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by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Mar 18, 2022
BACK IN SPOKANE, I FOUND THIS PANEL THAT I DREW FOR MY PARENTS; STILL THERE, NEXT TO THE PIANO. THE MEDITATION ON THE ANSWER OF UPLIFT—YES! I went to Spokane to see my family—my Mother and Father, for a check in—both in their 90s, there has been a health-related... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Incubation, Storytelling | Dec 16, 2020
BRAND OBSERVATIONS, PARTICIPATION IN WATCHFULNESS. In the past, in my observations of brand experiencers, it has been a long journey—and a string of compelling notations of learnings about people and how they relate to brands. I think back to my beginnings, working on... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Jan 22, 2020
THE EXAMINATION OF INTENTION, PASSAGE AND MEANING— THE BRAND, THE STRATEGY, THE JOURNEY. IF YOU’RE LOOKING TO FIND THE DEEPER SIDE OF BRANDS, WHAT ARE THE RITES OF PASSAGE—GETTING THERE: CLOSER TO SOUL, HEART, INTENTION, DIRECTION? CAN BRANDS LIVE—could they be alive?... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | Aug 14, 2019
THE ART OF GETTING LOST. BRAND STRATEGY, GETTING LOST AND THE JOURNEY TO BEING FOUND. ALL THAT WANDER SHALL BE FOUND The Quest for Metaphor, Personal Symbolism and the Iconography of Journey IN THE WORK ON BRAND, THERE’S AN EMERGENCE: ENTERPRISES THAT LOSE THEIR WAY.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brand Mysticism, Cool People, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | May 24, 2019
BRAND MYSTICISM IN CINEMATIC STORYTELLING: working in the motion picture industry, you see patterning. Imagery above from LionsGate|Summit There are arcs of narrative lines, plot structures—character intercessions, ascensions and descensions of protagonist figures, as... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Places, Scent | Jul 18, 2008
The Carthusian Monastery, Capri, Italia I’m looking at time, and the heart of things — brands and story, discovery and myth, truth and relationships. There are brands that are fresh — closely originated in recent time — a story that speaks to... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Storytelling | May 11, 2012
The word, the work, that optimizes Working in NYC, I was rifling through my wallet, heading downtown to the office, I pulled my subway card — which I’d noted in an earlier overview. Optimism, the MTA card There’s a word, that word — placed... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Scent | Nov 3, 2011
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... Read More
