2011-01-11 19:11:34 // David MacGregor
// The Idealog Blog
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Advertising is famously populated with characters. The cliche is that of the ruthless, dashing fellow, characterised by Don Draper in the TV show Mad Men. There are the Machiavellian, the tortured and insecure, the banal and phantasmagoric; the attention seekers and poseurs. And then there are folk like Roger Dickinson …
2010-08-11 09:12:50 // Florence Noble
// Idealog #28: features
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Roseanne Liang directs her first feature film—based on her own life and starring two kung-fu movie veterans. No pressure, says Florence Noble.
2010-06-18 10:33:14 // Julie Starr
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FullCodePress is back this weekend—and this time a US team is here with some serious star power.
2010-03-12 13:11:10 // Florence Noble
// Idealog #26: features
From humble beginnings living on expired two-minute noodles to the heady heights of TV3 comedy 7 Days, the founders of production company thedownlowconcept have built a business out of taking the piss. By Florence Noble.
2010-01-19 08:57:00 // Sam Eichblatt
// Idealog #25: features
Designer Katie Taylor has done it her way from the beginning of her career, whether it’s design in the Middle East or acrobatics in Russia. She tells Sam Eichblatt about tenacity, life away from home and surviving London in a recession
2009-11-27 09:36:46 // Amanda Cropp
// Idealog #24: features
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Reality TV is old-school: Natural History New Zealand has been doing it for decades, bringing the weird, wild and wonderful into our living rooms. They’ve learned what viewers like, how to build happy relationships with US media monoliths and proved there’s more to New Zealand than birds. Amanda Cropp meets NHNZ’s wild things. Plus upping the wow factor and an outsider’s view.
2009-11-13 09:32:40 // Florence Noble
// Idealog #24: features
When Jaquie Brown frets on television about the shape of her head, she has Gerard Johnstone to thank. The writer, director and editor of The Jaquie Brown Diaries spends much of his time plotting his star’s most uncomfortable adventures—and the rest getting them to air. Florence Noble—part of the new series cast—tracks his journey from stunt school drop-out to creating our funniest sitcom.
2009-07-06 10:56:00 // Gena Tuffery
// Idealog #22: workshop
The ‘nine-day fortnight’ will report for duty at many workplaces this jolly July. On the tenth day, we’ll be rested
