Hello from sunny Cannes! [yes, I know you all hate me and that the weather in London is terrible BUT!] I come bearing gifts of news, insights, words and pictures! 1000heads are over supporting Nokia as part of their lead sponsorship of the Young Lions Competition* kicking off later today. However, before that all gets [...]
Last week saw the launch of the 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme; a bumper listing of the 2,542 shows that will make up this year’s arts extravaganza in ‘the Athens of the North‘. I’m no stranger to Edinburgh in August having a) been born there and b) spent many a summer working during the Fringe [...]
I’m a fan of objects being used in interesting ways. There’s something about the subtle re-imagining of an otherwise familiar object that makes me smile. And, more pertinently, surfaces a hitherto unrealised emotional bond to that object. This is a great example. The Ghost towel. I’ve never liked a towel before. But now I love [...]
I live in a building that contains 10 flats. Inside the front hall is a lovely wooden stand (I have no idea why we have something so lovely, I sometimes imagine that a master craftsman lives in the basement). On this stand is all the post for the building. That’s a bunch of bills, Amazon [...]
When was the last time you paid a compliment to a stranger? Mine was when I sat opposite a beautiful coat for three hours on the way to Paris. I wanted that coat, and just plucked up courage to ask the wearer where she bought it as we rolled to Gare du Nord. As I [...]
On Friday night I went, for the first time, to a particular Soho bar. The cocktails were good (even if I’m a bitter kind of guy – the drink that is) and the company was great, but I’m not going to talk about either. Today I want to muse on the two experiences that bookended [...]
Garbage In, Garbage Out. It’s a phrase I first came across in a drafty Computing Studies class many years ago. GIGO (and not GI Joe, as a colleague was disappointed to find out) states that a computer is only designed to process the information you give it. While your ZX Spectrum can do amazing things [...]
“It’s just not the same anymore. It wasn’t like this in my day, players were real people and you’d meet them in the pub after cheering them on from the stands” Hey there, my name’s Joe Weston and I’m an account manager looking after all things sport-focused here at 1000heads. Recently, I’ve been thinking about [...]
On Wednesday afternoon, during the LikeMinds Social Media Week Social Commerce Immersive at which I was a panellist, there was a moment when moderator Andrew Gerrard mused “I wonder when the entire term ‘social media’ will become redundant. I wonder when it’ll just become ‘something that we do.’” Amen. Like me, many who read this [...]
The web, it seems, is getting smarter. If you’ve been traversing the interwebs in the same manner as I have these past few months then you may remember these smart little ads from Google, informing us that ad space will work harder. They’re not wrong. It is. A few weeks ago I had to travel [...]
