Cinematic Orchestra have been one of my favourite acts ever since they stormed Gilles Peterson’s All Winners back in 1999: Ode To The Big Sea is perhaps one of the best pieces of jazz to be released in the last…
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Monthly Archives: October 2008
TechCrunch Turns Into Digg/YouTube
I was flicking through TechCrunch a moment ago and noticed that they had also published the Barack/Wassup YouTube ad. The post, by TechCrunch owner Michael Arrington, made no suggestion as to the rights or wrongs of the candidate, but merely…
Bond Is (Almost) Back: Shame About The Sponsorships
As it was such a miserable day yesterday I spent the afternoon on the sofa ploughing my way through a bunch of DVDs. And with Quantum of Solace less than a week away it seemed like the perfect chance to…
Barack Uses Bud Ad
Remember the Budweiser Wassup ad? The one that very quickly went from amusingly catchy, to iconic to eye-gougingly annoying in a record time? Well, it’s 8 years since the boys sat around screaming WASSSSSSUPPPPPPPPP?!?!? at each other and quite a…
David Bowie: T-Shirt Diary #6
One of the things about working in a creative agency is that I get to see a lot of people wearing very cool clothes. One of the people who never fails to disappoint with his choice of t-shirt is the…
Posted in T-Shirt Diary
The Times’ New Ad Campaign: Basketball & Bullshitters
The Times have an interesting advertising campaign running at the moment. It started with very arresting posters which featured nothing other than eye-catching photos which had no branding of any sort on them. After a while the posters were replaced…
The Streets At The Electric Proms
After getting in from the opening night of the ABSOLUT House of Masquerade last night I caught the last half hour of The Streets’ performance at the Electric Proms. I thought about buying tickets for it when it was first…
The Power Stocks: Nigerian Emails 2.0?
I just received a very exciting email from a website called The Power Stocks (I’ll save my link for later) – apparently they can turn my “$1000 into $ Million by the end of year 2012- guaranteed”. This is very…
Posted in Internet
Do You Want To Sponsor LondonSEO?
Next month sees the 2nd SMX London and, as always with such events, there will be a LondonSEO networking event running alongside it (at the Freemasons Arms in Covent Garden). At the moment there’s no sponsor so I thought that…
Join ABSOLUT For The Coolest Fancy-Dress Party In Town
One of the many cool things about my job is that we get to work with some really exciting brands on very interesting projects. The latest of these follows our winning ABSOLUT’s UK digital business and is based around an…
Posted in General
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