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Later...with Metallica

Later...with Jools Holland (now with lots of great iPlayer content, if you're lucky enough to live in the UK) remains the best (ever?) music show on TV. And there was a bit of a highlight the other week.

I'd tuned in to see Kings of Leon, who were pretty good. But was blown away by Metallica.

I wouldn't say they were particularly my cup of tea musically, but they rocked...as I believe the parlance goes in metal circles.

And I like the way you get Caleb Followill singing along at around 2.20...

The iPlayer version is here.

10 things we didn't know before the 39th week of 2008

1. Hollywood actors were paid to smoke.
2. Brussels is the burglary capital of Europe.
3. Henry V invented passports.
4. Busta Rhymes' real name is Trevor George Smith Jr.
5. Ruth Kelly and David Miliband dated briefly at university.
6. The ideal drive is 16 minutes long.
7. Hanging upside-down can give you a stroke.
8. Scots drank two litres more pure alcohol than the rest of the UK last year, on average.
9. Anti-depressants can harm sperm.
10. The third most popular pet behind a cat and a dog is a rabbit, with 1.6m owners in the UK.

(Borrowed from the BBC)

CREATE NOT HATE hits Youtube

 

We've just set up a CREATE NOT HATE channel on Youtube.

Not only will you be able to see all the output from CREATE NOT HATE here (news of our next project will be coming very soon), but we also want to open things out a bit.

So if you have a film that fits with the CREATE NOT HATE vision (or know someone who does), let us know as we'd love to showcase it.

And don't forget, you can do the Facebook thing as well.

Why promise 'free' if you don't actually mean it?

 
(Joseph Robertson)

Anyone who lives or works in London has got used to seeing people outside the tube stations dispensing free magazines and newspapers.

So I was quite pleased yesterday morning to discover someone offering copies of the Times outside Oxford Circus. I had a train journey later, and hadn't read the Rupert's Finest in a while. Grabbing a copy seemed a no-brainer.

Which is why I was then rather thrown by what happened next. So much so that I had to ask the woman with the papers to repeat what she was saying 3 times before I got it.

She wanted 80p.

For a 'free' paper.

I very quickly went from being someone interested in seeing what the Times was up to, to someone rather annoyed with the brand for trying to trick me.

Lesson: if you aren't free, don't dress yourselves in free's clothes and behave as if you are (a principle that could apply to any 'benefit' actually). You'll only piss people off.

I'm a PC

Always have been. And still find the Cult of Apple a bit of an affectation. Which is probably why I'm liking this...

You just know it's going to run and run.

Although I would still like some secondhand Macs ;-)

Needed: second hand Macs

As part of CREATE NOT HATE, we are working with a number of existing film-based youth projects in London.

To be fully functioning (and self sustaining), particularly in terms of doing their own editing, some of these groups need a G5 Mac...ideally (but not necessarily) with Final Cut Pro.

If anyone (personally or at work) has some lying around, and would like to help out, we would love to hear from you: jon @ quietstorm dot co dot uk.

10 things we didn't know before the 38th week of 2008

1. Kenyan women eat stones.
2. Whaling began in the US.
3. A 1,999ft peak is a hill but a 2,000ft one is a mountain.
4. Loaves of bread are sold for 5p.
5. Plants can combat stress.
6. Cancer can be diagnosed by palm reading.
7. Sagging jeans are a fashion that began in US prisons, where belts were removed to prevent inmates hanging themselves.
8. Noel Edmonds believes the souls of his dead parents follow him as orbs.
9. Texting impairs drivers more than alcohol.
10. The UK has more than 20 types of toxic fungi that can kill humans.

(Borrowed from the BBC)

Viral marketing gets personal

Is this the end point of targeted, integrated, social, viral marketing...?

Join the CREATE NOT HATE facebook group

 

If you would like to show your support for what we're up to with CREATE NOT HATE, come and join our Facebook group.

FutureScoping 78

Just to let you know, the latest edition of my trends newsletter is now out: "emerging trends, new ideas and general thought stimulation"...or so it says on the cover.

FutureScoping is now also available as an effective workshop technique, designed to maximise the number of great ideas generated with the minimum use of your valuable time.