Twyla Tharp on Creativity and Motivation

Found this gem on Merlin Mann’s blog Kung Fu Grippe and had to share. That is all.

No more Internet Explorer 6 support.

I, like many web developers the world over, have a had a nasty thorn in my side for a long time and its name is Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. IE6′s CSS support is well documented across the Internet for being notoriously bad. To get sites to look the same on it as on other browsers such [...]

No NaBloPoMo for me.

November has rolled around once again, and for the past two years that has meant my participation in National Blog Posting Month. Every day of November I would write a post. At the end of last November I decided I probably wouldn’t do it again. When Piper brought up how drained he was writing [...]

Yes, We Did.

KC Ad Club Career Day ‘08: Portfolio Development

Monday was the third KC Ad Club Career Day I’ve participated in. The first two years I sat on the interactive marketing panel and that was pretty awesome. I obviously was in a comfort zone and could easily go on all day about the subject. However, to keep things fresh for the [...]

Open ended questions: Harbingers of truth

Recently the Ad Club of Kansas City sent out a questionnaire to its members. The purpose was to try to gain some insight into perception of the club so that a rebranding effort could get underway. The questions ran along the lines of, “If the Ad Club were a sandwich, what kind would it be?” The [...]

I did. Did you?

R.I.P. Wii Fit Project

Some of you may remember that a few months ago I attempted to lose 22 pounds using Wii Fit and a sensible diet. I was chronicling my journey on another blog, wiifitproject.com. Today I officially pulled the plug on it. I never put the energy and attention into it that it deserved. I [...]

A day in Manhattan.

Last Thursday I went to Manhattan, KS and made a couple of appearances. The first appearance was as a guest lecturer in Professor Soontae An’s Principles Of Advertising class. I was asked to come in and talk about the creative process as it applies to advertising and to field questions using my grizzled, time-tested agency veteran [...]

“The Stalls” makes this week’s Creativity Top 5.

Last week we launched a new project that I forgot to tell you about. Pete and TJ, the two guys that love Sonic so much, are starring in an episodic campaign entitled The Stalls that is tied to and airs exclusively during MTV’s The Hills on Monday nights. The campaign should be pretty interesting and [...]