He never could adjust to normal life. He was fast, reliable, and was most accurate if he could shoot within 10 yards. Such was the resumé of Tetsuya “Phoenix” Hondo (Tetsuya Watari), the central character of Seijun Suzuki’s 1966 yakuza crime film Tokyo Drifter. The film opens with Tetsuya being…

Is social media dead? That was the question that Michael Stelzner (Michael A. Stelzner here on Medium) posited to the assembled crowd during the keynote address for the 10th annual Social Media Marketing World, which started today in San Diego. According to several media outlets, it is. …

Artificial intelligence (AI ) is revolutionizing the way content marketers approach their work. As AI technology continues to advance, it has the potential to greatly enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of content marketing efforts. One way AI can assist content marketers is by automating tasks such as data analysis and…

Ghouls. Body snatching. Murders. Fay Wray screaming. All in two-tone Technicolor! Such are the tropes of the 1933 horror classic Mystery of the Wax Museum. The story begins in 1921 London, in the wax workshop of Ivan Igor (Lionel Atwill). Igor, a talented artist, recently shared a guided tour of…

It’s a Metaverse future, and we’re all living in it. On Wednesday morning, Social Media Marketing World attendees were treated to an inside look into the “Metaverse” through the eyes of speaker Cathy Hackl; tech futurist and a leading voice on the emerging world of what the Metaverse is and…

We’re in the Matrix of Marketing. Or so it seems, if you were one of the attendees at today’s Social Media Marketing World conference keynote. …

I feel really weird about not wearing a mask. Call it habit, call it social conditioning, call it being sick and tired of the collective breakdown we’ve all had in the last 2 (or is it 200? I can’t tell anymore) years, but it was almost surreal to walk into…

“Greatest crimefighters of the nation — on their most exciting assignments — from Chicago’s underworld to jungle ambush in South America. Filmed on location to capture each thrilling aspect of its best-selling story!” Such is the tagline for the 1959 film The FBI Story, a long and occasionally-winded tale filled…

A lot of people can find that the last few weeks leading up to a big move are rather stressful. Making sure that everything is packed up, turned off, forwarded or transferred… there’s a whole mental list you need to go over before taking the next, hopefully exciting chapter of…