social-creature

a play about cross-cultural communication:
burner - played by someone who is part of the burningman community.
non-burner: played by someone who is not.
- - -
burner: OMG! the man burnt early!
non-burner: what?
burner: have you ever heard of burningman?
non-burner: hmm… looks like some crazy festival in the desert?
B: yeah. they also burn a statue of a man. that’s [...]

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
– e.e. cummings
which is all quite noble and good, but the thing of it is, e.e., is that [...]

i’ve been driving past this construction zone on the corner of vermont and washington for the past two years every time i need to get to the 10 onramp, only recently was the hard-hat area gauze removed to reveal what this building actually is: a school.
 

a couple of days ago i heard a really interesting [...]

just noticed these messages this morning on the unbranded side of splenda packets. it actually DID make me smile!

sweet experiences can come in all sorts of packets too. way to go, splenda. sugar was never this sweet to me.
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teen spending, however, remains stable.

or maybe new parents are increasingly just buying all this stuff online.
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this weekend was the 27th annual sunset junction music festival, a kind of cross between oldskool urban summertime carnival and indie rock block party. think: stale cotton candy and amusement park rides, local shops and art galleries trapped in the warpath shelling beer, dancing in the streets to mobile soundsystems, and the major stages [...]

“aks not what you can do for your credit but what your credit can do for you!”
pimp it yo!

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(not everyone’s a great photographer. da’s ok.)

one of the projects i’m currently working on involves cleaning some wreckage from a web 2.0-style mess that was never resolved, and is coming back to haunt the client. it’s not huge, but it’s a template, i think, for ways in which web 2.0 messes get made in general, [...]

today’s awesome ad award is a double feature. these are actually spec ads for heinz, but they’re really adorable and funny, and kind of make me want a cheeseburger.
(oh, and they are also produced by my good friend siouxzen, who is not only a phenomenal photographer in addition to producer, but is every day inventing [...]

in light of the previous post, a friend suggested i redevelop the ad for the enlightenment card to make it more relevant to a consumer identity that would actually find the product appealing.
i only had five minutes tho, so here’s the best i can do:

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