Author Archives: Chris Wright
There’s an awful lot of bollox that gets talked about brands these days. Personal brands, global brands, build your brand, sell your brand. Sits neatly next to the instant gratification culture we seem to be hell bent on creating. I wonder what happened to craft? In Brighton, the capital city of quirk, brand led ventures [...]
Now I’m pretty tolerant of business language on the whole. Certain americanisms ending in “ize” (or even “isms”!) are mildly irritating, but they get the job done. This week however I came across a phrase that sets a new low. The use of “Sexed Up” in a business context is surely a step too far. [...]
Could it be that Karl Marx was right? Instinctively, I’ve felt for some time now that capitalism and the associated relentless lust for novelty is basically no better than a pyramid selling scheme, by which I mean that our obsession with economic growth has the effect that any wealth accumulated by an organisation or individual [...]
OK this is shameless self publicity, but what the hell, its my blog! Finally, I’ve got around to putting a portfolio of my photography up on the web. It can be found at Electrical Image, hosted by the very wonderful 500px. Should anyone become so enthralled as to wish to purchase any of my work, [...]
I’ve put off writing this post in the aftermath of the rioting, partly because I’m keenly aware that ranting about politics is not what this blog was originally set up to do, partly because I suspected in my cynical and road weary fashion that we’d get a bunch of soundbytes from Prime Minister Cameron asserting [...]
It’s hard after three days of the worst and most pointless rioting the UK has ever suffered, to put words together that don’t sound like cliches. I guess in part its because I used to live in London, only a few hundred yards away from where the violence erupted in Enfield and I know people [...]
One of the things that is driving me nuts is the escalating price of wi-fi. It’s £6 an hour in the Marriott or £15 for 24 hours. Why? I travel a fair amount on business and this is a trend across all of the hotels I stay in – Holiday Inn & Marriott most recently. [...]
So, after three and a half years, the time has come to move on. Music has served me well, affording me a living throughout the eighties and nineties, but new music is no longer occupying the place it once did in my life. There is still some great music being created, but I’ve lost the … Continue reading »
The view from Holloway is probably quite different to that from Chipping Norton, the tory stronghold where the likes of Rebekah Brooks and Jeremy Clarkson hobnob with hapless Prime Minister David Cameron. Yet it is the view from Holloway with which Ms.Brooks may become most familiar. The Phone Hacking scandal is shaping up nicely. If [...]
So, after all the politics, chicanery and tripe, some magic. Instagr.am, as you probably know is a popular app for the iPhone which piggybacks on the Camera and allows you to share photos with friends. Better yet, you can apply a selection of filters to the said photos in the app. I was messing about [...]
