When you’re struggling with a creative problem, flip the thing on it’s head. Even if you’ve done it the other way for years.
What if the white swan were black? What if forward were back? What if up were down?
Many of you may have heard this story, and over 500,000 have seen the video: a musician flew United, had his guitar wrecked in transit, and when he appealed for recompense, he got none.
So he wrote a song. And … Read More
Take a look at the amusing web banner from Pringles that we’ve attached below (the webpage itself is irrelevant — the ad is the feature, kind of like a bad SuperBowl match up.) As you’ll see, each click of the … Read More
Sitting in Chicago Starbucks, #437, sipping green tea, and cranking out work via laptop.
To muffle the barrista rattle and speaker songs blaring overhead required firing … Read More
REALITY: Back in 1976, Blue Öyster Cult recorded “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper.” According to former bassist Joe Bouchard, the ‘cowbell part’ was overdubbed by his brother Albert after the song had been recorded. PARODY: In 2005, a skit on Saturday … Read More
REALITY: Back in 1976, Blue Öyster Cult recorded “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper.” According to former bassist Joe Bouchard, the ‘cowbell part’ was overdubbed by his brother Albert after the song had been recorded.
PARODY: In 2005, a skit on Saturday … Read More
If you’ve spent five minutes on Twitter and follow a crew, you get flooded by a torrent of info, mostly irrelevant, often useless. Twitter vets filter the noise and recognize the signals. With that overload in mind, we were intrigued … Read More
In the beginning, there was light. Then iPhone. (Not to mention its 20,000 apps in year one.) Now there’s Amazon’s Kindle. Intro’d at the end of ’07, this digital book reader can be perused like paper with batteries lasting almost 2 … Read More
Everyone’s leveraging social media these days. Posting to blogs. Updating status. Twittering. That said, it’s important to keep one very simple, and seemingly obvious, rule in mind: Only say online what you would say in public. Since many sites … Read More
We LOVE Pfizer’s new move making their powerhouse drugs (including Lipitor) FREE to people who have recently lost their jobs.
While the impact to their bottom line will be knocked a bit, it will pale in comparison to the PR … Read More
