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 […]
Casado in Brazil is called feijoada, and that was our first meal when we arrived in Copacabana for the Wave Festival. With an air of the Carlton in Cannes, the Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro is the perfect setting for the [...]
At Tribu DDB Costa Rica we have decided not to receive new accounts, at least for the remainder of the first half of the year. However, we are already considering extending this measure to the third quarter of the year. The reason? [...]
The contest to choose the two creative duos that will go to Cannes has had a setback. In the first round to choose the finalists, the jury decided to declare it void and repeat the opportunity for all contestants. Here is the [...]
Can you imagine a life without limits? How wonderful! We could drive 100 miles an hour, smoke in the office and max out our credit card every month. We could go on vacation whenever we felt like it and I would eat [...]
Two years ago I discovered the meaning of the word Zeitgeist: the spirit of the times. I also got to know Google better and all that it means to discover the interest of the vast majority of the planet’s inhabitants through our [...]
If we were to judge by the trend in metals, we might anticipate no Lion at Cannes next June. We’ve dropped from four to three to one and one more, with the first few years producing golds, while the last few went [...]
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. [...]
Or at least, that is my aspiration. From dust we came and to dust we shall return, although perhaps a little improved in fertilizer quality. Personally, I prefer to be cremated rather than buried, and rather than live confined to a cup [...]
