Archive for July, 2009
New Yorker versus Great Britain
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009Applicants for a real British witch job this week.
Anthony Lane reviews, for the New Yorker, the new Harry Potter film and a movie spin-off of Brit TV show “The Thick of It”, called “In the Loop”. Neither film goes down wonderfully well, but the conclusion is… well, let’s just call it culturally interesting:
Place Iannucci’s [...]
marketing and adventurism- what do you share online?
Monday, July 27th, 2009New pink shoes- an adventure worth sharing. In my opinion. Perhaps not yours, so much.
Most of us folks who make and sell things for a job belong to the (vast) majority of mortals who are neither Hugh Macleod nor Seth Godin- we read and maybe even comprehend their advices, yet lack the magic those people [...]
here’s what I think about how to achieve world peace
Saturday, July 25th, 2009I sometimes mention this sort of thing on twitter, which is a risky business by anyone’s standards as you never know who’s out there doing searches for political key words. Back in the day when I was a political loudmouth, rudeness and ignorant pre-judgement bothered me a lot, and now they are the whole point [...]
nuns in the movies (a few notes)
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009my favourite nun- Sister Wendy Beckett
“Fun with nuns”, from the New Yorker, reads like your typical anti-Hollywood tale of a simple honest scriptwriter being screwed over by unnaturally cheerful Disney executives who murder everything good in their path by slapping a happy ending over it, because money always beats reality (ah, if only being a [...]
Nora Ephron’s post-WWII values
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009the famous slogan, as seen on our new Full English t-shirts
Yet again, a creative person with whom I am identifying, temporarily at least- there’s an interesting (not available online, abstract here) profile in a recent New Yorker, about writer and film-maker Nora Ephron, whose movie Julie & Julia comes out soon. I would be much [...]
Full English news, a self-discipline short-cut & the cartoon I haven’t made yet.
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009Full English News
I’ve been writing more on my work blog Full English lately, and will continue posting there at least weekly from now on, sometimes with news about the business but also on one of my favourite subjects, what I call “best of Britishness”. This does not mean Winston Churchill and scones at 4pm with [...]
