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My Six Random Things for the Taxman

Six Random Things
Bill Miranda (@TaxMan45) tagged me, according to the following "official" rules:
  • Link to the person who tagged you.
  • Post the rules on your blog.
  • Write 6 random things about yourself.
  • Tag 6-ish people at the end of your post.
  • Let each person know he/she has been tagged.
  • Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

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    My Randomizations

  1. It's unlike me to respond to projects like Six Random Things - unless, of course, the TaxMan comes calling.
  2. I was raised on a peninsula along the shores of Lake Erie and alternately in a home facing Booby Island off the coast of Nevis in the West Indies. I come by an affinity for large bodies, of water, naturally.
  3. I'm apt to return lacerating cynicism with scything sarcasm and piercing satire with rapier wit, respectively and respectfully, of course. And, I can clap with one hand, either hand.
  4. This excerpt:
    "Pongileoni surpassed himself in the final Badinerie. Euclidean axioms made holiday with the formulæ of elementary statics. Arithmetic held a wild saturnalian kermess; algebra cut capers. The music came to an end  in an orgy of mathematical merry-making."
    from Huxley's Point Counter Point, speaks to every facet of my brain. I like it.
  5. I once paid $35 to leap from the wing of an airplane featuring a faulty fuel line and a malfunctioning wheel lock.
  6. My adventuresome brother has now lived abroad longer than he lived in the United States. He once shared an ocean-bound ship with his nine polar bears and a group of Maori as they traveled along the coast of Madagascar en route to Japan where he now resides.

    I often refer to him as, Jai Congo. Drop him in a Venezuelan jungle with a K-bar knife and a quantity of rope and he'll walk out laughing.


Six-ish. All I could think of were these two:

@TheBloggess The Bloggess

 

Brainstorm's Web 2.0 Work with Lumina Foundation Cited

Web 2.0 and its impact on Foundation Communications - Brainstorm's work with Lumina Foundation cited in:

Come On In. The Water's Fine.
An Exploration of Web 2.0 Technology and Its Emerging Impact on Foundation Communications

By David Brotherton and Cynthia Scheiderer
www.brothertonstrategies.com

Click here to download:
brotherton_new_media_091608.pdf (477 KB)
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The Development of B Brilliant and the B Series

B Brilliant

A snapshot from an initial ideation session introducing the key graphical element from Brainstorm's, B Series. In this case, the B Brilliant design itself.

The B Series is a six-part series Brainstorm wrote to document the process of developing, implementing and measuring an integrated online/offline marketing campaign. The series was written and published in step with the project from inception to completion. In the end our metrics and tools used throughout (many available for download) were shared with readers.

The full six-part series (starting in reverse order) can be viewed here: The B Series

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B_brilliant

Brainstormers everywhere, unite!

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A Dozen from the Brainstorm Denizen

I've photographed many of my Brainstorm colleagues over the past 15 years. Above are a dozen of those shots pulled from Brainstorm's image archive collection.

Hackneyed Technique

Most often I set the shots up in my office and light them with a couple of $5 clamp lights and a desk lamp with the shade removed. I frame the subjects and diffuse, block, or redirect light using large rectilinear pieces of translucent corrugated material and white or black foam core. Or whatever else I find lying about. 

I typically ask someone to sit just off camera (at my desk) and chat with the subject to set them at ease while I pop the shutter. The result, nearly every person I've shot is captured looking to their left.

Ad Hoc Tradition

I make the full size files available to those interested in prints for friends or family members - a sort of perk and tradition. Whereas we crop the images for pub distribution and general biographical use.

Each time I revisit the Brainstormer image collection I'm reminded of our first employee's oft-uttered project battle cry, "Brainstormers everywhere, unite!"