I watched this TED talk today, which Morgan Spurlock was presenting. It is a fascinating insight into the world of branding, how it can be achieved, and potentially manipulated, in turn, manipulating us, the consumer! Morgan is a highly engaging speaker, who has produced several documentaries; his most famous, for me, was called ‘Supersize Me’,…
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The Voices Behind The Simpsons
The Actors Behind The Characters Continuing my current theme of bringing you random YouTube videos all themed around voice over artists and voice actors of well-known productions, I thought you’d rather like this one – the voices behind all the Simpson’s characters. There are many videos on YouTube with these guys doing interviews interspersed with…
The Voices Of Star Wars
I thought you’d find this video I found interesting; it’s of some voiceover artists in America earning their crust doing voices (often several of them) in this case for Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series.
Twitter Is 5 Years Old
On Monday 21st March, Twitter turned 5. It’s certainly come a long way since the early days where people thought it was just a fad. Now with so many users, I think it’s safe to say it’s here for a little while yet. As a voice over artist, I tend to use it every day…
Why It’s Not A Good Idea To Broadcast Drunk
This is a rather old video that was not too long ago tweeted by the Right Hon. Stephen Fry. It’s well worth a watch, and kind of shows why it’s not a good idea to ever commentate on anything whilst slightly merry 🙂 It’s The Spithead Royal Naval review of 1937, commentator Lt Cdr Tommy Woodroffe.
iPhone 5 To Receive A5 Chip
UPDATE In the last couple of days, it has emerged that Sony CEO Howard Stringer had let slip that Sony are to supply the iPhone 5’s camera sensors, to add further speculation that the iPhone 5 will sport an 8MP camera. He’d apparently leaked this information quite unintentionally, but this has naturally got the tech…
Google Is Changing The Game
Could the days of SEO experts be numbered? Well, maybe not quite so melodramatically, but Google have yesterday announced that they’re changing the game as far as website ranking goes. No longer will it be focussed on keyword-rich metadata, descriptions and the like, but will more focus on the indexing of original fresh content.
QR Codes In Business
Are you using QR codes in your business? I am, and it seems to be an ever-increasing trend. I’d not even heard of them until I heard a talk by Luke Carthy from Mint Marketing. Ever since I’ve started using them in several places, on this site on the contact page, on my business cards,…
Getting Your Website Sticky
I have recently joined forces with Bruce Boulton from Lantern Photography to launch a new product – Sound & Vision – which combines the power of stunning photos with a professional voiceover and music, to create an eye-catching, impactful slideshow. It’s the kind of thing that can be placed anywhere on your site, hosted on…
Meerkat Harborough Press Day
Well, the day arrived. After receiving confirmation Market Harborough had won the competition, we had a call to attend the grand unveiling of the new 1-day-only signpost, to be changed to ‘Meerkat Harborough‘. It meant an early start for me living over an hour away, for an early call time, but it was well worth…