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Storelli.com ( new work from #captain )

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The Truth about how much Injuries Suck (video)

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Like the herd we are, sniff warily at the strange one among us. -Loren Eisiely

I think the word ‘creativity’ is having its moment. But like anything having a moment, the word’s meaning is redefined by popular culture.

People claiming to love creativity and self-expression often seem to only love it in theory. When they think they’re supposed to love it. But there’s a big disconnect between what people say they admire and encourage…and the reality how they behave.

We still live at the equivalent of high school lunchroom tables. For a culture that otherwise claims to ‘embrace creativity’ and ‘freedom of expression’ or individuality – we really don’t – at least, not outside of the bubbles we build to allow it for short or cordoned off times.

In our every day life, and in the media, as with any herd, people are often quick to ostracize anything that does not fall in line with the popular narrative. 

I remember the hype around Alexander McQueen’s Savage Beauty retrospective. Lines stretched around the block. Who were these people, most who likely never sought out McQueen’s fashions before? And why were they all there? What did so many come for, that they couldn’t see or experience in ‘the real world’?

What could they have seen, learned and taken away?

But instead, how many left that show, exclaiming the virtues of breathtaking creativity, or the courage of self-expression…only to then return to the same norms? Or worse, to then belittle others who otherwise did not fit into their own norms or match their ubiquitous Pinterest pages?

How many missed the point of McQueen’s entire life’s work?

There are two approaches we can use when encountering anything not identical to our own dogma and norms:

Encourage and support it – collectively creating an atmosphere where personal creative expression can emerge to bring about new ideas.

Or criticize and malign it –  tamping down on true creative expression and individuality.

I don’t care which one we claim we believe in.

Which one do we actually live?

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Shanghai Then (1987) and Now

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first job highlight was for @wired_magazine in '98 "We are in the midst of the most amazing upsurge of knowledge ever seen in earth. Good thing someone is taking notes."

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Some perspective #especial

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A new commercial I directed for #3SHARE (Created, Directed and Produced by Especialworldwide.com) #ESPECIAL

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The last 9 months of my life: The new global Puma campaign “Calling All Troublemakers” #creativedirector/writer 

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The last 9 months of my life: The new global Puma campaign "Calling All Troublemakers" #creativedirector/writer

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You move, CoverGirl. #NFL #socialactiviism #@nytimes

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Hey there,

Exciting news! The Internet Slowdown net neutrality protest planned for September 10th is really taking off. This morning, a dozen of the world’s largest websites announced that they’re joining in a big way. Sites you know and love like Etsy, Kickstarter, Wordpress, Vimeo,...

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Cheer up. We are always on the verge...

A highly unpleasant idea, but one that has been accepted by scientists over the last couple of centuries, is that we human beings, and all living beings, are completely material. That is, we are made of material atoms, and only material atoms. To be precise, the average human being consists of about 7 x 1027 atoms (7,000 trillion trillion atoms)—65 percent oxygen, 18 percent carbon, 10 percent hydrogen, 3 percent nitrogen, 1.4 percent calcium, 1.1 percent phosphorous, and traces of 54 other chemical elements. The totality of our tissues and muscles and organs and brain cells is composed of these atoms. And there is nothing else. To a vast cosmic being, each of us would appear to be an assemblage of atoms. To be sure, it is a special assemblage. A rock does not behave like a person. But the mental sensations we experience as consciousness and thought are purely material consequences of the purely material electrical and chemical interactions between neurons, which in turn are simply assemblages of atoms. And when we die, this special assemblage disassembles. The total number of atoms in our body at our last breath remains constant. Each atom could be tagged and tracked as it subsequently mingled with air and water and soil. The material would remain, scattered about. Each of us is a temporary assemblage of atoms, not more and not less. We are all on the verge of material disassemblage and dissolution.

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HUMANS NEED NOT APPLY

#robots

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A silent protest in Love Park, downtown Philadelphia orchestrated by performance artists protesting the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson. The onslaught of passerby’s  wanting to take photos with the statue exemplifies the disconnect in American society.  Simply frame out the dead body, and it doesn’t exist.  

Here are some observations by one of the artists involved in the event:

I don’t know who any of these folks are.

They were tourists I presume.

But I heard most of what everything they said. A few lines in particular stood out. There’s one guy not featured in the photos. His friends were trying to get him to join the picture but he couldn’t take his eyes off the body.

"Something about this doesn’t feel right. I’m going to sit this one out, guys." "Com’on man… he’s already dead."

(Laughs.)

There were a billion little quips I heard today. Some broke my heart. Some restored my faith in humanity. There was an older white couple who wanted to take a picture under the statue.

The older gentleman: “Why do they have to always have to shove their politics down our throats.” Older woman: “They’re black kids, honey. They don’t have anything better to do.”

One woman even stepped over the body to get her picture. But as luck would have it the wind blew the caution tape and it got tangle around her foot. She had to stop and take the tape off. She still took her photo.

There was a guy who yelled at us… “We need more dead like them. Yay for the white man!”

"One young guy just cried and then gave me a hug and said ‘thank you. It’s nice to know SOMEBODY sees me.’

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Kre House, Tokyo

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