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 […]

FROM TRIBU TO CANNES FOR THE YOUNG CREATIVES FILM COMPETITION

Paula Guevara and Carlos Jimenez will be in Cannes for the next Festival, which starts on June 17, and will participate in the Young Creatives Film Competition, which awards the winning duo from 20 of the same number of countries. This competition, [...]

THE LOVEMARKS EFFECT (2nd.Book)

The Lovemarks Effect is the second book to be launched by Saatchi Saatchi and its Global CEO, Kevin Roberts, confirming that we are not talking about a fad or a passing idea. Lovemarks is here to stay and to grow, for a [...]

AL GORE REMAINS FOCUSED: THE CLIMATE CRISIS.

Don’t miss this 17-minute presentation by Al Gore at TED. The truth is inconvenient, heavy and uncomfortable. It is imperative that every human being take concrete action: balance their emissions and become “carbon neutral”.

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I WANT TO BE LIKE THIS.

“I already plan to turn up the volume on all the dreams in me. …you have to grow up and you can’t be a baby anymore. …I want to be like this. Surrendering my life… …for You what is dark, is not [...]

WHY DO ADVERTISING AGENCIES PAY SO LITTLE?

Message sent by Antonio Ramirez. ___________________________________________ Jorge, How do you do. We don’t know each other but I’m an advertising and marketing fever. I signed up for your blog because a creative friend of mine, known as Yorsh, passed it on to [...]

WHO SAID FEAR?

glumbert.com – The Great Descent Do you know the worst thing that could happen to a client? And I want to insist, do you know the worst of the worst of the worst of all the worst things that could happen to [...]

WANT TO BE CREATIVE?

Live creatively.

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JUDGING FOR THE EYE OF IBEROAMERICA.

Today is Friday the 13th and I’m in Montevideo. I’ve been watching commercials for hours and enjoying this opportunity to judge at the Ojo de Iberoamérica, with the DVD they sent me on my laptop and a Diet Coke without ice, while [...]

VOLCAN 2006, a golden opportunity.

The upcoming Volcán, an advertising contest organized by ASCAP, the Costa Rican association of advertising agencies, could be a turning point, a milestone in our creative history, a point to trigger a breakthrough, leaving behind the past and defining together the future. [...]

CHILDREN OF HEAVEN

This wonderful story told in an innocent Iranian production, became a worldwide success with nominations and awards all over the world. It is easy to recognize that big budgets are not needed when an idea is so wonderfully powerful. This film should [...]

The story of the crying camel

Starting Movie Reviews integrated to the blog, I invite you to include your recommendations. On my side and my first, I have to include a story that takes place in Mongolia, unusual, unique and surprising. Its pace is slow, however, it is [...]

SIMMERING WITH THOUSANDS OF VISITORS

In only 6 days of the month of October, A Fuego Lento has received 2,143 visits, with an absolute majority of those visits going to the image of the Truchiles, with a second place in the article It is preferable NOT TO [...]

The Slow Burn

Blog since 2005

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