tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208077342012-02-03T03:53:08.700-08:00Though it may be perceived as such since I happen to run <a href="http://www.thinktank3.com/">Think Tank 3.</a>sharozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09680940700724392326noreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20807734.post-23778473394276308032008-08-28T12:42:00.000-07:002008-08-28T13:38:58.486-07:00

It was during the Jewish Boxers show at Think Tank 3 that Teddy and I first discussed tennis as something more than a sport that we were drawn to since childhood--clearly for it's ability to give us a psychological, as well as a physical high. Tennis is personal. Always. The arenas are modern day gladiator pits. Boxing for people who don't want to get hit. Absolutely. Teddy said it and I've

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If you know the work of Shepard Fairey then you know that it all started on the streets with his omnipresent OBEY postings, that his ethos is rooted in "quality dissent". If you don't and unless you're a designer or into street art as a genre, you probably don't, the Obama poster above would simply read: OBAMA poster, and hey, this different that the schlock that campaign staff usually create for

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Andy Warhol's athlete series was a $1M commission from Richard Weisman. It took Andy a bit of cajoling to get started on the paintings of the 10 athletes, pre selected by Mr. Weisman. Andy wanted the first image in the series to be of Muhammad Ali, already a timeless icon in the late 70's, but he couldn't pin Ali down for the initial photo shoot so he reached out to one of his many Factory

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What look like prison laundry carts or large mail bins on wheels have been transformed into mobile closets. A guy I very liberally call a neighbor pushes them around the block every other day. There are three of them total and they’re packed pretty high. Difficult to move an inch much less around the block. My neighbor pushes one at a time, little by little about half a block at a time. Then

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Charles Miller's Jewish Boxers series is powerful, beautiful, important, historical, and in every sense of the word; art. Biased, I am indeed. I'm still finding my way through curating but I know what I like, and enough to surrender to stories that resonate. Abe "The Little Hebrew" Attel, Ted "Kid" Lewis, Jackie "Kid" Berg, Leach Cross, Mushy Callahan, Al "Bummy" Davis, Barney Ross, Ruby

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Saddam Mania opened at Think Tank 3's West Village headquarters on October 25, 2006 and ran throught early January 2007. Teun and I hung out a bit and discussed the images; he liked my take on Saddam as a brand and I liked that he was trusting enough to let me, essentially a first time curator, put the show together while he took off to cover the conflict in Lebanon, and then Gaza. I maintain

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I'm lucky enought to be friendly with a fair number of journalists, one of whom, captured a piece of war time Iraq that struck me as particularly other in it's approach. Teun Voeten documented posters, statues, and murals of Saddam in Baghdad on and around April 13, 2003. According to Teun most of the images which were omnipresent in Baghdad when he arrived were torn down or destroyed soon after

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Sometime in 2003, while Cesar Lopez was playing music ont he streets of Bogota, he saw a soldier holding his rifle the same way Cesar was holding a guitar. There had been a bombing at a nearby nightclub called El Nogal. 36 people died and Cesar got an idea. Turning guns into guitars. The thing that's great about this is that he actually did it. He figured out how to transform guns into guitars.

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Tibetan Monks are the subject of an upcoming $25 million documentary. There is an advertising component that some of the monks are involved with and are therefore being criticized for. So un-monk-like! Eeeeeewe, advertising! Picture a Tibetan monk in traditional saffron colored robe and shaved head facing a laptop, like, well, like the rest of us. Then picture his response to the finger-pointers:

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This is an ad written by Mark Twain for his first talk. He had a budget of $150. Spent $100 to rent the hall. $50 to advertise. For those mathematically challenged that's a full one third of his entire budget for the talk which is all he had at the time. This talk had to lead to something. It's informative, the who, what, where are covered pretty quickly, then comes the reason to believe and

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What would Walt Disney think the Community of Tommorow could be, had he lived to experience the wireless networked world of today? The acronym for the too long title of this post, EPCOT means nothing more than Disneyland, but in Florida. But Walt's thinking on the whole project was so much deeper as per the spelled out name. I like what it means, how it sounds, and visualising it's potential a

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Today, I'm a hypocrite. Writing here means I'm a blogger yet earlier I questioned the whole notion of anyone keeping what's often a personal digital diary that strangers might stumble upon. It seems so self-congratulatory and exhibitionisty? Isn't it akin to flashing someone on the street? It's lewd, but hey, you don't have to look. So many blogs are train wrecks I can't take my eyes off, but I

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This year marks the 4 year anniversary of my company, Think Tank 3. I had billed clients directly under that name while consulting for a few years but it wasn't until February 14, 2002 that I comitted to building a company. It wasn't until that day that I absolutely felt I had to. Or somebody had to so I could work there. But life is never that easy, is it? At that point, I had worked at several

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Branding is parctical. Design is essential. Media is available but not always accessible. None of which matters if you don't have an idea or a product worth telling a story about. I'm wrong to some extnet of course. Evidence being that there are plenty of unnecessary products and service companies advertising themselves. And these days the business section of Barnes & Noble is brimming with

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The New York Times ran an article on Robert Greeberg and his company, R/GA in today's business section. What a coup. The "30-Second Spot Remover" title refers to what is now old news in my circles. The notion that the 30 second spot is dead and that traditional advertising agencies need to be thinking in new ways for their clients. There's a page on the TT3 site that seconds this motion. Trumps

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I imagine Paris Hilton's worst nightmare would be a NO CAMERAS ALLOWED sign. She'd wake up in a panic wondering: If I fall in the forest, and no one is there to take a picture, do I strike a pose?There are one or two generations now that have never known a world without total media saturation. Between MTV, ESPN, AOL, Reality Shows, product/music/celebrity placements in films and video games that

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