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 […]
Although predictions are already coming and going for the upcoming festival, the coincidences continue around the extraordinary work by Tribal DDB for Philips Cinema and its “Parallel Lines” by Ridley Scott Associates. Last year’s Grand Prix winner at Cyber intends to repeat [...]
<https://www.latinspots.com/website/nota.php?notaid=21167> (23/04/10). El Taier, one of the most creatively recognized agencies in Guatemala joins Tribu DDB, forming El Taier/Tribu DDB (Guatemala) and, thus, consolidating the service structure of DDB Latina in Central America, which already has offices in Costa Rica (Tribu DDB [...]
Ideas to Succeed Corporate Communication, Independent. Apr 20, 2010. -Sergio Valente, president and director of DM9DDB Brsil, is at the helm of the agency with the most Golden Lions in the region. Valente has 79 awards from the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. [...]
OPENS ON 14 MAY: TWO WINNERS TO TAKE PART IN YOUNG LIONS FILM COMPETITION Make an ad. Spread the word. Go to Cannes. London, 23 April 2010 – After the successful launch last year of the 48 Hour YouTube Cannes Young Lions [...]
I am fascinated by this photograph, it moves me and engages me, it impresses me and amuses me, it is strong and powerful and means so much that seeing it made me want to jump with emotion, because it is a reflection [...]
Costa Rica is the scene of a fierce competition among talented lions and creatives under 28 years old, as they all want to go to Cannes Lions next June to compete among the best. More than 100 pairs are participating today for [...]
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 [...]
The Value in Respecting Differences The month of February that is ending has been a personally inspiring experience. On the first of the month, my wife and I took flights from Juan Santamaría airport to Delhi, India. From there, we went on [...]
He began the day’s Keynote by reiterating that we can all transform the world, recalling that a child in Africa with a smartphone today has more information in his hands than the President of the United States 15 years ago. Moore’s Law [...]
