28 Jul 2006

New photos



...Are from the Verge day we had for our Unilever client. Verge is Ogilvy's digital immersion conference and it was a brilliant day. James Murdoch from B Sky B and Esther Dyson spoke. I was asked to host a women and gaming room (which was a shock, being nothing of a gamer and less of a women.) Still, Jospeh Jaffe says that we can't pretend to be digital if we don't use the devices so I bought a PlayStation Portable and have become addicted. The audience for gaming are truly surprising. Older and more female-orientated than many assume. I have all the facts and figures now, if anyone's interested!

Recently ...

...Melting.

...Had a brilliant dinner at Village East in Bermondsey with Shailen, Trond and Alice. Who knew mopping up foie gras sauce with chips would be so satisfying?

...Enjoying music sourced from our music researcher. Jim Noir and Camera Obscura are lovely in this summer heat.

...Reading Anna Karenina for a book group. Very slowly.

...Became enchanted by Loco Roco.

...Re-discovered Jean Renoir's La Regle de Jeu and Ella Fitzgerald.

Terribly worried about the war in Lebanon and deeply disenchanted by our government's response to the suffering going on.

Seriously also very worried about people at the moment. There seems to be a lot of anxiety in the lives of people I love who are faraway and I think (and dream) about them constantly. I do wish peace of mind for everyone.

Oh, and melting.

11 Jul 2006

Who are those handsome people?

I finally figured out how to get pictures off my mobile (and I was an Internet pioneer!). They're from an April day when Trond and his bf Ben, Tim, Jess and I went to see Alison Moyet in Smaller. It was the first sunny day in ages, so we sat outside and after several bottles of wine I snapped these photos.

The other photo is my name outside Old Billingsgate for a D+AD event where I was a speaker at Congress. I was stuck on a train, late, without the right notes, spritzing like a pig in a sauna and none of the media files worked, but I did the best I could. They've asked me back, so it can't have been too much of a disaster...

The legacy of post-modern cultural theory

'I wrote more than a few papers that sounded as though they had been translated, poorly, from the original French.'

Don't worry, I did as well.