January 2012
7 posts
“There is no protocol here. If you have an idea grab it by the balls, speak up...”
– Mauricio (advice from a friend)
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“For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked...”
– Steve Jobs
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Ambitious Leadership
I have never had a boss tell me not to be afraid to fail. It’s the scariest freedom I think I have ever had in my employment history anywhere. So, thank you. The only way to conquer fear is to take charge and master it. Look for my name soon.
4 tags
4 tags
“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead...”
– D.H. Lawrence
Art & Copy →
Anyone with any interest in the world of advertising needs to see this film. I thought it was enlightening. It’s also available on Netflix.
November 2011
3 posts
“Creativity takes courage.”
– Henri Matisse
“Creativity is an advertising agency’s most valuable asset, because it is...”
– Jef I. Richards
“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”
– Edwin Land
October 2011
2 posts
“People who can’t find happiness have trouble understanding those that...”
– Oliver McCutchen Jr.
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
1 post
March 2011
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February 2011
1 post
December 2010
1 post
Apologies
I offer my sincerest apologies to the gift of creativity. I have been dormant for quite some time. There is no one thing that has kept me away. It is the combination of many things that I let distract me and things I simply forgot about and neglected. Rest assured that this is not some lame attempt at a New Year’s resolution. This is me remembering the gift of creativity and the...
July 2010
11 posts
Daytime Politics / Daytime Emmy
Well, did anyone catch President Obama on The View today? If so, what were your thoughts? It was a historic moment, but without the epic weight and reverence of most historic moments in my opinion.
“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“Those who major in poetry have a masters in life.”
– Oliver McCutchen Jr.
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
– Robert Frost
“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.”
– Plutarch
“Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.”
– Charles Baudelaire
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”
– Albert Einstein
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. ”
– Albert Einstein
Do something?
Inspiration can be a motivator or a killer. The struggle is focusing your inspirations into becoming something defining to create a thing. Instead sometimes the inspirations are so numerous and great that they suffocate your ability to produce anything. It is the equivalent of being in a pool with no water and still feeling like you are drowning. The possibility is just too much for your...
January 2010
3 posts
“We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be...”
– Nikki Giovanni
“Poetry is the possibility of language.”
– Eddie Cole - “Love Jones”
Night Moods
It’s quiet. No, it’s silent. It’s still like the moments between a heartbeat when the pulse ceases to exist. It is so silent that the night shivers in nervousness. A soundless environmental evaluation where the moon wears light as a mask of peace. Silently I hear the movement of your breath. Like when you inhale the potential of lips pressed together and exhale the...
November 2009
4 posts
Specialist
If you do something enough you become an expert at it. If that is the case I should be Emotional Anesthesiologist.
Didn't think it would
I need to speak my mind, but I cannot think of the words to say. How do you handle making yourself vulnerable and then dealing with the unexpected hurt that you really set yourself up for by being vulnerable in the first place? How can my heart be broken again when it was broken before and never put back together? How, please?
October 2009
13 posts
“Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your...”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“It is more stable to count on your fingers than to count on someone. At least...”
– Oliver McCutchen Jr
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to...”
– Robert Heinlein
“My heart ran out of words to say, so tears fill the pages of my book.”
– Oliver McCutchen Jr.
“It hurt so badly that my tears cried as they ran down my face.”
– Oliver McCutchen Jr.
“My heart screamed so loudly that I went deaf and never heard it break.”
– Oliver McCutchen Jr.
“If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don’t listen to writers...”
– Lillian Hellman
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
– Albert Camus
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
quick script (this one is for you - inspire me)
Eyes found a woman who found me by words then pictures. Uncertainty in obvious altered reality confirmed me in who I was to her. How does one who has been so far away make me feel like I am home in her? This is a return to an existence that ceased to exist the day that moonlight died then night that night became beyond black. When the night sky lost its shape and the mass of it suffocated me...