Masonry Blog

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    It’s Official – The Bishop+Rook Family Continues To Grow
    1024 461 Michael Kraabel

    Over a year and a half ago I stepped away from advertising and branding to to pursue something I had always wanted to do: grow a company of my own,…

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    Lessons From A Year Spent Outside The World of Advertising
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    A year ago, I stepped away from the world of advertising and marketing (with the exception of a few projects here and there) to focus my energy on building a…

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    The Friends We Meet, The Lives We Touch
    1024 686 Michael Kraabel

    My travels have taken me far from home; across oceans, continents, mountain ranges and to distant lands. I am the outsider in these voyages. I leave my friends, family and…

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    The Near-Death Railway of Burma (Revisited)
    604 453 Michael Kraabel

    This is a post from the archives of my former travel blog, UnrealTravels.com.  It was published in a variety of places, including the PilotGuides website (which I did some community/forum…

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    For The Love of Marketing Prose
    1024 683 Michael Kraabel

    I believe in the power of the written word to inspire an audience and to lead them on a visceral journey of self-discovery. I am writer, but I still make…

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    Film Recommendations for Movie Lovers (Part I)
    1024 683 Michael Kraabel

    Updated: January 23, 2017 Fun and Quirky Films You’ve Never Heard Of I’ve spent the better part of my life watching movies. My first job was at a small town…

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    Films: To Watch List (2017) – Part I
    1024 683 Michael Kraabel

    How many times have I spent hours looking through the never ending list of movies on Netflix and Amazon Prime trying to remember what movies where on my “to watch”…

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    Visual Storytelling: Four Dimensions of Brand Engagement
    1024 576 Michael Kraabel

    I love visualizing process. I know this is an odd affinity, but I’ve come to accept that not everyone has a visual brain.  Or rather, not everyone can visualize the…

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    The Power of Brand Films: How Stories Stir Our Souls
    1024 687 Michael Kraabel

    In 1895, two French brothers, Auguste and Louis Lumière, invented and patented the cinematograph—a device that could record, develop, and project motion pictures. The first film ever shot with their…

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