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Saturday, June 30, 2012

1000 Grand Concourse, The Bronx.

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Uncle Slappy called this morning. He had heard on the news that New York was facing a "heat advisory" and he was making sure I was...
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Friday, June 29, 2012

A picture from after the meeting.

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Failures and hits.

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Stop me if I told you this one before. No? Ok, so here goes. In the halcyon days of the dot-com boom I was shooting three spots in wha...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

Crap.

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The central creative issue of our era isn't the lack of a big idea, originality or even impact and intrusiveness. The central creative i...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Empires and colonies.

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If you understand your world history, you know this: Great empires from the American, to the Roman, to the English, Dutch and French, amasse...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

I am not content. A re-run.

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I am sitting in an allllllllllllllllllllllllllll-day meeting on Content Strategy. This post, which I wrote four years ago popped into my m...
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For Sam.

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The easiest thing in the world to do is to complain about work. We spend most of our time there. Even if you're "high up" ...
Monday, June 25, 2012

No understanding.

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Having grown up in a Philip Rothian household (though without a great deal of access to calves' liver) I have never be brimming with con...
Sunday, June 24, 2012

A Sunday in New York.

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I noticed something very strange this morning as I went out for a run. I left the house around 9:45 and just before 10, I passed a kid and h...
Friday, June 22, 2012

Some pedagogy.

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I've written about this before but it's been a while and I feel it's time to write about it again. Getting fired, axed, shit-c...
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