Category: Television
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I watched part one of Jeremy Paxman's BBC series on the British Empire the other day and found I loved it. Reminded me how much of where and who we are is shaped by where and who we came from. Two lessons also: 1. Massive Empire's are essentially confidence tricks. They always overeach themselves and…
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I really enjoyed this Do Lecture from Alan Moore, about how changes in technology are fundamentally changing our behaviour, like movable type did. You might have heard this argument before, but basically; top down organisations are going through their last throes of success, the future will be communities doing it for themselves (it's more nuanced…
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After months and months languishing on Sky + I finally watced Marcel Theroux's 'In Search of Wabi Sabi'. http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-6916115281561390843&hl=en&fs=true In case you can't be bothered to watch or follow the links, Wabi Sabi is a japanese theory to aesthetics and transience as the touchstone of beauty. Now I think the basics of that are worth…
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Which Sterling Cooper idea would you rate the highest?
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I'm not sure it's the done thing to admit to, but I'm really looking forward to the final series of Lost. It begins on Friday. It's gone a little bonkers at times, but I've grown to love the characters, the maddening twists and the endless sub-plots. Multi -stranded, multi-platform entertainment feels like the norm these days,…
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This is a really thoughtful, insightful post on the X-Factor v Rage Against the Machine thing (and a good excuse to put up a picture of Saint Cheryl) and what it really means for music, popular culture and planning campaigns that genuinely capture the public imagination. As a person I hate the X-Factor, as a…
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