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National Media Museum and Life Online

National Media Museum and Life Online

The World Wide Web It’s Christmas Day, 1990.  Tim Berners-Lee is marvelling at the fact that the UK Christmas number one is by the 50 year old Cliff Richards who had his first hit 32 years ago when Tim was only three years old.  He should really have the day off, but it’s all too [...]

"Culture", * Featured March 6, 2012 3:37 pm 2 Comments

Puns turnip in the strangest places

Puns turnip in the strangest places

Here at Brass we love nothing more than combining quirky designs with a clever line or two of copy. “Taking the Picasso”, if you will. Which is why, upon recently watching an old episode of Have I Got News for You, a particular story caught my eye. The teams were talking about the Turnip Prize; a [...]

"Culture", * Featured February 29, 2012 11:11 am 0 Comments

Q & A with Dazed Digital

Q & A with Dazed Digital

I like Dazed & Confused; it’s always been on the bleeding edge of all things cultured. That’s what you get when you’ve got Rankin as one of your founding editors I guess. I follow @dazedmagazine and their Digital Director @alistairallan, and heard on twitter last week that they’d released a new version of Dazed Digital, [...]

"Culture", Technology September 15, 2010 5:20 pm 0 Comments

RIP Big Brother, belatedly.

RIP Big Brother, belatedly.

Big Brother, the show that popularised normality and turned notions of fame and celebrity on its head, has drawn its last breath. Big Brother made instant celebrities out of everyday people and in doing so pre-empted the radically different way in which we, the people, would go on to consume entertainment in the coming decade. [...]

"Culture" September 13, 2010 3:32 pm 1 Comment