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Belinda Vesey-Brown

  • 3 Brands Reaping Success by using Social Media for Businesses

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Social media, we all know it. Most of us probably use it on a personal level – Facebook, Twitter, Bebo… It’s an online, interactive, community-building wonder world that’s not a craze; it’s here to stay. Despite the genius of social media sites dissolving the distance of communicating with friends anywhere in the world, what I…

  • Classical Design

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Classical Design I was looking forward to Kevin McLoud’s version of a European Grand Tour on ABC 1, but nothing had prepared me for the jewels of architecture that he is uncovering in Italy. He is visiting places I never got to on my less than extensive tour, though there are some familiar cities and…

  • No-No or Na-Na

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    The season premiere for So You Think You Can Dance has become a launching pad for a new advertising campaign for bananas. Random? Not really. It has been quite cleverly integrated into the theme of the popular television show, using the banana’s rich stores of energy and nutrients as a selling point for dancers. There…

  • The problem with Avatar….

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

        Everyone knows that Avatar is a great movie. It really is a breakthrough in filmmaking technology, for its development of 3D viewing and steroscopic film making with cameras that were specially designed for Avatar’s production. The acting is wonderful and the scenery is beautiful. The official budget for the film was $237 million. It took…

  • The Grid… wow.

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    It’s Internet evolution – super-savvy scientists have designed an extremely fast information network capable of downloading data at 10,000 times the speed of a typical broadband connection. CERN has designed the network – The Grid – to cope with the staggering amount of data it’s new particle accelerator will produce. CERN’s particle accelerator – the…

  • Browser happenings….

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    The world of web-browsers is an exciting domain of intrigue and drama.* And I know you want your fill! Wait no longer as I divulge the some of the more juicy happenings with web browsers… Microsoft continued their almost comical free-fall from relevance with Internet Explorer declared unsafe by governments in Europe, the U.S. and…

  • Air New Zealand Cougar Campaign

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    I know this advert for Air New Zealand’s cut-price website grabaseat.co.nz is pretty un-PC, but it sure is funny. From a marketing perspective I think it works: it was memorable, I was entertained and consequently showed it to my friends. Before this advert Air New Zealand wasn’t even on my radar. It just shows how…

  • Semi-Permanent: Design Conference

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Semi-Permanent 2010 is already shaping up to be an awe-inspiring event with a wide range of professionals from all over the globe: visual artists, photographers, illustrators, graphic designers, typographers… The latest to be enlisted for the Sydney event is Craig Schuftan who is actually a Sydney local. He is an author and broadcaster specialising is…

  • Chalkfest – get excited!!

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Chalkfest and Youngcare join forces Brisbane entrepreneur and owner of the Chalk Hotel Jason Titman has always believed in making a contribution to society aligning himself and the Chalk Hotel with many local, Brisbane, and national charities. Towards the end of 2009, Jason had the vision of putting together a music event called Chalkfest, that…