Category: inspiration
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Visual Budget
"How do we fix our National Budget Deficit and Debt? Help us build a website that helps America explore the answers to build our future." I love this project on Kickstarter. Visual Budget is an extraordinary data visualisation project that is setting out to explain the complexities of the US Federal Budget, find the…
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Something To Remember
When asked "What thing about humanity surprises you the most?", the Dalai Lama answered: "Man…. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does…
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Blogging, And Doubt
There was a wonderful programme on Radio 4 yesterday ('In Doubt We Trust') in which writer Mark Vernon asks an important question – whether we have lost our ability to doubt well. Mark is well qualified to talk about doubt: having studied physics he was ordained in the Church of England only to then leave…
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Cold Passion
DARK SIDE OF THE LENS from Astray Films on Vimeo. "If I can only scrape a living, at least it's a living worth scraping. If there's no future in it, this is a present worth remembering." Mickey Smith Take ten minutes. Watch the beautiful film above for six of them. Then spend the rest reading…
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All Of My Good Ideas Are Battles
I so love this. Designer Adam Katz’s contribution to Stefan Sagmeister’s long running and brilliant “Things I Have Learned in My Life” project, featuring 1500 spray painted plastic army men stuck to a New York window. The best, most disruptive ideas are always a battle. It reminds me of that old Hugh MacLeod quote about…
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Parsing Nature
"Visual experience, if attended to, tells us that the things of nature are uncountable but connected; unpredictable but patterned; nothing to do with us and everything to do with us." Stephen Taylor Over the Christmas break I read Alain De Botton's The Pleasures And Sorrows Of Work, a fantastically evocative series of essays on a…
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Tanzania 2010
So, we're finally back from The Great (Ad & Media) Football Giveaway. There's a lot of adjectives I could use to describe the last ten days. Most of them would be entirely inadequate for what has proved to be an experience that I shall never forget. And one that has given me many things, including…
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Blogging From Tanzania
We've managed to find an internet connection (of sorts) here in SE Tanzania so this is just a reminder that we're putting up some updates on The Great (Ad & Media) Football Giveaway over on the posterous we set up for the trip. So do head over, take a look and subscribe. I'll leave you…
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Leaving For Africa
And so it begins. Later today I'm leaving for Tanzania to lead a team of ad and media bloggers to travel to some of the remotest parts of the country and distribute footballs and netballs to schools and orphanages as part of The Great Football Giveaway. When I put that first post up, I thought…
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Mavericks
There was an Economist piece on Innovation a while back on Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble's new book “The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge”, dealing largely with innovation in established companies. There's much focus on ideas generation these days, perhaps more so than on what innovation really is: the commercialisation of those…