I’ve had cause to send several large, camel-sized files recently to clients whose firewalls act like the eye of a needle. The alternative options in these circumstances include Basecamp (for clients with whom we have Basecamp communications already set up) or third party services such as YouSendIt. These work just …
Imagine my surprise (and delight) at finding myself in the car talking to my kids about the seminal 1977 Meatloaf album Bat Out Of Hell. Prompted by them I hasten to add. They having been prompted by the live TV butchering of the eponymous song by this year’s enduring X-Factor …
Anything that can make the view from the office rear window look good has to be worth a mention… The Hipstamatic app for the iPhone – “Digital photography never looked so analog (sic)” – makes a virtue of the fact that the built-in camera (iPhone 3) isn’t that great. Mimicking …
Mary Poppins described herself as “practically perfect in every way.” Well she wouldn’t have been quite such a smug cow if the X Factor had been around in 1964. Mind you she (Julie Andrews) might well have won it. (No such luck for Dick Van Dyke. He would have been …
The weight of expectation is generally perceived to be a bad thing. It implies a negative form of pressure to succeed that acts to impair performance rather than improve it. The weight of expectation is something you suffer rather than benefit from – just ask successive England managers. But when …
Twitter went nuts over the last few days about the full-length-feature-version Nike World Cup ad. This one. But I just don’t get it. It’s the same old Nike formula. Yes it’s an epic. But it’s not “epic”. Yes I smiled at the Homer Simpson / Ronaldo vignette. Yes (big fucking …
Hats off to the BBC for its series The Story Of Science. I stumbled upon it tonight and ended up a happy licence fee payer. Tonight’s first episode, presented in a passionate and accessible way by Michael Mosley, looked at the history of our understanding of the physical machinations of …
Some people have bigger feet than others. Some people have higher IQ’s than others. Some people have exceptionally big feet. Some people benefit from extreme intelligence. Key word = exceptionally. Key word = extreme. In fact most people have feet that are slightly bigger or slightly smaller than the average …
The first rule of Pitch Club is that you most definitely DO want potential clients to talk about your presentation afterwards. And they’re more likely to do so if they can actually remember what you said. We’ve all been there. You attend a presentation. Someone who didn’t attend asks you …
I was very much taken by this post by Mike Arauz. It spoke to me. In fact it spoke to the reason that I joined a specialist digital agency after 19 years in advertising. Mike talks about how digital technology lets you do clever tricks. And about how ad agencies …
