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West Ham goalkeeper Robert Green has blamed a generation of children playing video games in order to justify England’s national team not being qualified for the Euro 2008!
“If you want to have the best national side on a longer-term basis, you need to go into every household and throw away the PlayStation, Xbox and video [...]
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This is one of the things I’ve been thinking of quite a lot recently… Many people in this industry are obsessed by changes and mutations and I am a bit fed up with people only looking at stuff in terms of innovations, cool… What if we were looking at the two sides of the [...]
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I’ve been doing ongoing guerrilla activity at the office with one of our researcher’s called Xavier. He was basically mocking my propensity to blog and in return, I was mocking his lack of interest in the blog thing. This inspired me to start a poster guerrilla by sticking up stuff next to his desk.
Some are [...]
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« La mort elle aussi brille par son absence. » Jean Baudrillard
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Being 40 years ahead of his time…or same paradigms?
[Link to the Time's article]
‘The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension [...]
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I have always struggled to provide a satisfactory definition of Account Planning to people (even to those actually working in advertising agencies!) Upon reading the Perfect Pitch, I came across this Kenichi Ohmae quote from The Mind Of The Strategist: ‘The best possible solutions come only from a combination of a rational analysis based on [...]
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I had a chat with Saher yesterday about presenting ideas and John Steel’s latest book (I’m currently reading it) and then I’ve remembered this quote from Gladiator. It’s a Proximo’s advice to Maximus:
‘Listen to me. Learn from me. I was not the best because I killed quickly. I was the best because the crowd loved [...]
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The following discussion is extracted from the Moovie Fearless. It’s based on Huo Yuanjia life, starring Jet Li.This is a discussion between two masters: Huo Yuanjia and the japonese Tanaka about tea.
Tanaka: Do you know anything about teas?
Huo Yuanjia: I don’t really know because I don’t like categories. Tea is tea.
Tanaka: Each has it’s own [...]
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Photo: Rocco Palermo
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