Jui 17 2011

La grande (et la dernière) migration

Vous aurez remarqué que je ne partage presque plus rien ici. La raison est simple, après avoir tester la plateforme, je décide de délaisser Mon Babillard tumblr pour le transposer chez Posterous. Puisque je partage beaucoup de contenu textuel, je trouve Posterous plus approprié pour cet exercice.

Par contre, lepapagamer.tumblr.com demeurera à son adresse actuel puisque son type de contenu cadre complètement dans l’environnement et la communauté de tumblr. Je prévois y devenir plus actif dans les prochains jours/semaines. À suivre!

Merci à tous ceux qui m’ont suivi et j’espère bien vous voir de l’autre côté. :P

Résumé :

Mon Babillard maintenant sur http://jordanchenard.posterous.com

Le Papa Gamer : http://lepapagamer.tumblr.com/


Jui 13 2011
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On Standing Up [Reblog]

A close friend recently shared an enlightening story about her mother — a woman who raised a family of three all on her own during the sixties. In the last few months of her mother’s life, my friend would go and visit her at the hospital on a daily basis to honor one important request by her mother. It was so that her bedridden mother could stand on her own — if only for a minute. She recalled how everyday she would lift up her frail mother, and just hold her up with both arms while with each visit her mother successively couldn’t stand on her own.

My friend explained what she thought, a few decades later, about what was meant by her mother’s inexplicable desire to stand up everyday. She elegantly interpreted it with the following, “Standing up means being present for the experience of life. It means you need to go through it, not around it, nor just waiting for it to end while lying down in bed. She wanted to stand up, and take it, and own it.” The idea that the action of standing up — an action we often take for granted — can mean *so* much more has profoundly changed my perspective. Definitely for both my altitude and attitude. -JM

(Lu sur le Posterous de John Maeda)


Jui 08 2011
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Biology, after all, is not plants and animals, it is a special language employed to speak about plants and animals.” Similarly aesthetics is not painting, design, or architecture; it is a special language designed to speak about these subjects, namely the language of interaction between form and content.
par Paul Rand - Lu sur: Creative Leadership - Thinking out loud on an emergent topic

Jui 08 2011

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Time can, and does, erase meaning of once familiar artifacts, but time can never erase form.
par Paul Rand - Lu sur: Creative Leadership - Thinking out loud on an emergent topic

Jui 08 2011

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This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as I live it is my privilege - my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I love. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me; it is a sort of splendid torch which I’ve got a hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
The True Joy in Life - Creative Leadership

Jui 07 2011
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Jui 02 2011
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Jui 01 2011

Jui 01 2011

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“SEASON 5”

It’s a term I’ve heard bandied about here around Hollywood & Vine. It’s akin to “JUMPING THE SHARK”. It’s idiomatic usage implies that A THING has lost it’s Inner logic/ethos & essence. It’s what happens when the creator of said THING surrenders to; PRODUCERS/AGENTS/WIVES & LOVERS…

SEASON 5 is when the people on the sidelines say: “That’s not so hard, I can do that, and then take a stab at doing it.”

Late in a recording session Randy Travis told this story: “Ya know, people are always comin’ up to me and saying I WRITE SONGS TOO. So I ask them, then write me a song? Inevitably they reply back, O.K., can you first give me an IDEA? To which I say, EXACTLY! Without an IDEA you ain’t got a song!”

Look at the job posts in advertising today; SOCIAL MEDIA EXPERT/FLASH KNOWLEDGE IMPERATIVE/CS5 EXPERT… They’re not seeking THINKERS but DOERS, not ARCHITECTS but CARPENTERS! They place more value on making the thing, than on the quality of the thing.

HR Gatekeepers look not at books, but mostly (and mostly only) at resumes. Remember when people who ruled staffs, used to write the stuff? Remind me again what campaigns have; Levy/Roth/Sorrell/Wren… written? WELCOME TO ADVERTISING’S 5th SEASON.

Commentaire de Patrick West sur “The Ad Contrarian: Advertising’s Creative Extinction”

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