ethanbeute

I just ended a 14 year run in local television marketing and promotion that took me from Grand Rapids to Chicago back to Grand Rapids to Colorado Springs.  My short description of the work: running an in-house agency to build brands, drive viewership, and increase our overall standing with all stakeholders.  So, my side was the business-to-consumer marketing that results in [...]

What you want, when you want it, as often as you want it – without cable or satellite … it’s easier than ever. Just don’t tell me it’s about saving money.

Toyota must have research that suggests their problems with perceived safety and reliability are over – or that they were never too deep. If not, I’m considering them lost in the wilderness.

Tomorrow, I’ll day-hike Barr Trail to the summit of Pikes Peak for the second time. This hike, however, already feels different.

Take my appreciation for a painting by a local artist at a wonderful museum. Add a little initiative. Enjoy the results.

Three things I truly enjoy intersect just 2 miles from our home: local history, a local artist and landscape art.

Sinek’s “Start With Why” philosophy, of course packaged and sold as a book, isn’t revolutionary. But it’s always timely and he gives it a fresh spin.

We experienced today in Colorado Springs the same thing many have experienced in cities across the country – a protest of the cruel “entertainment” that is Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, which happens to be coming to town. Here’s a shallow analysis.

In hindsight, I’m glad my Facebook news feed was “hijacked” by a fallacious video tag. We owe it to ourselves to consider every now and again how our fellow human beings are thinking and dreaming differently.

Over the few years I’ve been building my Flickr photo stream, I’ve received eight or ten requests from proper publishers seeking permission to use one or more of these photos. Several of them are web-based guides. One was a publisher of lake, river and stream maps. One was a publisher of books and videos about weird and interesting things across this great nation.

I’d forgotten about that last one … until yesterday.