Category: Miscellaneous

• 03

  SEP

  2019

  Cold Emails

  • Miscellaneous
  • by Dugan Lunday

  How successful are cold emails? I imagine the success rate of cold emailing depends on the content of the emails, but just generally how often do people actually secure a contract from a cold email? I’ve read in several articles that cold emailing is dead, although I bet it’s different for small and large businesses.…

• 19

  AUG

  2019

  Productivity

  • Miscellaneous
  • by Dugan Lunday

  A while back when I was during research on how to put together a press release, I came across the name Ivy Lee. A turn of the century public relations specialist and distant relative to William Burroughs, he apparently wrote the very first press release. Not the most exciting story in the world, but if…

• 20

  JUL

  2019

  Gorath

  • Miscellaneous
  • by Dugan Lunday

  While digging through some archived files and I came across a poster I designed to promote the video we made for Eishi Hamaguchi. Originally, the plan was to post it on a few social media platforms. We had a notion to start a personal project called “Crowded Tokyo” that got sidelined by client projects. The…

• 30

  APR

  2019

  Business Cards

  • Miscellaneous
  • by Dugan Lunday

  The art of exchanging business cards is definitely one of the intricacies of Japanese business etiquette that I had no way of knowing about when I first arrived in the country. Here are some important points for the uninitiated:   Always have a business card on you Keep them in a carrying case, not your…

• 12

  DEC

  2018

  Coffee from Robots

  • Miscellaneous
  • by Claire Natirbov

  The robots first approached in a procession wearing name tags and Christmas hats to appear more relatable. The remote pilots spoke to us through microphones and could see our reactions of awe in detail through cameras in their foreheads. It was a simple exchange, but devastating once it sank in that our waiter was completely…

• 21

  NOV

  2018

  Chabad In Tokyo

  • Miscellaneous
  • by Claire Natirbov

  Tokyo is known for its extremes. As we’ve looked to profile facets of the giant hive, we’ve found gifted children, stalwart politicians, and religious leaders who seem just a little out of place in the Tokyo zeitgeist. Though not the first people you think of when picturing disaster relief or community outreach in Tokyo, Chabad…

• 18

  OCT

  2018

  Subtle Intrusion

  • Miscellaneous
  • by Claire Natirbov

  ‘The necessary condition for an image is sight,’Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied: ‘We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes’   – Roland Barthes    We had our first day of shooting recently, and the 3,846 photos that detail every movement…

• 16

  OCT

  2018

  Cheered On In The Unfamiliar

  • Miscellaneous
  • by Claire Natirbov

  In September we began learning the basics of DaVinci Resolve while working at getting acquainted with the Canon c200 camera. This was a huge departure from my film comfort zone in front of the camera. Acting in a few short films had given me the basic rundown on film shoot etiquette and terminology, but could…

• 20

  SEP

  2018

  Answering the Phone

  • Miscellaneous
  • by Dugan Lunday

  I relearned how to answer the phone in an unfamiliar speak. I’ve been jogging my memory with a lot of memories that I don’t actually have. Kind of like Wile E. Coyote suspended in space after he dashes off a cliff edge before his cartoonish descent. This kind of false recollection is like loitering midair. Though, there’s…