Scent, shopping experience and mind fullness.
There are two attributes of experience in shopping. One is purely acquisitional -- that is, merely on the notion of action and purchase; there's no focus other than that, in acting and acquiring. You are looking for something and you want it, you buy it -- and then...
What new story, found? Naturo Medica | Sammamish, WA (& soon to be growing elsewhere!)
Consider this -- three remarkable women, each dramatically challenged by trying health related experiences, each finding new truths in combining allopathic and naturopathic cures by exploring new models in healing -- and creating a business around them. And it's a...
Dance Library of Israel Nov 12, 2007 Event | The Harvard Club
11.12.07 Photo by Alex Erikson | Capezio Brands Dance Library of Israel at the Harvard Club. The annual gala this year awarded Paul Terlizzi, CEO of Capezio, its prize for outstanding achievement and contributions to the arts and dance community. And we're proud to be...
Planet Hollywood
The casino's opened -- and Robert Earl is back on the block. While he's lost millions in the final daze of Planet Hollywood, in the earlier entertainment modeling -- somehow he's managed to bring back the glamor with a return to (and of) the earlier investors -- some...
Explorations | Bhutan | Kuensel
https://tim.girvin.com/?p=337 Kuensel Newspaper On-line Article Link ----- At the request of editor Dasho Kinley Dorji, Editor in Chief, Kuensel, Thimphu, Bhutan ---- I recently toured Bhutan. And it was a long-held dream for me. Some 40 years earlier, in teaching...
Sustenance, biomimicry and design
I had written to Eartha Kitt about her love of nests -- and my fascination of nests and their building -- hornets and wasps in particular. https://tim.girvin.com/?p=328 Interestingly, she wrote back. And my Mother had offered another note about the concept of...
Re: NYTimes.com: What’s Black and White and Made in Queens?
I was talking with someone about luxury, history, making...and the hand -- and it came forth, again. Marty Wikstrom, I think it was her. I suppose, really, I've talked to a lot of people about this. Robert Polet. François Pinault. James McArthur. Claudia Cividino....
Tom Cruise
http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/social-diary/2007/saluting-tom-cruise I'm not sure how I'd connected with your Diary -- but somehow I got linked in, some years back. Your little piece on Tom Cruise was happily familiar -- and while there's been plenty of derision,...
News Update from Tableau Software
Sometimes, there's one sticky adhesion, one magnetism that links people, brands, projects together. When I go into a new client's office, the one elemental attribute of the interiors that I study are the books. What books are there? What's this person reading? What's...
Scent
Scent is the most powerful of the five senses. How can companies use scent to attract customers? How can it be used as a marketing tool? It's important to think of scent as a kind of layering of experience. For example, scent alone won't instantly transform a prospect...