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✨Jane ✨

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✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · Feb 23

Join the Ad Pub Reading Club for Book 2: The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Part 1: Pages 01-224
Complete by March 21, 2025

Week of March 24: Share favorite area of thought on 🦋Bluesky with #AdPubReading

Discussion date to follow.

sites.google.com/view/ad-pub-...

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 7h

Yes true.

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 9h

Everyone has lost their patience. Especially in business.

kottke.org @kottke.org · 9h

“The smartest design move isn’t chasing trends, it’s planting the tree and letting time do the work,” writes Dave Snyder. “Trees don’t pay off tomorrow. They pay off in a decade. They compound quietly, making everything around them better…” [designobserver.com]

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 10h

The fact that there’s a Boss’ day is ridiculous

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 10h

“Managed well, that tension creates heat. And heat creates light…the kind of work that actually breaks through.

Without it? You don’t have alignment. You have apathy dressed up as consensus.”

findingconnection.substack.com/p/friction-c...

Friction Creates Fire

Why Creative Tension Isn't the Enemy

findingconnection.substack.com

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 10h

An incredibly expensive media takeover.

kottke.org @kottke.org · 11h

Humans of New York has taken over all of Grand Central Terminal for a huge art installation called Dear New York. “For the first time possibly ever, there is not a single ad to be seen in Grand Central Terminal.” [news.artnet.com]

‘Humans of New York’ Transforms Grand Central Into a Monumental Photo Show

Brandon Stanton, creator of “Humans of New York,” has launched New York’s largest public art installation since “The Gates” at Grand Central.

news.artnet.com

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 19h

Yes

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Theo Priestley @tprstly.com · 2d

OpenAI filming their adverts instead of using their own AI tool to make them should tell you everything.

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 3d

New book: Homecoming by Yaa Gyasi

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 4d

The amount of facelifts/cosmotology work seems on the rise.

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 4d

I have always taken notes in a notebook. I remember it better and it’s nice to be able to take a break from screens.

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 5d

🤣

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Liz Climo @lizclimo.bsky.social · 6d

Top: a red panda hesitates to carve a jack o lantern. Hedgehog asks “are you going to carve that pumpkin?” Red panda replies “I dunno. I feel kinda bad stabbing it in the face.” Bottom: red panda and pumpkin cuddle under a blanket with hot cocoa and a spooky book. Panda has drawn a happy face onto the pumpkin with a sharpie.

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 6d

an elderly woman says it 's been 84 years ...

ALT: an elderly woman says it 's been 84 years ...

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✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 6d

On the need for tension in the creative process
open.substack.com/pub/findingc...

Friction Creates Fire

Why Creative Tension Isn't the Enemy

open.substack.com

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 6d

Cannot tell is my nausea is due to:
1) that time of the month
2) something I ate
3) state of things

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 6d

Thai yellow curry and my mouth is humming from the spice.

a man says we gotta spice it up in a kitchen

ALT: a man says we gotta spice it up in a kitchen

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✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 7d

At least that means you're getting some engagement on your posts? 🤷‍♀️

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 7d

Would there be more or less war if men suffered through menstruation?

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 7d

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Shallow Gravy - Jacket (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

YouTube video by p00pynuggeteer

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 9d

This is one of the many reasons billing by hour fails to show the true effort that goes into creative.

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 9d

The house smells good too!

Gotta clean up so I can make dinner in a while (roast chicken, mashed potatoes and green beans)

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 9d

Some zinnias from the garden.

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 9d

Well that came out tasty!

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 9d

Olive oil roasted tomatoes to be whizzed into sauce.

✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 9d

Pesto making season before the first frost kills the basil.