Television

Commercially Magic: Sony Bravia Bouncy Balls

Having studied Marketing for three years at University I’ve seen my fair share of advertisements. Some are amazing, some are awful, some just don’t make any sense whatever angle you try to look at them from. This however, is different. The Sony Bravia Bouncy Balls advertisement (commercial), unlike most nowadays, is completely ‘real’. No CGI, no special effects, nothing.

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Master Predictions, Derren Brown, and Speed Reading

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Have you ever felt like somebody you know, a friend, colleague, or indeed a celebrity is about to walk into your eye line? You have that instinctive feeling that they are about to appear, and voilà, a split second later there they are. I had been noticing this a lot recently, especially at work. I’d

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No news is good news

I no longer watch the news. For the past twenty-one years (I assume I watched it upon birth) it has served as a never ending depressing soap opera of pain and misery. I ditched Eastenders for similar reasons. I used to watch it as often as you could imagine. In the mornings, in the afternoons,

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2010: October to December

You know the drill. Here, for one last time, is what will be happening in the world in October – December, 2010. October 2010 October saw the worst case of ‘mild’ throughout the country since records began. People up and down the UK have reported temperatures reaching mild conditions like they’ve never experienced. One London

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2010: April to June

Two months into this website comes the first ‘Sorry for taking it slowly recently’. They’re not bad odds, and I have genuinely been busy. Did everybody have a good new years? I was here – To get the ‘full picture’ of my amazing view, imagine watching this video from the opposite side of the river

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Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street

As many of you will undoubtedly know (mostly down to Google’s fantastic recognition of such) Sesame Street is forty years old today. Completely by coincidence, last week the book I’m currently reading – The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell – went several chapters deep into what a fantastic and ground breaking show Sesame Street was,

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