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Finnish duo Phantom performing at MLOVE

Conferences are “stuff” which serves many purposes for the World’s creative business elite. The best ones combine a high-octane dose of inspiration with a chance to gaze into crystal balls deftly handled by the high priests of this large amorphous circle, the designers and consultants who shape consumer [...]

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People die. Stories live on.

Some fourteen years ago I started to work on a book of Maori tribal myths and legends. Some eleven years ago the book was finally published by the New Zealand publishing house of Reed. (The book sold out withing three years but the publisher refused to reprint. That’s a good subject for another discussion about [...]

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Tell me your story, but don’t put me to sleep

Jacek Kowalski from Gazeta Wyborcza, the leading Polish daily, did a little chat with me this week, in the context of TEDxWarsaw, public speaking and the role of the storyteller. We talked for a while and here is the resulting interview, translated from the Polish. It was titled : “Tell me your story, just don’t [...]

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Presentation Sins

As we all know, presentations can be either informative, interesting and inspiring or bland, boring and just plain bad. (Couldn’t resist the alliteration, eh.) What is interesting is that given the fact that both the presenters and the audience are usually drawn from the same pool of people, and no-one likes to attend boring presentations, [...]

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An interview with Jose Azel

Jose Azel, as much a thoughtful intellectual as accomplished photojournalist and founder of the international photo agency Aurora Photos shares with us some hard-won insights as well as his business philosophy which combines an altruistic approach with a keen attention to the bottom line.

Listen as Jose recounts his early experiences and then seamlessly moves [...]

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Talbot’s Fox

Starting in a few days I will begin to post audio interviews with some of the World’s thought leaders in the field of photography – the people behind the images – under the common name of Talbot’s Fox.

First up we talk to award winning photojournalist and founder of the elite photo agency Aurora [...]

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