Russell Davies

Hightaste

Not done this for a while.

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Really

Dior and I and me

One of the things that brand strategists never talk about is the fact that some of the most the most visible and successful brand makers ever exist in a completely different part of the forest and seem blithely unaware of all the usual "brand science "dogma. Specifically - fashion people.

Which is just a way of reintroducing the fact that I love documentaries about fashion and that there's another fantastic one to add to the canon, Dior and I.

Of course, it's partly about creativity, all that. But it's mostly about people and organisations and getting stuff done. Nerves, power, relationships. What everything's about, really.

Public

"Is it time to start talking about a public media for the internet? To start imagining structures within which at least nominally independent media can preserve itself?"

Possibly

 

The best blog posts

@genmon @kellan @benhammersley The real takeaway: I-thought-of-this-two-minutes-ago-while-washing-dishes blog posts are the best blog posts

— Robin Sloan (@robinsloan) May 20, 2015

This is dead on true but I'm nowhere near the dishes so I have nothing to add.

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I'm talking, with Ade, at Thinking Digital tomorrow. Six years ago, it was here I first talked about this stuff. What a horrible cliche it seems now, probably did the moment I said it. And yet it's still so far away.

#neverforget

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absolutelysupersymmetry

Went to see Ryoji Ikeda's supersymmetry. Very good. Like being inside a Hollywood OS. And very much fulfils the minimal modern art criteria of offering a lot of Things You Can Instagram, almost to the extent that the glows of the phones add to the work.