by Elizabeth Denham Thompson | May 13, 2020 | Opinion
I’ve been thinking a lot about creativity lately. A few weeks ago, I was asked what gave me hope, especially with COVID-19 shelter-in-place guidelines beginning to impact the United States. My answer was that creativity was emerging around me as people shifted with...
by Bill Wilson | Jul 11, 2013 | Opinion
You remember the story of “The Three Little Pigs,” don’t you? Sent out by their mother to make their way in the world, they live in fear of the “Big Bad Wolf.” Their first order of business is to build their houses. Choosing the path of...
by Ircel Harrison | May 28, 2013 | Opinion
Telling the emperor he has no clothes can be tricky. You remember the tale about this. The naïve young boy came out of the encounter unscathed, but the emperor was totally embarrassed. When I was in Vietnam, I was an inexperienced, freshly minted second lieutenant...
by Trevor Barton | Jan 3, 2013 | Opinion
There is a wonderful documentary called “Beautiful Losers.” The 2008 film was created by filmmaker Aaron Rose and is about an underground, outsider, creative movement called the “beautiful losers” movement. It has interviews with Shepard...
by Bill Wilson | Apr 12, 2012 | Opinion
I recently heard an interview with George Lois, a leader in the advertising world in the 1950s who helped revolutionize the industry. His innovations transformed advertising and made several of his clients into household names. I found his comments about creativity...