10:10 Environmental Campaign launch at the Turbine Gallery at Tate Modern.
B&Q, Microsoft and Pret a Manger have become the latest household names to join the 10:10 climate change campaign, joining 25,000 individuals, 1000 businesses and hundreds of schools, hospitals and other organisations.
The 10:10 campaign, which the we here at Bedroom London definitely support, involves pledging to cut carbon emissions by 10% during 2010.
On signing up, B&Q announced a suite of measures it will use to meet the 10:10 target. These include making its 331 stores greener with better insulation and lighting systems, and rolling out a larger fleet of double-decker delivery trucks.
Matt Sexton, the company’s director of social responsibility, said: “Regardless of whether you have a commercial property or are looking at your own home, the process for lowering its carbon footprint is virtually the same.
“To begin, that means insulating well and maximising natural light so you’re not paying for energy that’s simply being wasted.”
“We also clock up a lot of transport miles. We introduced 60 double-decker lorries this year – a move already saving us 4,800 miles a day. “
Since the launch of 10:10 last month, it has attracted a broad range of support, from Gordon Brown and the entire government and shadow cabinets, to business giants like Royal Mail and Aviva, and personalities including Sara Cox, Ian McEwan and Kevin McCloud.
We really are trying aren’t we – so lets keep it up!
2010 Blockbusters ….
08/10/2009
So summer blockbuster season is over …. but whats going to be big in 2010 ???
Any of these …. let us know if you know something we don’t
Iron Man 2
Kick-Ass
The A Team
The Wolfman
Robin Hood
The Expendables
Inception
Tron: Legacy
Toy Story 3
Predators
Man Booker Prize won by Hilary Mantel !
07/10/2009
Chanel , not all pearls no more!
06/10/2009
Lily Allen burst through a trapdoor on to a catwalk in the Paris Grand Palais and began singing her hit Not Fair.
Models parading the new collection around a reconstruction of the Hameau de la Reine, Marie Antoinette’s play farm at Versailles, will perhaps go down in fashion history as the moment when Chanel finally shook off any vestiges of a fusty, tweed-and-pearls image.
For all the dark glasses and affected enigma, designer Karl Lagerfeld is every bit as much a showman as Prince, today’s front row guest of honour.
The fashion industry now is about entertainment as well as product, and Lagerfeld delights in this.
With Allen’s appearance providing the theatrical element of surprise, and a finale of three models faux-romping in a bale of hay ramping up the staged sauciness, today’s Chanel show had more in common with an episode of Strictly Come Dancing than with the sober in-house fashion parades from the days of Mademoiselle Coco Chanel herself.
The rustic theme may turn out to be one of next summer’s key trends, however. Lagerfeld is not alone in proposing barn dance chic at Paris fashion week, with Stefano Pilati at Yves Saint Laurent referencing haute-peasant looks from the YSL archive at his show yesterday evening. In particular, clogs – the dominant shoe of both the Chanel and Celine collections – may be set for a comeback.
Allen, looking scrumptious in gold and black Chanel sequins, did rather too good a job of proving that Chanel does not only suit twiglet-shaped models, casting the catwalk models in their costumey milkmaid get-ups and heavy wooden clogs into stark relief.
The models, who had clearly been instructed to “do sexy” for the cameras, looked thoroughly unconvinced by their outfits as they mugged and pouted.
All exciting stuff for Chanel … keep it up!
Doctor, Who ?
06/10/2009
The BBC has unveiled a new logo for Doctor Who for 2010.
The show’s official website today revealed that the ‘taxi-style’ look adopted under Russell T Davies’ reign on the show will make way for new branding that plays on the iconic Tardis design.
As well as a new title sequence with the name in full, the BBC has plumped for the letters D and W in the shape of the Tardis, which will be used in merchandising and brand extensions.
Red Bee Media is overseeingthe new branding of the show, including the logo, which was created by Tony Pipes and Matt Rhodes.
A BBC spokesman said “Doctor Who is a series which has constantly evolved and regenerated for over four decades. In celebration of the new Doctor, Matt Smith, we felt that the time was right for an exciting new brand identity for the show.”
Incoming showrunner Steven Moffat told Digital Spy: “A new logo. The eleventh logo for the eleventh Doctor – those grand old words, Doctor Who, suddenly looking newer than ever.
“And look at that, something really new – an insignia. DW in TARDIS form. Simple and beautiful, and most important of all, a completely irresistible doodle. I apologise to school notebooks everywhere, because in 2010 that’s what they’re going to be wearing.”
Matt Smith will take over from David Tennant in the lead role in early 2010.
Whats the views on the the logo ?
Rights holder Kentaro turned down a six-figure sum from ITV to show the highlights of the England World Cup qualifier against Ukraine on a terrestrial station.
Broadcast understands that the deal would have allowed the commercial broadcaster to show the highlights of the match following The X Factor this Saturday, but the offer was refused.
The amount requested for the highlights package by Kentaro was deemed “commercially unviable” according to an ITV source.
The stand-off means that people who want to see the game will have to pay between £4.99 and £12 to watch it online.
The away game will not be shown in pubs although it will be screened in some Odeon cinemas.
ITV has not ruled out acquiring the highlights after the match, but because the result will not affect England’s chances of playing in the World Cup next year, the source said it was “unlikely”.
If that was to happen, it would mirror last year’s deal where ITV showed highlights to an England game shown only on Setanta the following night.
So is this what the future holds ?
TV always on out computers … ? sitting watching our lap tops ?
Let us know your thoughts …
Turner prize time again ….
05/10/2009
A filthy, unmade bed. A shark pickled in formaldehyde. Some lights going on and off.
These are just a few of the past Turner Prize hopefuls which have prompted screaming tabloid headlines and public derision alike.
The time for the latest exhibition of contemporary artists’ work vying for the prestigious £25,000 prize has arrived again at Tate Britain.
As someone who has only seen the show once and didnt really understand it much then i think that now is the time to visit the gallery with wide, child-like eyes and a fresh perspective.
Richard Wright, has created a painting on one of the gallery walls using the painstaking, age-old fresco techniques of the old masters – drawing a cartoon, tracing it on the wall, then painting over it and finally gilding it.
Roger Hiorns has displayed, as a sculpture, the dust that constitutes the physical remains of a passenger jet engine, simply sprinkled in shades of grey over the floor of one of Tate Britain’s galleries. “The engine has been dematerialised,” says Tate curator Helen Little. “We are prompted to reconsider our faith in technology, and to think about the entropy of all things: all objects are, in the end, dust.”
Lucy Skaer – the second Scotland-based name on the shortlist, reflecting the strength of the visual arts north of the border – has brought with her an entire sperm whale skull, loaned from the National Museums of Scotland, and then largely hidden it behind screens so that it is only just glimpsed by visitors. According to curator Lizzie Carey-Thomas, it is a process of slowing down the act of looking and the viewer’s moment of perception, so that “the eye oscillates between the detail and the recognition of the form; she draws us into an encounter with the image.”
Enrico David, who has created a bizarre cast of sculptural characters who sit on a stage, waiting – somewhat aggressively – to be sized up by visitors. A construction worker bares his backside; Kenneth Williams appears, somewhat incongruously; and strange, egg-shaped papier-mache men line up to be scrutinised “with a sense of antagonistic resignation,” according to Carey-Thomas.
The winner, who will be awarded £25,000, is announced on 7 December 2009.
Worth a look – would love to hear what you all think about it …
To add or not to add ….
05/10/2009
What do you do with that former bully’s friend request?
Facebook friends aren’t always friends, are they?
So what do you do with a would-be one who most definitely wasn’t a friend at all? A person who used to bully you between the ages of 6 and 16 – not physical bullying, more just being a real sod – has sent you a friend request on Facebook. Do you ignore them? Explain why you’re not accepting their request? Or accept them, and let bygones be bygones?
Could this be the chance to actually let them see all the great things that came to you – Spy on all the on goings in their life!
Its a tricky one but im sure we’ve all been in the situation where you just leave it hanging – weeks or months … Accept or ignore ?
Oh the dramas of the social media!
Google starts its Waveing
02/10/2009
Google Wave, a browser-based tool combines email, instant messaging and real-time interaction, is one of the most anticipated products to emerge this year.
Today at 4pm BST the company will send out invitations to 100,000 users for further beta testing, including developers, people who signed up early and some users of Google Apps.
Google first showcased the product in May and published an 80-minute video on YouTube, which has been was watched more than 4m times to date.
The buzz about the collaboration tool soon became deafening. Some have claimed that Google Wave is just an “email and instant messaging on steroids”, but it could well well change the way web users collaborate. Indeed, the structure of the tool is flexible enough that it could be adapted for many different kinds of team working. Examples that have been suggested include the planing of a trip; scientific work in the lab or on an academic paper; the streamlining of the movie-making process; collaborative business modeling; or journalism.
Indeed, Google Wave might have an impact on the landscape of journalism. It could change newsrooms and boost citizen journalism. Google Wave could speed up the collaborative journalistic process from research to writing, including quotes, enriching articles with pictures and videos. Stories could be corrected by subeditors using Google Wave, while readers could suggest changes and use the tool to discuss the article.
If you want to lear more about the Wave … check out this video
However, this buzz doesn’t guarantee the success of Google Wave. Although the product connects with other live editing tools, it still might fail to reach a critical mass.
The fact that Google Wave will run in most browsers except Internet Explorer might be a setback; users of the Microsoft browser will have to download a plug-in called Chrome Frame to use the application.
Google pretty much are taking over the world … ! So what do we think about this ?
Internet now bigger than TV ?
30/09/2009
Spending on internet advertising in Britain grew 4.6 percent in the first half of 2009, outperforming the wider ad sector, which slumped 17 percent, and making it the country’s biggest ad medium ahead of TV.
Online advertising spend grew to £1.75 billion pounds, with the medium accounting for 23.5 percent of all spend, ahead of television for the first time.
The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) biannual report, a survey conducted independently by PricewaterhouseCoopers and WARC, said key drivers of the growth were marketers using online as a direct response medium, “taking advantage of its targeting, accountability and measurability”, and booming e-commerce activity.
“This is the first major market where online has overtaken television to become the biggest single medium,” said Guy Phillipson, chief executive of the IAB. “This is a significant milestone.”
According to the report, the internet accounted for 23.5 percent of all spend, compared with 18.7 percent in the first half of 2008.
Television accounted for 21.9 percent, press display for 18.5 percent and direct mail for 11.5 percent.
The IAB report said the internet had avoided the advertising slump in general media, due to the strong demand for paid-for search on sites such as Google and resilience shown by classified online ads.
The study abreaks down the online display market by industry category, with technology the biggest spender, accounting for 19.1% of the market, followed by telecoms (13.3% rising from 9.7% the previous year) and finance (13.2% up from 11.9%).
Consumer goods saw significant growth up from 6.2% in H1 2008 to 8.1% in 2009 as FMCG marketers steadily increased digital budgets.
So what is going to happen to our could old Telly Box ? Will the new age family cather around the Laptop to watch the TV and what will all the living room furniture point to ?
Who ever knows whats around the corner with exciting changes in media – this article just sparks off many more questions indeed.
