What Agency Creatives Can Learn From Dickens, Hemingway and Michelangelo CANNES, France—If you're going to have role models, you might as well aim high. At a seminar here today, BBDO's David Lubars and Andrew Robertson suggested that Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway and Michelangelo were, in essence, the perfect admen—or at least, possessed many of the skills that suit advertising creatives well. It was a fanciful conceit—Hemingway, for one, would have scoffed at it ...
June 17, 2013 - AdWeek
Photo: Where’s your Aspen Times? Contributed photo In partnership with the Aspen Institute, Friends of Florence hosted a trip to Rome and Florence to see and learn about Michelangelo’s life, his art, and some of the world’s most important historical sites in which his art is featured.
June 16, 2013 - The Aspen Times
25 Creepy Paintings of Renaissance Babies The Renaissance was a time in our history characterized by major cultural and scientific innovation. Aided by great thinkers such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, it brought about the appreciation of beauty and the desire to create it. For that, we give them some serious props. But in that noble quest, one thing missed the mark — the ability to paint a cute, snuggly, human-like baby. It's ...
June 15, 2013 - Mashable
Orson Welles in Telegraph.co.uk In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance,says Welles, playing the villain Harry Lime. "In Switzerland, they had...
Tibor Fischer in Washington Post I doubt a lost novel by Shakespeare with a cover painted by Michelangelo could generate this much excitement,novelist Tibor Fischer wrote in the Daily Telegraph.
Martin Luther King in MLive.com If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry,King said. "He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth...