Category: Fodder
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I've been thinking about the Tamagotchi Gesture for something or other to do with work. I like the thought that 'by adding something that requires care and concentration we are nourished'. That's so important in a world that's all about now, instant gratification and disposability. I guess that's the point of making tea in the pot, or cooking…
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I'm in the middle of reading Andre Agassi's 'Open'. As you might expect. Apparently he wrote it himself and if so, that's amazing. It's a beautiful, tautly written book. Sport is so much more than the performance, it's a freakish, lonely life. This book captures that. Anyway, at the heart of the book is a contradiction.…
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It's funny. The people you know best, you never see the whole person. What's my wife like at work? I haven't a clue. What are my favourite work people like at home? Don't know entirely. So it's with pleasure I share Gemma's Interesting presentation from 2008. It's very good. She's a planner in Leeds, but…
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This was an incredibly popular campaignback in the late 1990's. It spawned a number 1 hit single and God knows how many toy Flat Erics. But what were they trying to do? Let's roll back to the 1980's and the launch of Levi's Laundrette,followed by some of my favourite ads ever including Creek and Drugstore.…
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I'm in the middle of reading Pies and Prejudice by Stuart Maconie. Not only is it fun, he manages to get an incredible amount of detail into everything. Really worth looking at if you want to understand what people are like Up North – and if you're a planner in London, isn't that essential?…
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If you've seen the Matrix, and I presume you have, you'll be familiar with the moment Morpheus offers a choice of the red pill or the blue pill to Neo. The blue pill will result in forgetting the whole thing and going back to daily life, but the other offers the truth – no promises of happiness or anything else,…
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I have one suit and that's it. It's a good one, bought for my wedding. It's cut to be quite fitted, it makes me look taller. Every now and then it gets trotted out for other people's weddings, christenings and the like, but that's it. But I love wearing it, it's nice to dress up…
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This is worth a regular look if you work on anything UK-ish. I mostly think planning's about making new connections between stuff. Mark Easton's blog is full of interesting, but random stuff that might come in handy.
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Craig Elston from Integer, part of my network, runs this blog. Looks like essential fodder for anyone who wants to know what happens when people go shopping.
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I enjoyed seeing the the Rose Hilton Exhibition at Tate St Ives last week. The Beauty of Ordinary Things shows a style I like that resides somewhere between abstract and a figurative, but what I really like is the way she brings the things that we everyday back to our full attention, capturing the the…
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