Month: November 2008
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Touching Strangers
Photographer Richard Renaldi spends a year asking total strangers to touch, and then takes their picture. Some appear like they've known each other for years, some look like they're about to die with discomfort. All rather, well, touching.
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The Daily Aphorism
Image courtesy Enjoying this little campaign from The School of Life (which in itself is a peach of an idea) which I signed up for recently after seeing it over at Mark's place. A one month prescription of a "daily dose of […]
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A Message For Obama
It's certainly interesting times for newspapers. Seth Godin has just bemoaned the opportunities missed by the NY Times. Meanwhile Blogs, Twitter and Flickr are stealing the immediacy crown and doing it with added humanity as amply illustrated by the Mumbai coverage. But […]
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Sacrificing The Sacred Cows
Giles makes the point that in these tough times companies have two choices – to innovate their way out of recession, or to retrench their way through it. He's right of-course, and I know which way I'd rather go. It almost goes […]
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Welcome Back
Liking the new Improv Everywhere piece, featuring a crowd welcoming back random strangers at the airport. Like the other Improv missions, it's the randomness that makes it such fun. Interesting too, that it was commissioned by Absolut as part of their "In […]
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Privacy And Accountability
"When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else."David Brin, sci-fi author.
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I Met The Walrus
"In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace." 38 years later, he's collaborated with Director Josh Rankin and […]
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Method In The Madness
Good case study from Tom Fishburne whom you may know as the creator of the excellent Brandcamp cartoons, but is otherwise employed as the Marketing Director for Method. I like the approach that in a recession, people may well want to trade […]