Yeah, we're still here
Welcome to Idealog Weekly, the free email newsletter for New Zealand commercial creatives, entrepreneurs and anyone rich with ideas.
In this week’s issue: yeah, we’re still here, off with a bang, love, livid, I smell a fish, puppy love, sage advice, brain power, the quote of the week.
Yeah, we’re still here
As you may expect from a magazine called Idealog, we’re pretty big on ideas—but counting? Meh. That’s why it may, or may not, have been 15 days since we sent you a newsletter. Who knows?
Anyway, in the meantime we’ve put a couple of stories up on the site for your viewing pleasure. ‘Maiden voyager’ is the written record of the day Vincent Heeringa backed Richard Branson into the corner of a humid room and pummeled him with questions like “Are you serious about being green or is it just the Branson branding machine at work?” You’ll find remnants of Branson’s sweat and Heeringa’s blood on our website.
Off with a bang
Eight years after the event everyone knows how to party like its 1999—but if you want to party like ’007 you better call in the big guns. Chris Morley-Hall is the party-organiser equivalent of an AK47. Part of the 90s British rave movement that welcomed the Public Order Act with fiercely brandished glow-sticks, these days he fires up this country’s biggest street festival—Wellington’s Cuba Street Carnival. Find out how he gets everyone raving in the streets.
Love, livid
Here’s a site for those who communicate with written wrath—or frequently encounter the handiwork of someone who does. Passive-aggressive notes is a file of A4 bile—often incongruously dotted with hearts and smiley faces, presumably meant to convey anger and loveliness are not mutually exclusive. Check it out, but NOT ON MY COMPUTER AGAIN MATT!!! :-)
I smell a fish
Geekologie is a cyber showplace for the work of geeks, ologists, crazies and those who are all three (creekologists). It’s full of things that not so much make you go ‘why didn’t I think of that?’ as just plain ‘why?’ The fish-bowl-deep-fryer for example, is difficult to put a use to—until you find it hails from the land where space is valued even more than sake. Because oil and water don’t mix, as long as your fish isn’t Nemo-curious it can live for ten years none the wiser it’s centimeters from being served up with your chips.
Puppy love
Just in case the paragraph above gave you the idea we’re not very animal aware over here (and coz it’s a frivolous Friday) check out the Hotdoll, the latest offering from Gizmodo. It’s been specially designed to keep your leg clean and your dog happy.
Sage advice
On a more serious note, the first installment of the AUT Idealog Innovation Series was a flyaway success—thanks to the man handing out the Red Bull wings. Josef Roberts advised 220 Idealogues to develop DDS (dogged determination syndrome) and to “watch out for the sexy girl in the office” (or like him, you may very quickly end up married with children). Join us at the next event to hear Rod Drury’s entrepreneurial entree and to cast your networking net.
Brain Food
If you’re hankering after a line or two this weekend, the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival will quench your intellectual cravings. Check out the wise words of future and present literary greats.
The New Zealand School of Dance is about to twirl out its graduates. Infinite Thread strings together all kinds of contemporary dance and trusses them up in feathers, denim and lace. Watch your back Madonna.
Visit Idealog’s events guide, Agenda, online and in print. Anyone can add an event to Agenda—just fill out the form on our website.
Quote of the week
“Virgin? Well it doesn’t sound like your airline’s going to go the whole way”
—Boeing’s response to Richard Branson’s request to lease a 747
More at Idealog online
Read more on our website: web exclusives, opinion, Idealog IP, the Idealog blogs and the Idealog podcast. See you at idealog.co.nz.
Gena Tuffery
Senior Writer
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