Oh, yes. Cities can be loud. Way, way too loud. On sweat-soaked summer afternoons – when you’re stuck in traffic and stuck to the vinyl – who hasn’t leaned back and fantasized about a cool, quiet mountain top or peaceful fields…

Blasts of creative inspiration. Sometimes they happen, sometimes they don’t. But when they do…

Talk about your bad hair days. Even on those Tuesday mornings when a baseball cap seems the most merciful solution, most of us have never had to contend with a lion or a tornado on our heads….

While the commercials of the ’90s have a reality-based, this-is-you-and-your-house kind of feel, the commercials of the ’80s were something other. Taking lifestyle advertising to a higher plane, they elevated glamor to outlandish heights. Think Calvin Klein. The spots may have…

The CN Tower can withstand a dinosaur attack….

The Alliance for Children and Television’s 1995 Festival and Awards of Excellence will be, in the words of director Kealy Wilkinson, ‘a celebration.’ It’s been a record year for award applications – with 65 English and 26 French programs nominated -…

Kids. Whether you mean to entertain them, educate them or scare the bejesus out of them, you’ve got to reach them first. The marketing and promotion departments of some broadcasters are eagerly tapping into the lucrative tween culture while others are…

The audio community is mourning the loss of one of its most respected colleagues. Jim Frank passed away on Friday, Sept. 15 after a lengthy and courageous battle with cancer….

If all your skin were to peel off your body, what kind of sound would that make? These and other essential questions make foley artists smile….

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