A Stride Around The World

Posted on June 27, 2008 - Filed Under Cool Ideas | 1 Comment

Sometimes you watch something that just inspires you. It makes you feel good about the world that we live in. It just makes you happy. This video does that:

It was originally the brainchild of a slacker traveler named Matt. In 2003, he was traveling and did silly dance in Asia that his friends caught on [...]

3 Pictures To Inspire You

Posted on June 27, 2008 - Filed Under Inspiration | Leave a Comment

Some cool pictures from Flickr’s Interestingness photo stream…
1. I should eat Wheaties

2. I like bottle cap wisdom

3. I’m hungry for dessert

- Christian

Pretty Graphs

Posted on June 25, 2008 - Filed Under On Ideation | Leave a Comment

First of all, I apologize to you, my faithful readers, for the reduced frequency of posting. I am currently trying to achieve a balance between my professional and non-professional life and a little thing called ultimate frisbee has skewed things a bit.
I have written before about how a visual representation of a situation can make [...]

3 Quotes That Make You Think

Posted on June 20, 2008 - Filed Under Thought Starters | Leave a Comment

Quote #1 - Google
“Google is making us all stupid.”
Inspired by Nicholas Carr, The Atlantic Monthly
Quote #2 - Airlines

“If airlines really want to cut costs and be fair, they should start charging people based on body weight — not just on how much”
Inspired by Dana Kozlov, cbs2chicago.com
Quote #3 - Housing

“The American housing bust has become [...]

No More Religion

Posted on June 18, 2008 - Filed Under IDEA Challenge | 1 Comment

Here’s a quick update on the how we faired in the “Green Competition” (that was the topic for the inaugural Idea Session 1.0). The judges were looking for “a big idea” that could “transform the industry”. Based on the nature of advertising industry and the company that I work for, I thought we could go [...]

The Ultimate Puzzle

Posted on June 16, 2008 - Filed Under Cool Ideas | 3 Comments

Eric Clough isn’t your typical architectural designer. Sure, he’ll design you a fine den or kitchen, but he’s clearly got a creative streak that goes much deeper than that. That’s why, when given the opportunity, he secretly built an incredible scavenger hunt into a $8.5-million, 4,200-square-foot Park Avenue apartment that included ciphers, riddles, poems and [...]

How To Make Microsoft Cool (Part 2)

Posted on June 11, 2008 - Filed Under Random | 1 Comment

Over the past two days, I have been pondering how to make Microsoft cool. Sure, I could have generated ideas that have been born out of insights. I could have constructed full strategies drawing from the “cool equity” of the Xbox 360.
But I didn’t. I just wrote down a list of ideas that popped into [...]

How To Make Microsoft Cool (Part 1)

Posted on June 9, 2008 - Filed Under Random | 4 Comments

This afternoon I was reading an interesting article in Fast Company about trying to make Microsoft “cool”. Here’s the crux of the issue. Everyone says that you can’t make yourself cool. You either are cool, or you’re not.
I don’t believe that. I believe that people (and brands) can change. I know plenty of people who, [...]

Benefits of a Creative Partner

Posted on June 4, 2008 - Filed Under On Ideation | 2 Comments

A couple of weeks ago, I was hanging out with one of my friends and we started to talk about life goals. One of her goals was to write a movie script. Of course, when you have lofty creative goals and no plan of attack, they tend to get lost. I’m too busy. I’m too [...]