Friday, 17 October 2008
Thursday, 16 October 2008
Everybody's talking about: Micro Culture
There seems to have been a big swing away from the big to the micro. Mass is naff and small is cool. Sub-sub-music genre’s proliferate: post-punk/garage revival/dance-punk/baroque-pop/new-prog/post-rock/new-folk anyone? How about tailoring in Top Shop; long tail economics; Fendi bags and Pantone pens; micro-festivals like end of the road and shambala; digital micro-communities like Gurgle.
Everybody's talking about: Walking Away
It is time to take stock, give your life a reality check and maybe write a new 5-year plan. You thought you were well channelled and now your company's gone bust, your up to your eyes in debt and the house is worth nothing. You got a masters degree but your mate with the plumbing apprenticeship is earning more than you. You want to pack it all in and retrain as a tree surgeon. Maybe you become one of the 250,000 mainly middle class Londoners who have left the capital for a quieter life in the country. Alternatively you dream about all that while watching A New Life in Italy or The River Cottage you may even sign up for a life course at something like The School of Life.
Everybody's talking about: Frugal Cool
The recession has barely started and we’ve turned poverty into a lifestyle statement. Gardening is not just popular, its getting younger; cars are all about fuel consumption rather than speed. Fabulous.com has discovered the Frugalistas: “they buy entire outfits for under a tenner, cut their own hair and grow their own food”; On Ellegirl.com, Self-Made Girl shows teens how to make clothes and accessories; readitswapit.co.uk means you need never buy a book again; Junkie Styling tailors second hand clothes; Treehugger has cardboard furniture; Frugaldad.com shows Americans how to get rid of their debt and Real Ale is not just wholesome, it’s also cheap.
Everybody's talking about: The Wholesome 1940's
Not the bit about the war and the blitz but the wholesome, practical clean living side of the 40’s. Village fetes (or Brunswick Fete’s), home baking (Patten’s Cakes); knitting; Woman’s Institute, allotments, burlesque, afternoon tea and stripping parties; Dig for Victory vegetable plots in St James’s Park; steam train trips; Real Ale for its wholesome goodness and low level of alcohol; and A.L. Kennedy’s novel Day winning the Costa award.
Wednesday, 15 October 2008
Escapism
We all need somewhere to retreat to when things all get too much. So when you talk to me and I seem far away, this is where I'll be. If not in body, then in mind. Away with the fairies, on another planet, spaced out, daydreaming ... we all do it. Where are you when you're far away?
Thursday, 9 October 2008
Tuesday, 7 October 2008
make your own good mood film
the latest installment on the magic good mood film site is a 'make your own good mood film' feature.
in three easy steps create your own good mood film, comprising all your favourite photos.
next step Hollywood.
Monday, 6 October 2008
Great Schematic diagrams - 5
this is one Phil & Dan have got me working on, if anyone has any thoughts ;):P
Hey Planners...how about some charts too?
The pie chart is the all time classic. Now go do some work!
Great Schematic Diagrams of our time 4
We seem to be having sequencing problems on the blog but we wouldn't if it was structured like this beauty: the spider diagram. In the middle goes the core thought and in each of the segments go the key elements. It could be a problem with a range of solutions; it could be a positioning with a range of propositions; it could be an idea with executional thoughts; it could be salad with loads of ingredients.
Go forth and multiply, my friends.
Great Schematic Diagrams of Our Time 2
This is a system of thought in its own right. It is the dialectical triad. used by Marx, Hegel and Kant. It is pure creative thinking.
GREAT SCHEMATIC DIAGRAMS OF OUR TIME 3
The Venn Diagram
Forget Phil's divisive line (or glorified line with arrow), the Venn has it all.
While the line separates, the Venn unites.
It shows us the common ground on which relationships can be built.
It creates connections.
It brings brands and audiences together.
They were invented/popularised by a bloke called John.
Great Schematic Diagrams of Our Time 1
The big black dirty line
The daddy of them all and the subject of my cool stuff talk. It is sublime in its elemental simplicity.
It is you and everyone else. It is your brand and the competition. It is your audience and the rest of the world.
It differentiates and defines.
It lifts and separates.
No planner should leave home without one.
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