Gabe chouinard's Friends

View All

gabe chouinard's Discussions

What would you create today?
2 Replies

Started this discussion. Last reply by Noreen Sullivan Apr 4, 2007.

View All

RSS

Loading feed

Urban Drift pt.2: The AdGabber Sequel

Profile Information

Personal Site/Blog: http://mysteriousoutposts.blogspot.com

Interests: post-advertising, writing, literature, design, art, culture, photography, architecture, comics, rock climbing... so many!

About Me: I am a natural maverick, a pundit and a thinker. Creativity is my lifeblood.

Areas of Expertise: Writing, post-advertising, digital illustration, speculative fiction, futurism, ideation, creation.

Current Company: urban drift

Position: sole freelance

Position Responsibilities: oh, gosh....

Industry: publishing

Company Description: urban drift is the catch-all for the work that I do, which ranges from writing to digital illustration, from advertising theory to PR. Really, there's no description that fits, because the whole purpose is to allow for the flexibility to do anything beneath its rubric.

Company Website: http://urban-drift.com

Work History: I've been working since I was fifteen, which means there's seventeen years of work history.

Was that useful?

Gabe chouinard's Blog

Tuesday - meh

Rough, long day, yet nothing to report.

How 'bout you?

Posted on April 3, 2007 at 10:26pm

So here I am on AdGabber, the newest and most stylish of social networking sites for ad-junkies.

I can get down with that.

I'm here because Adrants is one of my few daily reads, and the people surrounding it have got to be smart, witty, creative and interesting.

Those are the type of people I like.

So here I am.

And if you're interested, check out my general catch-all blog,… Continue

Posted on April 2, 2007 at 7:11pm

Comment Wall (3 comments)

You need to be a member of AdGabber to add comments!

Join AdGabber

At 8:56pm on May 29, 2007, Jack Goldenberg said…: Gabe,

Check out: http://gabe.chouinard.youaremighty.com

Jack

At 4:09pm on April 5, 2007, Angela Natividad said…: It's less and less that way now, Gabe. Now what we're finding is a manic attempt to reach the individual.

But advertising aside, it's always scarier to direct your message to one person than it is to address a general audience. One risks divulging too much and losing more.

At 9:33pm on April 2, 2007, gabe chouinard said…: It is too easy to market to ideals, too difficult to market to specific people. Advertising would much rather deal with abstracts - "males 18-24" - than with specifics. Why is advertising so afraid to get down and dirty and intimate?