Suzy Bates

Let’s talk about that chestnut about only having to run faster than your friend, not the bear.

This only works if the bear stops to eat, or there’s only one bear, or if you’re allowed to run.

It’s the calm before a daily storm.

Monday mornings being the quietest you can pretend it’s 2024.

Video shouldn’t take 6 weeks & $15K+
Orcana delivers in 24 hours: multiple cutdowns, polished & branded.

From one asset or a script to platform-ready videos.
Starting at $1K. Ready tomorrow.

Book your One Day Pilot now
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#VideoMarketing #ContentStrategy #DigitalMarketing

Testimonial graphic featuring Abby Pilarski, Senior Brand Manager at Culligan, praising Orcana agency. Headline reads ‘Clarity builds momentum.’ Quote highlights the flexibility and fast action of a small agency with the polish and strategic talent of a big agency. Orcana is described as a trusted marketing partner that builds clarity, speed, and trust. Logos of Orcana and Culligan displayed at the bottom.

Clarity builds momentum.

@heyculligan.bsky.social described working with Orcana as "the best of both worlds." The flexibility of a small agency combined with the polish of a big one. That balance builds trust, sustains speed, and makes clarity real.

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Graphic with a mountain landscape background and bold text reading ‘More isn’t the problem. The system is.’ Orcana brand logo at the bottom. Promotional creative for Orcana’s video marketing and content production services, highlighting speed, clarity, and digital strategy.

Every team is being asked for more video. More formats. More versions. More speed. The problem isn’t demand. It’s the systems built to deliver it. We’ve been building a new way forward. Stay tuned.

#VideoMarketing #ContentMarketing #DigitalStrategy #CreativeStrategy #BrandStrategy #VideoProduction

Abstract red and purple canyon background with digital design overlays and the words ‘Hot Take: Data alone won’t build trust.’ Orcana branding in white at the bottom. Visual concept highlights how data without design, story, and user experience cannot build brand trust.

Hot take: Data only shows you the what.

It doesn’t build the why.
Design, story, and user experience give your product its soul.
That’s where brands earn trust, not just attention.

Curious how to bridge the gap between what users do and what they remember?

#branding #startups #userexperience

I just had a very specific memory of evacuating my high school because of a bomb threat.

We were bombing Iran and I went to The American School in London.

Revisited some old favorites on Spotify who had been filtered out.

Morphine is still excellent

Randy Newman, however…

We are on the opposite cycle. I put our dehumidifier away last week. We have damp winters/dry summers.

As a kid I thought it was “Waterburger”. Could never figure out how the water figured in there.

I finally looked at the sign and I remember exclaiming…
“What A Burger? No way!”

I was in my 20’s.

No lack of container ships here!

It Could Happen Here episode with Mike Duncan talking about our current times repeating history and mirroring his fictional Martian Revolution.

I have spent many hours listening to these two podcasts.

Worlds who coexist in my mind now made real! Questions answered!

So cool @iwriteok.bsky.social

Prediction on the environmental causes for Autism RFK jr will find:
Mainstream media, memes making fun of Trump, not shining a bright light on your insides when you get sick, and avoiding brain eating worms.

Something something taxation without representation.

Never before have I paid my taxes and thought “they are just going to take my money and give it to themselves”

No one died when the Titanic hit the iceberg, it was the subsequent events that killed people.

We just drove straight into the iceberg on purpose.

Trans Visibility Day

I am celebrating by sharing this in progress “Visibility Quilt”.

When the light shines through you gain more insight.

#Quiltsky #Transvisibilityday

They are celebrating International Women’s Day here and it feels like a gut punch every time I see a sign.

Can we start calling every death a Kennedy Assassination?

I need a new passport.

I am terrified to send it to the State Department.

Happy Tuesday.

The SNL50th anniversary show feels like we all went to the Kit Kat Club for one last show.

I started reading The Sirens Call but I was distracted by my phone alerting me to the dismantling of our world.

Trump took your analysis of a problem in our culture and turned it into a ProTip.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social

Remember in 2020-21 when all the low paying jobs were being done by people with 15 years of experience?

Tell your high school and college kids that summer jobs are going to be hard to find.

When you work for an unreasonable asshole, you acquiesce to the demands of impossible deadlines, knowing that you won’t meet it and will move the date later.

If we’re living in a tech-like government world, then this is our future.

I just watched The Substance then caught Cher on the SNL50 anniversary show.

Coincidence?

👇🏻👇🏻

This all feels like a huge overreaction to the Barbie Movie.

This seems quaint and antiquated.

www.state.gov/eeo-no-fear-...

#NoFEAR

Movie idea:

Red Dawn but
the US are the Russian invaders and Canadian Hockey kids are the Wolverines.

Red White and Blue Dawn

We had a chat with friends

Them:
“We thought you guys were overreacting, moving to Portugal, talking about things with potential tragedy. Turns out you weren’t overreacting.”

Us:
“We wanted to be proven wrong. There’s no joy in being right.”