Wednesday Morning Run-Down

• Dream Year coaching this week, month two. More people are joining the Subscriptions course online as well
• Working on the book Dream Year for the third year in a row. Good writing is rewriting as David Ogily attests
• We're exploring an exciting new location for the next Dream Year weekend this spring - more soon
• Street painting takes over a Swiss village
• Mad Men posters in NYC get altered (via @joxford)
• It's all I can do not to show you the branding for STORY 2012 yet. Also, @ElliottMunoz is starting work on a new STORY offering to be launched in late March
• Color photos from the great depression era (via @tannac)
• Downton Abbey stars on and off screen (@lindseynobles)
• Why this guy isn't going to SXSW this year (via Chris Oakes): and the need for conferences to evolve
• "Don't let anybody tell you otherwise, it's terrifying to make a film." ~@mnightshyamalan preparing for AE
• STORY is on Pinterest by the way
• Have had some really amazing consulting opportunities lately. There is a ton of value in asking other experienced people "what would you do if you were me?" Most of us are stuck in a routine without even realizing it
• The Superbowl halftime show got set-up in 7.5 mins by 500 people. The performance was 12 mins, Madonna got no sound check. The stage was taken down in 7 minutes (via RyanSeacrest) The execution of that is phenomenal regardless of what you think of the artist
• Inspirational Super Bowl commercial that only played in Canada - a flash mob at a rec league hockey game
• Photos of an abandoned leper colony in New York from the 1880s (via Kyle Scheele)
• Salon.com describes how they revived the brand with original posts rather than aggregation (via Kyle Scheele). Aggregation is the default for every aspiring social media builder. Sadly, this post is all aggregation =)