Search results for: momentum and moment
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Designers, Storytelling | Mar 20, 2018
WHAT ABOUT THE IDEA THAT COMES AS A SPARK, A LIGHTNING BOLT, A BLINDING BURST OF LIGHT AND SUDDEN INSIGHT? Now I see m o r e. There is a global mythic legacy of the thunderbolt; you might recall that there is some familiarity for you— a lightning strike moment, that... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Interior Design, Retail | May 24, 2017
Thinking processes for experience design strategy and deployment During the 1990-early 2000s, I spent time working with the Disney Imagineers and Park Strategists at Disneyland — designing experiences, brands and their integrated strategies in Orlando and Anaheim. As... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Uncategorized | Apr 12, 2017
CELEBRATING THE UNSEEN Into The Mist: Time ticks as you walk in the dark, emerging or failing light — and you realize that your true reliable momentum measure is the sound of your heels — moment to moment: pavement, gravel, pea, grass, chipped woods, snow and ice.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Uncategorized | May 10, 2016
The Quest for the Hidden, the Secret and the Occult In the journey — for each of us — we might find a certain fascination with that which isn’t allowed, that which is hidden, forbidden, the dark. Fascination speaks, in its history, to fire and spellbinding,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jan 14, 2016
INTO THE MIST — MYSTERY AND UNKNOWING, CLARITY AND KNOWING THE UNCERTAINTY OF SEEING | A JOURNEY INTO THE FOG SOCIETY Time ticks as you walk in the dark, emerging or failing light — and you realize that your true, reliable measure of momentum is the sound of your... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts | Apr 28, 2015
A Person, a Presence, a Brand I was working outside of the city, treasure-hunting. Actually, I was working inside a brand, their teams, looking for treasure — those glimmering and glistening points of compassed reference, the surveilled pin-pricks of a brand mapping,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Oct 15, 2013
The Quest for Amazement I’m a Scot; and “wow” is a Scottish word from the 1500s. I find another reference of equal interest, the Southern New England Algonquian [Narragansett] framing, the “powwow.” powwaw “shaman, medicine man,... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Motion Pictures | Jul 16, 2013
In the Journey, who is your companion? Who is your guardian, your guide, your icon, your shepherding guide? Me? Raven and crow, telling. We’ve noted in an earlier blog study, that we’ve been involved in the Lone Ranger, as designers, in the past —... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Storytelling | Apr 16, 2012
Time ticks as you walk in the dark, emerging or failing light — and you realize that your true reliable momentum measure is the sound of your heels — moment to moment: pavement, gravel, pea, grass, chipped woods, snow and ice. Each, a rhythm, a story. Here... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Places, Scent, Storytelling | Sep 11, 2011
2001 | Girvin photo journal, September: NYC MEDITATIONS ON PLACE AND THE PROFUNDITY OF SENSE | NYC: SEPTEMBER, 2001 ––––––––––––– The sight of scene unknowing and the scented perfume of dissolution It was a couple of weeks after 9.11.2001 that I, along with a Girvin... Read More
