Gross Grandeur
Edward Burtynsky | Manufactured Landscapes @ the Film Forum | NYC. Trailer and related content ---- Beautiful ugliness. I've made some notes about the idea of beauty, in ugliness, before. Ugly beauty. You know that concept -- the swirls of rainbowed oil twirling in...
In Defense of Tom Cruise | Valkyrie
Probably the wrong wave, I'd imagine. But that's the point of the story to be told. And let's tell that story. I'd propose that the notion of banning a film because of some ongoing promulgation by Tom Cruise, about his personal "spiritual" beliefs -- in any other...
TOM FORD | THE HAND
Tom Ford | The hand speaks Tom Ford sees, feels and creates what's right for him. I went back to Tom Ford, on Madison Avenue. This time, to meet with Shirin Von Wulffen; I'd worked with her at Yves Saint Laurent. Now she's the publicist for Tom Ford International. I...
Inhabitat
LIGHTS OUT LONDON! - June 21st (article link) Tomorrow, that is. Worth considering, the idea of a silent and lightless reflection. Personally, I'm one of those people that savors working by candlelight, or virtually no light -- so the concept of an intentional black...
Fight Girls
I was talking to these girls this morning, on the way to the office -- and while I couldn't take pictures of them, since they are pitching this concept for a TV Series, I did take pictures anyway. Love those pink gloves, I sez. They weren't doing much, except for...
Nice. One. Eno.
Happy Monday. I'm sure you know all about Brian Eno. But I wonder if you've seen one of his installations? I think that I talked to you about sound in environment. How people can experience space in the context of sound. Maybe I'd mentioned seeing one of his sound...
The Elevator Pitch
There's an interesting positioning here -- to the concept of the elevator pitch. And while I don't have a elevator pitch, or a request for money, I do have a modeling that relates to your premise. So, a framing. Brands are about people. And we know people in stories...
Global Shop
What about personality, to brand, to trend, to direction? Every time I connect with a brand, there's a person involved. Funny, isn't that? I believe sometimes, that we forget about that. We think about the business proposition; there's a personality, sure. And there's...
Rippling | Stories in context to brand
There are brands; and there are brands behind brands. The rippling of connections between brands and supporting brand relationships vibrate inwards and outwardly. When there's a story connected to a brand; it's part of the legacy, there are connections that make that...
Samantha Daniels and the Human Brand
Tom Peters made some sequence of offerings wrapped around the space of human branding. That is the idea that you are a brand, worth telling your story, and that people will be paying attention to you. And surely there are plenty of people worth paying attention to....