. 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 was looking at the list and I couldn’t help but take a close look at the agencies that share the 34th place in the ranking of winning agencies in the Ojo de Iberoamérica: there are 33 agencies with the best [...]
I won’t tell you much, because the pictures say it all. Take a look at Tribu’s Facebook page. If you haven’t done it before, give it a Like, and then don’t miss the photo booth, an idea of Promotica during the week [...]
We are rich; simply because we have more than we need. The central idea of the message, however, is around what to do with this condition of privilege that all of us who are rich have. A few days ago I was [...]
I join the millions of tweets, posts, references, links and everything that adds to one of the most viral campaigns in a long time: Benetton’s Unhate. What envy! And I don’t mean the envy that some people might feel when they kiss [...]
Today has been an unforgettable experience: the Media Planning organized by Advertising Age in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. My commitment to share the Yellow Papers on Social Creativity and Six Degrees remains firm here with links to the PDFs on the DDB site. In [...]
Last night we closed our year of festivals with 3 Effies, one gold and two silver, all by Tribu DDB for our client Grupo Monge. Here’s how they look with some of the other awards won this year. The Iberoamerican Eye Gold, [...]
