Month: July 2007
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Creativity and Self-Doubt
This is wonderful. Ira Glass, award winning American journalist and broadcaster talking about creativity. I love the bit where he’s ripping apart one of his early broadcasts… Via
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Cityscapes
There are perks to working near to the Tate Modern. It's currently featuring a wonderful exhibition called Global Cities, exploring the changing faces of ten dynamic cities (Cairo, Istanbul, Johannesburg, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Mumbai, São Paulo, Shanghai and Tokyo) through […]
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“Latchmere’s Got A Wave Machine”
Image and title lyric courtesy the legendary Maccabees Will agencies of the future exist on the strength of their creativity or their technical abilities? Which will clients prioritise as being more important: the deep dive pool of consumer insight or the fancy […]
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Bubble Stories
This weeks Campaign piece featuring stories and reminiscences of the Dotcom bubble (which, scarily, began almost a decade ago) from the likes of Mark Cridge, Helen Calcraft, and Jerry Fielder got me all nostalgic about my own experience riding the first wave […]
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The Age of Conversation…
…is indeed here. Don’t normally do many shout-outs but this is an exception. An idea originated by Gavin and Drew, featuring 100 thought-provoking chapters written by 100 eminent bloggers who have all contributed free of charge. I’ve just downloaded it and already […]
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How to Create the Perfect Conspiracy Theory
Conspiracy theories pervade modern culture. They are more popular than ever: 9/11, Roswell, Princess Diana, JFK, man on the moon – almost every significant global event has a theory attached to it. The internet has become the perfect vehicle to perpetuate conspiracy […]
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What Does Green Colour Look Like?
Lovely film from the Eye Bank Association of India featured on non-profit blog Houtlust. This was a bronze winner at Cannes and you can see why. The film focuses around the Holi (the Indian festival of colours), and is designed to raise […]
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The Missing Link
Over the last few decades our country, and much of the Western world, has been transformed. Our largely manufacturing based economy has morphed into one where three quarters of us are now employed in a service economy which now accounts for a […]
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More Rabbit than Sainsbury’s
Quirky little insight I read over the weekend… What is the average number of words spoken by a person in a day? Take a guess – 5,000? 10,000? Work done by James Pennebaker of the University of Texas using small devices to […]