Category Archives: Identity

Old People, Lifecasting, and the Future of The Internet

Writing a review of Zazie’s breakfast. 4 stars!
Imagine a system that immediately captures every bit of information about a trip, and stores it permanently in an accessible, portable format—and on top of that, has been designed to fit your routine, not the other way around.
My parents created that system in the early ’80s, and they did it […]

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On Digital Nation-States

It strikes me that, more and more, our digital lives are mirroring our real lives in ever more peculiar ways. From reflecting our everyday behaviors to forming new ones, the circles between “digital” and “real” are less a thoroughly overlapping Venn diagram and more a shared area. Which I hope for all of you is […]

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Mens On Men [and Culture, and Advertising]

I just finished reading a phenomenal set of articles and comments regarding a recent speech by Roy F. Baumeister to the American Psychological Association last August. I highly recommend a full read of all of the following:

RF Baumeister’s full-text speech, “Is There Anything Good About Men”
John Tierney’s first post on the subject
John Tierney’s second post on the subject […]

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exitcreative: Site Redesign

I just re-did my plain HTML homepage to show some of the work I’ve been doing of late.
Over the last week I was a little bored at night and this is the result. I tried to keep it clean and simple. Hope y’all like it.
It’s at http://exitcreative.net/.
Oh… and I turned 26 on Saturday.

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July 2, 1917

My grandpa would have been 90 today. His name was David Parker, and he was my mom’s dad. Not sure when this was taken but he was stylin, for dang sure. This is him on some Humboldt County beach, searching for agates. He used to make me laugh when he would magnify his eyes with […]

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Clay Parker Jones: The exitcreative resume

So… I just created a book of photos, ideas and some of my work to use as a resume.
Account Executives don’t usually have a book. But I’m not really a typical AE, as I’m sure you can tell if you’re a regular reader here. And I don’t like resumes, anyway. How could you possibly get your […]

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Chicago Coffee Morning 2: Done

This is on Madison St. Not Madison Avenue, but just as nice. En route to Coffee, on foot.

Coffee and Croissant. Croissant: eh. Black Eye: mmmm.

Lauren of Breaking and Entering.

Chris and Natalie discuss.

Afterward. The snow prevented some from attending. Ahh, but it’s pretty!
Chicago Coffee Morning 2 happened in spite of the snowy conditions. Last night marked the first snow of the […]

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Charm and branding

Charm is an interesting thing. I always thought it was nice for people to call me charming. “Charming” is an adjective that’s usually applied to people who make friends easily…ingratiating people, quick-witted people, people with nice smiles and self-assured body language. Seems like a compliment, right? Well, given that (a) you can “Charm the pants […]

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Gnarls Barkley

So everybody loves Gnarls Barkley these days. I first heard them on KCRW Music through my iTunes a few months back. Anyway, here’s a live performance of “Who Cares” on YouTube.

The whole St. Elsewhere CD is about figuring out who you are (as far as I can tell). Here’s some lyrics that are illustrative of a […]

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