BrainDump™

...social Moleskine notes of Aki Spicer.

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There’s a method to our madness. Yesterday we invited movers and shakers from across the network to learn what makes a brand #sohotrightnow. This is Disruption Live Academy.

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We gathered as an agency to celebrate our recently promoted employees. There was confetti, of course.

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The three Akis #ThanksForPlaying #Halloween

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#Halloween was a black tie affair. Wonder why… #MFCEO #SchwartzMafia

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TBWA Holiday Party 2015

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How to sell an idea | Blog | Tim Brunelle

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(via Retailers embrace changing notions of masculinity - Digiday)

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Charley Peters

Ghosts, 2011

“…Concerned with issues of hybridity between analogue and digital methods of producing artworks, and hybrid words, which combine etymologically Latin and Greek parts, my work Ghosts (2011), is a series of three digital halftone drawings of analogue television static. The word ‘television’ is derived from a hybrid Latin and Greek origin meaning ‘far sight’: Greek ‘tele’, far, and Latin 'visio’, sight…”

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I always felt like the word 'advertising' was limiting…Our job is to harness the power and tell the stories of brands, and the more I worked with brands I realized that everything a brand does, really, is advertising.

Lee Clow on How Holistic View Can Stave Off Brand Extinction | Advertising Age

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...more than 400 original scripted English-language series — just in prime time, not counting game shows, reality shows, documentary shows, daytime or nighttime talk shows, news or sports — will air on American television in 2015 before the year is out. 2014 featured a total of 371 scripted series: 164 from basic cable, 145 from broadcast networks, 35 from pay cable and 27 from online services like Netflix.

Television 2015: Is There Really Too Much TV? : Monkey See : NPR

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A new report from Facebook into how users express laughter shows that "haha" and its variants are by far the most common terms used on the social network. They accounted for 51.4 percent of mirth in the anonymized comments and posts looked at by Facebook's data team, with laughter emoji claiming 33.7 percent, and "hehe" and its cognates 13.1 percent. The once-mighty "lol" only appeared in 1.9 percent of the text sampled by Facebook — a pretty staggering fall for an expression that was once synonymous with online txt speak. (via 'Haha' has killed 'lol,' says Facebook | The Verge)

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(via Lee Clow on @leeclowsbeard - YouTube)