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Running Up / London Massive
Despite what my friend [and fellow contender] Iain referred to as my 'shameless whoring' , [or what I considered 'very conservative campaigning', which is perhaps a reflection of how living in America can alter your perceptions of promotion], I didn't win the British Interactive Media ...
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PLOT: Data is Beautiful
My mate Lisa just spent her maternity leave [CONGRATS!] conceiving an idea, spawned by many hours staring at ugly data. boring meetings = interesting ideas Lisa Prince, a strategist at Wieden+Kennedy, sat in many meetings staring at data. Sometimes her mind would wander. She started to ...
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More Mind Tonic
Mind Tonic Issue 2 - featuring the lovely and awesome Jess from Contagious' thoughts on Radiohead and how awesome they are at being a band of the web, and Retail In Action's thoughts on the new shopper, as well as the usual fragments of inspiring culture - is now available. Download it from ...
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Meta-Semiotics (Awesome Youtube Composition)
[ via - where you may also find the full lyrics] This piece of recombinant awesomesness is just beautiful - and, importantly I think, NOT A REMIX. See, recombinant compositions began as remixes, this is true. But increasingly I have come to think that recombinance is not the same as ...
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Snuggie Inside
Thanks to my mate Thomas I got to go to the Halloweezer gig last week at the Hammerstein ballroom. This was highly awesome - the crowd was all in costume and some people were invited up on stage to help the band out of their costumes: a liminal space if ever I saw one - costumes allow for ...
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