Seth Godin writes about the evolution of every medium.
Technicians who invented it, run it
Technicians with taste, leverage it
Artists take over from the technicians
MBAs take over from the artists
Bureaucrats drive the medium to banality
Maybe in Canada we should amend it slightly:
Technicians who invented it, run it
Technicians with taste, leverage it
Artists take over from the technicians
Governments take […]
I’m feeling a little ornery this morning. Not because I’m hung over or I didn’t get kissed at midnight or anything like that. I had a fantastic new years eve that culminated in fireworks all up and down Banderas Bay which we watched from lounge chairs under palm trees. And the fireworks actually seemed like […]
I got very excited reading the transcript of Liesl Copland’s keynote speech to Sunday’s Doc Conference at the Toronto International Film Festival. Copland is an executive at William Morris Endeavor’s Global Finance & Distribution Group and a former Netflix employee. Her speech was — on the surface — about the future of the specialty film […]
“[Our] songs, dances, writings allow us to speak to one another across generations. They gave us an understanding of our commonality long before the DNA told us we are all part of one glorious procession.”
“At any point on the timeline of human history, there are tales to be told – of love and loss, glory […]
