Social-Creature

as a marketer you realize that it’s not so much that you’re really setting anything up for sale, it’s that everything already IS for sale, and you’re just helping it along. so it’s not so much that i’m bothered by the selling of “enlightenment,” (there’s been buddha statues on-sale for millennia, and what are THOSE [...]

when i worked at house of blues, every so often we’d have social events with all the other people working in l.a.’s concert marketing industry. people from goldenvoice, livenation (at the time this was a separate company from house of blues), nederlander, etc. lots of people in attendance had even worked at one of the [...]

(and if you’re going to the playa before the month is out, you know it’s a week-long runway fashion show over there, right? ….get prepared.)

today’s awesome ad award is dedicated to the spirit of teamwork and collaboration. (i’m feeling particularly grateful for it today, as without it my blog would still probably be trapped in an international hostage situation). think about the people without whom even the greatest accomplishments would mean so little …and enjoy:   ps…oh and if [...]

there’s a funny story about these birds once. nature decided to run an experiment in its whimsical way, and cast a bunch of birds adrift on an island called new guinea, essentially without any predators to worry about and a perpetual abundance of food, and then sat around for several million years to see what [...]

while the rest of the do lab spent the last week preparing to syndicate our show for japan, i spent it putting together a powerpoint presentation. slide number 17, the one titled: “Expanding Brands into Experience Platforms” ended up featuring this image from lucent l’amour 2006 : photo by: mickipedia i figure, depending on how [...]