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 […]
There is no one who is unaware of the fierce and predatory competition among advertising agencies in the country and around the world. It would seem that the time of ladies and gentlemen has passed and it has become, as they say [...]
Live creatively.
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Here is the first one. The Argentine market has become a successful case of duo work. Let’s take a look: the mythical Fernando Vega Olmos and Hernán Ponce, Ramiro Agulla and Carlos Baccetti; and more recently Chavo D’ Emilio and Papón Ricciarelli [...]
We have only 3,650 days left to reverse the impact of our carbon emissions, balance our lifestyles and become carbon-neutral human beings… before it becomes irreversible. The climate crisis and global warming is the theme with which the Young Creatives are currently [...]
Cannes 2007 Jury President Bob Scarpelli, DDB’s Global Creative Director, discusses the competition of young creatives and the mobile power of the phone screen.
These pictures can give you an idea of the direction in which emotions are moving, as the days go by…. Cheers!
