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ONE | ONE –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– THE ONE ON THE ONE. THE TEN AND THE ONE ALONE. ONE. ONE. ONE. ALL ONE. THE RHYTHM OF THE ONES, AND ALONENESS. Doing the one, the one to one, one million Billion = Ones Oneness | 1ness | the 1 + 1 ––– Sometimes I feel...
The Fragrance of Blood
The Fragrance of Blood ROUGH PERFUME TRADE #1 The Perfume of the Most Primal Liquid -- the Scent of the Sanguine (The first of three essays on unusual scent strategies) I pricked my finger while I was sewing a torn shirt, and put the wounded in my mouth, to stop the...
IGNITING THE PASSIONATE FIRE: CARRYING FIRE: STEVE JOBS PRINCIPLES OF FLAME THROWER LEADERSHIP
APPLE.COM FINDING FIRE IN THE IMAGINATION OF INVENTION. M E D I T A T I O N S + M E M O R I E S iSad. These days, I’ve been writing, talking, consulting in the proverbial strategy — a great deal — about the invention of new pathways in brand development. And there are...
The Scent of Man
Exploring the Place of Masculine Fume: the Mind, the Memory, the Mystery of Maleness. There are those that might propose that any man being preoccupied with the idea of scent is a fool. What comes to mind is the self-styled buck that gets on the elevator wafting a...
THE MESS OF THE ALPHABET
And the Mystery as to Their Drawn Quarters Go back to a hidden Girvin site, long retired, here, to find the story of many in the drawing of the alphabet. In thinking about the mind as a room -- the alphabet is right there, in the entwinement of story and legend -- for...
HOTLINE
FINDING THE HOT LINE, TO STORY AND SOUL I was walking the street, and came upon the asphalt and tar, street laying truck -- with a sign that said: "POTHOLE HOTLINE." If you find a pothole -- call them, and they'll fix it. I was more interested in the hotline. I was...
BOSSOLOGICAL
EXPLORING BROADCAST IDENTITY DESIGN IN THE CONTEXT OF POLITICS, KELSEY GRAMMER AND STARZ NEWEST SERIES: BOSS EARLIER IN THE YEAR (2011) OUR TEAM was asked to build identity treatments for "Boss." This was the first time we'd connected with Starz, for television work,...
The Stroke of the Stem | Alphabetic Eccentricity
The Legacy of Type Studies | Reaching Back "It's been said that the first stroke of any alphabet is the vertical, drawn with the finger -- from heaven, to earth. In the mysteries of the origin of writing, it is the first stroke that cracks the light in the beginning...
VOLATILITY
Everything changes; everything is on fire. Nothing is the same as it was; everything is the same as it shall be. In the mist of experience, it's all changing -- still standards flow, and patterning emerges. While everything is in flux, everything goes as it has from...
BOLD FINDINGS: TREASURE & BOND | NYC
EXPLORING RETAIL DESIGN / PLACEMAKING EXPERIMENTS IN STORE STRATEGY AND CHARITABLE CAUSES Notations with the iPad | Journal Making + Site Explorations TRAVELING We're always looking. With Girvin's connection to Nordstrom, we went to explore more -- the West Broadway,...