Innovation
2024's acquisition of the year
The calendar unlock - and why it's another alarm bell for Google
Culture & Insights
Where creativity meets culture and storytelling
Culture & Insights
Hollywood Hits Madison Avenue: When Ovitz & the Polar Bears Stole Coca-Cola
October, 1991. Hollywood's kingmaker, Michael Ovitz, craved a new conquest: brands. But not just any brand. He eyed
Future Of Work
Evading A.I. disruption? Look to the Curators & Supervisors
Which skills are going to withstand A.I. disruption? One I’m betting on is curation.
Curation is ‘the selection,
Creative Business
Picture of you
Is it really possible that the person who portrays the formidable Logan Roy can lose sight of his skills, his focus, his purpose? Even his identity? Turns out, it is.
Reflections & Stories
Why the Europa Conference League matters
When the Europa Conference league launched in 2021, it was largely ridiculed. In many quarters, it still is.
This tournament
Culture & Insights
DJ JD
One Saturday morning, a nightclub promoter received a demo tape in the mail. It
didn't seem unusual at
Writing
The writer's Secret Service
There’s been a lot of anticipation about a new movie featuring a certain Mr.
Bond.
But Bond’s original
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Face/Off
Here's one way to get people to turn their heads.
Portfolio Career
Standing on set
After he’d shot his scenes for the day, Alec Baldwin would retreat to the
comforts of his private trailer.
Can't write? Then speak
Jerry Seinfeld says writing is the hardest thing in the world. He’s
exaggerating, but not all that much. Writing
Podcast
Under the Current Podcast: #11 - Olaf Boswijk
building spaces for arts and culture, finding new perspectives on our natural
world, and the importance of staying naive
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Podcast
Under the Current Podcast: #5 - Zoe Scaman
non-linear careers, sharing work in public, and dealing with self doubt
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Under the Current Podcast: #3 - Dave Clarke
engineering as procrastination, what it means to be punk, and the future of the
electronic music scene
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The $15m unbranding
When Matthew McConnaughey decided to stop doing romantic comedies, he told his
agent, Jim Toth at CAA, to make sure
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The Entertainers
This piece was originally the introductory bit to the 40th edition of my monthly
newsletter ‘Adventures [https://howardgray.net/newsletter/
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Serious Fun
10 years ago The End [https://djmag.com/longreads/end-club-changed-london]
nightclub in London closed its doors for the final time.
Culture & Insights
Great (Un)Expectations
Below is a very lightly edited version of a brief introduction I gave at the
final presentation day for the
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The Circuit
The challenges — and the importance — of being out on the road, in the middle,
on the circuit as a creative