His current collection of poems, "Snake," imagines a post-apocalypse Earth long after the extinction of the human race where a character that embodies all of the feelings, thoughts and emotions of our entire civilization when it no longer exists.
With economic and technological disruption have come freedom, creativity, and chaos. People can experience all of the effects of these three states of mind in one day or in one hour of their lives.
By Russell C. Smith and Michael Foster The American experience has always been one of starting over, rethinking, reworking, and reinventing. In the early 21st Century, a reinvention movement is taking place at all levels of society. Reinvention belongs to everyone. It isn’t a commodity. It’s an idea, a meme, a fluid structure, a new [...]
<em>Good Virus: Kindness Is Contagious</em>, by documentary filmmaker, David Gaz explores the idea of kindness as an emotional contagion, and a force for good in the world.
By Russell C. Smith and Michael Foster The Internet poses two questions to people every day: What are you wishing (searching) for right now? How much change (acceleration) can a culture endure in a short span of time? A familiar trope in Sci-fi movies has the visitor from the past stuck in front of a [...]
Punk music in its purest form projects an element of danger and disruption, rage and revolt. It is music with the power to jolt the listener awake. Maybe 2013 will be the year British post-punk wakes people up.
We asked a few Northwest people in the arts and business communities what reinvention means to them.
Being authentic means trusting your gut and moving ahead. It means that many times, your questions will be more important than your answers. On a personal level, it's where deeper truths are discovered.
Once upon a time, the Nielsen rating system mattered. Not any longer. What matters now is fans and buzz. What matters in the digital age is is tribes and Twitter.
If you're not reinventing yourself, your business, your point of view, your multi-platform communications, and your Internet persona -- you're behind history's curve.
