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Intolerable Beauty

I’m exceptionally late to the party with this one, as it’s a series from 2003-2005 - so apologies if it’s old news to you. But in case you haven’t already seen it, Chris Jordan’s Intolerable Beauty - Portraits of American Mass Consumption is well worth a look: Cell...

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kitschbitch — May 29

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How David beats Goliath

Nice piece by Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker about how underdogs come out on top - by breaking the rules: Insurgents work harder than Goliath. But their other advantage is that they will do what is “socially horrifying”—they will challenge the conventions about how battles ...

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kitschbitch — May 22

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Best Brand Partnership Ever!

Sod Apple and Nike (Nike+). This has got to be my favourite brand partnership ever. Lego teamed up with French optical company Lynx Optique to create these amazing Lego sunglasses that you can customise with your own Lego bricks. Truly playful, personalisable fashion. And it’s got freakin...

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kitschbitch — May 18

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View from the trenches

Having been tagged by the effervescent Mr Eaon Pritchard, to share my own view from the trenches, that’s exactly what I’m doing. Because what better way to procrastinate on a Friday morning than show you a picture of my desk? It’s not quite blogging about kittens, but it’s...

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kitschbitch — May 15

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SXSWi - Assorted Nuggets

In the interests of not dragging on the SXSWi09 writeup until 2010, I’m wrapping up with some selected nuggets from the many amazing panels and keynotes - which don’t nearly do justice to the diversity and ingenuity of the topics covered, but hopefully give you a flavour of some of th...

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kitschbitch — May 13

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SXSWi - What Can We Learn from Games?

Evil virus from hell then sinus infection have laid me low. Hence severe lack of bloggage (and missing the 9 year anniversary of my first ever blog post - blimey!). And so the SXSW write-up continues! One of my favourite panels of SXSWi09 was What Can We Learn From Games?, with Henry Jenkins, Ja...

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kitschbitch — May 10