The Film Industry in a Digital Age with Lord Puttnam

Lord Puttnam is a game-changing thinker, who is not only a film producer with iconic credits to his name including Bugsy Malone and Chariots Of Fire, but he passionately supports young people as founder of Skillset and as an international educator.

I went along to a talk he was giving on 'The Film Industry in a Digital Age' at the International Students House (ISH) in London, and was inspired by his futurist thinking about what the the film industry has to do to survive and thrive in the ever changing digital topography of fast-consumerism, his passion for the BBC and his views on experiential cinema.

IMAGE: Look-in The Six Million Dollar Magazine

 Spending hours trawling the web for work, play and inspiration, I thought I might start sharing some of my favourite pictorial finds, and of course, with an obligatory geeky flavour (and on that note, what is the geekiest flavour I wonder?).

Evocative Dulux advert - a world without colour

Paint brand Dulux has been taking notes from films like Pleasantville and The Artist and have jumped, quite beautifully I may add, on the vintage bandwagon with a highly stylised pastiche on the prohibition-era.

Sausages! Animals in adverts - why do they stay with us?

Off the back of my last post about Culture Magazine’s simple ad, it sparked a conversation between myself and my boyfriend about adverts we grew up with.

We enjoyed very similar recollections, both being British and our similar ages helping frame our collective memory being children of the 80s, but the one theme that unified our favourites, was the age-old classic of the animal star turn.

Inside No 9 - Deliciously Sinister Drama

I was introduced to Inside No 9 by a friend at work. When I asked him to describe the first episode to me, unsure as he struggled for words, he finally grabbed (quite appropriately) at ‘disturbing’.

An advert worth sharing - The Sunday Times Culture

Watching television advert breaks these days is like a barrage to the senses - with so many products, personalities, tag lines and tones of voice (flashback to Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror episode Fifteen Million Merits), it comes as genuine relief when an ad shines out that makes you actually want to voluntary watch it again.

AUDIO: DK Chats with The Great British Bake Off Judge Mary Berry

Love celebrity cook Mary Berry? Well the national treasure and judge of The Great British Bake Off popped into our DK Books headquarters and discussed everything from dinner party planning to her choice of dessert when putting on a feast for Prince William and Kate Middleton (as well as plugging her book Cook Up A Feast).