“When things go wrong, don’t go with them.”Elvis Presley What is the most important thing in the world?He tangata, he tangata, he tangataIt is the people, it is the people, it is the peopleMaori proverb Recently, I was asked to be a coach by the LIA Awards. It got me thinking about my own careerContinue reading “Advertising. The thing that is more important than a hundred answers.”
Category Archives: Creativity
Creativity. To hit the target, you have to go too far.
“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativity.” Pablo Picasso There is nothing quite like a drag queen singing a Britney Spears number within a false eyelash of your face to make you think very deeply about life. It has been a beautiful blur. It was The Monkeys Aotearoa 1stContinue reading “Creativity. To hit the target, you have to go too far.”
Advertising. Fawlty Towers and the art of prediction.
“Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it’s interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a year later people won’t remember them.” Daniel Kahneman The legendary comedian John Cleese is being interviewed on the radio. He is explaining how arguably the most successful television series, FawltyContinue reading “Advertising. Fawlty Towers and the art of prediction.”
So, what will the truth be like in the future?
“Don’t be so overly dramatic about it, Chuck. What-You’re saying it’s a falsehood. And they’re giving Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that.” Kellyanne Conway “Look, alternative facts are not facts. They’re falsehoods” Chuck Todd This polite, and in hindsight, almost quaint exchange happened in January 2017. I will get back toContinue reading “So, what will the truth be like in the future?”
Do you believe in The Roaring Twenties brothers and sisters?
“Skate to where the puck is going not where it has been.” Wayne Gretzky Creativity: The use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness. So, what happens afterwards? What happens after a catastrophe? How do you carry on and what role does creativity play in all this? I started thinking about all thisContinue reading “Do you believe in The Roaring Twenties brothers and sisters?”
Creativity. You are never lost in Mumbai, you are just on your way.
“Mumbai is not a city, it’s life.“ Subhasis Das My problems began where most problems do. Being friends with a Bulgarian Art Director. Art directors have a strange need to collect or find things. Combine this with being in Mumbai and the unique Bulgarian trait of finding danger where there is none and what youContinue reading “Creativity. You are never lost in Mumbai, you are just on your way.”
Advertising. So, what happens to once upon a time?
“There’s always a story. It’s all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything’s got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.” Terry Pratchett In his excellent book ‘Blowing the Bloody Doors Off’ Michael Caine tells the story of meeting John Wayne at the Beverly Hills Hotel onContinue reading “Advertising. So, what happens to once upon a time?”
Advertising. Swimming with clowns.
“Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines everywhere.” William Shakespeare Twelfth Night This is a plea for naughtiness. Naughtiness is defined as mischievousness, prankishness, a type of disobedience. For about a year I have had this re-occurring thought. Has creativity become a formula because of how ideas have to serveContinue reading “Advertising. Swimming with clowns.”
Advertising. Phineas Gage is a strange story we should all know.
“One can be master of what one does, but never of what one feels.” Gustave Flaubert September 13, 1848 was not a good day for Phineas Gage. Until that day, the handsome 25 year old had worked his way up to the position of foreman. By all accounts he was very good at his job.Continue reading “Advertising. Phineas Gage is a strange story we should all know.”
Advertising. 450 million dollars for peacock feathers.
“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.” Leonardo da Vinci This is Salvator Mundi. The world’s most expensive painting. It recently sold for 450 million dollars at Christie’s in New York. Most experts thought it would get to about 200 million dollars. They were very wrong. However, the gigantic sum paid isContinue reading “Advertising. 450 million dollars for peacock feathers.”
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