All the texts I’ve recently published in The Slow Burn have been born from a desire to share and inspire. I emphasize this because I recognize that it wasn’t always like this. In the past, when I called myself a publicist and entrepreneur, my writing was often driven by a need to build my personal […]
This week Comunidad elected its new board of directors for the next two years. I wish them much success and the best results in these times that demand so much from us. For this reason, I celebrate the integration of talents that [...]
Advertising Age named him the most influential publicist of the twentieth century. Apple included him among the world personalities who inspired its “Think Different” campaign. The B in DDB stands for his last name. I write a few paragraphs about Bill Bernbach, [...]
Technology is the most powerful accelerator in advertising creativity. Brands around the world are proliferating and next June Cannes will have more cases that prove this to be true. The speed of change is only increasing and today it is reckless. Let’s [...]
The future begins today, as a phrase could rightly be described as trite. However, it reflects a powerful truth that I do not recommend ignoring (it can be very expensive!). That’s right, the future will be nothing more or less than the [...]
In the year in which Apple celebrates 30 years of having launched Macintosh to the world, a new Apple commercial has come to fill our spirits with poetry. This time it is with the text of an excerpt from the movie Dead [...]
My maternal grandfather’s name was Clemente Alpírez Garay. I never knew him because he died in 48 when he was the victim of an ambush. He was shot while shouting “viva viva” to Don Pepe on his way back to the house [...]
In a week the marathon will be run in Berlin, and God willing, I will be there to complete the 42 kilometers and 195 meters among 35 to 40 thousand runners. I guess I’ll come in at 28,467 or something like that, [...]
Casa Don Zezinho, with this message created by Almap, proves that although we are all equal, there are indeed some less equal than others. Sad.
Haile Gebrselassie broke the world record last year in Berlin in 2:04:26, and he will try to break it again in 2008.
With only a few days to go until the last day of September, and therefore, with only 11 days left to publish the pieces for Pregoneros and Volcán, rumors have reached us that we will have a heavy participation of Central American [...]