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As you might have noticed, it was the Brit Awards last night. It’s the nation’s favourite awards ceremony which never passes us by without some drama unfolding, last night proved no exception with Adele flipping the bird at the music suits after her acceptance speech was cut short by a reluctantly interruptive James Corden.
Those of you who weren’t completely distracted by Rhianna’s pants and George Michael’s slurring might have noticed that the infamous Brit trophy has had a makeover.
Printers. They are quite often the bane of our lives. With their endless paper-chewing, ink guzzling and baffling flashing lights you could mistake them for being the most inefficient and useless of our office friends. But hold your horses because major things are happening in the printer world and it might not be long before we are printing out our own shoes, tableware and even body parts…
Born in 1964 in Venezuela, Francisco Janvier Bassim studied art and then moved to Italy. He lived in Venice for several years which informed his latest illustrative project entitled ‘Gran Interior’ – portraits of Italian Renaissance characters mixed with urban themes and a cartoon/pop art edge.
Jenny Odell is an aspiring artist in San Francisco who has been developing her work alongside a full time job. She didn’t think she would ever become an artist until she stumbled upon the idea of using the internet and it’s geographical tools to inform her work.
The Saatchi Gallery has just opened a new film and screening room, just around the corner from the Saatchi Gallery on the King’s Road. The first artist to take up residence in this room is Christopher Baker, a scientist-turned-multimedia artist who has installed his 2008 film ‘Hello World!’ in the space.
Twitter is a platform frequented by young liberals and techy celebrities, or their PR companies, but New Years Eve welcomed a very interesting new recruit, no less then Britains most-hated OAP Rupert Murdoch.
Murdoch has previously referred to the internet as being “a place for porn, thievery, and hackers”, but has obviously had a change of heart along with some practice in social networking since then.
His registration has caused quite a stir, at the time of writing this blog Rupert had 94,216 followers and counting, and yet he has only chosen to follow seven people himself, most of which are fellow publishing giants as well as Sir Alan Sugar who recently tweeted: “I wonder if my old pal @rupertmurdoch is eying up Twitter to buy or invest in it. He missed out on Facebook, and My Space.. not a great deal.”
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescot noticed the arrival of Murdoch on the site and wittily tweeted: “Welcome to Twitter…@rupertmurdoch. I’ve left you a Happy New Year message on my voicemail!”
There have been more than a few gasps of horror since Rupert started tweeting, most of them coming from people who are keen to protect him, Rupert recently tweeted: “I’m getting killed for fooling around here and friends frightened what I may really say.”
Despite the surrounding worries about giving the 80-year old free reign on such a public platform, there are suspicions that Rupert’s PR brigade are trying to turn around the rather negative public image he has made for himself of late, and friendly rambling across Twitter may be a good starting point.
So far, his tweets have ranged from everyday comments on life in NYC to his opinions on American politics and Obamas latest decisions. He also stupidly wrote “Maybe Brits have too many holidays for [a] broke country” after this week’s Bank Holiday but deleted the post shortly afterwards, not before hundreds of users re-tweeted it, and adding the hashtag #murdochdeletedtweets.
Murdoch thoughtlessly joined Twitter whilst sunning himself on the Caribbean island of Saint Barthelemy, tweeting “Vacations great time for thinking. St Barth’s too many people. Thoughts best kept private around here. Like London!”
If Murdoch is trying to keep up the appearance of a blithering old man who has lost too many of his marbles to take full responsibility for the hacking scandal then this rambling on Twitter is surely a brilliantly direct way of convincing the public of this.
There is a new unverified account under the name of Wendi Deng, Murdoch’s wife who has been attempting to curb Murdochs antisocial twitter behaviour, she says “Trying to explain to @rupertmurdoch that twitter is about following not just being followed. sharing and chatting and tweeting.”
In the meantime, I encourage you all to add Murdoch to your feeds and sit back and watch as he digs himself hole after hole, it’s going to take a lot more than a few thoughtful tweets to tidy up that man’s public image.
Jessica Hazel
Writer, blogger and vintage trader.
‘The Lynx Effect’ has always been a brilliant advertising slogan. Its simplicity has stuck with the brand for years and has helped the deodorants to become the highest selling male grooming product in the world. But the latest ploy by Lynx owners Unilever, is causing even more of a stir…
While the Olympics are trying to take 2012 as their own, elsewhere in London there is a wealth of other exciting events for those of us less-sporty-more-arty types. Forget Leonardo, next year promises huge shows from the likes of David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeremy Deller, Rachel Whiteread as well as this little lot which we think will take the cake…
Keep Calm, it’s another Keep Calm novelty item.
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ was the third in a series of Government-approved World War II posters to keep up morale amongst the people. The message was said to be directly from King George VI, the posters were white text on a red background with the only image being King George’s crown. The poster was created by an anonymous civil servant and he used his own font, an exact match still does not exist.
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