The Slow Burn

Blog since 2005

When Affection Takes Shape: The Art of Detachment in Costa Rica

. Some nights enter our lives quietly and then stay with us forever—unexpected, unforgettable, and impossible not to smile about when we remember them. In my previous post, I wrote about the launch of The Art of Detachment in Madrid a couple of weeks ago—a magical evening surrounded by extraordinary people, where I had the […]

YOUNG LIONS AMONG ALL

The process to select the pairs that will participate for a Film and a Print slot in the next great Cannes Lions festival in France has begun. With many difficulties and without enough money yet, from ASCAP we decided to move forward [...]

APPOINTMENT ON FRIDAY WITH GORILEO.TV

One of the country’s pioneer twitterers, blogger, pianist, planner, creative, violinist, friend and publicist, among many other qualities, Rogelio Umaña, will be conducting an experiment next Friday at 8 PM. This is his comment in his recent blog post: GorileoTV is a [...]

TRIBE IN “ARCHIVE” WITH SALAT

In the 25th anniversary edition of Archive, one of the most prestigious design and advertising magazines in the world, page 75, two pieces by Salat, for our client Dipo, are published. First of all, warm congratulations to the entire team at Tribu [...]

AMONG ANONYMOUS AND SILENT

In our country we live among anonymous and quiet people, so it’s refreshing to find a message like Yorsh’s.

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“ALONE” IN VESYVES

I admire and applaud all the efforts we can find in Vesyves, because it is a brave option with fresh and different content generation, under the direction of Massimo Martinotti, where you can find alternative productions, stories, advice, entertainment and adventures like [...]

IT’S TIME TO ENCHANT AND CONNECT

It is easy to cut advertising, mainly because it is an expense that is not committed and has not been incurred in advance. Likewise, cutting advertising spending is a solution with immediate results and no visible effects in the short term, since [...]

A Tribute to the Competitors I Once Sought to Defeat

From Competitors to Great Friends Competition is a temptation I can’t resist. I’m driven by an overwhelming desire to win. That’s why I choose my battles carefully, only entering those where I sense a chance of victory. I have to admit, I’m [...]

We’re all main characters in our own lives

I blinked. Usually, it takes barely a tenth of a second to blink; at most, five milliseconds more. And that’s how it goes: in the fraction of a second it takes to blink, more than 650 days have passed since the last [...]

My Campaign Wrap-Up

Hello, everyone! It’s been ages since we’ve connected here on the blog. I can barely remember where the tilde or the em dash is on the keyboard. It’s so easy to let good habits, healthy eating, or work-life balance slip away. In [...]

The next stage in my life

In October 2019 I listened to a chat led by an influential professor at the IE Madrid Business School – Dr Teresa Martin Retortillo. Her talk posed a powerful idea: purposeful transformation. I was listening to it alongside members of the G50, [...]

The Art of Letting Go

I’m writing this as I listen to Don’t Call by Desire – it’s on a Spotify playlist made by my dear friend Charlie Ranalli called Retro 80s. There’s a bottle of Glenlivet and a Cuban cigar by my side, and I’m looking [...]

The ‘scripts’ of our lives will echo in eternity

A short line in between words is known as a ‘hyphen’ in English, while in Spanish it’s referred to as a ‘guion’. It comes in varying lengths, including -, –, — and a few more, as I understand it. In the language [...]

The Slow Burn

Blog since 2005

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