THE DENVER POST ON THE DENVER EGOTIST
"One of the blogs at The Denver Post just interviewed us on our views on Denver’s creative, its suckiness and our theory on how it can suck less. Check it out.
BSOA: Why is “attempting to help denver suck less, daily” your tagline?
TDE: Back when we started our site in July 2007, 416 days ago today, we put up a post that summarized our reasoning for The Denver Egotist’s existence. That post is here for reference.
To summarize, the creators of our site were off doing very creative things in very creative cities. We returned to Denver for individual reasons and collectively found Colorado dreadfully uninspiring and lethargic in its creative output.
Everyone worked in a silo. Everyone was fiercely protective of their work, afraid some other agency might sneak in and steal their clients. Everyone was looking inward for inspiration, instead of looking outward at shops in their own city and to the world beyond. There was no collective dialog or driver of provoking thought. Denver sucked. We wanted to create a place to open the eyes of the creative class and show them the bar they need to hit to play on a larger stage – and become the city we think we can become."
Sound familiar?
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Was that written about Denver or Madison? Being new to Madison I'm shocked to see how much we suffer from a similar insular and paranoid mentality.
For the last several years I've been hearing how the "larger" agencies don't want to enter the ADDY awards because they don't feel the local competition is worthy. Yet they run around scared the agency across town may steal their clients.
If their talent was as bold as their words - would it be so bad to sweep the local ADDY awards?!? I personally don't think so. If they had the talent and creative to do so, it would only benefit their agency and Madison overall. If the work was so good it may win a National ADDY providing national recognition for the agency and for Madison. Secondly, it would raise the bar of creativity for all of Madison. Now that wouldn't be so bad - would it?
If all of the agencies weren't so siloed and narrow minded in their thinking they may realize that elevating the creative reputation of Madison would give them a much faster avenue for achieving the national recognition they so desperately seek.
These agencies say they're competitive focus is "national". If they want to compete with the "big dogs" then why are they so afraid to collaborate and support the greater creative community in here in Madison?
Wouldn't it be wonderful if the Madison agencies started seeing the BIG PICTURE rather than just flapping their arrogant lips - perhaps Madison (and Madison agencies) can have the creative reputation it has the potential to achieve.
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