Gigantic Planet

24/01/2020

We had the honor of telling the story of the Seattle King County Community Clinic. It's not so much about the clinic itself, though you'll learn a lot about it, but about the broad reaching need for accessible healthcare and the people and organizations in our community that came together to deliver help through the clinic. The clinic is free to anyone who needs medical, dental or vision care.

Our documentary Stronger Than Medicine is currently showing on the Seattle Channel.

Watch: https://youtu.be/1NPYCAUKaac

If you can, I highly recommend volunteering for this year's clinic, February 13 - 16 at Seattle Center.

Volunteer: https://seattlecenter.org/volunteers/

23/01/2020

14/06/2018

Kid observations are the best.

Join the nine-year-old caption-writing sensation Alice Kassnove as she puts her spin on New Yorker cartoon captions.

08/06/2018

After revisiting the messages and values expressed by Fred Rogers, one wonders how would Mister Rogers talk about the stories we read about today. What would he say?

Love and kindness truly are healthful, and people who express them regularly really do lead healthier lives.

30/05/2018

This awareness campaign from Forbes Brazil draws a clear picture of gender inequality and its consequences.

The gender pay gap is a global issue, and Forbes Brazil is calling it out by saying that some of the world’s most successful companies wouldn’t have been funded if the founders had been women.

17/05/2018

Augmented reality (AR) is starting to live up to its promise. This new app from the International Committee of the Red Cross places you in the bedroom of a child living in a war-torn city.

https://giganticplanet.wordpress.com/2018/05/17/enter-the-room/

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Augmented reality (AR) is starting to live up to its promise. From paintings to the View-Master humans have been attempting virtual reality as a way to convey a sense of place or an experience to o…

06/04/2018

I love this map of the world. https://bit.ly/2GirKKm
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08/03/2018

My daughter Addison loved exploring Ginny Ruffner's work Reforestation of the Imagination at MadArt. It’s a really fascinating installation that lets you see imagined plants that grow from trees that have been cut down. Life renewing itself.

27/02/2018

Produced by the same production company that produced Showtime's This American Life. I'm in!

The New York Times has conquered the podcasting world with "The Daily." Now it wants to crack television with a weekly news program.

13/02/2018

Poetry adds to these spots that chose to show that there is complexity and challenge in life.

https://giganticplanet.wordpress.com/2018/02/13/grace-and-grit-and-poetry/

Communicating a range of human experience gives a more complete view of life. But, that is can be hard to do if you only have a short time to get your story across. Recently, I’ve seen a few …

02/02/2018

I'm looking forward to seeing how NYT uses their newest tool to help readers make better sense of, and connect us to, the world around us.

01/02/2018

Art can convey more than words. It can focus our attention to see something we might otherwise turn our eyes away from. And in watching we see the ebb and flow, the choreography of abuse so that we might better recognize it when we see it around us. Video by English company Raw London.

This Valentine's Day, we want to change the way people see and understand domestic abuse. Would you recognise the signs? | www.nda.services/control

30/01/2018

Very expensive PSAs for a huge audience. Maximum exposure for causes these companies care about.

Hyundai, Budweiser and Stella Artois are taking a philanthropic approach to their Super Bowl ads. Why?

25/01/2018

Net Neutrality explained with burgers.

The repeal of Net Neutrality is a hot topic in America, but it can be very difficult to understand. That’s why the BURGER KING® brand created WHOPPER® Neutra...

19/01/2018

How can you help someone understand something they have never personally experienced? Especially something that is traumatic or life altering. In the past year I encountered several very affecting depictions of what it is like to move from relative normalcy, to chaos, and onto a journey to find a new normalcy. Like many people, I followed the story of the horrendous fires in California and particularly the fires around Napa Valley. [ 391 more words ]

https://giganticplanet.wordpress.com/2018/01/19/sharing-the-experience-of-chaos/

How can you help someone understand something they have never personally experienced? Especially something that is traumatic or life altering. In the past year I encountered several very affecting …

18/01/2018

This funny spot takes on one of the tough spots in human relations. What to do when something's not right. Whether that is someone doing or saying something inappropriate or whether you sense something's up but aren't sure. The spot points out that pause, and the awkward moment it creates, and urges action rather than silence.

The campaign from The Ad Council and Droga5 features popular YouTubers Liza Koshy, Hannah Hart, Markiplier, and Tyler Posey sharing their own personal stories about mental health.

17/01/2018

This has the potential to move the role, and impact, of corporate social responsibility work front and center. I look forward to seeing who seizes the moment to create impact, and who will fight this idea, and how the public will respond.

Laurence Fink, the chief executive of BlackRock, the $6 trillion investment firm, plans to tell C.E.O.s in a letter that businesses must serve a social purpose.