open/conceptual

Few people would disagree that as more brands & memes vie for our attention, the simple act of communicating has become an accelerating arms race. We shouldn’t necessarily complain. Not more than a decade ago it would have been impossible for most of us to get any kind of public attention for our products or [...]

Going Back

by Brian on 07-21-2009

in creativity,education,london,media

I’m still posting more or less daily at Open/Conceptual, focusing on some special interest stuff there, but I haven’t been doing much for BrianFrank.ca lately. It’ll probably stay this way for a while. Lately I’ve been looking back at where I’ve come from. I actually forgot how non-blog-like my blogging was a little over a [...]

Opinion-Free July

by Brian on 07-06-2009

in general,humour

Partially inspired by this post at Rockinon, I’m going to go opinion-free for the rest of July.  I was working on a follow-up to the Gladwell post, and after several versions I really didn’t like what I was writing, nor did I like myself very much for writing it.  And what would blogging be without [...]