Wednesday Morning Rundown

• Happy Independence Day! We'll be watching fireworks on the beach somewhere tonight no doubt
• Great talk from Paul Adams of Facebook about "a new creative canvas." | "People always look at the existing medium and apply it to the new medium" "The key to success on FB? Many lightweight interactions over time"
• The Advance Rate for STORY ends July 13. Register here
• I had never heard of Kong Hee in Singapore before the church scandal broke. Listened to a random podcast from this past December 11 where he mentioned how two different people told him they had dreams of him being arrested and investigated in a public scandal. This was 6 months before it actually happened. Wow.
• While Malcolm Gladwell went on vacation, Jonah Lehrer wrote books -------------> the guy's a genius
• Check out the new Creative Collective app from Clark: "Talks and interviews on the mode and means of creativity" ------> Mark Miller's fingerprints all over this
• Dream Year's Bryan Allain has done so many remarkable things over the past year: sold over 2,500 copies of his ebook, launched the Killer Tribes conference in Nashville, and now he's announcing a new offering
• The making of the Superbowl Halftime Show by Moment Factory (via Chris Thomas)
• Join us for the Minneapolis Creative Meetup on July 26
• I'm fascinated with Secret Cinema and now their new creation Secret Screenings. Movies need to become "events" again. Francis Ford Coppola said his grandaughters only go to opening-night movies at midnight because it's more of an event #c2mtl
• The unbelievable obituary of Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld in the Daily Telegraph (via @JOxford)
• "The Beat of New York" - love this little short film
• Lots of people entering to win the Cubs + STORY tix