Michael Karnjanaprakorn

“There are no original ideas. There are only original people.” – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison A couple of weeks ago, I met with a passionate entrepreneur who pitched me an idea that he was working on for the past couple of months. He was in the “feedback” stage of his idea, which is when entrepreneurs tell [...]

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(image via Jonathan Harris) I’m a huge fan of Jonathan Harris.  He’s the creative genius behind We Feel Fine, Sputnik Observatory, and The Whale Hunt among many other projects.  His interview on 99% and talk on TED are my favorites.  And his vignettes about World Building in a Crazy World will blow your mind. Everyday he [...]

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After watching Notorious last weekend, I got inspired to make a mixtape for the “Greatest Rapper of All Time” – Notorious B.I.G aka the Black Frank White aka Biggie Smalls aka Christopher Wallace.  Maybe I’ll make a mixtape bi-monthly?  Tracklist below and download by visiting http://www.zshare.net/download/5436936198bcacef/ Speaking of Biggie, does anyone want to hit up [...]

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While planning and producing The Feast, I looked at a lot of other conferences all over the world.  I compiled a list of my favorite conferences, and since there’s nothing like this on the web anywhere, I thought I would share it with all of you! Feel free to leave a comment with any conferences [...]

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Check out the first Behance article I wrote with Scott Belsky (founder of Behance). After sitting in brainstorming sessions for the past couple of years that led to nowhere, we developed some keen insights that should help you “think inside a new box.” “Whenever we generate ideas, we’re always told to ‘think outside the box.’ [...]

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I’ve become good friends with Clay over at Exit Creative. He writes about random cool shit like the Lippi Selk’Bag. “I think… first thing I’d do when I got home would be to get in. And I’d never have to wash my sheets.” And his most recent project? Ping Pong paddles. His nice little brand [...]

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This year, one of the common themes that I will talk about will be around innovation. The New York Times ran a couple of great articles in the past week about innovation. The first article was titled, “Innovative Minds Don’t Think Alike.” Here are some of my favorite excerpts from the article. “It becomes nearly [...]

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As creative professionals, we’re always told to “think outside the box” and “go crazy with creative ideas.”  But, as you know, that comes with tons of frustrations and brainstorming sessions that lead to nowhere.  How many times have you left a creative session in a worse place than where you started?  Now innovative thinkers are saying [...]

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