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Category: CREATIVITY
CREATIVE MORNINGS: PUTTING THE WORK IN NETWORKING
This Friday’s CreativeMornings talk is on the topic of WORK. When I googled ‘work/word/origin’ the second listing was this exactly: The Origin of the Word “Work” Is Closely Related To “Torture” thegln.org/…/the-origin-of-the-word–work-is-closely-related-to-torture/ Jan 15, 2013 – […]
A CREATIVE MIND: BE A SEA TURTLE
Someone finally strapped a GoPro to the back of a sea turtle. This four minute video of an amphibious friend guiding us around his day-to-day in the Great Barrier Reef is stunning and so, so […]
AT WORK: FUNNY’S MONEY
“Blessed are the cracked, for they let in the light.” -Groucho Marx We came across this Fast Company article about the importance of humor in advertising and it totally resonated. While we’re more focused on longer-form […]
AT WORK: KEEP IT SIMPLE
Have you heard the saying, “When you hear hoofbeats, don’t think ‘zebras’?” It’s a weird one, but it means the simplest explanation is usually the best one. Our brains are wired to look for complicated […]
AT WORK: TAKE TEN MINUTES
We make it a point to skim through our life-bible, The New Health Rules, every week, and we always end up finding the exact right advice. April is starting off with a bang, as we’re prepping […]
THE CREATIVE: RYAN JEDLICKA
Our Principal Director Drury Bynum‘s first love is painting, so it seems natural that about five years ago he began making a series of short films about artists, their inspiration and process. One of the last videos […]
AT WORK: GET OUT OF BED
It’s a downright balmy 60 degrees in Baltimore today, and somehow we’re still feeling foggy. Half of our gang is shooting in Atlanta so we’re missing some of our collective energy, but a lengthy discussion […]
AT WORK: HERE COMES THE SUN
If you live on the East Coast, you know we’re in that part of the year where winter feels like it will never, ever end. It’s called February, and we hate it. The excited indulgence […]
LOVE THIS: THINK SMALL
Since their existence, celebrities have been in charge of telling us about the things we want. From subtle product placement in movies to straight up endorsements in magazines, celebrities have influenced us for as long […]
AT WORK: SWITCH THE LENS
More divine wisdom from our old pal Dr. Frank Lipman’s (can I just call you Doc Frank from here out?) ‘The New Health Rules‘–which if you haven’t guessed by now, is Shine’s best investment of 2015 […]
AT WORK: LET IT GO
An important thing about challenging yourself is not take on way more than you can manage. Test your limits a bit, but setting yourself up for failure will land you in a worse spot than […]
HOW TO: NOTHING COMES FROM NOTHING
First of all, Phaidon makes the very best books. Whether you like to make breakfast, decorate, or look sideways, they’ve got some brilliantly designed, higher-level-thinking book that feels more like art than just bound images and words. […]
AT WORK: GET UP
It’s cold, it feels like it gets dark at noon, and getting up from the cocoon you’ve made at your desk/coffee shop seat/shared sauna workspace is too impossible to even imagine. We are deep in […]
AT WORK: DE-CLUTTER
We picked up “The New Health Rules,” and are feeling super motivated by the content. The book is broken into sections with one page suggestions on how incrementally eating, moving, healing, and living better can […]
INSPO: OUR 2015 CREATIVE RESOLUTION
We love this City Paper essay from Center Stage’s Artistic Director, Kwame Kwei-Armah. In it, he calls on Baltimore to have the collective resolution to “embrace being a cultural destination.” We’ve been pretty outspoken about our […]
MAKE IT COUNT: TODAY IS SNOWY
Sometimes things do not pan out like we’d hoped. Today was set to include a group discussion about our goals and plans for 2015, and but an unexpected amount of snowfall here in Baltimore has us […]
BEST OF: DECEMBER IS CREATIVE, TOO
Because of the internet, the end of the year now means “end of year lists.” We used to get nostalgic rundowns in People Magazine reminding us who was the hottest in 1997, or from Rolling […]
THE CREATIVE: LANDIS EXPANDIS
While looking for a #tbt video for this post, we noticed a bit of a trend in our work. We really, really like the artists, musicians, and makers in our city. This Landis Expandis […]
THE CREATIVE: JULIE BENT
We’ve been working on a series focused on the incredible things/ideas/movements/fashion/art coming out of Baltimore, and thought this throwback film to Julie Bent was appropriate. Her enthusiasm for her adopted city is adorable- she left […]
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