Saw this on the way home last night, and was so moved by the humble plea of this old banger that I couldn’t not take a photo. I hope it works, and poor Amy is left alone. Although, it’s entirely possible that the thieves of hackney don’t respond to charm and nice tone of voice.
Anyone around the Greenwood Road area, keep an eye out for Amy.
I (lol) bid my twenties farewell this week. Or as
Jax our TV producer put it, ‘welcome to the 3rd floor.’ I think that’s
a really nice way of putting it, so wanted to share it. It kind of makes you stop being afraid of getting older, as the view keeps on getting better, the higher you get…
It also
feels timely to point out a completely brilliant festival which I went
to the other day with my tiny nephew. If you live in East London and
you have kids, then I really, really recommend it.
It’s called Lollibop –
a big festival for little people. It’s in Clissold Park, Stoke Newington.
And it’s got all sorts of really creative and clever ideas in there:
Babyoke
(where you can dress your child up as Diana Ross or Slash – this one is only just
the right side of wrong).
Baby Salsa. An adult Creche. Lollipolympics. A
bouncy castle. Sandpit. Hammocks. Minigolf.
So, all in all, optimum age 30 activities. My favourite bit was the
world’s smallest club called … MINISCULE OF
SOUND. I had lots more pictures but my camera has eaten them. Here
are some of the Miniscule of Sound, which apparently tours the world.
I asked them if my nephew Leon’s name was ‘on the list’. Amazingly, they actually did have a ‘list’. A massive hardback book of baby names. They also had signs up saying ‘Nose pickers operate in this area’. And no E numbers.
Anyway, all iin all, it was a great festival for kids aged 1 to 30. Look out for it next year.
Following on from our last blog about Cannes, we started thinking what people that want to break into the industry could do in Cannes to make themselves known…
There are so many people out there with amazing talents, maybe they
could collaborate with the big organisers to make an impression?
So here are some thoughts.
1) Designers and illustrators that want to be known by creatives and directors could collaborate with the big events on the beach and make the parties more visually interesting.
2) Up and coming photographers that want to be known by creatives could collaborate with party organizers and offer to take amazing pics of everyone and upload them for free.
3) Up and coming bands and composers that want their music used in TV Ads could play live gigs at the pool parties or on the beach in the afternoon?
4) Designers and illustrators could collaborate with creatives to design their business cards for them. That way the illustrators get their work seen by other creatives and on the flip side the creatives cards look better.
Basically, it’s an ad festival – but maybe there are loads of untapped opportunities to advertise yourself.
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