Why not take a moment to define success before you pursue it? – alexbogusky’s posterous
Advertising is rife with awardshows. I’m not sure there is any other industry so set on awarding themselves. and many of you are anxious to win one. And many of you will. And guess what? It won’t make any difference to how you feel the next day. And the next ad you have to do will not be any easier. You won’t be any smarter. Now your careers might dramatically change. Maybe even for the better. But here’s how awards ruin a lot of budding careers. Listen closely because a lot of you will face this and very few of you will make the right decision. You’re at a place that for some reason let something wonderful out the door. Something new and good is going on. Or maybe the agency has a long history of doing good work. So you win an award and right away you get lots of offers. Lot’s of offers to go places for big money. But these places haven’t done any good work since the seventies. But this is you. You can turn things around. They have a hot new CD there. So you go. And a couple years later you realize you’ve become handcuffed by the salary so you stay but you never do anything anybody cares about for the next fifteen years until you are fired as a has been at the age of 40 with nothing to show to anybody that would get you hired. This is a real story that happens every day.
Your resume and your work is your insurance policy.
Take this to heart folks because this is the gospel he’s preaching here.
Home Movie Reconstructions 1974 / 2004
Piecing together family super 8 with present day reshooting.
Epic Disney/Marvel mashup Boing Boing
I think of the Disney / Marvel merger similar to the not so “Secret Wars” series and something tells me people like spiderman are not going to just make it out of this with some weird alien black suit. Here’s hoping this works out for the Marvel Universe.
The New Ecology of Things | Blog | design mind
via “Design thinking is a term, almost a mantra, that has been resurfacing a lot lately, especially during a time of financial hardship and the need to apply new thinking to traditional or conventional processes that are being debunked (let’s use it in a sentence: “Mr. Brown thinks that the publishing world could benefit from design thinking.”) But others believe that design thinking has no basis unless it recognizes the process it is rooted in design-doing.”
