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by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People | Mar 11, 2013
The angle of listening, listing and leaning | “Lean In,” by Sheryl Sandberg There’s no doubt that Sandberg is remarkable — the incidence of laudations about her come from every degree of the literary arc, including a recent string of notations... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Storytelling | Mar 4, 2013
The farmer in you | II Planting the seeds of ideals, dreams, the promise in the mission of creativity I’d written a blog, just back, with meditations on the archetypal character of Dodge’s “farmer in you” advertising. Storytelling from various... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Motion Pictures | Feb 11, 2013
Design studies for the LOTR and Peter Jackson The process of film identity and brand development is intensely competitive, there are a series of talents, team and agencies whose sole enterprises are focused 100% of the time on theatrical advertising — for an... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Marketing 2.0, Trends | Dec 28, 2012
Fire & Water Isn’t it so that the making of spirit — the ethanol-effused outcomes of herbal, vegetal, fruit-based titration and filtration — the quintessential search for the soul of boosted and intense flavoring — is one of perpetual... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Human brands | Dec 26, 2012
When I was in Bhutan, high in the misted Himalayan mountains, I’d spied a remote monastery and spoke to my guide, Tsewang Nidup about “getting up there.” We did get up there, like nearly every other lonely vista we aspired to summit —... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Trends | Nov 30, 2012
The imagination of Vice Media The dream, documentation and commentary of what lives and breathes the other, darker side of the tracks. “National Geographic on crack,” is how one describes the Vice Media Network. Somebody sent me a note — daily... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Motion Pictures | Oct 22, 2012
Visualizing and organizing the perception of information Cinematic interface design as a reference to example Image above: © Cruise/Wagner + Amblin Entertainment It might be said that the rise of infographics — visualizing, simplifying and organizing content... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People | Oct 17, 2012
The sensuality of the book I was working in a remote, private room, the so-called rare book library at Girvin | Seattle. It’s a small space, and in this book room, the volumes start at about a yard from the floor, then rise up to somewhere around 10 feet. People... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General, Motion Pictures | Sep 24, 2012
The Genius of Invention, the Infection of Enthusiasm Weeks later, I’ve been thinking. I was shocked to read about Tony Scott’s passage, in the manner of his so-called choosing — and more critically, not knowing the truth in, about, any of it. Who... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, Motion Pictures | Sep 19, 2012
Meeting M I L L A Market Restaurant | Paris THE STREAM FLOWS — BUT WHICH WAY, THE CURRENT? I was thinking about the idea of current flow — watching leaves in a river, idling — breeze and river flow moving the leaves along. And in that state, what is... Read More