It's the second time that the proper art review of the week hasn't really contained any proper art. This is out of 2 occasions too, making it a 100% failure rate - so apologies. It's just that this week we have been working on some of our Christmas marketing materials we are hoping will win us some new business and that with the fact that today is the 1st of December has made me feel all Christmassy. The video below is the intro sequence for 'The Box of Delights' which brings back really great Christmas memories from yesteryear and I wanted to share it with you all. Andy had never heard of it, which disturbs me greatly - but this should not put you off basking in some nostalgia.
For most people I think it's fair to say that the car is probably the single most expensive thing that they own. Even if you own an antique rifle, an iPad or a complete set of the Natwest piggy banks from the 80s, selling these on Ebay would only fetch a fraction of the amount a car is likely to set you back and seeing as this investment is likely to be paid off over some years, it's worth thinking really carefully about what it is you are buying. A car says a lot about the owner and getting the balance between who you think you are, how others perceive you and how well it functions is a tricky task. I don't want to dwell on stereotypes particularly but when you see that 21yr old pull up in his W-reg purple Corsa sporting a home made bodykit made from Kit-Kat wrappers and Tango cans emblazoned erratically down the bonnet with poorly realised Viper stripes, I think it's fair to say that you might have an idea about the character of the driver (ie. Twat).
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Some bright spark marketing team have announced the newest member of their much loved Transformers line of toys is to be named 'Spastic'. Apparently this means something different to our stateside brothers and sisters, but over here in Blighty it is a potentially very offensive term used in a derogatory fashion toward the disabled. A perfect example of marketeers not being able to see the wood for the trees and a lesson to us all to look at what we are doing.
