Recognition

Right now, on the BYU main page, one of the featured news stories is about a recent publication about findings of a BYU Professor and a former student/colleague. Kudos to Professor Erin Bigler for his discoveries, Good Job, Professor! There is so much amazing work that is done at BYU every day, and this is an exceptional example.



However, as an aside, I'd like to point out a striking similarity. By raise of hands, how many of you ever watched Boy Meets World growing up? Oh, it looks like there were a lot. Me too. And our Professor Bigler sure reminds me of one Mr. George Feeny. The likeness is unmistakable, at least in the picture used on the main page.

Internacional

Thanks, Hermana Poulson, of the Guatemala Guatemala City North Mission.
Hermana, if you're out there, sorry I didn't get your permission before posting this. It came to me in a round-about fashion, and it's just a such a great picture, I couldn't ignore it. Keep up the good work.

Redefining Plagiarism

I suppose we could call it homage, in a respectful French sense. Those wacky folks over at BYUSA have put together this most inspiring piece of work to persuade students to be more overtly kind/neighborly on campus. Thats nice and all, but I'm not sure I'm going to start talking to strangers. However, please note:

This ad was ripped off. Ripped clean off from another commercial. This commercial.

It's one of my favorite ad campaigns. It pulls me in like a sucker every time, it's just so poignant and sappy. Very effective, and interesting storytelling (David Bordwell talks about it here). So how could I miss a straight up copy?

Thematically identical, exactly the same execution, full circle story. The differences are there, but the similarities are glaring.