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Scent, Memory, Package | The Perfumed Equation
Everything smells. Every thing -- scents. There are layers to scent in experience. It's all about what you remember, what you hold -- what scene, seen? What there was, in experience, that lent you to some level of exposure. That recalls -- that calls, you back home to...
Wired Magazine | Part 3: Chris Anderson | Free!
I'd been prepping myself to connect with Chris Anderson, since I'd worked remotely on the cover. Seattle | San Francisco | NYC. I keep jumping. The work's there -- I work anywhere that I need to. Find something, work on it. Go there. Nice person, Chris Anderson is,...
The OED: "brandish" — Brand as fire
The OED: "brandish" -- Brand as fire. Notes on the Place of being. Considering meaning and etymology, reflections on distinction and memory of meaningful experience. I had a conversation with a friend of mine, Paula Rees. She's a placemaker. Her focus is, and has...
Charlie Rose | Chris Anderson: Wired Magazine
Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine: on Charlie Rose (PBS) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9wuTit9OJY I like Charlie's opening presentment: "I believe that there is a place in the spectrum of television for really good conversation, if it is informed, spirited,...
Martin Lindstrom
Martin Lindstrom 3.4.08 Human branding, the brand: human. If ever there was a person that had created a brand presence around his very embodiment, it would surely have to be Martin Lindstrom. Still, given the experience -- and the expertise -- of his global wandering...
Saul Bass | The hand work(s)
Saul Bass Saul Bass with Alfred Hitchcock on the set of "Psycho". I gave a talk for the Arizona Advertising and Marketing Association some time back, and during that presentation -- it was actually a conference -- Saul Bass was one of the co-presenters in the forum....
TED | 2008 | Aspen (3)
what's extra? pretty much everything. some thing extra about today any : day > being in it. LIFE IS ABOUT MAKING THINGS, CREATING THINGS, BEING IN CREATIVE SPACE -- MAKING THINGS THAT CONNECT ME TO YOU. .... LIVING EVIL yesterday, I was thinking about...
TED | 2008 | Aspen (2) – What Is Life?
What is life? smiley groupings, right? ---- vivacity, sprightliness, vigor, verve, activity, energy. I go backwards. When I think about life -- going back to something that was before, that reaches to the now -- and the me that is living now. Life = Body LIFE: Origin:...
Ted | 2008 | Aspen (1) – The Big Questions
Big questions. What's asked, what's answered? .... What I'm thinking about: I've found myself always contemplating -- why, who, were, what? And I've been writing about that for years. What | ever? For | ever? .... Here are some thoughts, in opening: ..... Louise...
Charles Eames
I was thinking about things floating, ideas that are on one level, then another. And that idea of the interconnection of the idea on the surface, and the idea beneath. "The details are not details. They make the product." So says, Charles Eames. So you might be...