I start typing with an overwhelming feeling of defeat. Not because the trip at the end of August to which I am going to refer went badly, but because I think it is almost impossible to translate into text what I experienced. No adjective is sufficient to describe what it really means to experience “Burning […]
A Tim Berners-Lee se le atribuye la creación de la internet, o la www, world wide web. Acá su visión de lo que sigue, donde los números y los datos podrán encontrar el marco de vida para una nueva forma de convivencia, [...]
A everyone at Clandestina, best wishes for a successful weekend. Costa Rica needs more weekends like this one. like this one. See you tomorrow!
With the recently published cases of Imperial Silver and the Harricks Eater, reported in Christian Cambronero’s excellent blog, Fusil de Chispas, some pepper returns to our Costa Rican advertising micro patio, especially seasoned by the naivety of many comments from those who [...]
Today I received an email from a blog reader who did me the favor of directing me to the Modernista site, as he thought it was an excellent idea for this site, in combination with those of Tribu and its affiliates. Thank [...]
This is a sense of timing, and understanding that if we are going to say something out there, we better do it by adding a direct, effective, inspiring and refreshing contribution. This is what Itziar Elizalde adds in expansion.com: Coca-Cola Spain has [...]
Here is a direct copy paste of a video and text I found on YouTube that is worth the 4 minutes and a bit it lasts. New Realism Economic conditions will profoundly affect our cultural context moving forward. As our creative content [...]
I long for a cave or a monastery, without wifi or 3G. I am provoked by the mountains in the Himalayas without signal and the villages outside the cyber cafe. Few places in the world are left like the shower, without screens, [...]
After several years of Cannes, Ojos, Fiaps, Clios and so much more in the world of advertising awards, SXSW Interactive has turned out to be a surprise of unimaginable proportions. More than 30,000 people attend Austin, and among them in 2011: Paula [...]
Some time ago I read that the key to life is happiness, and that the key to happiness is simplicity, or something similar. Although incomplete and questionable, the phrase points to a refreshing, clear and powerful word: simple. For this reason, the [...]
With the SXSW Interactive festival just a few days away, I’m packing my bags for a new and intense experience. Check out what we’re going for: five days of compelling presentations from the brightest minds in emerging technology, scores of exciting networking [...]
Already in March and almost 2.2 million views later I came across a wonderful summary of 2010 that I wanted to leave on my blog. Enjoy it first and then allow me to add a paragraph of commentary. Searches continue in 2011. [...]
What we lived through was not a crisis, but a “button-down”. The world went through a reset of economies and finances that completely affected consumption. We were living in the upgrade era and we halfway returned to the replacement era. Everything changed. [...]
