Kester Brewin

Another great link from the super-powers at Ratio The Bubble Project is that simple. Get a load of speech bubble stickers. Stick them on ads. Go back later with a camera. Share online.

I realised I don’t need to go to church services anymore. All I need to do is look ‘through the keyhole’ and I recognise the ideology/theology of that place. It’s something television has exploited. And we understand it intuitively. ‘Through the keyhole’ the cameras wander around someone else’s house, from living room, to kitchen, to [...]

I know this blog is meant to be a place to throw some dirt around, but perhaps this is too much information: one of the books that is by the crapper in our house is a collection of Alistair Cooke’s Letters from America. Pithy, perfectly lengthed pieces on everything important from 1945 to 2004. And [...]

A week or so ago I wrote a post about how Advertising Makes Us All Poor; more recently Jonathan posted about re-imagining our public/discourse spaces and reflecting on what they say about us. In response to this, Wilf sent me links to this fascinating project where a whole street in Vienna agreed to be ‘de-lettered’ [...]

The Japanese principle of Kaizen proposes that the best way to change an organization is in tiny incremental steps. The permission-giving starts with the management of course, but the key is that each individual worker performing their little task within the company is given the power to change their environment or working practices so that [...]

Occasionally you read an article that seems to carry a scent of the future, and, ever so slightly, your world is re-framed. I came across this and was left thinking, “what the…?”

The idea in the previous post of there being limits on where we ought to live on earth was given another spin on a piece about whether creativity has limits: Rollo May: “Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose. The capacity to create ourselves, based [...]

Watching the news earlier today – Rita follows Katrina – I was struck by this thought: there are some places on earth that we weren’t meant to inhabit. Not that Houston or New Orleans are necessarily two of them (though building below sea level is always a fraught project, surely), but there are places that [...]

Go into any social gathering and you will see how the hierarchies are set up. Whether it’s the debating chamber of parliament, your living room, a local pub, an interview room, or a Sunday morning service… Forget what is actually being said or why. Forget content. Through the way the space is set up, relationships [...]

Over the past few weeks I’ve been speaking to people about doing some guest posts on the site… so you don’t all get bored of my input, and to throw some dirt around this place. Can get too sterile when it’s a lone voice! So there are some others who will be posting in the [...]