What’s more immersive than a cinema? You’re in the queue. If you’re like me, you’ve come early so you can a) get good seats where you can stretch your legs and b) you can watch the trailers. You’ve bought your tickets. You go up to the snack stand. You then remember that you have a
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The word for 2018 is…UNLEARN.
The only way to grow is to unlearn. “You must unlearn what you have learned.” Yoda As I’ve mentioned more than a few times, the last 12 months blew us away. It’s the old cliche of saying that if you could go back in time and tell yourself a year ago what was going to happen,
We’ve had a facelift for 2018.
After a crazy 2017, we thought it was time to step it up a few gears. And just like that, the year that was 2017 is no more. What started off as a year of thinking “Can we actually pull this year off, or is it going to completely backfire?”, we ended it looking and
Spike Lee is 60 – Celebrating an icon
Spike Lee is the great chronicler of our age. The director looked left when everyone else was looking right. He challenged the Hollywood status quo at a time when African-American filmmakers were marginalized; demanding diversity and giving airplay to alternative narratives. Since his debut feature She’s Gotta Have It had its premiere at Cannes in 1986, Spike
The Passion Killer?
How important is passion? I thought I knew the answer to this question – it’s obvious right? I mean, if Steve Jobs and Oprah Winfrey tell you to follow your dreams and do work you love, then I guess that’s kind of what you should do. Seems legit – they were and are wealthy beyond
Finding inspiration at the Newport Street Gallery
After working flat out for the few months, whether it was on events, or in our “9-5’s”, it was definitely time to recharge our batteries. But not by going on a mini break somewhere exotic (as nice as that would be), but by getting the creative mind flowing again. Easier said than done. One
Enjoy the highs, expect the lows…but enjoy them, too
One thing we love about working on events is that feeling of pure achievement when something you’ve put blood, sweat and tears into pays off. But it’s in those moments directly after finishing a project, that you have to be guided by your emotional state, which can be hard. We Are Parable Co-founder Anthony Andrews
The end of our beginning
Before I get started telling you what we’ve been up to, it’s worth mentioning how tough the last 4-6 months have been. Working on two events, holding down full time and demanding jobs as well as looking after our little ones…it’s been a lot. But now the dust has settled for the time being,
Sharing what you know and promoting innovation
Something’s wrong when it comes to creativity in certain areas. The idea of showing and sharing work seems to be broken. I’ll never forget a conversation that we had with one of our collaborators, Gabrielle Smith, founder of the NuBlk. She said that when it comes to a number of creative organisations working together, it
What Drake can teach us all about being creative
Slowly, I’m realising that it’s more about what you don’t do with your creativity that will define your legacy. But what if it doesn’t fit in what came before it? Well that’s okay… “I’ve always been me/I guess I know myself” Drake: “Know Yourself” Due to some pretty amazing records that have come out recently,
