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by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Apr 26, 2013
Drawing People [in] with Flowers, the Flow of Story in the Craft of Rendering Ideas In my beginnings, I drew flowers — and sold them as art pieces and gifts; then, at Christmas, I did groupings of flowers, silkscreened and signed in limited editions of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jan 22, 2013
The notes of time, presented as a script to presence Are you here, awake, reading the runes on the wall, cast before you? When you look at the walls, what language, what telling, what stories are told to you? I was thinking about the end of the world, as we know it,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Oct 31, 2012
The metaphor of clouds Cloud-watching, the formation of ideas, cloudmind and the wind, the mist of crowds [Image above, the Palouse, Tim Girvin cloud watching — photographed by Dawn A. Clark] Coming from a farming family, I’m a skywatcher. Also, as a... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Scent | Oct 19, 2012
The scent, the mist, the water. Morning crossing, Fidalgo Straits. (Photo credits ©Tim Girvin, 2010) Exploring the mist of scent, place and recollections Reaching back, in history and memory — a series of notations and reflections, about the heart of experience... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Trends | Sep 28, 2012
Could it be that FOMO is really tribal disconnection? Ever been proud that you didn’t know what was going on? Been happy that you had no clue about the newest big deal in your community? Pleased that you had no word on the hottest gossip? For some, the idea of... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, General | Apr 3, 2012
THE MARK OF THE WORD Tim Girvin shooting words, textures, materials | photo Dawn A. Clark THE WORD OF THE MARK, THE POWER OF THE WORD, THE CONTEXT OF MEANING: MARKED W O R D M A R K, n. All Imagery except the first — noted and duly credited — by GIRVIN... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Scent | Mar 21, 2012
Sitting, working, early this morning — there’s smoke wafting in the studio. It’s too dark outside for there to be any other light — none emerges from the old building, studio windows – an old class room. The scent of this is old wood... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jan 24, 2012
the creative hunger, the force of passionate making raven, verb i"m thinking about the hunger that is beneath the hunger. I’m talking less about food and more about the notion of the food beneath food — that is, what drives the hunger itself?... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People, Human brands, Trends | Jan 9, 2012
Brand genetics: starting with leadership, the lessons and coding of story and communications, rippling from the one — to billions. Tim Westergren, the genetics of sound, legacy and the one to the one. Opening the box of Pandora, nearly ten years back, I’d... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Jan 5, 2012
I was thinking about the right ideas, that come from the tumble of those that try, but fail. Those that stumble, and find. These that jumble and arrive at the new. There is tumble, stumble, jumble — and topple. They’re interrelated. Long back, working with... Read More
