Month: June 2013
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Cannes 2013: My Conversation On Creativity With OK Go Lead Singer Damian Kulash
As part of Viacom’s trip to this year’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, I sat down for a conversation with Damian Kulash, lead singer of OK Go. Last year, Damian and the band won 7 Cannes Lions, 4 of which were gold. Here’s an excerpt from our chat: Also check out OK Go’s new…
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In The Cracks Of The Day
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Fathers’ Day Poem by Bob Hicok
O my pa-pa By Bob Hicok Our fathers have formed a poetry workshop. They sit in a circle of disappointment over our fastballs and wives. We thought they didn’t read our stuff, whole anthologies of poems that begin, My father never, or those that end, and he was silent as a carp, or those with…
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New Kicks For Fathers’ Day
A great day, including these limited edition Nike’s, hunted down by Jordana Martin, modeled by Theo Martin…
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I Can Haz Millennials
Some highlights from a recent interview I did at Yahoo!’s first CMO summit under CMO Kathy Savitt and CEO Marissa Mayer. In the clip, I talk about the difference between marketing to/at Millennials vs empowering them to speak through your brand. It’s just amazing how seriously I seem to take this.
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Poem By Kay Ryan
The Best Of It However carved up or pared down we get, we keep on making the best of it as though it doesn’t matter that our acre’s down to a square foot. As though our garden could be one bean and we’d rejoice if it flourishes, as though one bean could nourish…
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Visiting Warby Parker
Ten things I loved about my morning with Neil Blumenthal, co-founder of Warby Parker: – Old school train schedule board showing the day’s eye exam appointments, modeled on Philly’s Penn Station – The sign on the front of Warby Parker’s new Soho store: – Copies of Paris Review on the store’s waiting room coffee table, one…
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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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“Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / On one another”
I’ve probably learned as much about creativity + business from Wallace Stevens as I have from anyone… from Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction IV Two things of opposite natures seem to depend On one another, as a man depends On a woman, day on night, the imagined On the real. This is the origin of change. Winter and…