Video interview with Senior Creatives: Amber & Dan
I saw this video on Biscuit Barrel ages ago but only got round to watching it now. It’s a great video interview with two really nice creatives called Dan and Amber from YKCR/Y&R and really inspires me to get creative again. I’ve been slacking lately and miss seeing an idea in everything I see and do so I wanna get back into looking and thinking at things.
Should you comment on this status update? Read this to find out.
The other day I wrote a post with a flow chart to help iPhone users decide weather they actually need to use their iPhone at that particular moment in time (read it here). Well, this is a follow up to that post, this time it’s for Facebook users and helps you decide weather you actually need to comment on someones status. Enjoy.
Whilst watching the X-Factor last night I was most entertained by this TV ad for the Sun Newspaper. It’s a great parody of an iPhone advert that I can imagine appealing to the target audience massively. Spot on, and hilarious too.
I will find out who did it, but not now. It’s Monday morning and I need my second cup of tea urgently.
[UPDATE: Credits go to Glue London for this awesome ad]
What stupid fucking idiot thought, ‘You know what? Let’s charge some desperate bastard over £200 to come do work experience with us without any guarantee of a job and without us having to pay a penny’? The answer to that question may never be found, because it can only be answered by that very moron, openly admitting how much of a complete and utter twat they really are.
Yes, if you are unfortunate enough to be able to see the above screen shot with your own eyes you will see that some dick jockey at the Standard has decided to sell a work experience placement on eBay!
How fucking offensive is that?
Go on, click on the picture and you’ll have the displeasure of seeing if the auction price has breached the £200 mark yet. So why are people bidding? I’ll tell you why. Because there is 2.47 MILLION unemployed people in this country and they’re all bloody desperate to get a foot in the door and earn some money. And these wankers know it.
As I’ve said before in a previous post, employers simply cannot treat people like this. Graduates come out of university with an incredibly high level of education and with that, comes an even higher amount of student debt. Graduates work fucking hard to get recognised, occasionally working into the evenings and through the weekends, and often for NO PAY!
So this is why I’m shocked, appalled and offended that the Standard are making people PAY to work 8 hours per day for a week. They should be ashamed of themselves. Except they won’t be, because they’re evidently too fucking stupid to realise they’ve even done anything wrong. They ACTUALLY think they’re doing the unemployed a fucking favour!!!!
I’m sure once they realise that they’re morons they’ll try to wriggle their squirmy little arses out of it by saying that they’re not making people bid on the auction, or that they’re doniting 100% of the money to charity. Well, do I give a shit if the money goes to charity or not? No, no I don’t, because they’re still robbing desperate people of money that they don’t have anyway because THEY DON’T HAVE A FUCKING JOB!
If you are reading this and have realised that you are the wanker that 2.47 million people hate right now, I suggest firstly that you stop being so offended by what you’ve just read and get your fat egotistical head out of your shitty arse. Then take a step back and remember that there are literally millions of talented people wanting to work for you, and they’re willing to work fucking hard if you just treat them with a little respect and decency. But first you’ll have to clean up. Because you stink. Of shit. From your shitty arse.
I’m not an iPhone user. I’m not against using them either. But I do really hate it when people bring the bloody thing into conversation, like when we’re down the pub and someone shows me that fucking beer drinking app AGAIN!
If you’re one of those iPhone obsessed people I urge you to save this picture as the background on your beloved piece of technology and refer to it every time you pull the bastard thing our of your pocket.
I doubt this is real but even the thought of it makes me very, VERY excited. I want to go play on it SO bad! Mind you, I don’t have any urge to drink Coca-Cola at all. My friend works at an indoor skydiving place in Milton Keynes so I hopefully I’ll go play soon.
Last night I met up with some people from twitter. None of whom I had met before in actual-real-old-fashioned-face-to-face life. It was weird, but weird-good, because we have ‘known’ each other for months despite never actually meeting before. This meant that we immediately got on like houses on fire (what a weird saying, but not weird-good) and we ended up having a really enjoyable night.
All this got me thinking about how bloody amazing Twitter is for social networking, and not just online. We’re all like-minded people who may have never met if we weren’t using Twitter. On the other hand I was told off at one point for tweeting during a conversation… And quite rightly so, that’s not very social. Or is it?
If you like me, my attitude, my sense of humour, or lack of sense of humour then you’ll most probably like the lovely people I met last night.
And there’s some more, I think, but the alcohol made me forget their @names. Comment below if I’ve missed anyone, and apologies if I have (if it’s any consolation I tripped up a curb stone on my way home and fucked up my knee).
And here’s a random social networking related video that will make you smile.
I'm Tom Harvey, I work in social media and I live in London. I'm opinionated and swear like a bitch. Everything I say comes from my own fat gob and not from my very polite and courteous employer.
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