Sickest Touchdown

Jerome Simpson with the flip into the TD. Reppin home city Bengals!

Big Jet Plane

Technology + Health

The future of health

Healthy Living

Currently immersed in healthy living planning- I've stumbled upon so many cool technologies helping us track the daily.

Patagonia

Patagonia is one of the greatest companies. "Humanity currently uses natural resources 1.4 times the rate at which the earth can restore them. 'The main thing is that we’re trying to get people to wake up, and we have a lot of loyal customers who appreciate our willingness to initiate dialogue like this,' he says. 'We want to challenge other businesses, too. The fundamental assumption that we can continue on a growth economy is flawed in the long term. We need to start talking about what we are going to do about it."

love this spot

I think it's too early to be pushing christmas ads. Seriously it's not even Tday yet, but i'm in love with this spot.

Breaking Hearts

Nike's Jordan Brand

This was done by the agency Wieden + Kennedy for the release of Jordan Melo's shoe. Such an inspired idea, walking on water.

The world is hitting 7 billion people next week!

National Geographic put together the most typical person. I think it's so cool, probably just my planner brain nerdness!

E.E. Cummings

I vaguely recall memorizing this for class in middle school. It was well beyond my years then, true romantic at heart it appears. I just love this poem- it flows so beautifully.

 “I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
 I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

 here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)”

― E.E. Cummings

This is incredible: Adele cover

my Monday morning jam

Cold morning- hot cup of tea and some good tunes at work.

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle."

— Steve Jobs, RIP, 1955-2011

Words of wisdom by Johnny Cash

"So, I learn from my mistakes. It's a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there's no gain. I found that to be true in my life. You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that's part of it: knowing that you're not shut out forever, and that there's a goal you still can reach."
-Johnny Cash

Colorado Lottery Immortal Cash

Yesterday the commercial launched for the immortal cash campaign. The Colorado Lottery came out with a new scratch ticket, featuring a vampire. This is the very first campaign that I was able to work on at Cactus Marketing. I helped formulate insights in the the target audience. This entailed hours of research on twilight, twilight moms, vampire culture and everything in between. We ultimately changed the Lottery's mind on who  their target was- being twimoms. I was able to be a part of the strategic planning, the creative review meetings, and the actual commercial production. Everyone at Cactus is so talented and I'm really proud of all the work! Love Cactus, love my job.

Colorado Lottery Immortal Cash from Cactus on Vimeo.

Having a Coke with You- Frank O'Hara

Connected

I look forward to seeing this movie.

"For centuries we've been declaring independence and perhaps it's time to finally declare our interdependence."

Start with Why...

The law of diffusion of innovation

"People don't buy what you do they buy why you do it. And what you do simply serves as proof of what you believe."

Be Patient...

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart
And try to love the questions themselves.
Do not seek the answers that cannot be given you
Because you would not be able to live them

And the point is to live everything
Live the questions now
Perhaps you will gradually without noticing it
Live along some distant day into the answers.

 ~RAINER MARIA RILKE

7 triggers that drive our Fascination

Sally Hogshead @ The Content Marketing World Conference

1. Power
2. Passion
3. Mystique
4. Prestige
5. Alarm
6. Rebellion
7. Trust

Sally Hogshead Live at Content Marketing World from Nate Riggs on Vimeo.

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Live it, love it.

The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t mean we don’t have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that’s not what it’s about. Process makes you more efficient … But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem. It’s ad hoc meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he has figured out the coolest new thing ever and who wants to know what other people think of his idea.

-Steve Jobs

Time Escape

I just thought this video was really cool and I like the song. Enjoy.

Time Escape from Eric Kessler on Vimeo.

Denver Cruisers

Denver Cruisers has become the biggest coordinated weekly ride in the country, and right here in my home city. They did a time-lapse of last wednesdays Rave theme.

Denver Cruisers from Image Brew on Vimeo.

If You Don't Understand People, You Don't Understand Business

Definitely worth the 30 minutes.

"Our ability to build trust and relationships is the key to our survival as a race, and to thriving as ideamakers." -Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek: If You Don't Understand People, You Don't Understand Business from 99% on Vimeo.

I love Soccer

Youtube blurb:
In this Nike Argentina spot, first aired last Sunday during the final of Copa America, one of the most watched sport events in Latin America, the 'voice of the stadium' delivers a rousing message to soccer players from the Boca Junior team.Boca Junior is Argentina's biggest team and is sponsored by Nike, but has been struggling recently. The ad was filmed as the players attended a training session in the Bombonera stadium, taking them by surprise.

Creative Bus Shelters

These are great, really creative. via http://www.adweek.com/adfreak .


Guarana Anartctica:
This is from a 2006 World Cup Campaign featuring a Brazilian soft drink.





Caribou Coffee:
This is in Minneapolis and features Caribou Coffee's new hot breakfast sandwiches. The coils are actually warming, how great is that.





IKEA:
I love IKEA. Apparently they've done these bus-shelter furniture set ups all over the place for quite some time- never knew. Very cute. 

  



Fitness First:
A bus stop scale, haha! This is in the Netherlands. I bet this would cause too much controversy in the U.S., except we need it here. Too funny- I wonder though if this was effective in driving foot traffic to their gym?