by Kare Anderson | Dec 4, 2008 | Co-Create, Friendship, Visual
Some people duct-tape small cameras to their dogs’ collars to see life from another perspective. (Dog is their co-pilot) Yet you can enlist human friends to co-cover the scenes of your lives. AmericanWinery, for example, sent Flip video cameras to their winery...
by Kare Anderson | Aug 28, 2008 | collaboration, Friendship
After the war, my father worked on a fire lookout station in a remote forest in Oregon. He called my mother on the (public) government phone line, asking her to marry him. Thank goodness she said yes because he took quite a ribbing from those on other lookouts who...
by Kare Anderson | Aug 28, 2008 | Co-Create, Friendship
Bill Murray said, “I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn’t make any mistakes, and you learned what...
by Kare Anderson | Aug 23, 2008 | behavior, Friendship, Give Back, Play, Podcasts
For starters, a warped sense of humor helps. When he first came from New York, shortly after college, Paul Geffner began selling handmade leather bound journals, along with a crowd of other street vendors on the sidewalk near The Embarcadero in S.F. Even then people...
by Kare Anderson | Jul 28, 2008 | Friendship, Humor, Media
Share your own lyrics. Make them up right now at your computer. It’s simple. Honest. Ask Humphrey or Gina to sing them for you. (They’re rather eccentric yet fun.) Then make your friends laugh, smile … (or cry?) when they receive your singing telegram. Go...
by Kare Anderson | Apr 15, 2008 | behavior, Book, collaboration, Friendship, Learning, Research
When we first fall for someone, we become enamored with everything about that person. We gush. We create things to commemorate their specialness. We feel so connected, we fill in the blanks about what we don’t know. We assume we will like the rest of that person just...