CreativeMornings/Austin celebrated June’s theme month on Food by hosting their event with speaker Sonya Coté at the beautiful outdoor venue, Eden East. Photos by Marshall Wright. Check out the rest in their Flickr Album. The Austin chapter of CreativeMornings is organized by Ben Thoma. Follow along with them at @CM_Austin!
If you haven’t yet, you should definitely check out our June global newsletter, which offers up an excellent recap of the talks and events from last month. As June’s theme was all about FOOD, the newsletter dives into some tasty tidbits from food art to home-grown goodness. Read it here.
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William Colgrove spoke at our April CreativeMornings/Washington, DC event, giving some potentially life-saving advice on how to survive a zombie apocalypse (or what the living dead can teach you about a future career in creative services). Here it is:
Team + Problem = Solution
This is a pervasive theme both in the workplace as well as in zombie attacks. You have a team of people, there’s a problem to be solved, and you must arrive at a solution. The success (and life) of your team depends on it.
You must have a plan.
In zombie movies, the man without a plan is always the first one to go. Zombies can’t plan. It’s the one edge we have on them.
A plan should be scalable.
It should work for any size crisis. Same goes for your career. It doesn’t have to last forever; it can be a short term plan, but it needs to scale. A good three to four year plan is best, with short and long term goals for yourself.
Always leave an escape route.
The cellar is a death trap. You need to keep an open mind, open doors. Don’t keep too many doors open, it makes it hard to make decisions—but also to defend. Make sure your flexible with your exits, allowing more than one point of egress.
Do not lose your sh*t.
The guy or girl who loses it, screaming and wallowing in self-pity, is invariably eaten. Be cool. Your job is to solve problems and move on to the next one. It’s how you survive.
Develop new skills.
In an apocalypse, the only fast food is you. You must quickly learn new skills—like hunting and gathering—or become the meal of the undead. Same goes for your job, too. Whatever it is that you’re doing or working on, should not be your primary skill. Always be expanding what you know, what you do, and take the time to teach yourself something new.
Avoid open conflict.
In almost every zombie movie, the louder someone is, the easier it is for millions of zombies to find and devour them. And they descend quickly.
Stay positive.
In zombie movies, there is rarely any hope—society has collapsed. Your one hope is small glimmers of humor and happiness, so you need to stay positive.
For more tips on what to do in a zombie apocalypse or in your career path, watch the talk.
"Can you photograph a turkey on the phone?"
“Can you photograph cows eating sprinkles?"
These are some of the requests Paul Octavious, Chicago-based photographer has received. He talks about them in this talk from April.
What’s the craziest freelance request you’ve gotten? Craziest job?
"There’s a sort of freedom to do whatever it is I want to do, which I guess is the definition of being an artist."
Maira Kalman, Illustrator
speaking at CreativeMornings/NewYork(*watch the talk)
We’re super impressed with the photos from the very first CreativeMornings/Oslo event, which looks as equally fun as it was delicious! Oslo kicked off their first event during our June month around the theme ‘Food,’ featuring world-renown barista Tim Wndelboe. Photos by Thomas Larsen Røed. Check out the rest in their Flickr Album. The Oslo chapter of CreativeMornings is organized by Christiana Chae. Follow along with them at @Oslo_CM!
Great sweaters and great talk was on the menu for June’s CreativeMornings/Portland—part of our themed month all around Food. The event feature speaker Camas Davis, founder of the Portland Meat Collective. Photos by Matt Spiro. Check out the rest in their Flickr Album. The Portland chapter of CreativeMornings is organized by Tsilli Pines. Follow along with them at @Portland_CM!
Some tips from Simon and Jenna Hipgrave who spoke at May’s Melbourne event. Photo taken by Mark Lobo. See more photos from their event here or watch the talk. Follow along with them at @Melbourne_CM!
"We use food as a means of supporting ourselves, the focus of our business, our creative expression, and bringing together our community."
Jonas Singer, Co-Founder, Blind Dog Cafe
speaking at CreativeMornings/Auckland(*watch the talk)
Count Me Out.
A commentary on value and printed media versus digital, The Hungry Workshop created this print on the wasted Yellow Pages.
The print was done in collaboration with Tim Cruickshank. The letterpress studio is run by Simon and Jenna Hipgrave, speakers at CreativeMornings/Melbourne this past May.
You can download the pattern for yourself here.
Check out more of their work or watch their talk here.
