by Bruce Turkel | Apr 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
Vincent Van Gogh died broken and penniless. He could not monetize his talent. Takashi Murakami figured it out. He makes big money selling cartoonish figures as fine art and licensing his outrageous colors for $5,000 limited edition Louis Vuitton handbags. Murakami is...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
Last Thursday I gave the worst presentation of my life. I wish I were exaggerating for the sake of this blog, but I’m not. I was truly awful. I was showing work I’m proud of and talking about new concepts we’re excited about but I wasn’t scoring any points with the...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
Some revolutions start with a bang. “The shot heard ‘round the world” is how Ralph Waldo Emerson waxed poetic about the opening salvos of the American Revolution at the battles of Lexington and Concord. About 135 years later, “The shot heard ‘round the world” was used...
by Bruce Turkel | Mar 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
A revelation on luck from four different encounters: Number One: Last week I ran into Andy Bernstein, an old friend of mine from college. Andy and I only had a few minutes together in the elevator but we quickly reminisced about the fun we had in school and the few...
by Bruce Turkel | Feb 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
If you visit the Smithsonian Institute, one of the exhibits you might see is a lunch counter that’s been carefully relocated from a Woolworth’s store in Greensboro, North Carolina to Washington D.C. History says that the counter was the site of the first...
