Starlings in the Slipstream

A diary. Most thoughts on books, brands, business, design, food, music and sport.

Monday, 14 November 2016

Books

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A short summary of recent books I have read, that have made an impression on me and I wish to remember. Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Sel...

Reasons for restarting this blog.

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A blog gives me: The motivation and space to focus my opinions and thoughts on subjects I find interesting. These subjects are generally...
Monday, 26 April 2010

Peugeot

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I was eating in a restaurant recently and noticed that the pepper mill in the middle of the table was made by Peugeot. Interestingly I felt ...
Sunday, 1 November 2009

Ah, Maggie, in the world of advertising, there's no such thing as a lie. There's only the expedient exaggeration. You ought to know that.

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One month in and there've been ups; downs; learning; re-learning; adjusting; adapting; getting the last train back and the first train i...
Friday, 25 September 2009

Gone Poachin'...

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Whilst stalking around the always excellent north-western America surf scene blog Sissyfish, I found the trailer to a new surf film "T...
Wednesday, 23 September 2009

More posters for Andy

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Three more with the correct details this time... Third draft complete with totally inappropriate skull. Fourth draft Fifth draft
Tuesday, 22 September 2009

UCLA Photo Archive

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After an amazing few days away, during which we scored overhead hossegor surf and climbed mountains in the Pryennes, I'm back. I'll...
Thursday, 10 September 2009

Gone Surfing...

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Have been working loads in the local pub to save up enough cash to go on one final adventure before starting my job up in London. 10 days of...
Sunday, 30 August 2009

Poster for Andy

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mk.1 mk. 2 A couple of drafts, mainly for Andy's benefit. Details are all TBC/obviously wrong so don't go turning up on the 22nd. ...
Tuesday, 25 August 2009

"Eat Bachelor Chow!"

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Conclusive proof that life is slowly turning into that depicted in Futurama: Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. from Chris Cairns on Vimeo...
Sunday, 16 August 2009

Spanglish

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Once your past the matador stuff there is some nice BMX action over a pretty big hip; nice tables and in-downs. Bueno.
Friday, 14 August 2009

Familjen

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Putting this up not only 'cos the track is rad, (I've been hitting indie-electro pretty hard of late, Familjen, Passion Pit and Yuks...
Sunday, 9 August 2009

Summit Fever

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I finally got round to watching Us Now recently. Apart from making Ed Milliband look a bit of a tit, it hit on something that I've be...
Thursday, 6 August 2009

Elementary Digital Marketing

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A really well executed piece of digital marketing/general fun from Element skateboards via  interactivemarketingtrends.blogspot.com/ Please ...
Tuesday, 4 August 2009

The Human Genome and a Typography Exhibition in Newcastle

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Spent the arvo in the Wellcome Trust gallery and library, part of the medical science exhibition was the entire human genome published in bo...
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