Jeremy HildrethMonthly Archives: May, 2009
Sign of the times?
At the Monaco Grand Prix, Jeremy pays 50 euros for a rum and Coke.
The tell-tale moai
For The Wall Street Journal, Jeremy communes with the moai of Easter Island.
Grits, Green and Graceland
Elvis Presley: corporate identity guru.
The place where it actually happened
On 3 April 1964, Martin Luther King gave the famous ‘mountaintop speech’: “Well, I don’t know what will happen now,” he said. “We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop….And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get [...]
Bilbao, Mississippi
Driving from New Orleans to Mobile, I passed this work in progress on the Biloxi waterfront. Directly across from the broad white sand beach and down the main drag from a coming-soon Margaritaville hotel and casino, the construction site really stood out.
No surprise why: it’s an art museum designed by Frank Gehry which was 11 [...]
Sights, sounds and flavours
I haven’t read BRAND sense by Martin Lindstrom but the title and theme fell right into the context of place branding for me here in New Orleans as I wandered the French Quarter listening to jazz, eating crawfish pie and gumbo, and drinking Sazerac cocktails (I’m too old for the famous and fru-fru Hurricanes).
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