Let’s face it, for members of the creative department, sitting through a media presentation is pretty much the definition of death by a thousand cuts (or a thousand spreadsheets anyway). But in an era when even the cleaners are being told to think creatively, media presentations are starting to become entertaining. I of course refer [...]

Sorry, I meant ‘The Leopardstown Inn’. Now this isn’t shameless promotion (shameless self-promotion, yes) at all here, if you have never been to this pub, do it now. There’s no other pub in the country like it. We were speechless on the tour. And believe me, it is a tour. Anyhoo, here are two new [...]

I need to go find me a lift and try this out. Pity buildings with lifts in Dublin have an average of about four floors. Did you know that our two tallest buildings have 16? Skyscrapers me hole.

The Samsung Wave HD is a pretty smart phone, as smart phones go. When it came to developing an idea for it, I asked the question, “Why do people (like me) who do not have iPhones, not have one?” When I thought about it, as cool and as tempting as they are, I found they [...]

The Excuses campaign for TV licence has gone into extra time with these two new spots I wrote and produced last week. Only when I recorded them did I and everyone else in the room realise what a dark and yet light-filled corner I must have been kneeling in when I wrote them.

“Terrible Gift”

“The Thing”

Did like a bazillion of these for the Licensed Vintners Association’s sponsorship of segments on 98fm. Few of them turned out real nice.
 
The Movie Minute

 
Cúpla Focal

 
Sports Break

So I finished the first draft of me book. 92 thousand odd words. It’s a bit of a mess but I had to get it finished. Now the really hard part; doing the second pass and ironing out all the creases. I’m not good at ironing in the real world, so I hope I haven’t [...]

One really has to get one’s blogging shit together, doesn’t one? Haven’t posted since God was a boy and it would look to the untrained eye like I’ve been staying in bed the past few months. That untrained eye would be half-right. My brain has been having of a bit of duvet day, even though [...]

At one stage I didn’t think I had enough story to make it to 50,000 words. The way it’s sprouting at the moment I think I’ll be doing well to keep it under 100.