tomatored's posterous http://tomatored.posterous.com trying to make this interesting posterous.com Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:26:02 -0800 Just 'cause http://tomatored.posterous.com/just-cause http://tomatored.posterous.com/just-cause On a personal level, I’d been trying to affect the weather for a long time. To talk, to reason and to help make sense based on the sense I have. And I thought I was doing some good. After all, there were moments of clearing light visible through the disappointingly overcast sky. But one day, as the darkness deepened, I realized, I’m not responsible for these—what I’ll call—meteorological changes, good or bad. It’s like I’d been a weatherman, waving his hands at the clouds, taking credit for their change in direction. The question is; when will I stop hoping they’ll change for me?

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Sun, 09 Jan 2011 09:47:00 -0800 Not bad duty http://tomatored.posterous.com/not-bad-duty http://tomatored.posterous.com/not-bad-duty

Working on a Two Weeks to Truth™ writeup with Keystone in the background. Halfway hard to call it "work."

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Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:21:47 -0800 Chef Linda giving a knife skills class, right this second http://tomatored.posterous.com/chef-linda-giving-a-knife-skills-class-right http://tomatored.posterous.com/chef-linda-giving-a-knife-skills-class-right

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Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:05:02 -0700 Great article on bioplastics. http://tomatored.posterous.com/great-article-on-bioplastics http://tomatored.posterous.com/great-article-on-bioplastics Our client re:newal (renewal-water.com) uses bioplastics in its compostable bottle. But only .02% of our plastic is made this way. Got to get that number up.

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Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:45:51 -0700 Making a made-up marketing idea real http://tomatored.posterous.com/making-a-made-up-marketing-idea-real http://tomatored.posterous.com/making-a-made-up-marketing-idea-real Trident Layers' campaign theme is something like, "So good, you'll want to get paid in gum." Which is cute, right—but how do you bring it into the real world and make it actually seem almost kind of possibly true? You pull a promotion that lets people actually pay for something valuable—a New York City cab ride for instance, with the product. Check it out:

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Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:22:03 -0700 Some writing motivated by our Courtney Thorne-Smith shoot last couple days http://tomatored.posterous.com/some-writing-motivated-by-our-courtney-thorne http://tomatored.posterous.com/some-writing-motivated-by-our-courtney-thorne He’d come from a long line of ographers. Dad was a photographer. Grandmother on his mother’s side had been a biographer, then, when she wrote a book about writing books about other people’s lives, an autobiographer. Mom was a cartographer – although not a very good one – she’d gotten lost attempting to map a particularly remote section of the Andes Mountains and had never returned. And his cousin Jake had been, for a short time, a choreographer—but, attempting to combat the more or less constant challenges to his heterosexuality, had made a successful transition to pornographer. And here he was, with his camera, digitally recording behind the scenes events at high-profile advertising commercial shoots. He was an A-list, B-roll, videographer. 

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Sun, 03 Oct 2010 15:36:52 -0700 Things I get to drink http://tomatored.posterous.com/things-i-get-to-drink http://tomatored.posterous.com/things-i-get-to-drink Aviano. New place in Cherry Creek. Drip coffee made one at a time. Great cup too. Love the go cup.

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Sat, 02 Oct 2010 10:49:00 -0700 A metaphor for some http://tomatored.posterous.com/a-metaphor-for-most-of-us http://tomatored.posterous.com/a-metaphor-for-most-of-us

On the surface, in the clearing of a lovely glade, the well appeared peaceful and pristine; the joints neatly mortared, the foliage trimmed—presented for inspection. Yet far below, past the point that eyes could see, deeper than even light cared to venture, dank darkness had settled. And waited.

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Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:38:05 -0700 One more passage for Dee http://tomatored.posterous.com/one-more-passage-for-dee http://tomatored.posterous.com/one-more-passage-for-dee My old pal Deanna liked that last one and wanted some more. Okay:

Neither of them could remember when the more or less constant bickering had begun, or who had thrown the first verbal punch. It was a chicken and egg kind of thing. But none of that mattered now - they had chickens and they had eggs. Lots of both, and whichever came first, they were both dirty birds.

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Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:12:57 -0700 Some more writing - dark stuff for fun http://tomatored.posterous.com/some-more-writing-dark-stuff-for-fun http://tomatored.posterous.com/some-more-writing-dark-stuff-for-fun

Hate was weighing down on him making it hard to keep that "I'm a good person" picture in focus. It was like his self-image were a playground teeter-totter without a friend to balance things out. And it was banging bottom...bottom.

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Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:30:30 -0700 More JLSF http://tomatored.posterous.com/more-jlsf http://tomatored.posterous.com/more-jlsf Officially full of sope, tacos, drunken noodles and various liquid nitrogen frozen desserts.

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Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:29:00 -0700 Justice league of street food http://tomatored.posterous.com/justice-league-of-street-food http://tomatored.posterous.com/justice-league-of-street-food First time for us. Food trucks and DJs.

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Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:43:00 -0700 Things I get to eat #2 http://tomatored.posterous.com/what-i-get-to-get-2 http://tomatored.posterous.com/what-i-get-to-get-2

Goat cheese-stuffed squash blossoms with tomato/corn relish - made by Linda. Forget any others you may have had, these are the best by a damn long shot.

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Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:09:00 -0700 Things I get to eat http://tomatored.posterous.com/things-i-get-to-eat http://tomatored.posterous.com/things-i-get-to-eat

Having a personal chef at home sure makes breakfast nice. Egg whites, goat cheese, zucchini and heirloom tomatoes. All organic, under 300 calories. Thanks honey.

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Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:01:04 -0800 "Come to Jesus" is better than "Go to Hell." http://tomatored.posterous.com/come-to-jesus-is-better-than-go-to-hell http://tomatored.posterous.com/come-to-jesus-is-better-than-go-to-hell We had a "Come to Jesus" meeting yesterday. And as we licked our wounds afterwards, we collectively realized, it's way better to have a chance to make amends and corrections after a client, friend, advisor or boss calls you on the carpet than having your ass swept out the door.

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Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:07:37 -0700 Coddling old people makes old people older http://tomatored.posterous.com/coddling-old-people-makes-old-people-older http://tomatored.posterous.com/coddling-old-people-makes-old-people-older Driving down the highway the other day, we came upon a car going much too slowly for the traffic. There were some gray-haired people in the back seat, but I couldn't tell if this was a whole car full of seniors or what. Upon passing I realized there were two much younger people in the front seat - the kids perhaps? They were driving the old folks like they were old folks. I think, when we treat people past a certain age like they're fragile, it just makes them more so. So don't do that.

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Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:15:41 -0700 Do you have to invent genius? http://tomatored.posterous.com/do-you-have-to-invent-genius http://tomatored.posterous.com/do-you-have-to-invent-genius I was driving west on 6th Avenue here in Denver this morning, on my way to do a little shopping at Last Call, the bargain version of Neiman Marcus, when I noticed a billboard for Chipotle. It appeared new - and old - at the same time. That's because, after months of a new look, it seems as though like the burrito people have gone back to the original - a burrito, wrapped in foil, on a plain white background with a short simple headline, in this case, "Fulfillment." I thought maybe they finally realized how good that campaign was and got over the need to unnecessarily reinvent. I told my wife, who doesn't buy into advertising at all (at least that's what she says) the story of how Chipotle had hired a new agency, the possible result of a new marketing director, and had ditched the look they'd had since the beginning. I theorized that maybe the new marketing guy had felt the need to put his own mark on the brand when it occurred to me, recognizing genius is every bit as impressive as creating it.

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Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:42:26 -0700 Pointless, but not to me http://tomatored.posterous.com/pointless-but-not-to-me http://tomatored.posterous.com/pointless-but-not-to-me Mobile email post with iPhone photo:

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Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:36:58 -0700 I'm so mobile http://tomatored.posterous.com/im-so-mobile-0 http://tomatored.posterous.com/im-so-mobile-0 Okay, so I'm in a recording studio, with my phone, yet blogging to let you know almost nothing, yet amusing the hell out of myself.

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Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:02:00 -0700 Post http://tomatored.posterous.com/post-1853 http://tomatored.posterous.com/post-1853 This is my second post - first via email.

 Have no idea if it will work, but I'm hopeful.

 Here's the picture I tried to include in my post from last night, but it didn't work.

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