Creative Industries

If anyone happens by this and knows more than I about what is taking place (if anything) in the course this term, would you mind elaborating?
Hope everyone is enjoying exam-freedom.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition

Deepest apologies for my lack of posts. Be assured that I have saved many stimulating articles in my blog favourites to illuminate your lives. I am at present engaged in writing my dissertation, which must be handed in (nicely presented) in 10 days. 10 days! I terrify myself into working.
As soon as that hurdle is leaped, however, [...]

Markovits Leaflet?

Just because I spent all afternoon working on it, doesn’t mean we have to use it. I don’t want to steal the limelight from Jenni and her poster, which you can find here.
 

 This is meant to be an A5 size leaflet, for shoving into people’s hands, displaying in a pile etc. The poster has more [...]

Advertising: Is Facebook better than Blogs?

In relation to our CI class today about advertising, I found that the Guardian Unlimited Arts Blog has some rather interesting literary tit-bits. Incidentally, for those Jeanette Winterson fans (thank you for my introduction), there is a Guardian Books pod-cast of an interview, where she talks about writing her own version of the Bible:
 
The article [...]

“Praise it with great praise?” I think not.

Let me begin by saying how much I enjoy musicals. Billy Eliot, Wicked, Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera, Chicago, Guys & Dolls: these are just some of the big names presently playing in the West End. 
I have seen them all.
This is not a boast. Well it is, as it shows how cultured a student I am. [...]

Chainfic: Link #6

The Beginning
Link #5
Neapolitani 
“‘Well who is this and what is here?’”
His voice was still as high and clear as I remembered. I had tried to forget it.
Neapolitani.
I twisted in the air and heard the telltale creak. The Stench bristled at the sound. I winced at another burst of flatulence. Jack was down there.
“Licking its lips, it is.”
He [...]

Death

Dear Reader, I hope you are well.
Might I trouble you for a couple of minutes?
My poetry project is, to put it bluntly, about death. As a central interest, I am exploring attitudes to death in England today and I’d like as much literary imput as possible! I have here a couple of lines from 1) a famous elegy. [...]

Chainfic: Link #2

Matt’s previous entry here.
*Please click link for wav file then read *
http://www.sonyclassical.com/sounds/63213_04.wav
Sa’Tanic 
I had said, “I’ll never let go, Jack. I’ll never let go.” I’d promised him. I’d meant it.
I had let go.
We couldn’t have stayed forever this way – my ankles strung to a tree, his ankles submerged in the bog. It took all [...]

Those multitudinous seas incarnadine…

Oh you lucky lucky people. When I appropriate Shakespeare’s polysyllabic masterpieces, you know you’re in trouble.
I am sitting here, surrounded by candles…the night wind billowing my muslin drapes….I could be listening to Phantom of the Opera…but I’m not. It is an evening for silence… As the children of Heathrow roar overhead, I break daggers of [...]

Apology

Someone has informed me (you know who you are) that I have no authority to comment on Pink Floyd, or even to be a true fan. What constitutes a true fan? All right, so I wasn’t born when The Wall came out. And I couldn’t go crazy. And I don’t think the band ended when Waters quit. [...]