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I’ve written articles and thought pieces for newspapers, magazines and trade publications such as Campaign, Shots, B&T and Campaign Brief. I’m also a regular columnist for Adnews. Here are some of my most recent pieces/rants.
It’s hot as hell and I think the jury hates me.
I spent my first four days in Cannes utterly convinced that I was immensely disliked by my fellow Cyber jurors. I’d enter the jury room every morning to hear stories of bonding…
A series of unfortunate events. The almost inevitable second Cannes Diary.
2:30pm: Apart from a few old ladies, the odd Russian prostitute and the absolute cock who zooms around the block continuously in his probably rented matte black Lamborghini, the Croisette is strangely…
Two Legs and Ahead.
Working in advertising has given me enormous opportunities to do the thing I love the most, write. I wrote a song that got into the charts and a poem for the Commonwealth…
The sheer hell of the case study video.
Subject: Cannes Entry Video. Lads, I’ve taken a look at the edit. Nice start. Remove the Coldplay ‘Clocks’ soundtrack as everyone uses it. I’ve attached a suitably depressing classical mp3. Lay that…
Your own virtual Cannes.
So Cannes is on and our Facebook feeds are full of people checking into Qantas First Class Lounges. (They’re not really; you can check into First Class lounges from home if you…
The plastic mask of fame.
A few days ago, Candace Payne, a middle aged woman from Grand Prairie, Texas uploaded a video of herself giggling as she tried on the Chewbacca mask she’d just bought for her…
This is what it sounds like when brands cry.
Apparently Prince was a huge fan of the 3M range of products. From Scotch Precision Ultra Edge scissors to MagicTape dispenser rolls, it seems he simply couldn’t have written such seminal tracks…
Slave to the algorithm.
As human beings, we like to think we’re in control. That somehow we’re in charge of our destiny, where we go, what we see, what we do and who we meet. This…
Skewering the Vegans.
On the day I arrived in Sydney, the chief of police gave his opinion on the new ‘Crimestoppers’ telephone line. He didn’t think it would work. When pressed, he said ‘nobody likes…
This is your brain on scam.
“My name is Andy Flemming and I have scammed. I guess it started back in Singapore. It was the early nineties. I met this guy in a club who said he could…
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