. Some nights enter our lives quietly and then stay with us forever—unexpected, unforgettable, and impossible not to smile about when we remember them. In my previous post, I wrote about the launch of The Art of Detachment in Madrid a couple of weeks ago—a magical evening surrounded by extraordinary people, where I had the […]
I’m 63 years old and alive and kicking. I’m in awe and thrilled to bits, currently trying to carry on with my life in the midst of the new normal. Due to the covid-19 pandemic, I’ve been staying at home most of [...]
At that time, San José was home to a living, breathing example of a dream come true. Two inspired youngsters, Jorge Jiménez and Giselle Zamora, ventured off to Italy 43 years ago where they blazed a trail, had a son named Esteban, [...]
A few years ago, when I first wrote this piece in the Costa Rican newspaper La Nación, Apple had just broken ground in an innovative way that had nothing to do with technology, a new device or a new machine. Rather, they’d [...]
It was March 2008 when I programmed the rental car’s GPS to find the closest gas station. I was in Paris and had to fill the tank in order to avoid the steep cost of gas at the rental agency. Since I [...]
When I typed this question into Google, a whopping 241 million results came up. “Holy shit!” I thought to myself. Then, I tweaked my query slightly, swapping the word “world” for “life” and two million more search results were generated. Safe to [...]
My blogging debut was back in 2005 when I first wrote a few lines here, on the Slow Burn blog, named A Fuego Lento in Spanish. Since then, it has certainly lived up to its name; I’ve gone through periods of writing [...]
Today I received an email from a blog reader who did me the favor of directing me to the Modernista site, as he thought it was an excellent idea for this site, in combination with those of Tribu and its affiliates. Thank [...]
This is a sense of timing, and understanding that if we are going to say something out there, we better do it by adding a direct, effective, inspiring and refreshing contribution. This is what Itziar Elizalde adds in expansion.com: Coca-Cola Spain has [...]
Here is a direct copy paste of a video and text I found on YouTube that is worth the 4 minutes and a bit it lasts. New Realism Economic conditions will profoundly affect our cultural context moving forward. As our creative content [...]
Del Campo Nazca Saatchi Saatchi has a bold and brave proposal to compete with the gigantic production budgets that come to Cannes in the beer category. I’m excited about this campaign and believe it will do very well at the big festival [...]
It was just in line, it competes and lines up as a very good performance option for Saatchi NY at Cannes. We’ll see, what do you think?
Little by little the favorites for the next festival in Cannes are beginning to appear, and among those that we will be publishing here, Wispa is a surprise and a gift. Tomorrow we will have JC Penney’s Doghouse.
