Russell Davies

I must buy a pencil

Here. Thanks to James.

savanna principle

here

50,000 films

I've found myself thinking about creative organisations again recently - the possibilities, dynamics and challenges of agencies and like-minded businesses. No conclusions yet. No beginnings either really. But I think part of my renewed interest is that a lot of what was theoretical 10 years ago is now starting to be real - it's actual stuff that has to be dealt with today. A case in point is this fantastic article about the number of films being made and entered for film festivals each year - 50,000. (And that might be in the US alone, I'm not sure.)

Who knows exactly what this will mean for businesses that make a lot of money from making films, but it has to mean something, surely. The context isn't changing, it's changed.

I'm collecting more examples of these changed contexts, I suspect they'll add up to something.

(article found via Tom Watson)

condiments

"don't let them flim-flam you into owning all these devices"

1986 weeks

all we need are lego and sellotape

We've been building the InnocentAGMcam hat over the last couple of weeks. You can see some of the testing here. It'll spring properly into life on Saturday. Tom's done all the clever stuff, obviously, but I had fun with lego and sellotape. I suspect they're my analogue equivalents of powerpoint - if you can't make something with lego and sellotape then it's not worth doing.

parallel play

here

1987 weeks

 

interesting francis galton

Dan Maier talked a brilliantly funny and fascinating talk about Victorian polymath and loony Sir Francis Galton at Interesting last year. He's doing an extended version at the Conway Hall on May 27th. Tickets here. You should go.

(Picture courtesy of Josie)