tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70376039380816058552024-03-13T08:41:38.307-05:00upside-down-umbrellaA catalog of observations, trends and ideas for creative inspiration.Patrick Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413731259661440649noreply@blogger.comBlogger192125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037603938081605855.post-87186845617761874132011-11-24T13:52:00.001-06:002011-11-24T13:57:38.818-06:00What We’re Thankful For<div id="content">
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b7-BcLGvkAc/Ts6g0sV2ShI/AAAAAAAAAwI/0CR9pHCa-3Y/s1600/ThanksgivingBlog_112311.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b7-BcLGvkAc/Ts6g0sV2ShI/AAAAAAAAAwI/0CR9pHCa-3Y/s200/ThanksgivingBlog_112311.jpg" width="200" /></a>On this Thanksgiving Eve we’re thankful that our C2 Creative website is
finally live <a href="http://www.c2-cc.com/">www.C2-cc.com</a>. We still have some work to do as we’ll be adding new
portfolio samples and new people in the coming weeks.<br />
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We had grand plans for a rich interactive experience to “engage and
build buzz” but we’ve fallen victim to the Cobblers Shoes Syndrome. Put
simply, we’ve been busy. That leads me to another topic we’re thankful
for. We’ve been working on great creative projects across a variety of
vertical all year. I’d have to say this is the most rewarding time in my
career as we partner with brand managers, agency creative departments
and marketing teams to produce solid creative ideas.<br />
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We’re looking forward to 2012 and we’re already drawing up plans to
ditch this website so enjoy it while you can. Have a great Thanksgiving.
</div>Patrick Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413731259661440649noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037603938081605855.post-68426762121079567382011-09-09T12:19:00.002-05:002011-09-09T13:07:17.998-05:00The kohactivationOver the last year and a half C2 and kohactive have been collaborating on a variety of digital projects. C2 has partnered with great technology teams in the past but pound for pound kohactive is the most dangerous digital team we've engaged. They've convinced me to take on the role of Director of Creative Operations for kohactive. It's a hybrid position of new business development, creative strategy, art direction and producer.<br />
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Things haven't changed at C2. Brian and I continue to take on branding, advertising, identity and other creative projects. The only thing that's changed is that I've updated my LinkedIn and I will be drinking more coffee than usual. <br />
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You can find kohactive at <a href="http://www.kohactive.com/">www.kohactive.com</a><br />
C2 will be launching a new website in the next 30 days at <a href="http://www.c2-cc.com/">www.C2-cc.com</a>. Patrick Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413731259661440649noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037603938081605855.post-42124821236413572342011-08-02T19:50:00.006-05:002011-08-02T20:23:32.918-05:00Time to fire this baby up againIt's been over a year an a half since my last blog post and it's probably about time I got back in the groove. Over the last year or so I've met some amazing people in Chicago's entrepreneur space. If you don't follow @rachelbaker <span class="screen-name screen-name-sweetfracture5 pill">@sweetfracture5</span> @foiledcupcakes <span class="screen-name screen-name-MWCAccounting pill">@MWCAccounting</span> @ryanevans @jtpenny @andrewatideal or <span class="screen-name screen-name-siffring pill">@siffring</span> I recommend you do. I was fortunate to share an office space with them in Chicago's Bucktown neighborhood for a bit. The space was dubbed "Eight On Seven" or #8on7. It was the first time in my career where everyone in the same space worked independently of each other. We were free of the typical office politics and moral ups and downs that you'd commonly see in a traditional office because everyone ran their own company. You hear about "passion" a lot in corporate meeting but rarely do you see it at the level that the folks at #80n7 displayed. It was an energizing experience and a model I hope to recreate it someway in the future.<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rbx4p3aiLYo/TjijADFf-vI/AAAAAAAAAtE/9ZRBLnbtKzY/s1600/300686741.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rbx4p3aiLYo/TjijADFf-vI/AAAAAAAAAtE/9ZRBLnbtKzY/s400/300686741.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636434154877876978" border="0" /></a>Patrick Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413731259661440649noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037603938081605855.post-50721509996599260272009-12-29T09:02:00.003-06:002009-12-29T09:02:00.724-06:00Kill The Gun<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A very powerful bit of visual story telling.</span></span><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ylvAovoO2kk&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ylvAovoO2kk&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span></div>Patrick Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413731259661440649noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037603938081605855.post-70037614246133606562009-12-26T00:33:00.004-06:002009-12-28T01:04:38.249-06:00Make Me A Bicycle Clown<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Some very creative hockey calls from Randy Moller.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/C3b_7S-sGBo&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/C3b_7S-sGBo&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span>Patrick Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413731259661440649noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037603938081605855.post-80590010581154887342009-12-24T00:38:00.004-06:002009-12-25T11:38:09.968-06:00Some Photos From 2009<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_m32p6TaCD4k/SzT4eeasa_I/AAAAAAAAAX4/-Q-Zg4AX3_U/s1600-h/2009_Photos_2x_122309.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 136px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_m32p6TaCD4k/SzT4eeasa_I/AAAAAAAAAX4/-Q-Zg4AX3_U/s400/2009_Photos_2x_122309.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419229454078340082" /></a>Patrick Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413731259661440649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037603938081605855.post-82344063262690608862009-12-23T22:43:00.002-06:002009-12-23T22:44:09.991-06:00An Advertising Parable For The Holidays<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; white-space: pre; "><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wexdQr0MyVY&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wexdQr0MyVY&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span>Patrick Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413731259661440649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037603938081605855.post-43956400052743666402009-12-20T11:35:00.006-06:002009-12-20T11:43:57.460-06:00How About A Bottle Of Hand Sanitizer with Red & Green Glitter In It?<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">A nice spin on the development of the agency holiday</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">card: </span></span><a href="http://duffyshanley.com/HolidayCard-2010/index.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">http://duffyshanley.com/HolidayCard-2010/index.html</span></span></a></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_m32p6TaCD4k/Sy5hEJcdRHI/AAAAAAAAAXg/TZm-4NZp-Sg/s1600-h/Picture_3.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 352px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_m32p6TaCD4k/Sy5hEJcdRHI/AAAAAAAAAXg/TZm-4NZp-Sg/s400/Picture_3.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417374125655934066" /></a><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Patrick Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413731259661440649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037603938081605855.post-23207727595424920462009-12-07T20:58:00.007-06:002009-12-08T09:50:46.804-06:00The Official Beaverisms<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">After some recent editions from fellow Eagles I've decided to officially memorialize the great words of Ray Beavers on my blog for future reference. I documented this list of "Beaverisms" in the side of my notebook during my high school accounting class in 1989. My apologies in advance for any of you that may find these offensive. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 14px;font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A special thanks you to BG and MC on their additions to this list. Both were priceless. </span></span></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; font-family:verdana, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• The hit dog always hollers</span></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• All I should see is your rear end and elbows</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• You're like a blind dog in a meat house</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• Run through there like a spotted ass ape</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;">• You're running on eggs!</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• Fire out and ring his bell</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• I'm doing the dog... you're just holdin' the tail</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• You may have enough money to burn up a wet elephant</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• I don't have to button up my shirt, my heart ain't fallin' out</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• Your next few tests are going to be boogers</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• I speak bilingual English and profanity</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• A blind hog finds somethin' to eat every now and then</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• You come in here with that horse play. You'd better tie that horse outside!</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• You guys are crazier than a house full of ants</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• He doesn't care what I call him just as long as he's not late for supper</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• You just bump your gums to hear your head rattle</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• I gotta cavity over here and I'm talking with an echo</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• I got $10. What does that mean? I got someone else's pants on.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• Currency is paper with dead Presidents on it</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• If she had another wrinkle she have to hold it in her hand</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• You'll be down in Joliet getting a stripped sun tan</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• Throw it back and let the whineo sleep on it</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• Sit up. You don't have a rubber neck.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• I almost had a job at the dynamite plant</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• How the hell could you be board? You're breathin', you could of been a dandylion</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• They'll put you so far back they'll have to feed you with a slingshot</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• I'm gonna put a ring around your eye</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• My wife wraps my lunch in a road map</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• You can read reading, but you can't read writin!</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• When Meno & Gohel were Jrs people thought they dressed the side line markers</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• How can you be listening to me and be writing the sugar report to somebody?</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• We've had that ever since heck was pup</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• You don't know rude from bubble gum</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• Time to sack the bat</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• They say that when you get older the memory is the first to go. I forget what the second is.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• What's a Sail Cat? It's a cat that has been run over so many times you can pick it up and throw it. And boy does it sail. It goes like a shingle.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• You're 2 sandwiches short of a picnic lunch</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• You guys never annoy me. It's a slice of heaven every day.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• Stormin ' like a bull at a new gate</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• If you want a rocker go to the old folks home</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• Maybe if I fill up on the gas tank she'll run away</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• Where there's no brains there's a lot of labor</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• Some of you guys are just scratchin around the sandbox</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• If you don't know your right from left... throw a rock</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• When the bell rings I'm outta here like a scolded dog</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• You can't ride a good horse to death</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">• I love all you guys even if some of you are hemorrhoids</span></span></p></span></span></div></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_m32p6TaCD4k/Sx3C7ovBwGI/AAAAAAAAAXY/UBuupu14wzw/s1600-h/Ray_Beavers_1990_scan.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 181px; height: 274px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_m32p6TaCD4k/Sx3C7ovBwGI/AAAAAAAAAXY/UBuupu14wzw/s400/Ray_Beavers_1990_scan.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412696656971939938" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></span></span></div></span></span></span>Patrick Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413731259661440649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037603938081605855.post-845301061637138312009-12-07T11:36:00.002-06:002009-12-07T11:36:00.440-06:00Social Media Boom<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">A nice visualization of SM data</span></span></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_m32p6TaCD4k/SxtfK_gFBKI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/6XwXRMzYSh8/s1600-h/onlinecommunities_r6.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 77px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_m32p6TaCD4k/SxtfK_gFBKI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/6XwXRMzYSh8/s400/onlinecommunities_r6.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412024019665093794" /></a><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Patrick Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413731259661440649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037603938081605855.post-82634761174230720102009-12-06T01:33:00.003-06:002009-12-06T01:40:23.055-06:00Nail In The Coffin<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I thought this packaging design was genius.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_m32p6TaCD4k/SxterTVG4zI/AAAAAAAAAXI/AFMMQTViPyo/s1600-h/Coffin-Shaped-Cigarette-Packs-1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 341px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_m32p6TaCD4k/SxterTVG4zI/AAAAAAAAAXI/AFMMQTViPyo/s400/Coffin-Shaped-Cigarette-Packs-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412023475231974194" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Patrick Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413731259661440649noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037603938081605855.post-79782607837382701342009-11-30T09:12:00.000-06:002009-11-30T09:12:00.413-06:00A New Meaning To The Word Office Space<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(100, 95, 94); white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I'd like an office like this. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><object width="400" height="225"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4197108&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1"><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4197108&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/4197108"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Pop Up</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> from </span><a href="http://vimeo.com/user1474033"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">abw</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> on </span><a href="http://vimeo.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Vimeo</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">.</span></p></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#645F5E;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#645F5E;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://vimeo.com/4197108"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://vimeo.com/4197108</span></span></a></span></span></div>Patrick Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413731259661440649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037603938081605855.post-51834257148591651222009-11-27T11:14:00.004-06:002009-11-27T11:14:00.544-06:00Gimme Shelter<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I came across this today on commarts.com and thought it was a great media buy.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_m32p6TaCD4k/Sw11KYeqbFI/AAAAAAAAAXA/2W3ja9P104g/s1600/Cardboard_Media.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 382px; height: 382px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_m32p6TaCD4k/Sw11KYeqbFI/AAAAAAAAAXA/2W3ja9P104g/s400/Cardboard_Media.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408107548772035666" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Credit: </span><a href="http://www.jigsawllc.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">www.jigsawllc.com</span></a></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Grant Bernstein, art director; Nick Pipitone, writer; Steven Wold/Nick Pipitone, creative directors; Matt O'Donnell, print production.</span></span></p> </span></span></div>Patrick Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413731259661440649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037603938081605855.post-28897511723249038492009-11-25T18:14:00.002-06:002009-11-25T18:14:00.269-06:00Logomatrix<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This Lego video is unbelievable. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iDe4v318f64&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iDe4v318f64&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Original link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDe4v318f64&feature=player_embedded</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Thanks for @mattChevy for tweeting.</span></span></div>Patrick Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413731259661440649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037603938081605855.post-91958654208502289162009-11-24T08:05:00.000-06:002009-11-24T02:43:20.183-06:00Ideas Are The Real Currency<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I came across this line in a Tim Williams article today and thought it was worth sharing. "</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In a world where many of the most powerful media have a cost of $0, ideas are the real currency of marketing, not money."</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">For the full article on the 15 Risks Agencies Can't Afford Not to Take go to: <a href="http://ow.ly/F1iz">http://ow.ly/F1iz</a></span></span></div>Patrick Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413731259661440649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037603938081605855.post-30695880926812559492009-11-15T09:21:00.001-06:002009-11-15T09:24:35.529-06:00FDA & Social Media<div><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GAnFU5kjxbc&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GAnFU5kjxbc&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; white-space: pre; "><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kkt0-V_4aCk&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kkt0-V_4aCk&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; white-space: pre;"><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pkHN_SyaGYo&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pkHN_SyaGYo&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Patrick Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413731259661440649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037603938081605855.post-16894297662502416152009-11-14T01:09:00.004-06:002009-11-14T17:46:07.295-06:00Experimenting with a style for Unity<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_m32p6TaCD4k/Sv5X7CXjdMI/AAAAAAAAAWw/vVYk-rwj-qk/s1600-h/C2_UnityGraphic_111309_v4_72dpi.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_m32p6TaCD4k/Sv5X7CXjdMI/AAAAAAAAAWw/vVYk-rwj-qk/s400/C2_UnityGraphic_111309_v4_72dpi.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403853274650735810" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Experimenting with a new technique. If your next project needs creative support contact me at C2.<br />Review our work at www.C2-cc.com</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><a href="http://c2-cc.posterous.com/experimenting-with-a-style-for-unity">http://c2-cc.posterous.com/experimenting-with-a-style-for-unity</a></span></span></div>Patrick Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413731259661440649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037603938081605855.post-48030967386817960552009-11-10T21:42:00.003-06:002009-11-10T21:53:15.909-06:00Tribes Are What MatterWho are you upsetting?<br />Who are you connecting?<br />Who are you leading?<br />This is where change comes from. <br />Where are we going next?<br /><br /><object width="446" height="326"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"></param> <param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/SethGodin_2009-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/SethGodin-2009.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=538&introDuration=16500&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=2000&adKeys=talk=seth_godin_on_the_tribes_we_lead;year=2009;theme=not_business_as_usual;theme=media_that_matters;theme=the_rise_of_collaboration;theme=unconventional_explanations;event=TED2009;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;" /><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgColor="#ffffff" width="446" height="326" allowFullScreen="true" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/SethGodin_2009-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/SethGodin-2009.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=538&introDuration=16500&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=2000&adKeys=talk=seth_godin_on_the_tribes_we_lead;year=2009;theme=not_business_as_usual;theme=media_that_matters;theme=the_rise_of_collaboration;theme=unconventional_explanations;event=TED2009;"></embed></object>Patrick Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413731259661440649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037603938081605855.post-19394518454090270842009-10-30T08:10:00.002-05:002009-10-30T08:10:00.188-05:00Handle With Care<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This came from http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/10/big-ideas.html but I thought it was worth repeating because it's so simple and so true.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Big ideas are little ideas that no one killed too soon."</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>Patrick Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413731259661440649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037603938081605855.post-52808206419411096462009-10-29T09:47:00.009-05:002009-10-30T15:17:32.413-05:00YastTime sheets can be a necessary evil. I just came across a tool for freelancers that makes tracking time very easy. Go to <a href="http://www.yast.com">www.yast.com</a>. It's about as easy as it can get.Patrick Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413731259661440649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037603938081605855.post-90923295841204821422009-10-28T08:23:00.007-05:002009-10-28T01:44:30.802-05:00Invest In Fun<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, serif;"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Sometimes the best way to motivate change with a customer isn't a new brochure flooded with lots of information. Sometimes it's about having fun. Sometimes (I think) we forget that difficult problems can be solved this way because we've convinced ourselves that we have sophisticated methods to deliver solutions. Sometimes it's fun to begin 4 sentences in a row with sometimes.</span></span></p></span><div><div><div><div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, serif;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2lXh2n0aPyw&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2lXh2n0aPyw&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>Patrick Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413731259661440649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037603938081605855.post-81644092543524036632009-10-21T08:55:00.004-05:002009-10-21T23:38:20.576-05:00Upside Down House Meets Upside Down Umbrella<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: 100; line-height: 18px; "><span id="misspell-2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Klaudiusz</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span id="misspell-3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Golos</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> and </span></span><span id="misspell-4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Sebastion</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span id="misspell-5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Mikuciuk build an upside down house for the ”The world stands on its head” project in </span></span><span id="misspell-1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Trassenheide</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Germany.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: 100; line-height: 18px; "><span id="misspell-5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><a href="http://freshome.com/2009/09/11/crazy-upside-down-house-in-germany/">http://freshome.com/2009/09/11/crazy-upside-down-house-in-germany/</a></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, serif;"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_m32p6TaCD4k/St6J5e4EBUI/AAAAAAAAAWg/Xo7fA2DvJ_w/s400/cartus.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394901024270189890" /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, serif;"><br /></span></div>Patrick Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413731259661440649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037603938081605855.post-32671885678418104632009-10-20T22:44:00.003-05:002009-10-20T22:47:32.415-05:00Kaboom<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px; "><span class="text" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline- font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A quick read from Alex Bogusky. Creative directors are in the business of professional insanity </span></span></span><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpost%2Ely%2F9QY5&urlhash=LN5v&trk=hb_statlink" target="_blank" title="http://post.ly/9QY5" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: initial; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153) !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://post.ly/9QY5</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span>Patrick Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413731259661440649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037603938081605855.post-49068963856337549602009-10-18T15:22:00.004-05:002009-10-18T15:34:52.081-05:00Have We Lost Something Along The Way?<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia; color:#4a4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#4B4A4A;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Original Article Link: </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://bit.ly/15XV2L">http://bit.ly/15XV2L</a></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia; color:#4a4b4b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, serif;color:#4B4A4A;"><br /></span></p><p color="#4a4b4b" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I Miss the Lunatics</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; color:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; color:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><i>by Ernie Schenck</i></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; color:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; color:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I miss the lunatics. I miss the whack jobs and the incendiaries, all full of passion and madness, wild-eyed, hearts on fire, willing to fall on their swords for an idea. I miss the art director I once knew who threw a cigar at a client.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; min-height: 13.0pxcolor:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; color:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I miss the yellers and the screamers. The immature, belligerent little bastards who refused to let mediocrity suck them down into the cage of mediocrity. </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; min-height: 13.0pxcolor:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; color:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I don’t know George Lois but I think about him. What a wild man he must have been in the early years. What a nut case. What a Claymore mine just begging you to trip his wire. Go ahead. Just pull my chain. I dare you. What a genius.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; min-height: 13.0pxcolor:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; color:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I love the stuff that’s going on now. Never before have creatives had such a massive canvas to work with. There is so much possibility. So many dots to connect. It’s huge. It’s enormous. </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; min-height: 13.0pxcolor:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; color:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The smartest guy in the room? Doesn’t exist anymore. You know why? Because </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">every</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> guy in the room is just so damn smart. MIT Ad Lab guys. UX wizards. The Twitterati and the digerati and the experiencerati. So smart. So brilliant. So cool, calm and collected.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; min-height: 13.0pxcolor:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; color:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">But where are the hot heads? Where are the tortured and the agitated? The bulls in the china shop. Are you out there? Do you exist anymore? Because I sure as hell haven’t seen too many of you around lately.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; min-height: 13.0pxcolor:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; color:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In our rush to collaboration, I wonder if we’ve lost something along the way. For so long, so few of us had ownership of the process. The client paid for the work, but we owned it. It was ours. And when something is yours, you care about it. You protect it. And woe to the sorry soul who tries to deface it or harm it in any way. </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; min-height: 13.0pxcolor:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; color:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">As I write this, millions of disenfranchised Iranians are taking to the streets to protest what they believe is a sham election. Millions. Standing up, risking their lives, for an idea. This is the passion of crowds. Put a creative idea in the hands of a far smaller mob of smart, talented people and passion goes AWOL.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; min-height: 13.0pxcolor:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; color:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Psychologist Jeremy Dean puts it this way: “Groups only rarely foment great ideas because people in them are power-fully shaped by group norms, the unwritten rules that describe how individuals in a group ‘are’ and how they ‘ought’ to behave.”</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; min-height: 13.0pxcolor:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; color:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Maybe it's like Dash, the little kid in </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The Incredibles</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, when his mom tells him that everyone’s special and he says, “That's like saying nobody is.” If everyone owns the idea, then no one owns it. And where there’s no ownership, there can be no passion. </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; min-height: 13.0pxcolor:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; color:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Just for once, I’d like to see fury make a comeback. I’d like to see pyrotechnics in the conference room. Fireworks and explosions and loud bangs. God almighty, people, doesn't anyone fight for creativity anymore? </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; min-height: 13.0pxcolor:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; color:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Tony Kaye was arguably one of the most volatile, egotistical, abusive directors ever to set foot in advertising. Most people I know who’ve worked with Tony have nothing but, well, not-so-wonderful things to say about the experience. Me? I loved him. Adored the guy. (Although I have to say, when he asked that his name be removed from the credits of </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">American History X</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, even I had to shake my head. Brilliant career move? Probably not. Explosive display of passion for the work? Absolutely.)</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; min-height: 13.0pxcolor:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; color:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">If nothing else, the Tony episode taught me something about the choices we all make all the time between career and craft. It's not easy.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; min-height: 13.0pxcolor:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; color:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In his recent </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Ad Age</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> piece, Bart Cleveland recalled something Steve Hayden said about his old boss. “The night before we presented the storyboard for ‘1984,’ Jay [Chiat] was on a tear. He didn’t think anything we had in the room—including ‘1984’—was good enough, new enough, smart enough, beautiful enough. He was upset. He was brutal. He wanted to cancel the meeting.”</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; min-height: 13.0pxcolor:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; color:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">As Bart explained, “Chiat’s passion for the work was not influenced by what was going on in the world around him. He wasn’t going to do mediocre work because there was a recession going on. In his mind, it was every ad maker’s duty to serve the client by breaking the mold. To fail was inexcusable.”</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; min-height: 13.0pxcolor:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; color:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">No, we don’t need creatives throwing cigars at clients. We don’t need art directors threatening to jump out 35th floor windows if their Webisodes don't sell. But every once in a while, when the work is about to get its throat cut, it wouldn’t hurt if we stood up and said, no you’re wrong, you’re wrong wrong wrong. This is great. This will work. </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; color:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I believe it. I want you to believe it.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; min-height: 13.0pxcolor:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; color:#4b4a4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">How very reaffirming that would be. How very Tony. How very Jay. </span></span></p>Patrick Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413731259661440649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037603938081605855.post-70163091575174805892009-10-14T19:16:00.006-05:002009-10-14T19:21:19.831-05:00Upside Down Umbrella<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I finally made a header graphic for this blog. Here's to procrastination. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 169px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_m32p6TaCD4k/StZqyzG_VNI/AAAAAAAAAWY/l_cXrBMcFIA/s400/u_d_umbrella_blog_gfx_09+cropped.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392615024768275666" /></span></span></div>Patrick Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413731259661440649noreply@blogger.com1