TweetIf you write an article you attribute sources. If you cook your grandmother’s famous deep-fried Mars Bars you give the old girl props. If you forward a link you hat tip the finder. But creatives seem reluctant to indicate where they got their inspiration from. Granted, inspiration is nebulous to
TweetDr Brené Brown hits on some simple truths about how people connect with one another. Accepting your vulnerability by having the courage to be candid about your shortcomings is essential to making real human connections. This may seem obvious to you, but I am perpetually amazed by the way social
TweetThis is such an impeccable, beautifully crafted example of stop motion that we simply had to post it. No critiques or pithy comments, just let the work speak for itself. Produced by Londoners Andersen M Studio for Colenso BBDO NZ, “Going West” is some serious portfolio material, exemplifying the artist’s
Tweet Whether you like his music or not, you have to give props to Trent Reznor for his balls, flying in the face of music industry copyright convention and giving labels the finger. In 2008 he privately releases the mammoth Nine Inch Nails album Ghosts with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share
TweetIn his blog Consumer Psychologist, Adam Ferrier wrote an excoriating account of his undercover visit to the Advanced Medical Institute (AMI), encountering dubious medical practices and pressure selling. Worth a read before AMI take an injunction out against him like they did the Sydney Morning Herald. It made me wonder
TweetI was honoured to write a guest blog for Julian Cole’s blog Adspace Pioneers, one of my faves. I wrote about the ownership of creativity and the current co-existence of traditional intellectual property with the new Creative Commons.
TweetI recently got my panties in a bunch over Zac Martin’s guest post for Julian Cole’s blog Adspace Pioneers. Commenting on his inflammatory opinion of Hollywood’s imminent demise knotted up my panties good. What was interesting though is how his admission of deliberate provocation not only untied the knots in
TweetIn 2006 Cormac McCarthy wrote the finest contemporary novel I have read to date: The Road. It is the simple story of a father and son walking to a better place in the colds of a nuclear winter, after a vaguely defined apocalypse. It is bleak, uncompromising and utterly transcendent.
TweetWith the world as we know it falling to pieces in a consumerist environmental apocalypse from which even Superobama can’t save us, volunteers are more important now than ever. Seek has a great new philanthropic job search feature for prospective volunteers. They’ve also set up a blog for people to
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