January 2011
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WatchWill Bryant and Adam Voorhes collaborated to create a stop motion animation for Bluetooth’s publication ‘Signature’ with art direction by Larry Williams of Pace Communication. I am only posting this because I am a sucker for chalkboards, detailed freehand doodles, stop motion animation and of course, brilliant ideas.
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“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”
– Paul Rand quoting Mies van der Rohe
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“Too many businesses using social media think it’s all about broadcasting....”
– Jevern Partridge, via Brand DNA
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“A hotel room is the perfect place to write. You’re cut off from all the routine...”
– E.B. White cf. Victor Hugo would write naked and tell his valet to hide his clothes so that he’d be unable to go outside when he was supposed to be writing. cf. New York City snow days. I had to agree with this (not the writing in the nude part, it’s something I do not restrict to hotel rooms...
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“I put the “sex” in dyslexia.”
– Dyslexics untie!
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“When I first started blogging, I told myself it was ok to post half-formed...”
– Modes of Writing from Mandy Brown’s A Working Library via Frank Chimero
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“Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of...”
– Friedrich Nietszche
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“The future: part analyst, part copywriter.”
– Note to myself: Let’s head there, shall we? 5 Reasons Copywriters Need to Get Data, Or Get Out of the Business
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Fail better
W+K’s William Fowler’s words on advice to aspiring creatives in the YCN Student Awards Annual 2010/11:
About the only role in which I can tolerate Clive Owen is as the failed assassin at the end of the Bourne Identity. He’s only on screen for five minutes, and his best line is delivered as he lies cradled in Matt Damon’s arms, his fingers paddling in the blood from the shotgun...
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“Great designers seldom make great ad men, as they get overcome by the beauty of...”
– Overheard
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“I upgraded my phone to the model that made breakfast and went to work for me....”
– @VeryShortStory
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“…when you have a new exciting idea, you are in a state of “uninformed optimism”....”
– How New Ideas Almost Killed Our Startup by Vinicius Vacanti via Luc Latulippe
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“Goof off on a regular basis.”
– Secrets of the self employed « Keri Smith
“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and...”
– Lawrence Pearsall Jacks via swissmiss
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It couldn't be done
Somebody said that it couldn’t be done, But he with a chuckle replied That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn’t be done, and he did it.
Somebody scoffed: “Oh, you’ll never do that; At least no one ever has done...
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“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
– Niccolo Machiavelli
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“A good loud fart is honorable,
A medium fart is tolerable,
Softer windbreaks...”
– 3 Idiots. A must-see movie.
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“Forget advice about finding the right atmosphere to coax your muse into the...”
– Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction. I find this pretty much true to yours truly though, my ideas often come to me in the most irreverent times, particularly when I am about to fall asleep. That is when I realized I possess this ability to wake myself up, pick up the notebook and write...
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“Actors on portraying classic musicians: “I want to be Mozart,” Van...”
– Overheard.