Stalking Venus

This is going to be one of those love it or hate it things. I hated the meerkat with an absolute passion, but think these new ads are great. Thank god someone finally woke up Vodacom’s advertsising department.
Americans: You probably don’t know what this is all about, but there-there. Never mind. We don’t know what [...]

A classic from ICHC

A lot of Zen-type philosophy (an unsuitable word, but one I’ll use for now) can seem like egotistical posturing by self-absorbed language-wankers - and to be honest, a lot of it is. The annoying thing with Zen kōans - the often nonsensical riddles and word plays of that school of being - is that they directly contravene the structured rules of logic that we require so that our perception of reality doesn’t disintegrate. This means that we have an instant aversion to them that ranges from the mildly amused, to the outraged.

Improv Everywhere is a fantastic New York based group that stages very public events with as many people as they can raise. They created a worldwide phenomenon by getting several hundred people to suddenly ‘freeze’ in the middle of Grand Central station. Nobody else knew what was going on, so pedestrians wandered around, looking amazed.
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