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The Future of Magazines as Seen By Fortune’s Josh Quittner
This is my hope for the Apple iPad. I want something to fill the gap. I want journalists to have jobs. I want articles that reflect well financed writing, research, and photography.
Continue reading...How It Works: Old Spice Horseman
Friday, February 19, 2010
I thought something was up when I first saw this ad. Notice the lighting in the opening scene; it's outdoor lighting in a bathroom. But - I thought the background was green screen.
Continue reading...Take an Apple Tablet for What Ailes You
Friday, January 22, 2010
Ben Kunz produced a great video short demonstrating the hopes of the Apple Tablet and why it will relieve some frustration points generated by Web 2.0.
Continue reading...Creative Denial, Anger, Bargaining, & Acceptance
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Lately, creative professionals are suffering the heartbreak of a fading uniqueness and coping with the pressure to add value in other ways. Clay Shirky gave his first TED talk in 2005. His institution v. collaboration presentation must have appeared abstract to more folks then than now, nevertheless, Clay’s talk hasn’t faded in value for those of us trying to recover our bearings in a once familiar profession.
Continue reading...Ben Wiggins – Beyond the “Cool” of time compression
Thursday, October 1, 2009
I’ve seen time lapse before, who hasn’t? Maybe it’s a shaky seedling sprouting from the ground or a street scene with jittery people. Yet, there’s an emotion to Ben’s short films that I find unexpected. Not only is the still frame that captures the motion well considered but the motion itself has a power beyond the usual “cool” of time compression.
Continue reading...Right or Left Brained – Jill Bolte Taylor’s Stroke of Insight
Monday, September 28, 2009
Jill Bolte Taylor has an astonishing story. At most it will change your perception of how you exist; at least it will make you think about how her research applies to you. If ever there was a “right” person to experience a stroke it was her.
Continue reading...Creatives & The Hope Economy: What Do We Do Now?
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Ideas are cheap and plentiful and offered like opinions at a political rally. Talent is everywhere, making us indignant that those with it aren’t better off. Yet companies aren’t looking for talent so much as marketable talent nor ideas so much as marketable solutions. Marketable mediocrity is preferred over unmarketable brilliance or talent with low ROI. So should we be appalled when creativity is harvested like feed corn as soon as the network bandwidth (see “The Long Tail”) is wide enough to sift it as though panning for gold?
Continue reading...Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other’s minds
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Quoting Alan Greenspan: "I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize what you heard is not what I meant." In this Video, Rebecca Saxe explains how it's possible to understand Alan Greenspan. View video and read more.
Continue reading...Innovation: Harder or Easier? Video
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
The amount of information we have at our fingertips is overwhelming. Develop a nervous twitch and it's probably due to an involuntary dodging of sensory bombardment we've learned from an early age. Experience and knowledge is vital for innovation but does this amount of information help us or slow us down? Perhaps it's a wash.
Continue reading...Our Nike Culture
Monday, August 17, 2009
What has Nike done? The "Just Do It" tag has helped turn our culture into one that induces shame the moment action fails us. Com'on just do it, we must perform, don’t just sit there, go, go, go!
Continue reading...Video Interviews with Creative Professionals
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