"This emergent thing you're part of is really great, how did you do it?" "Well, we just show up every day and let it emerge, encourage things we like, let things we don't like just die away." "So how can I help you keep doing the same thing but design some elements to make it…

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LSOzA05q3I?wmode=transparent] This is the sort of scene that made me want to be able to sing well.  I loved to hear guys like Allan Jones who made this big voice while singing soft songs – the link is that he got started in a couple of Marx brothers films, much of my childhood Sunday…

http:///www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS2khYJZKwA Do you remember your first ROFL? yeah, me too, it was this.  Hysterical.   I'm giggling even now and I haven't watched it for two or three days.   These guys gave me a love of punnage and clever use of language.  Also a deep suspicion of lawyers and anyone who wants you to…

Re-reading that bit from the Space Hijackers that I pointed to in the previous post, I kept coming back to this: "If you’re a local council, selling off land to private developers is an easy way to raise capital. But the undermining of social liberties that comes with these sales is unprecedented. Take the construction…

I was loitering around MORE London the other day and was struck by the contrast in foyer space between Ernst & Young and pwc.  (Btw yes pwc is PricewaterhouseCoopers ie PwC but their new logo doesn't reflect the idiosyncratic capitalisation that we know and love them for.  I do hope it's not on the way…

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcSxL8GUn-g?wmode=transparent] I showed this clip at the beginning of my recent show/talk at Hub Westminster.  I've since watched this episode all the way through, it still thrills me.  Is this what watching @ProfBrianCox does for people these days?  I hope so.  There's a few things to say about it. 1.  I love the subtitle: "An…

I got a bit overexcited last week when Sarah from Time/Image showed me a whole new bunch of British Council films that have been digitised from the archive.  I love them.  I'm still as excited seeing new ones as I was when Al and I looked through the archive in the first place. This batch…

I’ve had it with hibernation, even though snow arrived in London this weekend, it’s time for me to start moving and grooving again – Let’s do some work together! 🙂 I learned something really important in the last six months of last year: I’m really, really happy with this lifestyle – I like being in…

Vinay Gupta has asked me to contribute to his "Truth & Beauty" strand at Hub Westminster next week.  He asked for something both pro- and retro-spective and something that showed more than one facet of what I do, have done, and probably will do when I get round to it, perhaps.  And, of course, including…

It’s just ridiculous, I come back to it every year, this numbering, this ever increasing number that is attached to me.  This morning it was suddenly 47.  What does it mean?  Everything and nothing it appears. It does *feel* like a shift, I suppose it means “late forties” rather than “mid-forties” but still.  Anyway. I’m just…