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 […]
One no longer knows if there is a line between creatives and inventors, between iconoclasts and innovators, or between advertising and what today should have a new name. What is certain is that now online meets offline with above the line and [...]
There are days when everything looks dark and depressing, even though everything around you is bright, inspiring and exciting. We often allow feelings to randomly capture us, without discovering the incalculable power in us to choose them. I’ve heard this phrase: “Pain [...]
This week the Cannes Lions festival awarded the founder of Facebook as Media Person of the Year. They fell short: it should have been Media Person of the Century. At only 26 years of age, today he is the founder of a [...]
After Tuesday night, when Cannes held its open-air party on the beach in front of the Carlton, yesterday I woke up with a severe sore throat that warned me of the inevitable: a cold is coming. I spent Wednesday well affected and [...]
Let’s look at it this way. In a year in which we repeated agency of the year in the Volcano, with lava, fire, ashes and fumaroles included, to then sail the Caribbean alone in a speedboat and bring us more statuettes than [...]
This year Cannes is not over yet and it is already impossible for me not to think about the next one. After five festivals, it is becoming clearer to me every day the cyclicality, the turn of life, the 365 days, the [...]
“I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me”, is the phrase with which Jack Nicholson begins “The Departed”, Oscar for best film in 2006. What do you think? Here are [...]
With an open heart and with all our emotions connected to the inspiring example of Andrea Leñero, I celebrate the opportunity to share with you this message from the BAC and the life of this wonderful girl. For all of us at [...]
Thanks to Edgar Mora for sending me the link!
We have started a national campaign to save the species that become extinct every day in the Osa, for the trees that we do not want to cut down, for the 2.5% of the biodiversity that is concentrated in our most important [...]
El Financiero published this interview, conducted by Daniela Correa, in June of last year. It was published for the second time in the 2006 compilation that circulated a few weeks ago. The complete interview here: https://www.elfinancierocr.com/negocios/jorge-oller/HOWKVPN5QVAEHL3SL7XJJQFNGY/story/
The creative workshop or the free-lance, as we want to call him, has certain risk conditions for the advertiser who hires him, which I will mention below. The creative freelancer, on the other hand, in all his legitimacy and talent, must be [...]