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 […]
Any professional working with a consumer brand should go to Cannes Lions. The reasons are more than a hundred, but here I copy and paste 10 excellent arguments for an advertiser client to decide to go. Tue 5 Apr 2011 10 reasons [...]
If it were not for La Nación, the past Volcán Festival would have gone completely unnoticed in the mass media. Neither Teletica Canal 7, nor Repretel, I never see it, nor Summa or Monumental, nor La República or La Extra have even [...]
Last night we repeated Agency of the Year for the third consecutive Volcano, after the closest game played on these courts for as long as I can remember. And here, let the twitters tell it! So skip to the last line and [...]
Here for the blog, all the finalists of Tribu en el Volcán 2011. Without much more introduction, listen, watch, enjoy and share them.
I long for a cave or a monastery, without wifi or 3G. I am provoked by the mountains in the Himalayas without signal and the villages outside the cyber cafe. Few places in the world are left like the shower, without screens, [...]
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 [...]
Painter of Eye-Mo, an idea of Tribu for Glaxo-SmithKline and its product Eye-MO. Creative: Mario Calvo, what a great memory, and to you, Marito, a hug and the honor you deserve for a first-world, innovative and daring idea. This is creativity in [...]
Anybody can make an ad. A brand doesn’t. In Costa Rica, as in the world, there are many people making ads. And of course, people hiring them. Many are those who assume that their brands or products need to advertise to sell, [...]
It’s been a few weeks since Rafael Abreu sent me the link to TED. Today, I am hooked to his TedTalks through iTunes, since all the presentations are available for free on his Podcasts. You can download them to your iPod or [...]
Sir Ken Robinson speaks, from his presentation at TedTalks in Monterey, California, about creativity and the challenge of changing education to value creativity as much as literacy. He identifies the importance of preparing ourselves to be wrong, if we want to be [...]
Photographer Phil Borges estimates that of the 6,000 languages spoken on the planet today, 3,000 are not known by children. In other words, as those who know them die, humanity will lose all the wealth that comes from the legacy of that [...]
USE THE POWER OF TRUST. Forget completely the idea that it is your turn to approve or reject, that this position is a big mistake. If you are going to value ideas, you have to be clear that all have potential, all [...]
