Hang around certain JAG members long enough and you’ll encounter a zealous enthusiasm for a certain band from the UK. The obsession of this musical group by said JAG team members knows few limits, which makes for some good-natured ribbing for a guy like me. Oh, I like the band-named-after-a-bug-but-spelled-wrong’s music plenty, and there’s no [...]
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Jon Aug 25 Charting the Beetles
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Ben Aug 15 John Jay on Creativity
This is a great short video on creativity, and refusing to “define” people.
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Ben Aug 9 For Photo Geeks
This is a pretty cool video about the way The Impossible Project makes polaroid film. If you’ve been reading the blog we’re big fans of polaroid pictures. A big problem with shooting polaroids, is finding film. Thankfully, a group of volunteers have taken over one of the closed down polaroid film factories, and are making [...]
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Warren Aug 5 A Rock Star for the Weekend in Gulfport.
My band The Swags rocked Gulfport Mississippi over the weekend at a very fine and tasty restaurant called Bacchus. Lot’s of laughs, lots of dancing, lots of sweating, lots of drinks, and lots of tunes. It’s just another way for me to be creative—and what can I say—I dig it. BTW: Best part of this [...]
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Corey Aug 5 Embracing your failure
So what do you do when a campaign offends more than 50% of its market? Do you pull all ads and pretend it never happened? Do you ignore all the criticism and stand by your guns? Or do you embrace your failure and use that as a launching point for further discussion. Well, that is [...]
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Ben Aug 2 Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy
I can’t imagine what it’s like for the people who have been around for like, you know, 40 years. Even automobiles must be revolutionary to them. But seriously, we live in a really cool time. To get to work with a team of people who are constantly seeking out new and creative technologies and innovative [...]