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The whole world upside down

Posted by Anne on July 5, 2010

There come some changes in an agency’s life when you have the time to sit back and think of what you didn’t think before.

It happened to some of us this Friday, when we packed our stuff and moved to a new house, which we hope to paint soon into a home.

It was all about boxes and fitting the objects in, keeping an order. But hey, what’s up and what’s down in the end?

Most of the times, things have their own way to sit. Where up is up and down is down.

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Sometimes, down is up and it’s better like that.

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And other times, the upside down can make the world spin.

Motivation drive

Posted by Anne on June 8, 2010

Dan Pink starts his 10 minute fabulous presentation with a short and precise statement: “The science is unbelievably surprising. The science is a little bit freaky”.

Determined to state this by some interesting studies he analysed, the guy explains us a little bit what the motivation drives are for specific categories of people.

We leave you with 10 minutes very worth watching, which will hopefully raise at the end one single important question to all of you, dear readers: what motivates you to wake up daily and go to work?

Going from 8 to 0 on May Day

Posted by Anne on April 30, 2010

It all starts back in 1886 in the U.S. when several hundred thousand workers won the right to work only 8 h/day for the same pay check.

Nowadays, for the 1st of May we work 0 h/day. Sometimes, if it’s on a Tuesday, we don’t work on Monday either.

So it took about 130 years to go from 8 to 0, how long do you think it will take to go from 1 day to 1 week?

Ingenious basterds

Posted by Anne on April 2, 2010

Since April Fool’s Day is gone and there’s no spoiler alert danger for this year any longer, we can all relax and lay back. There’s no such thing as butterfly attacks and no human was harmed during the shooting for the following viral video:

More about this here.
p.s: who else played a good prank on his friends yesterday?

2.0 art?

Posted by Anne on March 30, 2010

Stirring veggies and spices to get a salad is one thing, but combining music and new media to get art is…well, it’s like the footage below :) :

About giving

Posted by Anne on March 25, 2010

Here’s one thing that never goes out of fashion: GENEROSITY. It’s always welcome, painless, free and it implies a minimum of emotional effort.

Some big names noticed this and embedded it in their activity, with multiple great results. Apart from the predictable ones that related to fame, money, satisfaction and so on, I will state the two ones that I find most resuming:

1. People that weren’t consumers of their brand, became consumers over night with no kind of effort whatsoever.

2. Some of these people were really happy about all of this. Simple words, great results.

More on generosity as a trend you can find here or here. Or everywhere around you, let’s hope:).

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Bobby McFerrin, anthropologist

Posted by Anne on March 8, 2010

We love people who are more than their datasheet says.

Bobby McFerring is one of them, showing us below how universal language works. And of course we weren’t the only ones appreciating him: right after his demonstration at the World Science Festival 2009 (New York), he received a teaching offer in neuroscience.

It won’t hurt, nor take too long… so don’t worry, click the link below.