The human brand: a ring of commitment, living engaged, impassioned work and love. And my Mother.
Exploring the conceptions of love, commitment to vision, work and the life long pursuit of something meaning full. In acknowledgment of my Mother's birthday, today, at 80 times around the sun. I've been working on a human brand study of Richard Avedon; but, like most...
Calligraphy, brand design, animation and the illustration of identity
Exploring the origin, development and renewed applications of the word. Brand storytelling, animated in humanized beauty -- mind, thought, hand, expression. Calligraphy is beauty and writing, combined. And it's long been seen as a kind of remote and obscure art,...
Brand Love: Community, Culture Cult: Amazon, TaoBao and Acquisitiveness
Exploring the mapping of personality and brand in cultural change | Amazon+Zappos and the Endless(.com)...potential. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has a point of view -- and his strategies, intriguingly, focus on one compelling degree of index. Community attention. You might...
The Palace of Memory, the Library of the Mind
Amazon, the mind, cloud consciousness and the making of place. Earlier in my life, I was under training, in languages (German, at the time), with Thomas Bunnell, SJ. I actually went there, with him, to a monastic seminary -- to practice and study the...
Cumulation: Massing the principles of cumularity
Cloud mind: the metaphor of fluent vapor -- the clouded allegory in the context of computing, burgeoning creative, a multiplicity of minds: amassed. "A person using cumular language would say that a universal negative is upset not only by predication of all, but of...
Hundertwasser and the patterning of human+brand+place: Waldspirale
The opening of the mimetic thread: patterning in place made. I realize that everything we do, everything that one does, either goes forward, in the advancement of that personal melody in the capacity of experience -- or, perhaps, it goes back, to the beginning -- the...
Hospitality: state of brands
What is the brand of place? I've thought, long and hard, about the idea of brand in place. Moreso, the concept of the contained generosity, in sharing, and the nature of the host, the hostess, in creating a place of content -- made; that is: if there's a place, then...
Kajeet | use it, share it, network it: for good
Exploring social networking tools in building sharing communities: blogging and direct selling relationships. We worked with Kajeet's founder, Daniel Neal, to build out the opening of a brand proposition for a children's mobile phone technology a couple of years back....
Twittering brands of freedom
Twitterstory as the last line of defense, offensively. Twitter is a storytelling tool. Every person tells a micro-story in the 140 characters of text that are tied to the messaging output from many tiers of devices. To the brand, the personal brand, the legacy of the...
The art of the floor
Girvin | Movement: examining place, foundation and the archaeology of brand experience Girvin is moving, after a couple of decades in the same place