The Slow Burn

Blog since 2005

What I Remembered, What I Ignored, and What I’m Taking Into 2026

2025 has been an intense journey full of contrasts. It began with a heartfelt goodbye and ends with my soul more open after the magical and serene family encounters that we usually experience in Escondida. Meanwhile, laughter under a blanket of fireflies outside Kuala Lumpur with my grandson Mauricio, spiritual retreat in Kuchaman, spectacular […]

ADVERTISING ON THE LINE AND PEOPLE OF IDEAS

. When advertising is placed on the edge of the precipice of decisions, it is easy to choose to cut it. In this series of slides we find an attractive, interesting, timely and highly debatable presentation, as evidenced by the comments below. [...]

YOUNG LIONS COMPETE TO GO TO CANNES

In Costa Rica we are just a few days away from starting the competition to hunt for the best and most daring young talents in the country to represent us and win at Cannes, both in Film and Print. In the meantime, [...]

CARLITOS’ ROOM

Last weekend I got the YouTube link with the new case prepared by JWT Costa Rica, under the direction of Christian Caldwell and his team. Clearly, they are once again betting on a case to compete and win in Cannes, now [...]

THE NEXT WEB OF OPEN AND LINKED DATA

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, [...]

THIS END IS CLANDESTINE WEEKEND

A everyone at Clandestina, best wishes for a successful weekend. Costa Rica needs more weekends like this one. like this one. See you tomorrow!

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OF PLAGIARISM AND RIFLES IN ADVERTISING

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 [...]

Those crazy people who run

I have no idea who Marciano Durán is, except that he is a runner, he writes and shares with his video a reality that all of us crazy runners live. Until Uruguay, thanks for your message that I now copy and paste [...]

IGNITE Costa Rica is back on the 11th of February 2

At Jazz Café Escazú at 6:00 PM on Friday, February 11, we have a date with the second Ignite Costa Rica, as part of Global Ignite Week. Quick presentations of 5 minutes, supported by 1 slide changing automatically every 15 seconds. Do [...]

Reinventing experiences

It has been a wonderful experience to revisit the Sistine Chapel, now at a distance from the keyboard, also in an exquisite 360º virtual composition of impeccable quality. The distant visit has been reinvented and the first button is the proof. In [...]

Today I had breakfast with jotabequ

Today I got an email from Alberto Quiros, partner and DGC of jotabequ that says: “Hire an agency that wins awards in Costa Rica and the world”. Obviously I was interested, I clicked and stayed a long time with the new website [...]

WYSIWYG

WYSIWYG: What you see is what you get. As you see. As it is. No more, no less. That’s the way it is.

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A new flavor for 2011

A few days ago I came across this beautiful window. Fruit ice creams in delicious flavors and colors, presented with creativity, joy and a lot of determination, provoking a sensory experience from the first glance. Who doesn’t like ice creams? And how [...]

The Slow Burn

Blog since 2005

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