Author Archives: Charlene Precious

I love all you entrepreneurs, the legit ones, not the ones that create a Facebook page and call themselves an entrepreneur. No, no, you are not an entrepreneur. I love you legit entrepreneurs because you have the ballsyness that the rest of us don’t. You are ballsy enough to park the full time job thing and invest all your time, energy, and resources into your own venture, so you can work for yourself. And I particularly admire two special entrepreneurs (whose ventures are going to explode with success) because they are the fruits of Ryerson University: Joshua Richards, founder of Maverick Creative and Hailey Coleman, founder of Damn Heels. I know Josh personally, but not Hailey. Both are geniuses in their own way.

You heard it here first: Maverick Creative will be that next big and funky creative agency that all the cool kids want to work for.

Below is a snapshot of Hailey Coleman’s labour – the top photo is an article in a Ryerson publication that was mailed to me and the two mini photos below that, are my very own pair of Damn Heels. This is that great idea that is not just all talk but it is that great idea that is executed. And executed gracefully with extraordinary marketing, especially in the packaging. Who wouldn’t want a piece of that little black-pink pouch with a pair of cute disposable/bendable flats? Even if the product itself didn’t interest you, the packaging will make you pick it up anyway.

Execution is everything. If you can’t execute, you’ve got nothing.

Keep on keeping on, entrepreneurs!!!

I have violent dreams. Is there something wrong with me? (lol) I just blame it on all the horror movies that I watch since I love them so much, but for all I know, I could be psychotic or have some deeply rooted problems? But I swear I’m a happy girl! Dreams are just tricky and Freud’s coo-coo theories don’t make them any less tricky. If you have violent dreams, too, I’d love to trade dream stories with you. Last night’s violent dream involved a cat.

I’m pulling out old photos because I am drained from the tsunami of work at work that I can’t even pick up my camera.

All it takes is one look at this photo and my heart beats rapidly in anticipation of summer of 2011. España is calling my name and I will come for it. I’ve given my bossman a heads up.

This photo is making me high. This photo is that moment of bouncing around from cloud to cloud and then sitting on one for a break and feeling inspired, overwhelmed, overjoyed, fulfilled, and on top of the world.

This is Diana and I with our last breath of Switzerland, getting ready to hop onto our tour bus of 20-somethings from around the world, en route to ITALY.

Life’s too short to be a b*tch.

Plowing through January with Marketing launches. Super duper busy.

Isn’t she the most perfect baby girl you’ve EVER seen???

January is going to be NUTS.

More photos from yesterday’s shoot.

Thank you, 2010, for all your goodness and thank you, God, friends, and loved ones, for making this year an incredible year.

2011 is all about advancing my career, saving money, taking more photos, and discovering good music. Are you ready?

I thought I’d end with the same-ish photo I started A Photo A Day with on December 26, 2009. This is me trying to be all symbolic/poetic but coming off lame more than anything.

Happy new year’s eve, everyone! Don’t drink and drive!

This is it. I’m obsessed. I downloaded all of Ambulance LTD’s songs and I want to go out and buy ten copies of their album to support the artist even though they haven’t done anything new since 2008 (and I RARELY buy CDs). One album wonders. Please come back!!! They remind me of our generation’s Beatles – hints of the same sound and harmonizing style with the lead singer’s voice sometimes sounding a bit like John Lennon’s, but actually softer and smoother. He is also kind of really cute minus the fact that he is stick thin.

Can I leave you with two rocking live performances? (1) Stay Where You Are because their outfits look like young Beatles. And (2) Ladyfingers because it’s their most unpopular song judging by its humble 3,700 YouTube views but it’s so good, it needs to be heard.

I’m addicted to THE XX and LISSIE. Thank you @BlurbPress for these genius reccos. I have a big list of bands to check out, I’m so excited!!! I’m going to have new favourites every day.

I’ll leave you with The XX’s Crystalised, so you can take a trip to heaven tonight.

And I’ll also leave you with Lissie’s phenomenal cover of Kid Cudi’s Pursuit of Happiness, because it makes me want to go on “livin’ my life, gettin’ out dreams”.

And oh yes – today’s photo of love notes in unfolded paper cranes. ;)

I watch A LOT of movies – at least three a week and I discover good, non-mainstream music primarily through movie soundtracks. I hate the radio and I hate top 40 (and I hate Hip Hop. I think I just offended the whole world with that statement. That’s okay.) It’s just that watching movies and frantically jotting down lyrics to songs that is played that I like and then Googling them afterwards is getting to be a slow process. I literally have a “Songs to Download” notepad app on my iPhone strictly to jot down lyrics to awesome songs that I catch in movies. But listen, I just want a fast and furious list of good music to either download or to have readily available in mp3s to pop into my playlist. Sarah has already given me 100 indie rock mp3s. My colleague Shaun is hooking me up with 200 more, my mamabear Melissa is generating a list, and Twitter peeps have recommended several good bands. Anybody else want to share their iTunes library? :)

Okay, so I’ll leave you with a little bit of 80’s love. Don’t You Forget About Me by Simple Minds. I watched Easy A last night and it reminded me of how good this song is. Good movie, too.