Great start to cre8con with On Your Feet!

Improvised creativity activities.

Damali Ayo – Crow Clothing – great speaker.  Felt like I was watching our Sameunderneath presentation, but either way, she was a fabulous speaker, extremely captivating (hmm, Ryan anyone?!)

Please take not of the copy under Walmart, upper left corner

Please take not of the copy under Walmart, upper left corner

And then there was Jelly Helm.  I’m pretty sure within 30 seconds, the entire audience fell in love with him.  He was such a great speaker, down to earth and had extremely relevant points.

  • How to give a speech: say what you know to be true
  • Advice: Don’t read Chomsky.
  • Successful brands in the 21st century:  aren’t created by agencies!  Created by direct experience because experience doesn’t lie.

Jelly Helm

Jelly Helm

Megan and I agreed that that basically everything Jelly said in his presentation was everything we have been wanting to say about branding/advertising but haven’t been able to put it into words.  And now Jelly is leaving Wieden.  And now I’m reevaluating my entire life plan.

All in all, great conference – major kudos to Steve Gehlen for making this happen!

Sidenote:

During lunch, Megan and I found the largest sasquatch behemoth dog I’ve seen:

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