Prolonged Exposure

I’ve been off the grid for a while, doing all kinds of stuff. A lot of it is actually what my parents would call “constructive”, but there’s been a few time-wasters in there as well, and one of those was the TV show Entourage. I’ve just done the entire 6 seasons.
No idea why, but it [...]

Build Things People Want

I love getting Josh Spear’s blog in my feeds. It’s full of cool hipster stuff I can’t be bothered ordering online, but it’s always on-the-pulse, interesting and great to look at. I feel like I’m getting reflected cred just by reading it.
I’m not so sure I love Josh Spear. At 24 he’s busy flying around [...]

Ah Wahnt One O’Those Widget Thangs Fur Mah Website

I’ve just plowed my way though the March issue of Marketing Singapore. This month all the stories seem to have been brewed from the same template. They all start off with a variation of:
“For most of us in marketing, 2009 is going to be a tough year. Our budgets have been slashed, our consumers are [...]

And For My Next Trick…

Magicians plays a cognitive trick on the brain. If you’re focused on a movement that seems perfectly normal, then your brain will blot out something else in the picture that seems incongruous. It just won’t register as happening.
I was conked out in front of the TV a few nights ago and every time there was [...]

You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth

When actor Sean Penn and writer Dustin Lance Black got up to accept their Oscars for Milk last week they didn’t have anything interesting or inspiring to say.
Or at least that’s how it seemed on Singapore TV, because our censors did a quick bit of surgery between the live broadcast and the repeat telecast to [...]

It Was Hysterical

My reader pointed out this morning that if I schucked away from the news, as I announced in yesterday’s post, then I’d be shooting myself in the foot because:

It’s real, it’s happening, I need to know this stuff
My job relies on me being well read, well informed and omnipotent
I might miss something an important opportunity [...]

It’s Bad News I’m Afraid

I’ve canceled my subscription to the daily newspaper. It’s full of bad news, but that’s not the problem. The problem is that it’s beating up the bad news. It’s endlessly pontificating about bad news that isn’t even a reality yet. Delighting in telling only the worst of everything. Rubbing its hands together about what horrible [...]

Wouldn’t It Be Cool If “Where The Hell Is Matt” Was Real?

Even though the world is obviously too dangerous, cruel and unfriendly for something like the viral “Where The Hell Is Matt” video to be anything but a hoax, wouldn’t it be great if that feeling of silliness shared by everyone was real?

The Greatest Christmas Sale

The bestselling bible on Amazon at the moment, created by Swedish adman Dag Soderberg and a team called Illuminated World, reinterprets it as an oversized 286 page magazine, complete with sidebars, coverlines, and subheads. It’s the same text, but embellished with Bennetton-style photos and pull quotes.
If slick is not your schtick, then perhaps one of [...]

A Message From Your Pilots

Got any new year resolutions yet?
I’ve always fancied myself a bit of a writer, so I’ll often sit in front of the TV with one of two thoughts in my head. Either I’ll be thinking “who writes this crap anyway?”, or I’ll be insanely envious at the cleverness of the show. If I’ve just randomly [...]