I was one of the C’mon LeBron faithful but I must admit this is undeniable. There is a paradigm shift going on and I’m proud to be one of the Millennials leading the way. Cheers to you LeBron (W+K and Nike Basketball too. You win). Just protect your neck when you come by the Garden. We’re runnin’ and gunnin’.

My UNCUT Viewer Response to Redscout Presents Spur from Kenji Summers on Vimeo.

I love (good) planning and strategy. This is what I sent to Redscout before they cut everything up and used a sound byte. View it here.

3:26

“Planners need to be (more) craftsmen. Planners and the planning discipline need to be a guild”

I’ll post my uncut @reverse7 director’s cut video next week. I enjoyed most of the responses from the Redscout Spur video series. The videos that inspired the responses should be stored in the Akashic (planners) library for eternity.  I also believe both planners and laymen will be speaking about the Spur series for months to come. I enjoyed participating and the ongoing conversation.

http://www.psfk.com/2010/01/redscout-presents-spur-viewers-respond.html

The rapper Mickey Factz recently mentioned the following lines on his The Lost Exhibit: #ALPHA track. ”How can you think out the box? How can you ever get OUT the box, when your life is lived IN a box?” I guess the context is a little different in this case. I can dig the insight that these ad guys and gals had for their clients.

via If Only We Thought of That

This time I attempted to tackle The Client’s Relationship With Planning. Is Planning Handicapped By “Advertising”?

I related advertising to Medieval Europe, planners to jesters and oracles, and creatives to royalty.

SPUR episode 4 Video Response – Kenji Summers from Kenji Summers on Vimeo.

I should have touched on projects by great planners that extend beyond the advertising agency walls. Projects such as Cubesareevil.com, Thisplace09.com, Planners Who Wave bit.ly/2uDT8f, and Planningforgood.blogspot.com.

I was two seconds from adding background music. Maybe the (new) Mickey Factz track I heard while up lat night attempting to reach 1,000 followers on Twitter was the inspiration. Either way, I decided to go acapella.

SPUR episode 1 Video Response – Kenji Summers from Kenji Summers on Vimeo.

My favorite point was about the potential for partnerships within the planning discipline. I.e., the dynamics of the art director and copy writer team but for planners with different skill sets and personalities.

Please disagree with everything I said and do your own.

I apologize for the lack of blog updates. Hopefully you have been following via Twitter @KenjiSummers If not, let’s connect tomorrow at the One Club-Adversity Anniversary Celebration. RSVP HERE or Adversity-Oneclub.org

I’ve collaborated with One Club-Adversity on a few  occassions and I look forward to seeing new and familiar faces at their 1 year anniversary.

I’ve attended a lot of events in the past week and would like to post about everything but for now, check the info for tomorrow:

Offline, @WilliamYan started out writing tweets on sheets of paper and has now stepped it up to tweeting on the streets. The convergence of online and offline media will be a story of 2010. This is just plain creative. My social experiment aligns with this perfectly. Check back at the end of the week to get the story on my (Twitter) social experiment. Shouts to  @aimeehustle @ladychellez @keefwasheretoo

Visit WilliamYan.com for more

via William Yan’s Twitpic

Who says there are no more ‘creative’ agencies? Boone Oakley created their website completely using YouTube.

3 kings on cinco de mayo, originally uploaded by KenjiSummers.

On Cinco de Mayo I was lucky enough to see a group of creatives — which I have coined, ‘The 3 Kings’– speak about what it took for them to ‘pillage’ (takeover is overused) an industry that is mostly ‘closed door’ and ‘old boy’.

Event: Multicultural Mixer @ JWT
Produced by Tangerine-Watson and Adversity-One Club

The Three Kings (in order L-R):
Kash Sree – ECD, JWT
Vann Graves – CCO, Uniworld
Jimmy Smith – ECD, TBWA/Chiat Day

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