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Copywriter and paperback writer, my first novel, Instinct is coming out on the 2nd of September 2010.

How to be happy

Here’s an article the Guardian printed about the top five regrets of the dying. It’s basically a simple blueprint to happiness before you pop your clogs, so I’ll just copy and paste it here: There was no mention of more sex or bungee jumps. A palliative nurse who has counselled the dying in their last [...]

Big ads R Back!

The economy is screwed, we’re about to enter another recession and people are shooting each other in the streets for the chance to lick a rotten slice of Kingsmill. But, like the honeybadger, Adland don’t give a fuck: (Fallon, Tom Kuntz etc. Interest declared: made by mates etc.) (Tom Kuntz again. No idea about anything [...]

Slow weekend

Putting a camera on a hula hoop is surprisingly cool (thanks, P): I’m not racist, but… An end to camel toe(thanks, J): Movie middle fingers (thanks, P):

And now, a good VW ad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjnOjICjkZg&feature=youtu.be&fb_source=message (Interest declared: this was done by my friends Christian and Andy. Non-interest declared: it was directed by Ivan Zacharias, whom I’ve never met). It’s a proper ad with a… wait for it… an idea. And some thought and care and intelligence. Fine craft too. UPDATE: this link might have been removed. If so, find [...]

‘The sausage king of Chicago?’ ‘We ate pancreas!’ ‘Buy a Honda’.

*sigh* Look, it’s doing the job: this thing is getting noticed and talked about like a motherfucker, but… *sigh* It’s Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. For those of you too old or young to understand, this is a pastiche/updating of one of the greatest films of all time. OK, it wasn’t The Godfather but it’s a [...]

Players to managers/creatives to CDs

Last week I was reading article about a young football manager that questioned whether his mediocre playing career would affect his ability to do the job. The oddest thing about this doubt is that the two jobs are very different. One involves running around on a football pitch, spending fifteen minutes being told how to [...]

Weekend

Excellent documentary about hip-hop and crack: My white Jamaican dad (thanks, J): The wonderful Honey Boo-Boo: People in movies staring at the camera. Tattoo spelling mistakes (thanks, J). Let’s fund this documentary about the humble but wonderful cassette: Spelling Bee fail: Top rap video, ‘IMDABES’ (thanks, G): The meaning of ‘mate’ (thanks, J).

Shit voice Yoda impersonator has

A friend has volunteered to write a guest post about this ad, but while we wait for that may I just point out a couple of things? 1. The ad is 60 seconds long but is 100% over, finished, dead by 39 seconds. 2. George Lucas is a bigger pimp than Lord Monsignor Lovedaddy the [...]

Account movement/boredom/industry malaise etc.

A few weeks ago I noticed that every single week, without fail, the main headline in Campaign told us that a big account was now up for pitch. Not sure what today’s will be* (probably something rather exciting, just to make a mockery of the above and below), but I do wonder what that long [...]

This ad impresses me through sheer weight of gratuitous megastar