Elizabeth has a way with words and these were the words the young illustrator chose for a surprise invite tonight, to treat her father to finally go see Tintin’s adventures. Please feel encouraged to learn more about modern day storytelling and visit Elizabethan Days on tumblr.
Christmas also came early to all New Yorkers. Early snow and now:
“American luxury specialty store Saks Fifth Avenue has been known to adorn their holiday window displays with static light shows that highlight their signature snowflake designs.
This year, Saks Fifth Avenue teams up with creative agency Iris to add a new spin on their traditional showing, using “innovative technology, [that] add[s] depth to the activity and holiday messaging.”
The result: a visually-compelling three-dimensional projection titled “The Snowflake and the Bubble,” mapped onto the façade of the Saks Fifth Avenue flagship store in Manhattan and accompanied by a gripping yuletide musical score.
Visit Iris Nation
The 3D Projection mapping show runs every night for 5 hours, from November 21st until January 6th, which makes it the longest outdoor video mapping experience in the world thus far.”
Nine hand-painted hardwood ‘building’ blocks. Includes reversible drawstring bag in tower block print fabric, and three road print postcards. Each set of nine is unique so will vary slightly from the picture above.
Smartly packaged in bright tissue paper in a kraft box, stamped with the edition number and 30×30 logo. Posted the first week of December to arrive in time for Christmas. Do get in touch if you need them sooner.
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Here I dreamt I was an architect – The Decemberists
How a promising career and a good life unfolds in the light of the public eye with the aid of social media and a little help from a friend.
Skip through Ana’s year 2010 round up and you get the idea what your digital footprints can do for your reputation in the natural world.
Ana’s entry makes it easy on the rest of us to understand why your digital footprint will likely outperform your activities in the natural world in the years ahead.
i don’t care about why people do things, i care about how they do them.
fav post from December 2, 2009
Talk kills
Insights you won’t gain anywhere else, aside from posts by individuals you discover and choose to trust incl. massive learnings from associated links.
Learning is the most essential of all survival strategies and of greater value to the individual lifespan than is sex or reproduction.
The value of individuals involvement in publicness is more effective in protecting life and democracy than is the right to own firearms.
The year began with the amazing emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson river with survivors only and amazement wouldn’t end there.
The web, as if a man made creature with a will of its own, is forcing the world to return to the learned and proven roots and behaviors of an organic marketplace despite all money thrown at it by commercial enterprises.
With my very late entry into blogging, I have come to discover new German intelligence. Thought leaders and talents the likes of Prof. Dr. Peter Kruse who has characterized the psychological benefits of the web as an offer of the possibility of permanent closeness.
Nico Lumma with a sharp mind and authentic language reminds me of the unsurpassed talents that help Derek Sivers stay in close touch with an ever growing following.
Just as amazing, young Creative Director Matthias Storath has demonstrated the power of ideas with a whole new approach to tv commercials with his robust poetic variations for Hornbach home depot.
After 25 good years in international advertising, I have returned to Munich, and live in walking distance from the orphanage I stem from, read my good story here.
As we ever more often come across good reasons for something to believe in, serious distrust in overcome instances of establishment is growing as well.
Transformation is in full swing. I am lucky to have had the privilege to introduce IPA social, the 10 principles to the German speaking market found here, and will want to keep at it this coming year with increased efforts to help the advertising industry reach sanity during the transformation.
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I am Mark Sargent, I don't have ideas for advertising, I am advertising ideas. Much like Nicolas Roope, I do things, not advertise things. Your support is welcome:
I am Mark Sargent, I don't have ideas for advertising, I am advertising ideas. Much like 
