The last two years have been the hardest of my life to date: I visited the ER three times, acquiring a total of 10 stitches and three scars, I lived in the strip club district of Atlanta without a car, I worked retail, I struggled with a constantly changing schedule that made routine the thing […]
It’s amazing how little it takes to make me feel like I’m not totally destroying everything I touch. It’s even more amazing how much I can handle while I wait for the uptick that is inevitably, hopefully, coming. For the past 3 quarters, that’s about 9 months in people terms, I have been treading water. […]
Let me first say, this isn’t an “anti portfolio school” post. Personally, running away to the Circus was the right move for me, for a lot of reasons. For one, I like school and deadlines. I knew I would get everything done faster if I just went to school and made it my number one […]
At the circus, there’s a certain pressure to create work that would never fly in the real world. The phrase, “the client would never buy that,” has become something of a badge of honor amongst us freaks, a badge of honor which I haven’t had the pleasure of fastening to my plaid shirt, until now. It […]
For the past week or so we’ve all be talking about the Super Bowl. The surprising comeback by the Patriots being secondary in my circle. We talked at length about the variety of immigration spots by Anheuser-Busch & Lumber84, and the poignant equal pay pledge from Audi. We argued about whether the live spot from […]
Yesterday, around 1:30pm, in the theatre of the Creative Circus, something brilliant happened. Something that simultaneously reinforced everything I want to believe about the industry I so dearly love, and opened my eyes to a new way of thinking about advertising and creativity in general. Yesterday, in a room of students hanging on his every word and […]
Happy belated New Year, party people! In the spirit of reflecting, recapping and re-anything honestly, because it’s January and all I can think of is change, I’d like to share the teeny, tiny bits of wisdom I acquired working at a real, live creative agency. But first, there are a few things you need to […]
2016 has indeed been a strange year. We’ve all changed in ways we never thought we would. I’ve always been an opinionated feminist, but I went dark there for a while. So dark in fact that I stopped writing. Just sealed it up like it was some kind of limited resource; a BREAK PEN CAP IN […]
This felt bigger than a Facebook post. Bigger than Instagram or snapchat. Bigger than I can even begin to wrap my head around, but I’ll try. Last night the mildly unsavory political actions of an outstanding woman were deemed worse for the country than the twisted, bigoted moral fibers of a man. Trump’s entire personality was […]
Perusing the 3% Conference Blog, as I am wont to do, I read this: Find one shining, talented woman. Put her on a pedestal. Be there to help her knock down the obstacles that will undoubtedly arise. Perhaps more accurately, help her dismantle the ones that have always been there. Be her sponsor. It was […]
Life in the Circus 