Claire Blue Ideas, LLC

I’m glad I’ve spent so much time questioning the way. At first I thought it was a waste – like, why can’t I put my head down and just walk straight? Sure, I think I’ve wasted some time going down the wrong variants of the path. I’ve back tracked a bit and it sure wasn’t always smooth. But when I started walking down the right path, I knew, without a doubt or second thought, that it was right. And it felt good.

Aviation was once a term that excited notions of romance and adventure. It conjured images of open cockpit biplanes and grizzled aviators bedecked in goggles, helmet, and a long flowing silk scarf that kept oil from the sputtering engine off of your face and out of your lungs.

Any product of the 80′s will tell you the rules of Jenga: you simply take the loose wooden plank from either side or the center of a row and place it on top of the tower. He who pulls the last plank, loses.

When people ask me if I miss the snow in Colorado they are always incredibly surprised when I say no. I feel I need to set the record straight on this topic. I lived in Colorado for 9 winters – four of which had record snow falls in the Front Range.

On a clear day in San Francisco, the glowing Golden Gate Bridge hovers like an orange-highlighted doorway above a choppy bay. On a day like that, the cityscape looks like a 3-dimensional pop up book, layered by impossible skyscrapers, bright white buildings, blue water, and mountainous backdrops.

In the Chinese Horoscope, 2012 is the year of the Water Dragon. The Dragon, a legendary symbol of good fortune and intense power, is calmed by water and redirects his enthusiasm, making him more perceptive of others. “The Dragon’s are better equipped to take a step back to re-evaluate a situation because they understand the art of patience and do not desire the spotlight like other Dragons.

The Almighty Turtle: The turtle is the most ancient group of prehistoric species still in existence – it has roamed the earth for more than 200 million years*. To the Hawaiian people, the Honu is a symbol of good luck and longevity, among other things. The petroglyph of the Honu can be found throughout the islands, [...]

What We Learned in 2011 – by Legwork Studio

It’s December 15th. Taos Ski Valley in New Mexico, a still family-owned ski resort founded in 1955, is often criticized for not selling out to the big guns, being too “old school”, not accommodating for the times.

A marketing ecosystem is complex and always moving – content flowing in and out, constant communication with potential business, website visitors morphing into humans in the sales office, Twitter followers converting into web leads. Sometimes the breadth of all that is going on feels so overwhelming, we have a tendency to bury our heads in the current project without looking at how it fits into the big picture.