The funny thing about my back is…

From Paul Isakson. Found this at the top of Google returns for “future marketing”. It’s almost exactly a year old. Maybe I’m lazy for clicking on the first return; maybe I’m going undercover as a consumer. Who can tell? It advises against social networking marketing by “trying to be everyone’s friend”. It advocates an approach [...]

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Hang fire

Recovering from a hangover by reading Nobody Scores! and giggling like a simpleton. I wrote a while ago about Indian TV advertising: “most advanced in the world, in terms of biological imperative”, was the phrase. It’s right up there in terms of brand cheekiness, too. This campaign has probably stopped, since it was running when [...]

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Flogger

Two adverts: Bear in mind I haven’t watched British television in five months. John Lydon, flogging butter. MediaGuardian featured this with their go-to air of rueful shock: it doesn’t surprise them, of course, since they saw this sort of thing coming. And it says a great deal about the nation. What exactly? Well, you’ll just [...]

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You touch everything you destroy

He: “A lot of these girls have fangs…” Me: “Yes, or are in some unobtrusive way demonic.” Introduced my friend BPL to Danny Choo’s figurine reviews, in the course of an hourlong skype conversation. I’ve missed talking to him, because it’s always refreshing to find someone who shares a lot of my interests, but approaches [...]

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Rum, sophistry and the lash

Tea ceremony practice yesterday morning, then scripting and magazine work and avoidance work. I bought some chalk and started using my windows as blackboards for Iland plotting, A Beautiful Mind-style, and now I can’t really see out. Not that there’s much to see in my dim construction-aesthetic zoned residential. Then to school to practice my [...]

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Via 4th Estate and The New Shelton Wet/Dry I’ve been thinking a lot lately about cult, and whether it can unduly privilege or emphasise creators because they seem isolated from a main cultural canon. Of course, their obscurity has a rich heritage all its own, though the connections may not be so obvious. I wonder [...]

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