We have every type of trailer in Austin – food trucks, coffee wagons, even mobile pet stores. And while I’ve grown to love all of those necessities, I recently discovered a new art to utilizing these vehicles: On-airstreaming. About two years ago, J.B. Hager and Paul Boukadakis took a classic airstream and turned it into Read More...

Twitter co-founder, and Square CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey sat down with Charlie Rose last Wednesday to talk about the two companies he’s developed as well as Facebook’s $1billion acquisition of Instagram and the “digital revolution.” The entire interview is 17 minutes and is definitely worth watching  Here’s a clip, with a link to the whole Read More...

To prepare for Earth Day last week, a few of us got together to talk about a revolutionary idea. What if we took all the paper out of all the printers?  What would happen? Mutiny?  Riots?  Chaos?  Probably.  But what about adaptation?  If necessity is the mother of all invention, and we forced ourselves to Read More...

In the past days at SXSWi I had the chance to attend several sessions on how technology is influencing the way we think about and achieve fitness. From designing footwear and apparel to coming up with new ways of driving motivation and commitment from consumers, technology is playing an increasingly important role in the fitness Read More...

  We are in an era of ‘big data.’  IBM declared “2012 is the year of analytics.” This is something I heard more than once across a few sessions.  The issue was best articulated in a presentation called “Rethinking How to Communicate Science,” presented by Laura Hermann, SVP of the Potomac Communications Group. No, don’t Read More...

Thank you, Steve — for your passion, your ideas, your innovation. You changed everything.                       “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful … that’s what matters to me.” — from Read More...

This is a tale of two musical pioneers who received posthumous acclaim, and about the unexpected bedfellows of advertising and music.  Wikipedia utilized to provide relevant, titillating details. Back in the 60’s, there were large agencies like PAMS that cranked out canned audio jingles for advertisers or media companies to repurpose for their products on Read More...

I’ve always been excited by ‘the future’. Not in the flagrantly personal style of the crystal-ball, but rather in the “it-barely-exists-on-the-fringe-now-but-it’s-so-cool-let’s-see-what-can-we-do-with-it” sense. As an example I would point you towards our foray into virtual worlds, exciting, but…as it’s still a bit painful for me, I’ll just stand far back and point in its general direction— Read More...

Maybe I’m spoiled from working in an agency where creatives never really had a designated partner for creative assignments, or just call me naive about creative protocol, but I never really thought about creative teams in terms of an AD/CW duo. The art of creativity is not mutually exclusive to this pairing. Great ideas can Read More...

Change has become a critical part of the game when it comes to development. And while I’m not a developer and I don’t work in IT, I am a consumer, and a marketer, and I realize exponentially, the need for speed. And change. And I believe that the sooner you can crack the speed+change equation Read More...