Just delivered our 'taster session' to a small but keen group of local businesses yesterday.
I'm always amazed and intrigued by the diversity of people who attend these events. And my innate fear of public speaking is usually overridden by the interesting discussions generated. And it's always good to make a contribution to their success.
Yesterday we had everything from ceramic flower designers to a Brazilian brother/sister music duo. Which shows how far reaching and hopefully beneficial the interweb can be, even in a relatively unpopulated area like Moray.
The seminars are open to all (within that area) and if you want to know more then visit www.hiemorayworkshops.co.uk for more details.
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Saturday, March 18, 2006
The Beige Invasion
The web it seems is not immune to the all-consuming blandness which has been slowly eroding all kinds of creative industries recently.
Music has definitely been drawn into a malaise of well-produced but inoffensive tripe, with the likes of Norah Jones, Jamie Cullum, David Gray, Katie Melluah, James "cockney rhyming slang" Blunt and Daniel Powter to name but a few of the perpetrators of this tapioca of trite nonsense. Get a nice voice, a nice face, a nice personality and a nice producer and bob's yer biscuit (rich tea of course, for blandness).
And TV too has descended into a morass of unadulterated tedium. The never ending stream of consciousness pouring out from every member of Joe Public, defies the poular belief that the world is in a downward spiral because people are basically just so beige that it is hard to believe we're on a fast train to hell.
And having just read an article on Web Design Trends for 2006 I am beginning to fear that the dangerous sparks of creativity which the web has always engendered will be snuffed out. Apparently, with the rise of blogs, wikis, xml extranets and so on, the trend is towards standardisation and the inevitable sameiness this brings.
Ah! ha! Well, standardisation is what we've all been asking for, and there's no doubt that in some ways it helps more and more people to produce content for the web without having to be html literate. But I just hope that it isn't too successful and I end up living in a world where me doing the ironing is the top rated tv show, and all I listen to is Norah Jones on a loop.
Maybe hell is closer than I thought........
Music has definitely been drawn into a malaise of well-produced but inoffensive tripe, with the likes of Norah Jones, Jamie Cullum, David Gray, Katie Melluah, James "cockney rhyming slang" Blunt and Daniel Powter to name but a few of the perpetrators of this tapioca of trite nonsense. Get a nice voice, a nice face, a nice personality and a nice producer and bob's yer biscuit (rich tea of course, for blandness).
And TV too has descended into a morass of unadulterated tedium. The never ending stream of consciousness pouring out from every member of Joe Public, defies the poular belief that the world is in a downward spiral because people are basically just so beige that it is hard to believe we're on a fast train to hell.
And having just read an article on Web Design Trends for 2006 I am beginning to fear that the dangerous sparks of creativity which the web has always engendered will be snuffed out. Apparently, with the rise of blogs, wikis, xml extranets and so on, the trend is towards standardisation and the inevitable sameiness this brings.
Ah! ha! Well, standardisation is what we've all been asking for, and there's no doubt that in some ways it helps more and more people to produce content for the web without having to be html literate. But I just hope that it isn't too successful and I end up living in a world where me doing the ironing is the top rated tv show, and all I listen to is Norah Jones on a loop.
Maybe hell is closer than I thought........
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