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  • Babel and the Right to the City

    Over the last two weeks Babel, a play loosely based on the biblical fable of the same name, has imposed itself upon a part of London you’ve almost definitely never heard of. Caledonian Park, off Market Road, Islington is normally at peace. It’s residential; playing host to football players, local kids and sun bathing thirty somethings on a warm Saturday afternoon. It’s not the kind of place you expect Wildworks or Battersea Arts Centre to stage a Worlds Stages performance, and in that light the play could have been great: unusual, different, inspiring. In every sense though, it’s failed…

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  • Our Olympic city.

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  • And the thing about urban public space is we have a great amount of [it] but a lot of it is turned in to flowerbeds. We have a great place for the assemblage of tulips but not the assemblage of people.

    — David Harvey

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  • Rather than campaigning for some sort of law to ensure freelancers to get paid, surely it’d be better just to focus on getting them to sign contracts.

    Rather than campaigning for some sort of law to ensure freelancers to get paid, surely it’d be better just to focus on getting them to sign contracts.

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  • Northern advertising.

    Northern advertising.

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  • Apple rarely misses an opportunity when it comes to sneaking tiny clues in to its marketing materials. Most of the attention in response to the WWDC ticketing announcement was based around the iPhone that won’t be launched there, a new MacBook Pro, iOS 6 and Mountain Lion (Mac OS X 10.7). I’m going to throw a very unfounded suggestion out there that we’ll also be seeing more software updates to Apple TV and an Apple TV SDK at the event, which will set the scene for the once much talked about Apple TV set. Personally I’m sure that there’s an Apple TV set out there somewhere. The Apple TV box is a forerunner, certainly, to something bigger, and finally it might be getting apps - as the update this March sort of tentatively implied. The proof? None. Apart from the Developer Conference logo being made up of loads of tiny Apple TVs.

    Apple rarely misses an opportunity when it comes to sneaking tiny clues in to its marketing materials. Most of the attention in response to the WWDC ticketing announcement was based around the iPhone that won’t be launched there, a new MacBook Pro, iOS 6 and Mountain Lion (Mac OS X 10.7).

    I’m going to throw a very unfounded suggestion out there that we’ll also be seeing more software updates to Apple TV and an Apple TV SDK at the event, which will set the scene for the once much talked about Apple TV set. Personally I’m sure that there’s an Apple TV set out there somewhere. The Apple TV box is a forerunner, certainly, to something bigger, and finally it might be getting apps - as the update this March sort of tentatively implied.

    The proof? None. Apart from the Developer Conference logo being made up of loads of tiny Apple TVs.

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  • A beautiful approach.

    (Source: rubbishcorp.com)

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  • There are three secrets to emotional thinking – mystery, sensitivity and intimacy. It is a lot about story telling. Brands need to tell stories on their websites, on their packaging and so on. Make sure your brand and company has a smell, it has a sound, it has a feel and an intimacy with people.

    — “Marketing is dead,” citing Kevin Roberts, CEO Saatchi & Saatchi

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  • The hardest job in the world. An emotional campaign by P&G which ties some nice social applications in to a really moving commercial.

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  • It’s all a bit Kony, but damn this is good.

    (Source: Spotify!)

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