All That Glitters
Ella Aldridge seems to have it all. Married to Danny Riding, one of the Premiership’s leading goal-scorers, she lives the dream – the mansion, the car, the freebie designer clothes. But Ella and Danny have a secret. Their marriage is not what is seems. Between them, it takes a lot of hard work to fool...
Soon we’ll all be doing it the Kardashian way
The Kernel’s celebrity and culture columnist Ilana Fox says the Kardashian family are the prophets of the social media era. No, really. Daniel Craig may win my personal award for hottest actor in the world, but I’ve decided he’s better off mute. In a recent rant to GQ, Craig called the Kardashians ”fucking idiots” for...
Favourites of 2011
“It’s only forever, not long at all …” Pink champagne, grungy glitter, gangster cages, dancing with flowers in our hair, Joshua trees in the desert, Soho, mint tea in Marrakesh, skinny jeans, shards of glass, Shoreditch, fires in the sky, Scrabble overdose, happiness, sadness, confusion, and never enough dancing … 2011: BOOK What: The Novel...
Retro ASOS.com advert
In February 2002 I published Liv4now magazine – a mini mag distributed in bars across the country which showcased the best of the content on Liv4now.com. The below is an advert placed by ASOS.com … before they got properly famous.
Will the future of magazines be led by brands?
Last week, Jessica Davies wrote an interesting piece suggesting brands should consider themselves to be content commissioners; that if content creators are thinking more as marketers, marketers can behave more as content creators (Davies on TV, nma.co.uk 10 November 2011). So far, so convergence, but the accepted normality of this behaviour – of consumer brands...
