QUESTIONING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
On Wednesday I enjoyed a rare evening excursion to see the new Leveller's film 'A Curious Life'. It was screened at the Duke of York's Cinema with the band performing a life set after the screening. I arrived in Brighton in 1987 and The Levellers as a band started in 1988. In the early years, …
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The Orb are celebrating their twenty fifth anniversary with a tour and new compilation History of the Future. I remember hearing them on John Peel as a youngster. He didn't play their first single, but when they retitled it A huge evergrowing pulsating brain that rules from the centre of the ultraworld, he was sold. …
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I've spent the cold dark months of this winter lost inside Netflix. It's like the web you browse and they browse. You gravitate towards genres, in my case dark detective stories. These have included Cracker, Waking the Dead, Dexter, Wallender (Lassgard), Wallender (Branagh) and Wallender(Henriksson). It's odd in that I had a free choice, nobody …
After a quiet and reflective period, I embraced technology on New Year's Eve (2012). It wasn't rocket science by most people's standards, but for me it was a bit of a tipping point. I'd been interested in internet TV for some time, but did not want to invest in a new TV given that they …
This was the title of an all day event I had the pleasure of attending today as part of the Brighton Science Festival. Brighton loves festivals, whilst the arts festival is the most famous, there are also many other festivals including, music, cinema, literature and science. This was my first experience of attending the …
The above titled documentary came unexpectedly crashing into my life last Friday evening. About twenty five years ago I watched Baka: People of the rainforest and almost half a life time ago it made a big impression upon me. It featured people living in the rainforest of South Eastern Cameroon living a simple life, free …
Over recent months, sunsets and sunrises have caught my imagination like never before. Apart from birth and death, they are the most visual and symbolic endings and beginnings in our lives. Literally the day begins and the day ends. Whilst what comes in-between is often just noise, sunrises and sunsets are always a performance. I …
