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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…
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…
Searching for hotel room porn.
The best ad I’ve seen in a long, long time appeared quite by accident as I was searching for porn in an American hotel. Searching for porn is generally the second thing…
Holding back the Facebook horde.
There are shit jobs and there are shit jobs and there’s being a community manager on a Facebook site. Like a Roman Centurion on Hadrian’s Wall, they’re all that stands between the…
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