meeting a bunch of hackers on a yacht called the Mojito. Their challenge: to hack up some game-changing TV-mutating magic in the next 48 hours. Can't wait to see what they've got on the plate, but more crucially: will there be hot tub hacking?

Find Us At Cannes. In PowerPuff Girl Outfits.*

With a little help from Cake Group, Yahoo's launched Yahoo Scene, a magnificent little destination that aspires to give you your industry conference + nightlife fix in the unhappy event that you can't dance on the kegs yourself.

Beginning next week, I join Steve Hall of Adrants and Ask Wappling of Adland in covering the Cannes Lions for Scene. It's going to be entirely too much awesome; what's more, Ask has already promised the whole internet we'll be coming as PowerPuff Girls. (I will be the angry one, Steve will be bubbly blue, and Ask, of course, will be Blossom.)



If you miss our coverage, you will die of sadness. But if long-form bloggage isn't your style, catch our up-to-the-moment tweets on who's where, who won what and desperate cries for attention: @adland @adrants @luckthelady.

Do not miss! Also, for a feel of the ... feel, catch my wrapup from last year, and this reflection on seaside smoking, and this interview with Richard Gorodecky whom I love more than highly productive anthills.

We are so going to rock your ad shit for seven whole days.

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*Actually, not really unless Ask pushes hard for them.

Family on the Cannes Croisette

...because I'd rather show you this than a larger-than-life potshot promotion of Korean reality TV.