News & Blog - October 2010
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Fri 29th Oct 10 Best Of Kendal Night Announced
We're excited to announce a Best Of Kendal film night at The Broadway Cinema in Nottingham on Dec 5th. If you're wondering about an equivalent night in Sheffield, we're working on it and hope to bring it to you some time in the first half of 2011. Watch this space.
Tue 26th Oct 10 The Youngest Ever Billionaire
Went to the cinema last night (the awesome Showroom in Sheffield) to see The Social Network. Having just taken on an ex BBC Radio Producer (with vertigo!) as a part time PR specialist to help work on my events, social media has been high on the agenda for the last week or so. You may have noticed a revamp of my Facebook and Twitter profiles (please sign up if you haven't done already as I am trying to post interesting stuff there each day). Coincidentally I also watched a popular Youtube video yesterday on the sheer power of social media. I shan't list the various stats here (as that is mainly what the video is), suffice to say that it's worth watching.
The film charts the dawn of Facebook by a couple of students at Harvard, the incredibly fast growth of the site into a phenomenon the likes of which the world has never seen before. If Facebook were a country it would be the third largest in the world with over 500,000,000 users (and that is without China!). Owner and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest ever billionaire (born in 1984 and currently worth over $25Billion!). The main character in the film (played by Jesse Eisenberg), Zuckerberg made a lot of enemies along the road to where he is now which makes for a very, very absorbing and entertaining film. I went to bed last night thinking about Facebook and woke up doing the same, and here I am Blogging about it. It's a funny old world we live in!
Fri 22nd Oct 10 New Website - Moon Acupuncture
If things weren't busy enough with event planning I've just finished a re-design of Jo Moon's acupuncture website: http://www.moonacupuncture.co.uk/
Thu 21st Oct 10 The Apprentice!
What a bunch of muppets! If you don't watch the Apprentice I'd strongly urge you to do so. It is one of the best bits of TV entertainment ever conceived in my mind. I watch very little TV, but look forward to my Wed nights. For those who don't know the concept, 15 people are effectively being interviewed for a high flying job as an apprentice to entrepreneur Alan Sugar. Each episode they are set a fairly hefty task (for example to think of, design and sell a brand new beach product, all within a 48 hour period). The interviewees are split into two teams and compete against each other. One member of the losing team is fired.
Sounds simple enough. It is. The tasks are pretty tricky, but these are folk aiming for a £100,000 salary job so you'd expect them to have the credentials necessary. So why is it that week after week the project leader (different each time) turns into a raving lunatic that wouldn't be able to manage a GCSE project? I'll admit that as a viewer I am being manipulated and toyed with by a team of very clever editors, and that each episode a new character or two are picked up to look incredibly silly, but that doesn't get around the fact that they say and do some down-right daft things! Then there's the argument that they're just doing it to get on the telly. Well given the fact that there is a 14 out of 15 chance that they will be fired and end up looking like a total wally in front of millions, I can't see that The Apprentice is really a very sensible road to fame and stardom! It'd be interesting to know what the previous contestants have got up to since their time in the limelight (the series is a few years old now).
Can't wait for Ben Elton to parody it in one of his books!
