Calling all confessions, calling all confessions. For those of you who haven't already contributed to my collection please get on your webcams at the ready and read one of the scripts ive no doubt handed to you three times. Id like to have all of them ready for editing on Monday so get on it over the weekend. Sita and Andreas have already set a very high bench mark in the foreign languages division with brilliant performances. Plus a star is born in the Englishman Dan Stoneman. Like these fine acting specimens, we're going for believability people. So no obvious reading directly from the script. Take a quick minute to memorise the line and then put your heart and soul into it! So for those of you who haven't, don't be shy, have a laugh, pretend you've got an STD, and lets bring down MTV. "BRING IT DOWN, BRING IT DOWN!"
Thank you.
Thursday, 6 March 2008
Monday, 3 March 2008
Client Proposal
These days, its all about who you know, actually its probably always been about who you know. It can be difficult to get your foot in the door of any industry and its invaluable to have contacts in positions of power. Networking is an important social and professional skill to have, i planned to exercise this at the Job Fair a couple of weeks back, held at the Jury Inn. But the opportunities were more like punishments, moderator for some Disney social networking site chatroom for 5 year olds, or another square eyed Second Life programmer. It seemed they were really scraping the barrel. No thank you.
However there was one ray of sunshine. I did speak with Aleks Krotoski, who is a freelance writer. Im familar with her technology blog on the Guardian Unlimited site and have enjoyed reading her work many times. We spoke briefly about the advantages of freelancing and what i typically write about and how to best contact the editor. She advised email, and although this does make the most sense, im always dubious about editors mass deleting the content of their inbox's. Freelance appeals to me because you aren't committed to any single employer. Now although a consistent input of work is never guaranteed, you are a lot more free to work in your own time and for who you chose. That's how i like it.
For the Client Proposal i plan to contact a number of different magazines that ive been interested in over the last few years. These will include, Adbusters, Vice, Volume Magazine, Philosophy Now, Bad Idea and The Guardian. These publications range from the well established national broadsheet to the underground press hunting for new talent. I think it best to spread myself over a variety of printed editions in order to generate a number of different relationships with editors and have a diverse selection of magazines in which my content could be printed. Ive also been in discussion with Kristos about collaborating on some work, he's illustrated a piece of mine before for the student magazine Show Pony and it went down a storm. Move over Hunter and Ralph, Zac and Kristos demand some space!
However there was one ray of sunshine. I did speak with Aleks Krotoski, who is a freelance writer. Im familar with her technology blog on the Guardian Unlimited site and have enjoyed reading her work many times. We spoke briefly about the advantages of freelancing and what i typically write about and how to best contact the editor. She advised email, and although this does make the most sense, im always dubious about editors mass deleting the content of their inbox's. Freelance appeals to me because you aren't committed to any single employer. Now although a consistent input of work is never guaranteed, you are a lot more free to work in your own time and for who you chose. That's how i like it.
For the Client Proposal i plan to contact a number of different magazines that ive been interested in over the last few years. These will include, Adbusters, Vice, Volume Magazine, Philosophy Now, Bad Idea and The Guardian. These publications range from the well established national broadsheet to the underground press hunting for new talent. I think it best to spread myself over a variety of printed editions in order to generate a number of different relationships with editors and have a diverse selection of magazines in which my content could be printed. Ive also been in discussion with Kristos about collaborating on some work, he's illustrated a piece of mine before for the student magazine Show Pony and it went down a storm. Move over Hunter and Ralph, Zac and Kristos demand some space!
Wednesday, 27 February 2008
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
This tale of savage overindulgence is in many ways a reaction to the failure of the 1960's counterculture movement. Dr Hunter S. Thompson and his Attorney travel to Las Vegas with almost every narcotic known to man, in search of the American dream, the Mint 400 and the Drug Conference for an unnerving amount of misinformed American cops.
What ensues is a sleeplessly intense 3 day trip involving bats and convertibles, casinos and polar bears, riddled with twisted humor, Wild Turkey-razor sharp wit and chemically clear observation.
Thanks to the media massacre of the 1960's Hippies, fear and hysteria surrounded drugs in 1971 America. Hunter wanted to find out what was left of those ideals, to push it as far as it would go, and see what level of freedom was left to do so.
This excerpt from the book is when the Dr of Gonzo Journalism ponders San Francisco in the mid sixties. The passage is thought to be so poignant of that era that its known as the Wave Speech.
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