Sometimes while mowing my lawn I drift off into some crazy internal philosophical discussions. Today’s started out with equal parts nonsense and rationality, but ended up being something significant and share-worthy. Here it…
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10 July 2008
Life at the Summit - A Substance Summit Recap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rno59mxEp6E Wow. What a great start to this idea. Thank you to everyone who make it, and we hope the rest of you who couldn’t make it this time will be at the next. I know I rely upon the ad…
8 July 2008
The Substance Summit, July 9 (#ss)
Just a quick reminder that the Substance Summit is on Wednesday, July 9th. What is the Substance Summit? In it’s simplest terms, it’s a conversation between creative and technology. It’s discussing how creative a…
24 June 2008
Announcing The Substance Summit
“Do not covet your ideas. Give away everything you know, and more will come back to you.” - Paul Arden (thanks to @swestbrook for the quote) What? The first in a series of conversations with the Portland creative commu…
22 April 2008
Are you what? Or are you why?
Brand is not what you say you are. Brand is what others say about you. In Perfect Pitch by Jon Steel (which I highly recommend), there’s a great quote from Phillip Khan-Panni… “…the audience is never listeni…
6 December 2007
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Later in Frank Lloyd Wright’s career, he was asked what his favorite design was. Wright’s reply was, “my next one.” Over the past 11 months, we’ve had the opportunity to create some favorites of our o…
11 October 2007
What makes a house a home?
A few months ago Stephen and David helped me come to my senses and join Substance as a partner. My first task was to find new office space for the growing business, a challenge that I heartily accepted. The key was to find a spac…
20 September 2007
“Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gr3mlBQR8M “Not because [these goals] are easy, but because they are hard.” Easy… feh. It just sounds boring, and boring is no way to go through life. Hard is where you find passi…
4 September 2007
Shaun Tinney Believes in Substance.
We’re proud to announce that Shaun Tinney joins Substance on September 4, 2007 as Director of Experimental Projects. A self-proclaimed mashupreneur, Shaun is passionate about using the existing and emerging technologies to c…
29 August 2007
Step Two in Building a Campfire Agency: What vs. Why.
I set a goal of writing a five step process to building a campfire agency. Five steps that would fundamentally change the way to build a creative agency. So I started with Step One. Now that I’m on Step Two, I realize that r…
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