Karen In Cannes

Cannes is overrun with guns.

Often a theme reveals itself at the Cannes Lions Festival. In 2013 it was organ donation.

This year it is guns.

At the opening award ceremony of the week, guns were golden. “The Gun Shop” entry from NYC picked up one of the…

Death by yes.

Want better work? Learn to say no.

“I found my inner bitch and ran with it.”

Courtney Love’s candid thoughts on success.

Love attributes her success to a fierce competitiveness. As someone who has never considered ambition a dirty word, I admired her unvarnished candour.

Thank you Jared Leto and Jeffrey Katzenberg.

Quotes of the day that I liked. And the day is still young.

“The top-watched content on YouTube is still ads.”

How I almost got into a fistfight in Cannes.

A rant of sorts.

Pink stilettos rock.

How Sarah Jessica Parker helped shatter a cliché.

A Healthy Disregard for the Impossible

Nikesh Arora, Chief Business Officer of Google, imparts some…

Storytelling versus story-yelling.

Spike Jonze and his spin on meaningful communication.

Today at the Palais director Spike Jonze was interviewed. A celebrity interview is always a risky proposition. Especially in cynical Cannes. The famed…

Kill the creative department? Well…yeah.

It all comes down to fighting a duck the size of a horse.

Early in this talk, we were asked by Michael Lebowitz the CEO of Big Spaceship, to stand up and introduce ourselves to a complete…