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Lighten Your Load & Lighten Up This Christmas Time
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I'm sure you are dying to escape work but just before you zip off, I have been sniffing, scratching and scrounging about to find some cultural madness to share with you. Hope it raises a smile. (Best to view thru your browser.)
IMAGE: A Burden, 2012, David Shrigley
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Beware belfies, stop phubbing, vaping and avoid bloatware and sharents
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It's that time of the year when it is time to beef up your vocab. Thank you to Pan Macmillan Dictionary, Time and Huffington Post for these gems to add to your vocab.
belfie: selfie showing off the booty area
bloatware also fatware: software that uses an excessive amount of computing power and therefore wastes memory or disk space that could be used for other purposes.
coatigan: a long knitted jacket with long sleeves which is worn over other clothes and looks similar to a coat.
duffin: a trademarked sweet cake which is a combination of a muffin and a doughnut.
hashtag stuffer: someone who cannot post something without adding ridiculous amounts of hashtags after it.
media meshing: the activity of using hand-held electronic devices (e.g. mobile phones, tablet computers) to make comments or read about a TV programme at the same time as watching it
motherism: a prejudice which leads stay-at-home mothers to be viewed as stupid, lazy and unattractive … He came out this week in defence of the stay-at-home mother, telling a conference that motherism should be tackled in the same vein as racism is.'
phubbing: the activity of being impolite in a social situation by looking at your phone instead of paying attention to the person you are with.
sharent: a parent who regularly uses social media to communicate a lot of detailed information about their child.
sip and see (party): a party given by new parents so that friends and family can see their newborn baby.
vape: to inhale (= breathe into your lungs) the vapour produced by an electronic cigarette.
zero hours contract also zero hour contract: an employment agreement in which a person only works when the employer needs them and so has no regular amount of work or working hours (That's what I do for lots of my clients!)
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A hashtag stuffer en route to a funeral, don't forget to hashtag #rip
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Funeral selfies raise so many issues about smart phone etiquette (and narcissism).
SOURCE: BUZZFEED
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Beyond oversharing
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Selfies at Funerals is, well, a sign of the times. She forgot to hashtag the #rip.
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The ultimate funeral selfie
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Calling all "innovative, passionate, dynamic experts"
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I have ADORED pimping up a range of clever people's LinkedIn profiles and was very happy to read LinkedIn's post this week that listed the most OVERUSED words in profiles.
Take note, arghghghghghghghgh.
1. Responsible
2. Strategic
3. Effective
4. Creative
5. Innovative
6. Expert
7. Positive
8. Passionate
9. Driven
10. Dynamic
Source: LinkedIn.
In short, I end up taking all these words out of your profile so save yourself some time, or buzz me in the new year and I will do it for you.
IMAGE: FRIEZE ART FAIR, 2013 via INSTAGRAM
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Twitter strikes back
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SOURCE: MASHABLE
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Rebranding Santa really, really badly
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Had to share this update on Santa piece from the brilliant Weasel Words which is a very juicy place to send spectacular crimes against the English language. It was sourced from Quiteroom in the UK. (Gulp.) I have no words to respond to the punctuation either.
"*Santa* is a Concept, not an idea. It's an Emotion, not a feeling. It's both Yesterday and Today. And it's Tomorrow as well.
*Santa* winds infinite Possibilities around finite Limitations to evoke the essence of invention and the Odour of Nostalgia. It has the complexity of Simpleness and the Simplicity of complexitiveness."
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Hashtag hell #sorrynotsorry
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You thought texting was tricky, get a load of these...
#mcm - mancrushmonday
#wcw - womancrushwednesday
#sorrynotsorry - the ultimate non-apology
#justsaying
#rageblackout
#SeizureSalad - Caesar Salad
#FalayMenyawn - Filet Mignon
#FlamingYoung - Filet Mignon
#ootd - outfit of the day
#Manaids - Mayonnaise
#tagsforlikes
#yolo - you only live once
FYI: The correct nerdy name for hashtag is octothorpe, in reference to its eight points.
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2013 = sexist menu
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Goes with Julia's Kentucky Fried Quail perfectly.
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Taste, see, hear, touch, smell
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TASTE A mulo romano with extra mint or cold-pressed Greens #3 at PJs.
SEE Apart from NYMag's "oversimplified guide to taste hierarchies" the Approval Matrix, Bill Cunningham's weekly videos and the brilliant Crash Reel (available on Apple TV), I'm hoping Steve McQueen's new movie 12 Years A Slave will do it this Jan.
HEAR Can't wait to listen to NPR's All Songs Considered podcast of its 50 Favorite Albums of the Year (or grab it on iTunes).
TOUCH Hamam marble at Peninsula Hot Springs.
SMELL Continued obsession with clove, ginger, patchouli, vetiver and coconut charcoal incense as well as the clove, cinnamon and orange in Cire Trudon's Nazareth.
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Just one more round of hashtags
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For Christmas, for pure irritation...
#christmas #holidays #tistheseason #TagsForLikes #holiday #summer #instagood #happyholidays #elves #lights #presents #gifts #gift #tree #decorations #ornaments #carols #santa #santaclaus #mrsclaus #photooftheday #love #xmas #red #green #christmastree #family #jolly #snow #merrychristmas
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Copy that!
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Some fun facts about sloths might inspire you to model their behaviour this summer. New research has been released by the Max Planck Institute in Germany.
1. They are not that slothful. They only sleep 9.5 hours per day.
2. The sloth's dirtiness creates its own ecosystem for other life. Sloths do not consider showering a priority. Moths, algae et al enjoy its habitat so it works out for the best. Copy that.
Read more from fw.com
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#YOLO amigos
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Thank you to my fantastic clients, friends, family, contacts, weak ties, Facebook and Instagram friends. And a special shout out to Shannah Kennedy
and Eckhart Yoga. I hope you have a fantastic break and a happy, healthy 2014. Am looking forward to all sorts of projects next year, in particular more public speaking coaching, producing websites, a new online media course in collaboration with The Big Canvas, more work with KERB Media, writing other peoples' pitches, ridding the word of bullet points in PowerPoints, strategic comms assignments and pro bono projects with Hagar. Sounds a bit chaotic but it's far from it - that's how bespoke tailors work!
I'm going to try for a New Year's Resolution via Robert Thurman, to develop the transcendent virtue of heroic creativity. Thurman says: "Creativity is defined in various ways as enterprise, joy in doing good, enthusiasm, unshakable self-confidence and positive inspiration." Copy that.
IMAGE: Do watcha can where you are with whatcha got, 2013 by one of my very favorite artists Nell. SOURCE: Instagram for EMILYROSSBESPOKE
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Stuck for gifts?
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Why not put some medical care, catch up school, food, trauma counselling and/or career development on your present list this Christmas? Click and gift right here. The more you give, the more you get I say.
It was wonderful to be a part of the team that collaborated on this video about Hagar's work. Very cool to be working with the likes of Rachel Griffiths, Guilty, The Post Project and the brilliant Hagar teams in Melbourne and Phnom Penh . Quite a bunch. |
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2013 I selfie therefore I am
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Selfie is the world of the year. A report in The Guardian says there has been a 17,000% increase in its usage.
Have to go now, urgently need to take another selfie.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
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