Tag: creative
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In Praise Of People Who Make Us Uncomfortable
People who don’t think like we do… make us uncomfortable. We don’t like to be around people who make us uncomfortable. The more successful we become, the less we’re forced to be around people who make us uncomfortable. The less we’re around people who make us uncomfortable, the more comfortable we become. The more comfortable…
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The World’s First Creative Director
Finding the best creative talent is among the most difficult tasks any leader faces. Most of us only get it right every once in a while. There are lots of reasons why: structure, communication, timing, vibe, process. I often hear colleagues and peers lament the challenge. Where does the best creative talent come from? How do we find it? When I…
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From My New Interview On The Viacom Blog
I was recently interviewed by the Viacom Blog. There I talk about the power of Viacom innovation, the origin of Scratch, and my gratitude to the friends and colleagues who’ve worked so hard and so brilliantly, side by side with me for the last ten years. We’re a team. Fortune Magazine noticed, and it highlights…
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An Urban Arts Project I Hope You’ll Consider
The Textile Arts Center’s Artists In Residence Program is a project my wife, Jordana Munk Martin, started a few years ago at Oak Knit Studio, her Brooklyn-based art space. It’s a one-of-a-kind program that incubates emerging textile artists from around the world, showcases their work, and activates local and national communities around DIY creative projects. There are so many ways…
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“We Worship At The Altar Of Our Audience”
That’s something that MTV President Stephen Friedman (who brought me to MTV almost 8 years ago) always says. It means this: If our audiences don’t love what we do, they’ll go away. And if they go away, we’ll be gone too. We all have the same boss. In the case of MTV, that’s abuot 80 million…
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Make More Sense Than The Next Guy: The Radical, Inevitable David Shrigley Retrospective
“There are many, many Shrigleys out there; some of them are mutants – others are not wholly viable, still more may be necessary in their own strange way, but there is only one essential Shrigley.” – Will Self, The Guardian UK The David Shrigley is about to not be our little secret anymore. As if…