Entries Tagged as 'creativity'

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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Filed under business, creative class, creative collaboration, creativity, culture, DIY expression, email marketing, entrepreneurship, experience design, fashion, friends, hyperlocal, indie brands, jenks, katie k, L.A., projects, rad!, strategy

Wednesday, January 4th, 2012

It’s The End Of The World As We Know It…. And I Feel Fine

According to the Mayan calendar — as translated by new-age hippies I used to know, and depicted by Roland Emmerich — the year 2012 is alleged to herald the apocalypse. Perhaps this collective unconscious sense of mass destruction is what’s driving the popularity of turn-of-the-millennium musings about the end of the world. In June 2008, [...]

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Filed under acceleration, article, books, change, culture, DIY expression, fashion, from the 21st century with love, future, history, myth, prophecy, trend

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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Filed under authenticity, business, consumer insight, context, culture, DIY expression, entrepreneurship, experience design, fashion, friends, from the 21st century with love, Gather, identity, identity marketing, indie brands, jenks, katie k, L.A., projects, rad!, underground economy

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

Black and Purple

Boston Latin School, my alma mater, is the oldest (and longest existing) public school in the country. 141 years older than the country, in fact. Ben Franklin went there before he moved to Philly. Alumni include Sam Adams, John Hancock, Joseph Kennedy, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Bullfinch, you get the idea. There’s an admission test, [...]

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Filed under Boston, branding, creativity, culture, DIY expression, from the 21st century with love, future, history, jenks, Millennials, online trend, rad!, teenagers

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