Social-Creature

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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Last year, I wrote a post called “Your Life Is A Transmedia Experience.” In October, the post became the basis for a panel discussion event at the FutureM conference in Boston with me, Marta Kagan and Jan Libby. I have updated the deck from that panel, and am sharing here for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy! [...]

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October 7th, I’ll be on a panel at the FutureM Conference in Boston, entitled, “Your Life Will Be A Transmedia Experience (It Already Is).” Sound familiar? Yup, it’s a different take on the theme for a panel of a similar name I’ve got submitted to SXSW, and featuring many of the same cast-members! I’ll be [...]

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A little (fashionably) late to the party on this one, but  just had to mention this really hauntingly beautiful video for the new Eskmo (a.k.a Brendan Angelides) track, Cloudlight (single is out Sept. 6 on Ninja Tune). I’ve known Brendan, and Dugan O’Neal, who directed the video, from my days producing music festivals. Plus, you might recognize [...]

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The ‘Source’ in the Distance Last week, my friend Kris Krug flew down to the Gulf of Mexico on the TEDxOilSpill Expedition, a week-long project to document the crisis in the Gulf and bring a first hand report back to the TEDxOilSpill event in Washington, D.C. on June 28. Kris, a photographer, web strategist, and self-described “cyberpunk [...]

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While everyone else is busy speculating about the potential significance of Microsoft’s new mobile contender, the Kin, I just discovered last night that I am much more interested in the content of their new ads, namely Portland’s March Fourth Marching Band, who’ve been repping it for the Northwest Contingent of the 1-5 Circus Scene since [...]

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Aerial shot of the Coachella Arts & Music Festival (photo: Jazmin Million) . “God is alone — but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.” – Henry David Thoreau, “Solitude,” Walden, 1854 Standing on the field at Coachella 2008, the endless noise and heat [...]

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(photo: Mick O ) . “They say the music business is in trouble. No! The business of selling CDs is in trouble; this is a religion.” – Michael Rapino, CEO, Live Nation I was in the weekly Southern California marketing meeting at House of Blues the morning it was announced that Tower Records was going [...]

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This is a terrific initiative by Estee Lauder, seamlessly combining live + digital. From AdAge: The venerable Estee Lauder cosmetics brand has found a seemingly natural way to connect with social media: offering free makeovers and photo shoots at its department-store cosmetics counters coast-to-coast to produce shots women can use for their online profiles. The [...]

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A quick interview with the Podcast Asylum done at AdWeek’s  Social Media Strategies 2009 conference a few weeks back. Hilary Read, EWI‘s VP of Creative adds her thoughts as well. [wpaudio url="http://social-creature.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Jenka-Gurfinkel.mp3" text="Jenka Gurfinkel Interview on the Podcast Asylum" dl="0"] Like this? Share it: Tweet

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