Entries Tagged as 'indie brands'

Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

This Is What’s Happening: 2012 Edition

Remember back when I used to be a social media strategist? I started before that term was even being used, and as late as this October the L.A. Times still hadn’t gotten the memo that I had move on, calling me a “social media expert” for my crimes (among them: 1, 2, 3). So you’d [...]

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Filed under adoption rate strategy, art, authenticity, business, campaign, clients, community, community management, content, creative class, creative collaboration, creativity, culture, experience design, Gather, hyperlocal, indie brands, jenks, katie k, Mirrorgram, product strategy, rad!, rockstar tech entrepreneur, social media, strategy, the glitch mob, trend

Thursday, July 12th, 2012

Announcing The_Gather

Since November I have been a partner, with long-time friend, Katie Kay Mead, in a retail endeavor called, Gather. Gather is a fashion incbuator of sorts, scouting and developing the best and brightest indie design talent into viable forces within the vocabulary of L.A. fashion. The boutique / consultancy has received accolades from LA Weekly [...]

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Monday, November 21st, 2011

A Note From The Absentee Landlord

SocialCreature, I haven’t forgotten about you! I still love you and think of things I want to tell you all the time, (like what Roland Emmerich’s Anonymous says about “the intersection of art and politics and role of the artist in society”, or the similarities between the Snow White & the Huntsman trailer and the [...]

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Monday, June 6th, 2011

Why You’re Wearing Feathers Right Now

Jocelyn Marsh wearing headdress by Tiffa Novoa. Image: Brion Topolski, 2005 Right now all across America there is a feather shortage. In April, The Billings Gazette reported: Jewelry-makers and hairstylists have been snatching up the premium chicken feathers used in standby trout-fly patterns, creating a sudden run on a market that’s ill-prepared for significant fluctuations [...]

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Monday, April 11th, 2011

Hacking Into Encom With The Glitch Mob

Super late to my own party on this, but here it is: Last summer, I came up with an idea for The Glitch Mob to do a Tron: Legacy remix video scored to music from their 2010 album, Drink the Sea, and edited by Khameleon808. We released the video in November 2010 and after that [...]

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